These Games Cost Over $2,000... and they're all shovelware.

[@fireb0rn]

I'd just like to clarify my comments about "theft" and "stealing." In the process of making this video, I found that many of these games were "copied" by the developer rather than "stolen", as they are purchasable templates for games which seem to permit commercial use. However, games such as Royal Booty Quest definitely appear to be plagiarized, as the cards shown on their Steam store page are identical copies of Slay the Spire cards. It's not clear how much of Atomic Fabrik's catalogue of games are copied, how much are plagiarized, and how much are original. But it is clear that they're all garbage. G2A's product page says random Steam key packs are "for you... if you love good and high-quality games." But at least some of their vendors are knowingly distributing shovelware, which only meet the criteria of the bundles through review and price manipulation. Maybe I just had one in seven trillion bad luck, and maybe other vendors are more legitimate, but what I experienced was undeniably a scam.

[@veryb0red...]

ok

[@veryb0red...]

ok

[@pandae5657]

Plagiarism is one of the worst problems in the community. It happens with so many other games and I can't remember the last time someone paid the price for it

[@veryb0red...]

i wont @DontReadMyProfilePhoto.133

[@spiderlily723]

G2A have been a cesspit for years - they've been known to sell STOLEN keys (bought with stolen credit cards) to the point you can find developers clarifying that 'we gave no free keys' when people see them on G2A.

[@BlueSR]

these recent steam dumpster diving detective work videos are fantastic fire keep it up lmao

[@veryb0red...]

@DontReadMyProfilePhoto.133 i wont.

[@veryb0red...]

also hi blue i love your content

[@leia_gabes]

Omg crossover

[@ComDenox]

The AI reviews had better grammar than this comment

[@Canadian_snowman]

@@ComDenoxthe grammar in this comment is fine?

[@paponwappen7165]

"they raise the price to $250 to prevent more people to buy and leave more negative review" I also saw in another channel that if you drop in 1 more negative review, they will get 10 bots to make positive review to counter. They are working wonders, so unless Valve do something about it, looks like nothing you can do here as Steam citizen.

[@Skrymaster]

I mean, as long as you buy games on the premise of "that looks fun, I wanna try", you're virtually immune. I'd say most people tend to know what type of game they want/are comfortable playing, and would not really be tempted by these. And if they do and get burned royally once or twice, they'd probably learn better. This is a predatory tactic that mostly affects people who buy "lootbox" style, possibly hoping they could turn a profit by reselling keys, and I can't really imagine those people would actually play even 5% of the games they get, they probably do it as another form of gambling.

[@BouncingZeus]

Once and a while I will get one when they are like a dollar or so as a tack on. However the ones I did have a list of all the games possible to win. @@Skrymaster

[@Simipourfangirl]

That's super scummy

[@thefiresworddragon927]

To be fair, 99% of people who buy games wouldn't even buy any game of that price on a 75% discount, and that's the discount level any average person buys a game at to check out on average. While yes it'll look enticing, it should be noted that Suicide Squad Kill The Franchise was dead before arrival, dead on arrival, has currently less players than Marvel Avengers which is actively dead from online server shutdown, and it somehow sits around 70-80% positive. Primarily because refunds delete reviews so all the non bot reviews disappeared when they took back their stolen money they somehow scammed themselves into giving.

[@Zullfix]

I used to not care about garbage shovelware and unmodified asset store game templates, however about a year ago I began working on an open source project on github. I submitted so many improvements that the owner invited me to be an authorized collaborator on the project, and I was so excited I got to be a core part of such an amazing project. The bad part is when I was reviewing the traffic statistics several months ago and ran into a reddit thread where another user had mentioned a competitor to our project. Lo and behold, this "competitor" was a fork of our source code, but with absolutely no credit to original authors (illegal under the code license) and the scum was charging $15 (now charging $35, and also illegal under the code license). The user promoting it was also a bot account mindlessly replying to keywords in a handful of subreddits. These template ripoff games may seem harmless (ignoring the g2a scam portion) but they really do hurt actual developers, especially if the templates were open source rather than on the unity asset store. Please always report these scams with evidence to the proper authorities if they are breaking any laws/asset licenses.

