Bitcoin Or Bomb?

Wowzers! This sucks!

It boils down to a trial and error memory game. You have to guess where the bitcoin is, without hitting a bomb. Every time you pick the wrong object, you have to restart, so you have to keep testing to see where the bitcoin is. As the levels progress, there are more bitcoins and more options (or bombs) to choose from, so you have to memorize where each bitcoin is, through making mistakes, until you figure out the correct pattern to beat the level, awful game mechanic. There's also a time limit of like five seconds per level, leaving you no time to think and just react quickly.

I could hardly hear any music either, it was just deafening sounds playing throughout.

As per usual, if you want an actual good game, this isn't the one, 'cept if you want a +1 to your perfect games score.

Bitcoin Or Bomb? is a memory puzzle game.

I played through the entire game and finished it in 6 minutes (failed the last level a lot, so that's around 3 to 4 minutes for the entire game if you don't...) Such short games shouldn't be accepted on Steam, this is just... ugh. So the goal of the game is to reveal all Bitcoins and avoid bombs. If you click on a bomb, the game stops and you have to restart. So it's just trial and error to guess where all Bitcoins are 1 by 1, then use your memory to remember where they are and click them in a row relatively quickly (there's a timer.) The music loops every times you die, and in this game you are supposed to die every few seconds, rendering the audio experience borderline torture.

Overall, avoid. It is not fun, 5-10 minutes long and just not worth your time.

Bitcoin Or Bomb? is more minimal effort Russian shovelware polluting Steam and making gaming worse for everyone. Once more, Ghost_RUS has used the childrens toy ClickTeam Fusion drag and drop game construction kit to make a "game", this time the game is just a blind minefield game, like minesweeper but without the clues. Click on the green dots and try to remember which dots have a bitcoin pixel blob and which ones don't (the ones that don't reset the level). That's all there is to it, it's just more Russian cash grab pollution.

From a technical perspective, the game 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.

There's no option to change the resolution and no useful graphics tweaks. There's no way to ensure this is running at the native resolution of your display. There's no guarantee this game will look right on any PC as a result of this hamfisted design decision.

Bewilderingly, the game doesn't include proper audio controls, so you can't turn off the annoying background music, you'll need to alt+tab out and stop the music 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 because the game has such a dumbed down, simplified interface that it's just point and click stuff like a browser/Flash game. The fact that the interface is this dumbed down might be seen as a problem in itself, however... this is a fairly shallow experience if you're the kind of gamer that likes to play games with deep, rich control schemes and interaction. You'll get none of that here.

Some of the defects in the game can be attributed to the choice of using the Clickteam Fusion construction kit - the "No-Code" construction kit that "Anyone can make games with!!". Including, you know, people who aren't game developers. Which is a problem. This is a very poor quality toolset sometimes used by amateur developers as it's free (so they don't have to pay for GameMaker Studio) and doesn't require advanced game development skills, but unfortunately has very limited capabilities (it's arguably worse than GameMaker Studio). 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. 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.

The very poor quality of this game puts it squarely on-par with ancient 1990's Flash/Java games, and given it's 2023 (and this was released not so far back in 2018), gamers and the industry expect and deserve better than this kind of low effort shovelware.

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. This is a remarkably low number, and 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 50,000 games for gamers to choose from (over 9,000 completely free titles), the overwhelming lack of interest in this low quality game is to be expected.

While game reviews must be about the game, as this review has been, it's sometimes important for gamers to be aware when there's problems with the developers. In this case, Nikita "Ghost_RUS", a Russian shovelware scam artist who routinely abuses Steam by polluting the marketplace with shovelware like this game. Nikita "Ghost_RUS" continually sends a message of racism, bigotry, homophobia and hate speech through his games, in direct violation of Valve's guidlines for acceptable game content. You can read more about it in this article by the Sentinels of the Store curator group.

This is something I feel potential customers should be aware of for two reasons. First, I understand completely that gamers may not want to buy games with such horrible, antihumanitarian messages of hate such as games from Nikita "Ghost_RUS". Secondly, gamers must be aware that if Valve decides to do the right thing and enforce their policy against hate speech and bigotry in games, games such as this will be banned. So, buying games from Nikita "Ghost_RUS" may be putting your money at risk.

Bitcoin Or Bomb? is relatively cheap at $1 USD, but it's not worth it. Given the defects and quality issues with the game, coupled with the unrealistic price, this is impossible to recommend.

Note: Because this is more of a "joke" game, intended to draw attention from controversy or in the hopes of going viral because it's "so bad it's good" (but it isn't good at all), there's nothing here to offer to serious gamers. As usual, with most awful/joke games, all the comedians come out of the woodwork. The vast majority of the reviews for this game are joke reviews, such as "this game cured my cancer, saved my marriage, changed my life" etc. Because most of the reviews are as insincere as the game itself is, the positive review score for this game should be disregarded.

Lame

This game is very similar to Anime girl Or Bottle? but it comes with a memory version of puzzles. You have to click all the circles until you find which ones are bitcoins and then select them all without blowing up to complete the level. There are 15 levels which can take a person less than five minutes to complete. Overall rating 1/10 based on price and the fact they sell you a MIDI soundtrack as DLC. Not worth the time to play unless you are an achievement hunter for 100% completion.

1/10

This game is one of the most engaging ones ive played.
The storyline was heartbeaking and every second the game pulled me in more and more.
I believe this game is a definate Game of The Year winner.
I cant wait for a sequel.
This game is amazing and may even start its own genre.
It will change gaming as we know it.

┅¦ Bitcoin Or Bomb? ¦┅


┅¦ Audience ¦┅
☐ Kids
☐ Adults
☑ Everyone
☐ Casual Players
☑ Pro Players


┅¦ Price ¦┅
☑ Too expensive
☐ Full Price
☐ 25% Off
☐ 50% Off
☐ 75% Off
☐ It's Free!


┅¦ Difficulty ¦┅
☐ No Tutorial
☐ Easy
☐ Easy to learn/ Hard to master
☐ Tutorial needed
☑ Use every resource



┅¦ Time/Length ¦┅
☑ Really short ( 0 - 2 hours)
☐ Short ( 2 - 8 hours)
☐ Few hours ( 8 - 12 hours)
☐ Long ( 12+ hours)
☐ Endless


┅¦ Story ¦┅
☐ no
☑ Bad
☐ Average
☐ Good
☐ Fantastic

┅¦ Bugs ¦┅
☐ Game destroys itself
☐ Too many bugs
☐ Lot of bugs
☐ Few Bugs
☑ No bugs are destroying the game

┅¦ Overall ¦┅
☑ Horrible game
☐ Okay game
☐ Pretty good game
☐ Excellent game
☐ Outstanding game