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[–] pearsaltchocolatebar 82 points 1 day ago (7 children)

How many of those are $0.99 hentai titles with like an hour of gameplay, though.

[–] Xtallll@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 11 hours ago

That's like 20 gameplay sessions for 99¢, that's only like 5¢ per.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 10 points 19 hours ago

Only around 17,000 or so. The rest are minimum effort Unity asset flips.

I do appreciate that it used to be too much effort to get a game onto Steam, but this situation is hardly better.

[–] spireghost@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 day ago

Some of the most-played steam games are "Banana" and "Cats" where you literally click it every few hours and get steam item drops. Basically NFTs where people try to get rare items, but even more braindead because the developer, at any time can make more tokens.

[–] ObsidianZed@lemmy.world 32 points 1 day ago (2 children)

And how many are nearly entirely AI generated?

[–] pearsaltchocolatebar 3 points 1 day ago

Idk, AI is usually very good at translation into English, and most of the translations are garbage.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What's wrong with an hour of entertainment for 1 Buck?

[–] pearsaltchocolatebar 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Noting, but many are basically the same game with different drawings.

[–] birdcannon@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

The Ubisoft model

[–] Pogbom@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

....I don't think they're playing it for the story

[–] rollerbang@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Dude, I legit read that as "hentai titties" 😂

[–] pearsaltchocolatebar 4 points 1 day ago
[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My friend is a connoisseur, and he says both the quantity and quality has been declining this year.

[–] xavier666@lemm.ee 7 points 1 day ago

A terrible, terrible for Steam and ~~gooners~~ gamers this year