[@phaolo6]

The problem is that many players like your old self don't care about ripoff shovelware, unless they'll start creating something on their own 😕

[@crytocc]

Out of curiosity, which game do you work on?

[@beeisland]

For those who were curious about why the sound was going crazy in that last game. Unity (which most or all of these games were built in) has something called a 3d Audio Source that allows for audio to fade and swell depending on distance. The problem these dumb devs ran into was that they put the audio listener that receives the sound on the camera instead of the player character. Just another product of them not giving a shit.

[@bigdaddydons6241]

I could see it being used to some pretty cool effect? It's disorienting as hell and that's kinda great?

[@MichaelSchiciano]

I don't think that's a wholly accurate explanation. You typically WANT the listener tied to the camera, since that's what you, the player, are looking through, and allows for you to identify the location of sounds based on their playback relative to where you are looking. What we're hearing here is DOPPLER being applied to audio elements improperly. It seems that the music, instead of being set up as a 2d sound (with no spatialization) was instead placed as a 3d audio source within the game world (likely attached to the character?) and then had doppler enabled on it. It's still a highly incompetent audio implementation, of course lol

[@_faye.]

fun fact this comment is just long enough to prompt the "read more" link but it doesnt expand

[@-Keith-]

This video is proof enough that hollow knight youtubers are so masochistic that they will go out of their way to experience pain.

[@MegaKBang]

That silksong drought is really having a number on them.

[@thesuperginge1348]

this the real path of pain

[@unai49999]

Path of dumpsterfire

[@reedwilliams1868]

He's not "going out of his way" this is literally just his job. This is what he gets paid for.

[@illford]

​@@reedwilliams1868in fairness his content uses to just be gameplay related but that silksong drought got em changing careers

[@raglanroadworks]

I love that Steam is a place where even the most inexperienced solo indie dev can easily publish a game, but all this shovelware is really starting to get in the way of our ability to find a potential hidden gem. I often find myself clicking the store away because I get demotivated by the sea of obvious crap clogging my screen. I'm not sure there's an easy solution. From what I hear, the Epic storefront is even worse. Anyway, at least they make for the occasional entertaining video like this one. Liked and subscribed.

[@Dylan-ln6qt]

And it's not like the discovery queue helps either with "we're showing you this game because it's popular" (popular doesn't mean it would interest me), "to see if you might be interested" (allow me to introduce you to the ignore button steam), and dumbest of all "because it has positive reviews" (literal shovelware has positive reviews, that's not a good metric as it stands when it can be artificially inflated) Anyways I'm sitting at 1,001 ignored out of 1,010 viewed with the only reason it's not 1,010 ignored being that I'd just skip any title that asks for my age

[@oldfag_adventures]

pulp media has been an issue since before steam

[@Sorrelhas]

Epic is filled with dead NFT games and outright scams At least in Steam it's just trash and porn

[@brykanst9071]

there are some fairly easy things steam can do to fix the problem... issue is they won't as they can't be bothered... so what we as consumers can do is report devs that due this shit and find ways to bring attention of this like g2a to governments that can do something about them

[@HazardousFox]

​@@SimonWoodburyForgetMaybe not KZbin, but for Steam there's a solution that'd probably work- flag anyone posting more than a few games a year (there are people who make tons of actual small-scale games, but most are for free on itch or a similar site).

[@Llortnerof]

I would not be surprised if the selection of keys was indeed random... Atomik Fabrik produces enough crap that you'd still have a pretty good chance to mostly end up with their games simply because of sheer volume. If you randomly select from a population that is 80% crap, you're going to get, on average, 80% crap.

[@KnakuanaRka]

Yeah, I figured that if they were selling ridiculous numbers of keys to resellers like that, of course they’d have an excessive number of those, and you’d get them more often.

[@Nerathul1]

Also it's highly likely that the weight of the randomness is weighed by the number of keys for a game they have, so if this dev sends them tens of thousands of key a month it'd skew the algorithm even further.

[@gawain0]

So the 'release one game a week' tipped me off, but the infinite runner showing the 'crashy racing' game title absolutely cemented my opinion of it. As a software engineer, that tells me they didn't write code. The copied line for line the code of whatever game they copied, and then just failed to find where to change the title text (if they even cared enough to try). Though giving it a moments more of thought, they somehow managed to introduce bugs into the code, or the original games were just bad to begin with. Maybe porting it over from IOS to be compatible with a computer messed some stuff up. I'm not sure on that front.

