▼ Not recommended
1 hrs
"Silver Lines" is a badly made word/quiz game. The game revolves around identifying actors and films from movie lines. Players listen to a line and select the correct film or actor from a presented list. It's also copyright infringement, as far as I can tell... the "developer" owns none of the rights to the movies, likenesses, posters and character portraits they're exploiting here.
What do you do in the game? As mentioned, you listen to a movie line and need to quickly select the correct film or actor. Speed of answer affects score. There are multiple rounds and challenges, including a couch-multiplayer mode (that nobody used, apparently). The game was a dismal failure for obvious reasons.
The game features really lacklustre 2D visuals (does the developer not know 3D graphics became mainstream in the mid-1990s?), to the point the whole thing could have been done in a web browser. And there are much, much better quiz games on the web. I don't believe Steam is here to compete with Firefox and Chrome. Gamers don't spend thousands of dollars on gaming rigs and the latest 3D graphics cards to play glorified 2D browser games. Even mobile phones and game consoles can do 3D graphics now. There's no excuse.
On pricing, this is "free" enough, at least you won't be expected to spend any more money after you download this, but just because something is free doesn't mean it's good, and the cost of a game is more than just financial, your time is valuable too.
Despite having no up-front cost, this failed to appeal to the 120 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the game peaked at only 2 concurrent players... this is a dismal public reception. This was so bad they couldn't even give it away.
Bearing in mind that free games don't add +1 to your game collector count, should you bother adding this to your library and downloading it?
Not this time. This isn't worth downloading. While this won't cost you any money, you get what you pay for, and sometimes, even when the game is free, it's still not enough.
What do you do in the game? As mentioned, you listen to a movie line and need to quickly select the correct film or actor. Speed of answer affects score. There are multiple rounds and challenges, including a couch-multiplayer mode (that nobody used, apparently). The game was a dismal failure for obvious reasons.
The game features really lacklustre 2D visuals (does the developer not know 3D graphics became mainstream in the mid-1990s?), to the point the whole thing could have been done in a web browser. And there are much, much better quiz games on the web. I don't believe Steam is here to compete with Firefox and Chrome. Gamers don't spend thousands of dollars on gaming rigs and the latest 3D graphics cards to play glorified 2D browser games. Even mobile phones and game consoles can do 3D graphics now. There's no excuse.
On pricing, this is "free" enough, at least you won't be expected to spend any more money after you download this, but just because something is free doesn't mean it's good, and the cost of a game is more than just financial, your time is valuable too.
Despite having no up-front cost, this failed to appeal to the 120 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the game peaked at only 2 concurrent players... this is a dismal public reception. This was so bad they couldn't even give it away.
Bearing in mind that free games don't add +1 to your game collector count, should you bother adding this to your library and downloading it?
Not this time. This isn't worth downloading. While this won't cost you any money, you get what you pay for, and sometimes, even when the game is free, it's still not enough.
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