Click For Points (Steam) Review

Click for Points is a free 2022 clicker game on Steam by These Are The Good Games where there is a big pixelated red button with a number on it that counts your clicks, that is literally it but I really want to review as many things as I can and I’m good at clicking a lot lol so why not (even though I keep forgetting to complete other reviews). It also has a ‘mode’ where you click as much as you can within 30 seconds and a £2.50 soundtrack.

Unfortunately this is one of those cases where even the little it offers is either badly done or doesn’t work, sounds and background colors changing per click is disabled by default due to the amount of flashing that inevitably occurs if you are any decent at clicking fast and even if the achievements worked (which they do not) the game has been hit with the limit that keeps them out of profile stuff (e.g. showcases).

I noticed that you can get clicks rather quickly by using one hand to hit the space bar which works (whilst over the button) as well as any clicks on the mouse (though I just did left and right) but with how the upgrades work and their costs the requirements balloon into absurdity quite quickly with the final upgrade needing 71.4 million actual clicks to achieve, this is because each upgrade only gives you an extra +2 per click whilst being 10 times as expensive.

Overall its one of those games that can’t really even be played as a joke as what little it offers is still done rather badly, to the point that it bothers me that games like this that are mostly overlooked tend to get high amounts of recommendations from non-serious people (not that I hate jokey reviews just not when there is too many). There is literally no reason to recommend this so I obviously am not.

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Drowning in Steam Software

So recently I stumbled upon Steamdb’s free packages page and the script that allows me to add all free things (except a few region locked ones) to your account which I certainly have no regrets for and gives me plenty of things to review on the blog though when it comes to software however I ultimately realized some things I wish you could do.

Firstly is 2 problems that are essentially 2 sides of a coin, one being software that is too specialized or specific to be of any use to me which I suppose can sort of fit in the “Can’t play yet” category with things I can’t run at all atm (’cause old gpu-less pc).

The other is inevitably having many pieces of software that have the same intended use as other software e.g. multiple game engines, recording software, coding etc and putting them into categories would just end up flooding my categories section because sadly you cannot indicate a collection to only appear for certain types of content. For example I’d only want “Useful Software” to appear on the ‘Add to’ list when it is software that I have selected.

On top of that I’m not even sure where to start in terms of types of software other than the outliers or whether I can in most cases. Like how could I review a game engine if I fail at all the steps that come beforehand, a music creation software while having no talent in that anywhere, or even coding while it looks like a complete mess to me. In other words to review most of these means my incredibly forgetful and permanently unmotivated self has to learn whole new things.

And yet despite the confusing mess that trying to load and review software is I find myself drawn to it more than games at the moment and that’s not even because my game library is now filled with literally thousands of demo’s of which covers an even wider genre than the software ever could. I suppose I writ this, knowing that it’ll probably get drowned among other posts due to me not updating the page system basically ever, just in case the blog ends up being inactive for a long time again.

Driver Booster (Steam) Non-Premium Review

Driver Booster for Steam (yes, thats its full title) is a piece of software on steam (duh) released 2nd November 2018 by IObit which aims to keep drivers updated and shut down unnecessary background processes to help with gaming (and possibly other things). This has a free version which is the one I will be testing though unlike a similar piece of software I reviewed (and do not recommend) this has a full license for £28.

I admit the scathing comments in the discussions and reviews detailing times the software apparently broke things had me wondering if I actually wanted this to load up but at first I was stuck being told I was in compatibility mode until I started manually via its exe. The check worked fine and unlike another piece of software only the ‘game drivers’ were behind a paywall whilst others could be updated via the software complete with restore point so I hoped that meant it’d be easy to go back if something went wrong. That said when the updating was over all affected devices still worked fine which included what powers the graphics in my gpu-less pc, my mouse and my internet connection.

In the tools section was multiple options seemingly made to tackles issues that other users had complained about like losing audio or resolution going bad due to graphics driver installations. The only one that seemed usable in my situation was one that claimed to clean invalid device data which at a glance focused on devices I have not used in quite a long time, though either way it was just another way to declutter whilst making no real difference to your pc usage.

