Giving this 1/5 simply because 80% of the content is behind a paywall while the interface screams "Here's content thats going to be included in the future yet don't hate the product due to its current state, oh and btw here's all the content which would make this a decent product but you can't play it because.... [insert every reason here]"
I parrot all other users when I say that there is absolutely no justification for this not being labeled a demo.
When you insert obvious placeholders for content that's not currently in the game and then on top of that spend significant time coding simply disabling 90% of the content claiming you can unlock it.... Is the worst business decision I could imagine.
Put the game out as a demo.
Wait till it's finished if it's ever finished as at the current rate of where it's at now up until 2+ years later... after going at that pace to finish all the "content" that IN-GAME it claims to have at some point, the game won't be out for at least another decade.
Game would easily go from 1/5 to 3.5+/5 if any of the following happened:
1) Publish the game as a demo.
or
2) On start of the game insert a form of license verification that unlocks the game.
or
3) Remove all in-game visible claims of "future content"
As ironic as that sounds coming from a review on f95, the game left me with a soured impression of
1) "As a dev I'm going to jerk around the player that doen't spend additional money to unlock content."
2) One of those games that goes from early access to 1.0 when in actuality it should in no way be 1.0 and then the dev moves on to paid dlc.
I parrot all other users when I say that there is absolutely no justification for this not being labeled a demo.
When you insert obvious placeholders for content that's not currently in the game and then on top of that spend significant time coding simply disabling 90% of the content claiming you can unlock it.... Is the worst business decision I could imagine.
Put the game out as a demo.
Wait till it's finished if it's ever finished as at the current rate of where it's at now up until 2+ years later... after going at that pace to finish all the "content" that IN-GAME it claims to have at some point, the game won't be out for at least another decade.
Game would easily go from 1/5 to 3.5+/5 if any of the following happened:
1) Publish the game as a demo.
or
2) On start of the game insert a form of license verification that unlocks the game.
or
3) Remove all in-game visible claims of "future content"
As ironic as that sounds coming from a review on f95, the game left me with a soured impression of
1) "As a dev I'm going to jerk around the player that doen't spend additional money to unlock content."
2) One of those games that goes from early access to 1.0 when in actuality it should in no way be 1.0 and then the dev moves on to paid dlc.