Разработчик: Hard Shark Games
Описание
STEAM GREENLIGHT
About the Game
Scarlett's Dungeon is a retro-inspired action RPG dungeon crawler with roguelite elements. Explore randomly generated dungeons, fight monsters, and collect loot in beautifully crafted pixel art reminiscent of the Game Boy Advance era. Test your skills as you dive deep into ever-changing challenges!
About Scarlett's Dungeon
Scarlett's Dungeon offers a retro-styled action RPG experience inspired by the golden era of Game Boy Advance. Each run through the dungeon is randomly generated, giving you a fresh challenge every time with roguelike elements that keep gameplay exciting and unpredictable. As you battle your way through hordes of enemies, unlock new weapons, spells, and power-ups to grow stronger with every attempt. Face off against powerful bosses, uncover secrets, and fight to save your village in this action-packed, pixel art adventure.
Scarlett's Descent into Darkness
In the peaceful village of Palette, 10-year-old Scarlett's life is turned upside down when a dark force, calling itself the God Lord, kidnaps half of the village—including her family. Taken deep into the dungeon's 15th floor, they are held as a sinister offering, with their lives hanging in the balance. With no time to waste, young Scarlett arms herself and ventures into the depths of a perilous, monster-filled dungeon to save her loved ones. Will Scarlett be able to defeat the God Lord and bring peace back to her home?
Prepare for a nostalgic journey filled with danger, excitement, and endless replayability in Scarlett’s Dungeon!
Поддерживаемые языки: english, spanish - spain, spanish - latin america
Системные требования
Windows
- OS *: Windows 7
- Processor: 1.2 GHz
- Memory: 1 GB RAM
- Graphics: 256 MB
- DirectX: Version 9.0
- Storage: 47 MB available space
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: 2 GHz
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: 1 GB
- DirectX: Version 9.0
- Storage: 47 MB available space
Отзывы пользователей
Great game, and super fun! But, seriously, this game needs a mute button. The music is driving me crazy after 30 minutes. I checked Settings and there's no buttons for audio, just screen size. The chiptune music will drive me bonkers long before the grind will.
Scarlett's Dungeon is a badly made and possibly asset flipped 2D retro pixel top down brawler (think Legend of Zelda) type game hacked out by copying a basic retro ARPG template/engine/pack for GameMaker Studio. It's from someone who's been caught asset flipping before, unfortunately.
Johnny Ginard have a known history of trying to scam people into paying them money for someone else's work, through this account or through closely linked/alt accounts. One example of Johnny Ginard doing this is Beastie Land, which is really the "Sunny Land" asset, written by the actual developers, Ansimuz.
Taking this shovelware seriously as if it was a genuine attempt to make a game, it doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard.
A choice was made to use obsolete, decades old retro pixel "art" as a substitute for contemporary PC graphics. It's unclear if this is due to lack of budget or talent, regardless, the overall visual quality of the game is extremely low as a result.
While there are options to change the resolution for the game, all this does is scale up the simplistic 2D art assets used to make the game, which makes little or no difference to the graphics quality. Without any other substantial graphics tweaks, it's not possible for gamers to improve the lacklustre 2D visuals.
Bewilderingly, the game doesn't include proper audio controls, so you can't turn off the annoying sound/background music, you'll need to alt+tab out and stop it using the Windows sound mixer. This is obviously not okay and it's unclear why the developers chose not to include this basic feature.
The controls can't be customised, which will be an annoyance for many, but it can also render the game unplayable for differently-abled gamers, left handed gamers or gamers using AZERTY or other international keyboard layouts.
To make matters worse, there's no mouse input, despite this being sold on PC as if it were a PC game. This is unacceptable and somewhat insulting to PC gamers. It's a good demonstration of the poor attitude the developer has towards PC gamers, and this attitude has resulted in yet another defect in this game.
The game features no proper level design, as they opted to try to use samey repetitive procgen algorithms as a substitute for adding such content to the game, to avoid doing the important job of level/map design and gameplay flow. As a result, the game doesn't actually much in the way of real, genuine content worth mentioning, just endless, boring, repetitive, soulless algorithmically generated sameyness. Developers must learn that procedural generation is not an acceptable substitute for content.
Some of the defects in the game can be attributed to the choice of using the GameMaker Studio construction kit/toolset. This is a very poor quality toolset favoured by amateur developers as it's cheap and requires little in the way of development skill, but unfortunately has very limited capabilities. Just as you can't make a silk purse out of a sows ear, you can't make a great video game if you use a terrible engine. GameMaker Studio is most commonly used to make retro pixel shovelware and cash grabs.
A strong argument can be made that construction kits like GameMaker Studio should never be used to make games for profit, as the "developer", Johnny Ginard has done here. These construction kits are intended to teach people some of the basic principles of game development, and to make small demos to pass around with friends. They're not intended to replace to actual work of real, professional game developers. So it's inappropriate when amateurs try to use these for profit, without any actual, real game development effort taking place. This doesn't result in products that have any real meaningful value for gamers.
These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game.
The poor quality of this game is reflected by how many people spent time with it. At the time of this review, SteamDB shows the all-time peak player number was only 3 players, and the worst part is these weren't genuine players, these were the Russian fake review accounts that the developer paid to make the fake reviews. Since the fake reviews are all done, now the only player activity occurs once or twice a month, presumably someone loading it up to see what it is then quickly uninstalling it. Considering there's over 120 million gamers on Steam and well over 100,000 games for gamers to choose from, the overwhelming lack of interest in this low quality game is to be expected.
This game features a number of suspicious, likely fake positive reviews. The reviews all appear at almost exactly the same time, very shortly after the game launched on Steam, all have a direct Steam purchase of the game, and all have very similar wording and writing style. Immediately after this huge peak of reviews, reviews (and player counts) for the game dropped incredibly sharply. This is highly unusual given the very low quality of the game and poor player counts. The "Positive" review score on this game should be taken with a large grain of salt.This might have been done to deceive/mislead gamers into paying for a bad product. The "Positive" review score on this game should be taken with a large grain of salt.
So, should you buy this game? Is this one of the best of the 100,000+ games on Steam?
Scarlett's Dungeon has the laughable price of around $7 USD, it's not worth it given the defects and shortcomings with the product, especially considering the unethical nature of the developer.
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Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Hard Shark Games |
| Платформы | Windows |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 27.01.2025 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 78% положительных (32) |