Lastly was the boost option which closes down apps and services that it sees as unecessary for gaming, though as someone with a relatively old pc I admit to not really noticing a difference though I suppose if you were a person with a lot of ram and a tendency to have a lot of background running apps open it may help close the (currently) unwanted ones all at once if you set it to do so.

Overall it sort of works even the free version though from how I didn’t really feel like I noticed anything you’ve got to question if people paying for a full license would ever be worth it unless you tend to connect a lot of obscure or old devices to your pc.

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Bounty of One (Steam) Demo Review

Bounty of One is an ‘action roguelike’ on Steam by OptizOnion with a planned release date of August 2022 whilst a demo released early. The goal of the game is to survive against hordes of bounty hunters whilst gaining upgrades via beating bosses and leveling up (similar to some other games) though its worth noting that it does have 4 person multiplayer where you can try to be co-operative or fight to get the most loot.

An interesting thing that this game had was on top of your character firing automatically (which I have seen similar games do) you can only fire whilst you are not moving making use of the upgrades and objects to survive in multiple different ways which could include going brute force with a lot of damage or stacking up the ability to dash and heal. I admit I had some failed runs where I got overrun rather easily, turns out that the bosses are something well worth defeating as they drop special upgrades compared to leveling up which can range from simple things like making your dash do damage in some way to legendary ones that seem crazy like 100% crit rate but 3x less damage.

I quite enjoyed trying to make some really dumb builds even if I didn’t get the 2 effects that’d be crazy together, 100% crits and crits = piercing. I usually ended up beating the big boss by scratching them to death and relying on slowing down their ‘projectiles’. When I unlocked the 2nd (and only other character of the demo) I honestly thought he’d be hard to use at first until I had a run where I got upgrades that just really worked with his attacks inbuilt piercing. To the point that I went beyond the final boss and created a ridiculous (but sadly not that damaging) build that threw piercing attacks everywhere. Though while I did enjoy it to the point of dragging out a run there was one thing that kinda bothered me a little.

My most ridiculous build, cooldown on things was all the down to 13.4%.

And that was the health bars, in most games you probably wouldn’t care about that sort of thing but in this game when you are not doing crazy amounts of damage you find the bosses sitting at what looks like no health at all for far longer than you would expect. That and the normal enemies seemingly became immortal after a short while, really showed me that I shouldn’t really be playing this game on my old gpu-less pc lol. Oddly the bosses eventually stopped spawning at all though by that point it took a ridiculous amount of time to take them down so it wouldn’t be worth it either way.

The real goal is to play til you beat the big boss to complete a run to unlock higher infamy levels (aka it gets harder in some way) which also doubles as a score multiplier to get on the leaderboards that are already a thing. Whereas continuing after the boss doesn’t count on the leaderboard since its just an extra to let you use your build for a bit longer and even someone with a stronger combination of upgrades (and stronger pc) would inevitably stumble on the things I did.

Overall its a pretty good demo thats pretty fun with no real problems during the main portion of the gameplay so I can certainly recommend the full version as long as its not overpriced though note it is still in early access.

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MyMoney (Steam) Review

MyMoney is a piece of free software on Steam released 30th September 2017 by edisonlee55 which claims to be “a lightweight, simple accounting software with an easy interface and minimal functionality”. I imagine that last ‘feature’ it has barely any reviews of which are mixed overall (and even some of the positive ones seemed like troll reviews).

Turns out the only things you can do is record expenses (from 4 categories), search them up and also delete them if needed. And there are signs that it was lazily thrown together as there are so many little things missing like not being able to put a “,” in bigger numbers or even specify a currency. What’s even more awkward is when you see the view menu with things like “Toggle Developer Tools”, reload and zoom options and realize the software is basically just a web page in a chromium shell.