[@Everlasting_Filin]

I thought these kind of "companies" died like 15-20 years ago. Apparently not and it's sad. Keep up the great work tho, people need to know about this shit

[@KnightspaceORG]

Money laundering and scams will never go away

[@ponocni1]

nah, they moved to mobile game market.

[@Stroggoii]

They'll be around as long as there's idiots willing to buy their crap.

[@georgeandrews1394]

If we're talking shovelware on console, the Wii came out in 2006, but it was still going for a while. Eventually, the shovelware just migrated to phones and PC. It's easier and cheaper (definitely for PC and probably for phones) to get shovelware on them than on console. And phones have the extra benefit of the Wii's less discerning customer base.

[@oldfag_adventures]

people will always grift

[@maiselph7456]

The first one is actually a Sonic fangame. You get the Sonic ring collection sound when going through the rings, and can even spindash, as demonstrated at 9:05.

[@PyeFive]

This is such a great comment LMAO

[@ghostoflazlo]

The music was a bold choice

[@valivali8104]

If someone informed Sega of that game, would it get these scammers into trouble?

[@JohnSmith-ox3gy]

@@valivali8104 Good luck tracking them down.

[@valivali8104]

@@JohnSmith-ox3gy wouldn’t be first time; plus it’s possible to cause them troubles in net.

[@FishyButters]

Protip if you demand a refund from a key distributor they will refund you zero questions asked because they know they are using g2a loopholes to sell shit

[@uselessDM]

Those keyesellers really missed a trick by not advetising a several hundred dollar value with their 12 dollar package.

[@KeshiaRose]

That's exactly what I was expecting! "99% off $260 value!" 😂

[@thesuperginge1348]

makes it more sus

[@saitan2712]

Shady practices like these are very common in my country. I remember applying for a game dev position 4 years ago and these people then explained that they made a new, small mobile game every week so I must be willing to work my ass off, and it just seemed like a terrible work environment. Tapped out quickly.

[@ainzer2903]

Wait, dont tell me they tell you to create those "crappy" games you see in app stores and google play? Dang, Im glad you tapped out

[@ChakChakGuy]

there's a great talk out there about these sorts of practices called "1,500 Slot Machines Walk into a Bar: Adventures in Quantity Over Quality" it's sad but it works.

[@xenasBS]

My team is releasing a game in febuari, and this kind of shovelware really scares me. How are people supposed to find new indie crews when any game they find could be like this?

[@Cracks094]

I believe your best bet would be to give some Streamers you know and enjoy the opportunity for a pre-release, demo or just a free copy of your game. Try to get some to actually play the game, have some other people potentially watch it (doesn't have to be big streamers, you know) and gain a starting reputation.

[@Ordoscc]

@@Cracks094 That's the common strategy, but most streamers and content creators are already flooded with keys from every dev and their PR team. Still, worth a shot.

[@asakayosapro]

Don’t worry too much, because if the game you guys developed and made is in fact good, or at the very least a genuine effort of solid gameplay, assets and mechanics a,one other things that make an enjoyable game to play and with little to no bugs, hassles and annoyances, your game being recognized as a legitimately enjoyable experience may not come instantly, but over time it will rise above all the plagiarism and low effort cash grabs. Just think, if the likes of free fanmande games such as HoloCure and Idol Showdown made it, then so can you and your game.

[@scotttimbrell8632]

Theres a ton of KZbinrs who do Indie game reviews and compilations that im sure will give your game a try.

[@xenasBS]

@@scotttimbrell8632 yeah, we're making a little list of people to give free codes to and stuff right now. It's pretty exciting to be working on a project of this level for the first time :)

[@Rayneworld]

"I miss Fly Fly Tuck Tuck 🥺 " words no one has ever spoken before this video

[@alphax4785]

These remind me of the '2000 GAMES!' CD / DVD's you'd buy once for curiosity's sake for like $20 at the computer store back in the day and then realize you just lit that money on fire. Really hope Valve wakes up to crack down on this and similar scam companies.

