Dear Steam,

Don't offer to let me connect my YouTube account, if Google will not let me sign-in, because they see your app as not secure.

Signed,

Seriously??

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1301390/No_Umbrellas_Allowed/

I had high hopes for this game, but apparently, the English translation is wrong, leading to damage to your character's reputation, because of misunderstandings sprouting from it. Also, apparently, the game mechanics are poor. The people come in to sell their items and expect full-price for used items. There will be some sometimes, of course. However, it would not be everyone. Most people realize that they cannot command full sale-price or current-value for used items.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2457220/Avowed/

I'm totally psyched about this one!!

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1703340/reviews/?browsefilter=toprated&snr=1_5_100010_

I did not find a single review of this game that was helpful. It's like the reviews were used as a forum. Nothing there was helpful to someone considering whether or not to buy the game. I came away no wiser as to what the game is about. I only saw that an overwhelming number of people of painfully average, or possibly below-average, intelligence were left even more incoherent after playing it. There should be review sections based on general IQ levels. Put the ones with IQs at the 60th percentile or less into one section; IQs between the 61st-80th percentiles in another; IQs between the 81th-95th percentile in another; create a group specifically for people with IQs at, or above, the 96th percentile.

Usually, I find some review that rates the game-play, graphics, story-line, etc.at least.

Folks, once these devs have our money from the early access stage, they may decide it is too much bother to finish-up the product. One person naively wrote that it was nice that the dev wanted help and feedback for his game.... That is not what they are using early access for, except in rare cases. We are unpaid beta testers. If we find a bug, they MIGHT fix it, or they might not bother. Some think they need the money to continue developing. Maybe, or maybe they just decide to throw it out there and see what they can get.

Steam needs to start cracking down on this, but they will not, because they are an over-bloated corporation feeding off of gamers, like a tick. Thus, the games put on here are not being filtered, and we cannot trust Steam to provide us with good-quality games.

I was looking through the store today with the keyword "Death" as my search term. There are some interesting-looking games, BUT many are early access from 2016-2019 and were simply abandoned. Players had been willing to pay some 20+ Stirling Pounds, Euro, etc. for these games, only to be frustrated, in numerous languages, about the state of the game being more demo than early access, and also because the games are then abandoned. There seems to have been a pattern on the part of the devs of EAing the game, interacting and trying some, then just walking away from it.

I was frustrated by a different game yesterday evening, called "gotoIT". The last comments by the dev were in 2019. I'm going to start, before I buy a game, going through the forums and see when the devs last commented. The game is a REALLY cool concept!! But the bugs are horrendous!! Fixes were promised back in 2019 for things that are STILL broken.