Platform fighters are definitely a niche genre, however they’re very popular. Having a new entry to an already established franchise pulling in less than 1k players concurrently on steam is very disheartening.
Gamemill who is the publisher of this game is known recently for being the publisher for the amazing (/s) Kong Skull Island game.
You may be saying, “hey well it’s crossplay so steam charts don’t represent the entire community” I can agree to a certain extent. The issue is that the previous gen ports (Switch, PS4, Xbox 1) all run like absolute dogshit. How you have a game that has less visual fidelity than Smash Ultimate, but run at 50% of the framerate on the console it is made for as well as consoles much more powerful than it is insane. One other thing, on PC cross play is not on by default. If you enable it and exit the game (or more often than not it crashes) you have to re enable cross play every single time you re open the game.
Save your money, and don’t even pick up this game on a sale because before it gets to that point it will already be dead.
If you want a nice single player game, and maybe messing around with your friends in LAN sure pick it up on sale. That being said paying 50$ for a game that is already dying a week after release is ridiculous.
IGN 9/10 my ass
I blame free to play games. it feels like most young people and gamers in general nowadays are on some kind of Battle Royale or Moba grinding out some Battlepass they should have NEVER bought.
Yet also got nominated for stuff in the game awards…
Proving one thing… the awards are completely BS awards.
What does a review score have to do with player count lmao
Why are you assuming that a local multiplayer platform fighter marketed for children would be popular on steam?
Why are you expecting IGN to have truthful, honest reviews?
Why are you expecting this game to have a massive competitive multiplayer scene one week after release?
You sound immature and impatient.
The problem is that it’s an expensive game and they burned bridges with the first one. Had they released this as a free to play game I would’ve gotten onboard
Probably gets played a LOT more on consoles. I know as someone with both I wouldn’t buy it on pc but might on console
Because:
- The first game was terrible and lost all confidence to fans
- Ign scores are often based on zeitgeist not quality
That’s it, that’s what is happening.
Probably because you bought the wrong one LOL
The original has an average of 63 on metacritic, the sequel got 9/10
Not a surprise
What a moron
The first game probably put a bad taste in some people’s mouths as well.
I honestly dont understand that 9/10 score. It just feels like the same game with a new mechanic and voice acting. The characters are just boring to play as. Sure the single player content is more fleshed out, but i dont think thats why a lot of people play these games.
Who thought the name gamemill was a good idea for a publisher? I see it and all I think of is just churning out crappy games