[@gnollproblem]

Curious how much the 1:1 copies of existing games steal. Like, obviously they're taking art assets. But given the "quality" of their other projects I wouldn't be surprised if they also were "borrowing" code. Grab some Unity game, decompile it, maybe tweak a few things, and boom suddenly a new game to put on the market. Sure, it probably doesn't exactly "work" but I don't think that's a high priority here...

[@Avg_FarronGreatsword_Enjoyer]

Fire just solved his Silksong-Hollow Knight no content catastrophe. If he continued on the old route he would have gone mad. It wouldn't have taken long for him to do P5 all bindings, hitless, blindfolded, while the controls change from controller to keyboard every 5 seconds, solving an engenieering phisycs exam every boss. Glad you made it out sane

[@KnakuanaRka]

Yeah, looks like he’s exploring away from his niche.

[@TheSkribeOfSirkles]

I’m sure there is some clever “dumpster Fire” joke that could be made… but I lost too many brain cells during the stream.

[@UltimatePerfection]

Dumpster fireb0rn

[@CeaselessMistseer]

A dumpster b0rn in the fire

[@teamusic581]

​@@UltimatePerfection😢😢😢

[@Rayneworld]

Yikes... hope someone is able to shut down these scams. Not really sure how anyone would go about that, but thanks for bringing attention to it nonetheless, it helps.

[@jem5636]

cowboy girl is the kind of game that feels like it should be like. just the intro to a slightly-saucy psychological horror game. Like doki doki but more saucyness.

[@krashleywest1]

It's an Everhood ripoff

[@necronix9947]

It looks like a reskin of old digital homicide games from 8 years ago, They had 3 or 4 games that play like that, The only thing changed is the character and the environment graphics and thats was an asset flip.

[@valivali8104]

​@@necronix9947 could this be Digital Homicide, but with different name?

[@SapphireSouls]

Now obviously key resellers are a place you use at your own risk, especially so when you're buying a 'mystery' bundle and you don't know what exactly is in that bundle, but I think places like G2A should really be verifying the overall quality of the games they add to these "Over X price and positively reviewed" bundles. That and Valve should really be trying to crack down on this kinda stuff.

[@poklours4257]

I don't think G2A cares. They get cheap keys for stupid games to fill their misleading bundles and make more money. If they had to put legit games there, they wouldn't make as much money. Not to mention that they don't really care about the morality aspect.

[@syriuszb8611]

I thought Steam figured out asset flips. I'm so angry at those, they not only rob gamers of their money and time, they also hurt small devs that want to make small game and have profit from it, but they need to fight with asset flip accusations. Even if they don't use assets, they are sometimes accused of being asset flips, just because they are cheap and low quality (but not low effort) compared to bigger devs.

[@tymondabrowski12]

One year there was a problem with that and they changed the algorithm and now basically you won't really see those shit quality games. You won't see decent indies done without marketing either, though.

[@jackyduh399]

I always wondered what you would get when purchasing those random steam keys on g2a idk why I expected anything different you should make a video about the steam accounts people sold on there and how people are being tricked into buying accounts thinking it’s games

[@ilumina8226]

Idk how it is in g2a but those accounts exist in eneba and kinguin aswell, and at least Eneba explains that you're buying a new account to play the game u want and asks if you're sure

[@brynion2117]

@@ilumina8226 on g2a the words "steam account" are also in the title. They arent tricking them, the people are just too stupid to read far enough and then as a result feel tricked

[@jackyduh399]

@@ilumina8226 it is definitely not explained on g2a just in a very small text under activation type it says account. can be very easily overlooked since most people don’t think they’re buying an account.

[@jackyduh399]

@@ilumina8226 and the worst part is that PayPal sides with these scammers because you “technically received the product”

[@0fficialr3d]

I actually bought a few over the years, and the quality went downhill. I got a few decent games from them, like city skylines and stoneheart. The last time i bought one a year ago, i got only crap.

[@fandomperson2437]

11:05 THEY RIPPED OFF EVERHOOD??? OUT OF ALL THE GAMES???? But seriously: if they ripped off Everhood they have either 1 ran out of ideas or 2 are going after games that are well reviewed, as while it isn’t very popular, it’s rating is overwhelming positive

[@broadmoretung]

I think they just copied a basic asset that shares mechanical similarities to everhood. I've seen cheap junk similar to this on steam junk reviews before.

