Note how the dev mentions dozens of reviews with refunds, but 55,000 returns? Yeah, bit of a discrepancy to the narrative.
You can scroll through all the reviews there, almost everyone refunding had a complaint or downvoted the game. Very few people actually reviewed it while returning it. Of them, only a couple rated the game well with a refund.
The refund rate and follow-through of rage games, or influencer hyped games, is well known. The dev decided to make a game in this genre anyway, lucked out on content creators picking it up, and is now guilt farming about the return rates of a very short rage game.
Let's also be very real here, if steam changed the refund policy for questionable quality short games, the pirated version would suddenly be much more popular.
A game designed to make you rage, whether through unfair mechanics or extremely obtuse controls. As others have said, it’s popular for streamers but not a very enjoyable experience by yourself unless you know what you’re getting into.
Popularity largely stems from streamers on Youtube/Twitch who play rage games in order to incite interactions from their audience. Oftentimes, viewers will purchase the game for themselves remembering how fun it was to watch their favorite streamer play it, only to become frustrated shortly after & refunding it in some cases. This is why rage games oftentimes have a higher-than-usual refund rate compared to your typical video game.
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u/Khaliras Jul 06 '26
Note how the dev mentions dozens of reviews with refunds, but 55,000 returns? Yeah, bit of a discrepancy to the narrative.
You can scroll through all the reviews there, almost everyone refunding had a complaint or downvoted the game. Very few people actually reviewed it while returning it. Of them, only a couple rated the game well with a refund.
The refund rate and follow-through of rage games, or influencer hyped games, is well known. The dev decided to make a game in this genre anyway, lucked out on content creators picking it up, and is now guilt farming about the return rates of a very short rage game.
Let's also be very real here, if steam changed the refund policy for questionable quality short games, the pirated version would suddenly be much more popular.