I could just end the review there tbh but I feel like mentioning that this is version 1.4.3 somehow and what people would want. For one whats the point in keeping track of expenses if you can’t also see the overall weekly and monthly expenses, as well as the fact that people may want to set a limit that can warn users in order to save money or prevent overspending.

Overall its just rather pointless to download and I can see why most reviews whether negative or false positive mentioned notepad in some way or another as it would literally be easier to just use that. Obviously wouldn’t recommend this, not that I would ever look for this sort of thing on steam as its one of many things acquired via Steamdb.

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Driver Fusion (Steam) Free Version Review

Driver Fusion is a piece of software released 24th December 2020 by Treexy which aims to keep track and update the drivers and devices on your computer. As the title implies however I’m checking out the limited free version as I do not like subscription products (cheapest is £23 for 1 year unless you plan to use it longer than that).

I admit to almost being immediately annoyed at just how limited they have to make software like this to get people to pay, you press the button to have the software do a health check followed by it listing drivers that can be updated as well as the available drivers as well as those you could back up but the thing is you can’t do either of those via the software because that’s premium. And outside of finding them manually a few of them were recommending drivers far older than the ones I already had which is a little odd.

As for the driver cleaner I admit its not the type of thing that I would approach lightly as it’d be easy to accidentally delete registry entries that are still in use so I suppose you’d use it for devices you no longer have to declutter. That said I can only imagine it’d be the same as the health check in that the free version lets you look but not actually use forcing you to double click each entry to open in windows inbuilt registry editor and do it yourself.

Something unusual as a sidenote is that steam has an older version of Driver Fusion still up now called “Unused (DF)” which seemingly offers the same as its newer counterpart but oddly has achievements which are mostly unachievable due to needing a premium subscription it no longer can have unless a subscription to the new one is backwards compatible for some weird reason. Didn’t stop me grabbing a few that I could for the lolz so one would appear in my rare achievements showcase.

Overall this is one of those programs that might be useful to get certain devices working when you have premium but I personally never see the reason why anyone would want to pay a subscription for this sort of thing. I guess its just me, I’ve seen people in the reviews willing to pay the £23 just to get a few things working.

Mining Rush (Web Game) Review

Mining Rush is a free clicker game on CrazyGames in June 2022 where you click to mine minerals to earn money and buy mining tools with the ultimate goal to also get construction materials to build your own city. I admit I felt like playing and reviewing this after seeing a youtuber play it.

Visually and gameplay-wise it starts off as a normal clicker game, you click the rock and then spend the money on the tools and upgrading the rock/minerals itself both of which change to something else after leveling up but I honestly was not expecting to feel some lag on my PC even if its kinda old and gpu-less. If the lag happened in late gameplay due to each different tool being a seperate object you can move around the screen that’d at least make some sense but the game genuinely didn’t even like how fast I can click (and its probably not even that fast tbh). Not really sure where the developer got the idea of the ‘tools’ from because they were mostly just random things including a banana and a pair of trousers. The city building aspect of the game was similar to mining though with 4 resources that you can mine by clicking or paying to upgrade their dps to ‘build’ (aka upgrade) your city ad by extension a gold multiplier though oddly a single click on a resource is worth more than its dps.

I broke it.

I still relatively quickly got to my first prestige though I when I decided to use the ‘technique’ of just leaving it running for a while I was forced to cut it short to around 30 minutes as I seemingly managed to buy more than I could afford when I quickly mashed one of the tools (likely due to the lag) and put myself in a lot of debt making buying anything else impossible unless I waited for it to go positive again. That said unless you really wanted to see what the completed city looked like there wasn’t much more reason for me to continue playing.

Overall its always a little awkward when its seemingly my PC’s fault that a game does not work though it certainly doesn’t look like it should but I can’t recommend it at the moment. While CrazyGames does not have user reviews I do note it the game has over 100 dislikes so perhaps some of those also had the same issue I did.