[@Buglin_Burger7878]

Didn't Everhood breach the contract with the songs it used if I remember right? There is something fitting about this if true.

[@TheWeirdIce]

@@Buglin_Burger7878 I'm assuming you mean the KIT CALIBER thing. This wasn't really the devs doing, one of the composers they comissioned heavily sampled KIT CALIBER songs without the devs knowledge. From what i've heard the devs and Kit has talked it out and the songs were allowed to stay, and credit to Kit is even given on the soundtrack now.

[@Hoomoon]

rip those people who wasted money on steam keys just to get like one game out of 5 that's good

[@isaacbejjani5116]

Yea lootboxes are always a scam. If you buy specific cdkeys, G2A, cdkeys, and others are awesome. I haven't paid full price for a game since cyberpunk released (besides bg3). Never been scammed on any.

[@mega_gamer93]

@@isaacbejjani5116 when buying games from G2A there is a chance that you are buying a key bought by someone with a stolen credit card. When this gets spotted and the owner of the credit card gets a refund the game developer still loses money due to chargebacks. It is literally better for everyone to pirate than to buy from those sellers

[@SuperSymn]

I don't want to be mean or insulting, but to me really feels like a case of "a fool and his money"

[@isaacbejjani5116]

@@SuperSymn yea, it just sucks for gullible kids. Then again they shouldn't be making such decisions

[@LieseFury]

​@@isaacbejjani5116g2a keys are bought with stolen credit cards. either pay for it or don't, nobody's impressed at your scummy gray market activity.

[@sycamorph]

I actually didn't know that the random key things are like that, good lesson. I remember buying some as a kid. They always had a list of possible games though. But I bought maybe 3 and never got anything good.

[@jannzurhelle6851]

Its just telling of the amount of work that went into these games that putting your PC screen into portrait mode would fix the overlapping issues.

[@thejoyfuldragon887]

Wait so just to make sure I understand....Your theory is that these people make these garbage games in an afternoon, sell tons of keys for dirt cheap to these scummy sellers for dirt cheap, who package them in bundles and make a profit off of deceiving people into thinking they're getting random good games...jeez...What was that you mentioned about money laundering though? Was your original hypothesis that people would just buy their own game essentially as fake customers, with individual "small" purchases of entertainment products not looking sus to the government?

[@fireb0rn]

That's what I'm thinking, yeah. As for money laundering I'd imagine they fake the sale of keys in bulk, but I'm not totally sure. I have no idea if that's part of why the games are priced so high, but I'd imagine it's just to keep their review score safe (or safer, at least).

[@thejoyfuldragon887]

I do know that some people do actually money launder via sites like G2A and stuff (allegedly). but that's really where my knowledge on the subject ends x)@@fireb0rn

[@0kr4m]

Uhhh there are a LOT of money laundering games on steam, it's not very uncommon

[@PhoenixValkyrie]

They're also crypto miners

[@TorIverWilhelmsen]

Pay for game, get a refund. Suddenly, the money came from Steam not Joe the Pimp.

[@Jake19774TW]

The scam also lets them get around the steam guaranteed refund for a game you've played less than 2 hours in.

[@FishyButters]

From my experience these companies make these overtly expensive games, get a compromised credit card and buy a shit ton of keys from the game and then resell the keys on websites like G2A or Kinguin in key bundles

[@Gothic_Analogue]

CA$260 is £156. Why would someone buy a game that’s nearly thrice the price of a AAA title game..?

[@GODAXEN]

I can only think of some money laundering scheme...

[@undying3132]

To stop people buying the game off steam and giving a negative review

[@blacknyellow962]

That's the whole point. Steal some game, mangle it, release it for a low price and get bot accounts to rate it high then change the price to something extreme so that it's nigh impossible to change the rating. So that they can then sell their keys to vendors.

[@Gothic_Analogue]

I despise how all of these are equally plausible independently or simultaneously. You’d think Valve would stop this kind of stupidity.

[@etuanno]

Nobody does, that's the point, they put the price so high that nobody buys it and can leave a review. This then means they can then make a few fake reviews in order to boost its review score. They then sell the 5000 keys to G2A or other nefarious key selling websites in order to make profit.

