proprietary software

Vampire Survivors - (2022 game)

2023-01-29

dead, disliked, entertainment, fauxldschool games, games, Glances, offline games, payware, proprietary software, single-player games, software, steam games, windows 11 software, Windows games

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(on Wikipedia)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1794680/Vampire_Survivors/

A cheap knockoff of Smash TV.

Garbage. Has no victory condition. After some time you are guaranteed to die.

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The Chronicles of Spellborn - (2008 game)

2023-01-22

dead, disliked, entertainment, freeware, games, Glances, multiplayer games, oldschool games, online games, proprietary software, roleplaying video games, software, windows 11 software, Windows games

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(on Wikipedia)
https://spellborn.org/

An MMORPG maybe; I couldn't log in.

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Final Fantasy 14 - (2013 game)

2023-01-04

dead, disliked, Final Fantasy series, freeware, games, multiplayer games, proprietary software, reviews, software, sword and sorcery, sword and sorcery games, Windows 10 software, Windows games, Windows software

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(on Wikipedia)
https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/

Yet another MMO, but Japanese and built on a huge franchise and the smouldering remains of an abysmal failure.

I don't understand how this is popular. It has boring repetitive abilities, a confusing layout and a terrible map system.

Properly named Final Fantasy XIV
Technically I'm looking at Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn
aka ファイナルファンタジーXIV: 新生エオルゼア
aka Fainaru Fantajī Fōtīn: Shinsei Eoruzea
- Apparently that's not a joke.
aka FF14, FFXIV

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Bloons TD 6

2022-12-29

Bloons, entertainment, Epic games, games, liked, multiplayer games, online games, owned, payware, proprietary software, reviews, single-player games, software, tower defense games, windows 11 software, Windows games, zombie

Entertainment > Games >
Tower Defense Games > Bloons >

(on Wikipedia)
https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/bloons-td-6-bf95a0
https://ninjakiwi.com/Games/Mobile/Bloons-TD-6.html

A fair tower defence game that really does come across as a mobile game ported to desktop. I got it free from Epic, which is the only thing making me not completely trash this thing.

Fair, with flaws.

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Entertainment > Games >

(XCOM > on Wikipedia)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/7760/XCOM_UFO_Defense/
was on microprose.com
was on mythosgames.com

Aliens drop by Earth and evil Humans shoot them down and mug them.

Nothing about the interface makes enough sense, and there are no hints as to how things work. It could have been made much better, even back in the day. I'm not going to forgive how bad it is, especially since there was zero effort by Steam to actually fix basic things like aspect ratio.

aka UFO: Enemy Unknown
- (in Europe)
TODO - There is another, XCOM:Enemy Unknown but it appears to be a remake/something and with DLC content:
- https://store.steampowered.com/app/200510/XCOM_Enemy_Unknown/

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