Anti-Jump-Man (Steam) Review

Anti-Jump-Man is a short free puzzle platformer released 21st October 2018 on Steam by Pioh1 in which you play a character that can’t jump that finds a ‘bridge gun’ which you must use to solve the puzzles. Note it won 2nd place of 2018’s Uruguayan National Videogame Contest, though I know nothing amount these contests.

The artstyle certainly jumps out at you for being strange, outside of the rainbow colors you can tell it was meant to be like older games due to it having ‘aberration’ and scanlines like old monitors would have though no idea what the japanese text was for or what it said (would be interesting to know). Plus I admit I certainly would have disabled the aberration if it were a longer game. The way the screen kept flashing in the one level with a large amount of keys was also rather questionable, though I myself am not knowledgeable enough to know if it would cause an epileptic fit in those that have it.

As for the gameplay itself outside of how weird it is that the thing that places the ‘bridges’ spins it is quite easy as there is no limit to how much you can place down, no downside other than temporarily being stuck if you go over yourself and dying instantly respawns you at the start (too bad the corpses don’t stack lol). Holding down spawns them really quickly so its not too hard to get alright platforms though even badly made ones can just be jumped up. Lastly its unfortunate that there is no way to prevent that ending, I certainly tried to lol.

Overall its ok for something made for a contest though a few of the things just seem a little strange, if you have the curiosity to play contest games then perhaps try this though I certainly recommend disabling the aberration effect.

Coin Flip Simulator (Steam) Review

Coin Flip Simulator for Probability and Statistics is free software released 28th January 2021 on Steam by OriShake that simply lets you flip a coin with some statistics, nothing fancy just something small to use.

Some would say this is far too simple to review, others would say this is far too simple to be a thing even if its free. Either way you put in the number of times you want the coins ‘flipped’ and a speed from 1x to 5x and it just does as you’d expect giving you a graph and percentages based on the amount of each that you got during all of your coin flips. Though I admit to being a little bothered that its more that the coin just gets dropped whilst already flipping and not being launched upwards first like you might expect (though that would add more variables I suppose).

Nothing mind-blowing here.

Seeing the lack of effort in its visuals I then can’t help but wonder how long it actually took to program, as its not exactly complex though still more than a dumb person like me could do. Its just that even though the developer simply threw it together to be useful its already kind of niche and its presentation is inevitably going to make it more so in my opinion.

Overall I suppose the people that want this sort of thing on steam will find it themselves and use it, there is no point in recommending it here (or writing this really but I felt like it).

Abort, Retry, Fail (Steam) Review

Abort, Retry, Fail is a free topdown roguelike released 17th May 2022 by Manpukuken Ramen in which a lazy programmer is punished by the computer gods for his bugs and cheap hacks by being sent to computer hell where he has to generate a weapon to survive. I noted from the other reviews that this is an incredibly short experience being as quick as 5 to 10 minutes.

What you get is essentially a singular windows 98 themed dungeon, randomly generated as you’d expect, where on top of your basic ammo-less attack you can pick up 3 different kinds of ammo (mail, bomb and chicken) in 3 different slots which effectively combine though some combinations seem bad enough to make the idea of using all 3 slots of ammo at once without any choice kinda awkward especially as it got me killed by a weak enemy one time as I kept firing over them (I didn’t think to run and waste away the ammo to get the basic attack back). In my defense once an enemy is in your face you can take quite a lot of damage before being able to run away.

Getting caught by enemies is a death sentence, something I learnt trying to take this picture.

That said I very quickly realised the easy way of beating this including the boss and that was to simply not use the gimmick until you see that the next room is empty (or count the rooms if you know how many there is) and then go back and grab a triple combination of something, I don’t know about chicken or bomb but triple mail effectively deleted the boss with quite a decent chunk of the 20 ammo to spare. The fact the developer doesn’t even expect any replayability and makes you exit out the game after winning is a little awkward though.

Overall the fact that its free, fast to download and fast to complete means that while there is not much too it there is also nothing wrong with grabbing it and giving it a go. Maybe try a basic weapon only run or something. I do wonder if the developer will ever expand on the concept, whether as an update or a separate paid title.