[@dotfortun]

I'm pretty sure the font in Cowboy Girl is from The Binding Of Isaac.

[@ADxTygon]

The screen does that in Cowboy Girl because it’s an Everhood ripoff and Everhood has weird visual effects during its battles I was so shook when i realized what it was copying ngl

[@TegridyMadeGames]

We can sell as many keys as we want on other stores. Steam limits the amount given out at once however. They used to let us give out as many as we wanted as well, but they have since cut down on the free key give aways. The problem is stores that obtain these keys and sell them without the developers consent. Also that verifies your hunch, but the limit isn't 5000. Its infinity. As long as a portion of the keys that they request are actually being used, they can keep requesting more.

[@plzletmebefrank]

I think "button" isy default text for button objects in most code compilers.

[@theneonbop]

I think you mean game engines or programming frameworks

[@Cuprite1024]

#9 (Cowboy Girl) uses assets from a creator called "Ækashics," which are most often used for RPG Maker battlers (Tho not limited to that). I can recognize those assets anywhere cause I've used them myself before. Lol.

[@SteamDaily]

It's really sad to see that there are developers like that too. I wonder if Valve will ever manage to get a grip on the situation.

[@PhoenixValkyrie]

Just a little thing you may have missed. These games are all crypto miners. That's why they're so low-res asset flips that cost so much. And why that one was called a virus. You mined crypto for them.

[@enderkatze6129]

This could use a source

[@PhoenixValkyrie]

@@enderkatze6129 I don't have a source, it's just blatantly obvious from the details in the video

[@Netsuki]

There should be something done with this kind of scams. For example. 1. If the dev raises the price of the game to more than 10% of the previous value, it will be automatically suspended, until a Steam mod would check it. It could be raised to more than 10% if the game is Early Access and becomes released, but other than that, every game should be manually checked. 2. New devs and new games added, should be manually checked anyway. So if the mod sees, the game is blatant rip-off, they would ban the dev. 3. This dev exist for quite some time. They should literally be removed from Steam and Steam should post a big announcement, so the devs of the original games could easily read the announcement and sue the dev for stealing their games. That would quickly cost the thief a big sum of money. Steam could also maybe sue them in some way, that they use unethical way of using Steam. They can just make a rule in the ToS, that the game must be fully Yours and if not, Steam expect You to pay for that. That simple rule would prevent them from doing something like that. And there is literally tons of other possible countermeasures. But if we won't do anything, thieves would only steal more. This is not anti-beneficial to Steam as well, because they will have reputation ruined. Maybe not super much, but selling spam, stolen games would definitely affect their reputation. And we also should be able to sue G2A as well for making such deception. It's easy to do that. Just make a proof that these games costed less and then they raised the prices to deliberately sell bad games as they were better. You made the evidence already. These games costed few, people bought them, they raised price, sold it to G2A and possibly even work together to sell scam games and both G2A and the dev would have to pay large fines. But if we don't do anything, it will only get worse.

[@tymondabrowski12]

Actually all jew games go through the manual process already, but I think Steam only checks stuff like "is there really multiplayer?".

[@lurkmoar3926]

This is a huge scandal and needs to be publicized. And Steam needs to be informed.

[@pikablob]

27:58 I swear two of the kids on that bus are just clones of that kid from Resident Evil XD

[@PixelleBunny]

I use to have a ex that was really into these keys I want to say it was a gambling thing but I don't know but now I have a bunch of this trash in my steam library💀

[@fireb0rn]

That's a red flag for sure

[@scotttimbrell8632]

I used to buy them when there were some hidden gems. Used to randomly select a key and give it to a mate every week or so. We all knew they were lower quality than normal games, but it was fun. I wouldnt recommend doing it as a legit way of boosting your library tho.

[@jorissmal1769]

Thanks for bringing attention to scams like these

[@ringofdeath13]

Honestly Steam Greenlight should have never been shut down man :(, it was super cool going on there to try out different games on there but it's gone :/

[@hito1988]

you forgot the most expensive one, "train simulator". this game has 720+ DLC's ranging from 5.99€ to 49.00€, back in the days i made a calculation and came up with a sum of more than 8.000€. wondering how much it is now because they released many more DLC's for this game since my calculation.

