Sigh
Nonsense is back there too.
So if you want the full history and don't mind a SAN roll, here it is.

http://biancagames.com/eula.htm
https://archive.is/3G5zh

Atomic rancher?

If you're thinking of Atomicrops, the style is actually quite different.
https://steamhost.cn/app/757320/Atomicrops/

Even it there's some similarities few and far between, you don't have to squint to see the differences.

It's awfully close but juuuuuust not quite the same on closer inspection.
But mimicking SV to that extend is a little confusing, like they want to make people think it's a sequel or something.

Ah, you two dared dissing the EULA.
Prepare to be undiscorded.


Whatever that would entail.

"Undiscording" is defined as being reformed, by force if necessary, as long as said force is intending to be non-lethal and intending to be non cruel, and as long as said force does not violate these terms.

Originally posted by Jillas:

Originally posted by Ratchet:

Looks like they've since all been taken down?
https://i.imgur.com/bBoRtkp.png

They are still available for purchase worldwide, except the Australia.
https://steamdb.info/app/461400/
https://steamdb.info/app/514410/
https://steamdb.info/app/667170/
I guess the developer forgot to add the price in local currency that wasn't supported at the time of release of his games.

That's likely why Ratchet can't see them indeed.

Originally posted by Tamaster:

Reviews made with like 1-2 hours of playtime when the game for example lasts 30 hours, or has deep mechanics with a high learning curve... are garbage. How can anyone even give an informed opinion by having seen not even 5% of what the game has to offer, in terms of mechanics, content, and so on? Well, you can't. So if you don't want to call them fake, call them trash.

Actually, you can have an informed (enough) opinion in a short amount of time. For example :

The Witness is a long game if you're willing to do more than the minimum required - and can still be pretty long for said minimum, but it doesn't take more than an hour to get the game is about guessing the rules of the puzzles and the solutions are about drawing lines.

DJMax : takes a long time to finish 100% even on its base version, and have a very high skill ceiling, but at the end of the day it's a classic rhythm game : in one to two hours you already have a good feel of what this game is and what kind of music its soundrack features.
Works for most, if not all rhythm game that aren't too gimmicky.

Burnout Paradise : in two hours you've seen all game modes, all type of cars and most of the city.
The rest of the game time is just repetition of the same stuff with a few parameter changes.


Those are just a few examples, there's a lot more of them.
What I mean is with some background in gaming culture and depending on the game, you can still produce a defendable opinion even with very little playtime.

Heck, the reviewer can even simply recognize it's first opinions. if they're not outright factually lying inventing features that aren't there or praising to heaven something that's barely functional : that would still be a valid opinion.

There's more sure tricks to target and identify fake reviews.

Usually, people writing them won't write only one, and devs buying them won't only buy one either.

So :

1) Check out the user's reviews. To do that, go to the URL [(steam_profile_url)/recommended], works even on private profile.
If there's a bunch of positive reviews that are four liners, on games that look they really should've been ignored, it's a clue.
Bonus point if those reviews are partially (or completely) copy-pasted.

2) Check out other reviews. Devs will sometimes provide example reviews and terms to mix and match so the review will look more genuine by highlighting some of the game's specificity.
It's pretty obvious when you know what to look for.

3) Look for surge of reviews. It sometimes happen an ignored game suddenly receive a bunch of reviews from seemingly nowhere in a short amount of time.


Checking the achievements is nice and all, but a ton of new games susceptible to feature fake reviews don't have them.

And I disagree with the playtime parameter to spot fake reviews, at least in how you present it : a review can be not "valid" in your point of view, but still not a fake one.
A low amount of playtime can be a clue alright, but it also can be someone giving a low-informed but otherwise sincere opinion.

Originally posted by Zach Fett:

Here's a link to the fake dev's profile so it never gets lost:

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/id/gaiddsds/

Actually, for it to not get lost, you'd need the profive permalink.
In this case, it's https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/profiles/76561198856911058 .

As for getting rid of the files, yeah, it's possible.
Games usually stay available in their last state because they're left like that, but you can push an update rendering the product unplayable or just one that delete stuff.

Indeed, they aren't allowed to review their own games.
We'll have a look. Thank you.

Originally posted by Eviction Notice:

OMG. Day of Dragons made Valve's Announcement in December's Top Releases. So now Valve is promoting asset flips. What happened to shuffling this stuff to the bottom of the store with the "algorithms"?

It sold well.