[@n3kkidninj4]

You greatly underestimate train people. They fucking love trains, so it only takes a few whales to support dev time to make more assets for a game they have already made. We may not understand the desire to spend our money on digital trains, but a scam it is not.

[@hito1988]

@@n3kkidninj4 just so sad, its maybe 200€ and you can drive an entire year through all of germany, bet when you pay them 10.000 they also let you be seated right next to the train driver for the next 10 years. lol

[@casedistorted]

Ahhhh that entire review scam system makes so much more sense now! I was trying to figure this out for the longest time wow

[@Dr.Vinny05]

27:58 Is that sherrie birkin on that bus lol

[@spacechemsol4288]

They started switching companies around now ou find at most 2 games with this scheme per company, making it harder to report all of them.

[@Khud0]

Damn, these new "I played X games related to Y topic" series are amazing! Please keep them coming. :)

[@blacknyellow962]

Really unfortunate to see that none of these legendary 'games' ever received nominations for GoTY.

[@robertwildschwein7207]

Most 2023 tripple A games weren't that much better than those.

[@bobbyboswell13]

for that monster truck game that moved randomly i bet how they made it was when your holding down the mouse button your vehicle moves to a certain point on the track problem is those points are at fixed spots so you move to the next one each click and they are supposed to be evenly spaced but they messed up some at random so when you moved further it was because it was moving to the next valid point! think of it like gps you tell it the destination and it shows the path to take

[@TheGoobMeista]

seeing FUNKO JohnWick/Keanu Reeves in a game is probably the funniest thing I've ever seen.

[@brykanst9071]

steam really needs to do better on how they let things be reviewed or even placed on their store

[@AleTitan]

It's baffling how after all these years, they've just done nothing and let this games on their store

[@lycanwarrior2137]

@@AleTitan Probably because they make a TON of money from all the $100 fees from devs.

[@tolamoczynska8538]

the girls at 27:58 are Sherry Birkin from Resident Evil 2 lmao

[@Cameister]

27:58 nahh that’s just sherry from RE2R 😂

[@hearthyager8682]

funko pop keanu reeves killed me

[@Maddin1313]

Don't these key resellers hurt themselves by making the bundles 1 good game and the rest actual garbage? Are these refundable?

[@fireb0rn]

They generally seem to refund people who leave bad reviews, but I'd imagine it would depend on the vendor.

[@LunaTulpa]

11:05 definitely wasn't expecting an everhood ripoff lmao

[@hiiambarney4489]

Now honestly. This sounds like a rather lucrative venture. They have a ton of games, Asset Store prices for each Game, and, most importantly, Steam Shop Price (100 bucks) and still seem to make a profit somehow.

[@jennasloan396]

This is why the Steam Store needs more curators

[@rayhimmel7167]

shiț, man, as a moldovan game designer myself, i never expected to open a random video in my yt feed and see a review of a moldovan "game" company lol:D no surprise, we are pretty poor (in terms of money as well as solid qualified workforce) and the IT/game guys are one of the most "rich" here (rich just being not completely broke), i mean, to have a salary like mine (500$, not a local company) is considered pretty decent even though i can be hard to live even alone for this money, but it's pretty common to live at 200-300$ and have food prices somewhat close to european ones plussss a certain game company (not this one) tends to eat every other ones, and this one is not a great place to work, sooo it's really hard to be a game designer / dev when you have, like, about 5-10 companies for the whole country and if you wanna open your own, well, you gotta face post-soviet biz / taxation rules of play, which are pretty meh not gonna defend these guys, but, well, we try our best here, sorry for all the BS:)

[@vogonp4287]

As someone who is making weird games for myself, I can confidently say that most of the ones I make are far better, and I can confirm that most of them are terrible.

[@memetech-]

17:45 lol it says [Button]

[@mattlozinski1700]

@27:12 I love that the school bus, famously yellow, is blue

[@KaydeArcane]

I had to do a fucking double take when you started playing cowboy girl, that is just straight up Everhood's battle system but absolutely butchered and ruined. Holy shit. Of ALL THINGS to force Everhood's gameplay into, they went with whatever the fuck that was.

[@cezarysturgulewski6205]

Even bigger developers review their own games. When I worked at one every not official steam account we had (for game testing) had positive reviews of our games published and they weren't 1h game time reviews ;)

[@extremearron]

i kinda think they should ban steam devs from releasing more then like 5 games a year, and they should have to apply to get steam keys for their games, and then steam can see the "quality" to give them the keys

[@riam850]

Have you tried to report them to Valve? If they seriously only sell those games through generated keys and they set the price absurdly high so that no body will buy them to keep their fake reviews "Mostly Positive" then Valve would like to know it, because they not only abuse their systems, but also and most importantly for them, they avoid paying Valve what they should.

[@zeo4481]

Thank you for crediting the music and sources used in the video ❤️

[@Arcaniac]

12:23 Sound effect is the Start Race sound effect from Gran Turismo 3 and other titles in the Gran Turismo Franchise

[@FantaTantaXD]

I also did buy a pack 3 months ago, it was a "Premium pack" and yeah 3 out the 5 games were trash, the other 2 games were actually Lego Batman for some reason 2 of the same copies lmao but one was the deluxe pack so I just gave the sec copy to my friend :D

[@lillypad6936]

Lucky, you got 2 good games out of the sludge.

[@FantaTantaXD]

@@lillypad6936 yeah haha I'm happy that this game has coop so its a double win :D

[@ProffessorYellow]

Stuff like this is why i support the class action against them for unfair competitive pricing. Edit: appreciate your soundtrack

[@ollllj]

i LOVE how ai generated scammers first and foremost target and destroy automated gambling fraud.

[@pi_xi]

6:01 "If you love good and high-quality games, then this is the offer for you!" 🤣🤣🤣

[@swilleh_]

27:59 is that's a girl from RE:2 remake? upd: BRO THAT'S FUCKING Sherry Birkin FROM THE GAME! ARE THEY SERIOUS?!!

[@sedna2644]

with the smash cars game, the reason why your car was random is because its a mobile game, your mouse is simulating the touch controls. it seems like the distance from the truck was what controlled it, not the length of ur click.

[@ArkmageEDM]

when silksong takes so long to release that the youtubers give up on HK content entirely

[@Super121830]

Atomic Fabrik's games got the hammer from Steam

[@qerupasy]

12:50 If the distance per click is random, isn't this basically car-based Blackjack?

[@JulieJulesFit]

The music in “The hidden ghost” is stolen from stardew valley lmao its “Mines (Star Lumpy) by Concerned Ape)”

[@padillaphile]

27:58 bro that's literally Sherry Birkin from Resident Evil 2, I-I can't-

[@alexandrebertone4351]

Amazing video !!! Thanks for your work

[@darioferretti3758]

I knew these felt familiar, atomic fabric also made tuk tuk extreme sim, just that's actually cheap

[@FiSH-iSH]

massive respect for the hylics music during the fire truck section

[@Scriffer]

Someone one day should put every game they ever made into 1 game. Where you as a game journalist have to review them. XD

[@anomalousanimates]

30:41 idk, but it happens in other games that aren't created by atomic fartnick, ig if you move too fast, the audio distorts

[@tapioca8436]

“It keeps going?” No they just forgot to program an ending sequence, they didn’t expect anyone to get that far.

[@Xiroxys]

17:19 **severe borderlands 1 driving flashbacks**

[@alphapt9370]

You have game devs saying they prefer that you flat out pirate their games instead of buying them off G2A and other grey market websites. And I agree with them.

[@lendrigangames]

That bleep tune at 22:10, I heard from Mope, by Bloodhound Gang.

[@feelingmachine]

somebody else has probably pointed it out by now but isnt thwe cowboy girl's gameplay stripped straight from everhood

[@samachu09]

12:44 Dude, that's the Gran Turismo race start sound! They're stealing sound bytes from other games too!

[@leadingauctions8440]

Fly Fly Tuk Tuk would make an excellent VR experience.

[@MarcusAlder]

27:39 insane fourth wall breaking plot twist

[@MegaMeister123]

This has to be illegal at some point. Genuinely

[@aabrightlove]

If you want cheap games, buy the Humble Bundle and support charity!

[@Century_Chandra]

The real heroes are the people tracking down all these "games" to give accurate reviews

[@zenonempire3562]

"Royal Booty Quest" Bro watch out, Badim might find this video too.