The Last Hike

No. Its garbage

Warning: Potentially Malicious Software!
The game causes an immediate Blue Screen of Death (BSOD, "SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION" to be exact) when launching. There is no reason any RPG Maker asset flip should be trying to interact with your system kernel in such a way. The Russian developers behind this asset flip may be doing more than just directly trying to scam gamers.

The Last Hike appears to be a typical, lazy Russian RPG Maker asset flip (RPG Maker being the construction kit designed for children to use to stamp out Final Fantasy JRPG pixelcrap ripoffs in the space of a couple of hours). But instead, it causes a BSOD due to some highly unwelcome attempts to access parts of the OS it definitely should not be.

Now, I have a lot of experience with RPG Maker asset flips, having warned gamers af over four hundred of them (there's a reason that RPG Maker is generally despised by gamers, this pollution is not harmless). But never, in all of those cases has the RPG Maker asset flip done something so shady and likely malicious. What are the Russians behind Conglomerate 5 trying to achieve with this?

It's worth noting Conglomerate 5 are close business partners with scammers like Atomic Fabrik, who have already been banned from Steam, and they also use the same Russian fake review farm to generate fake reviews as part of their ongoing scams. I seriously cannot urge gamers hard enough to avoid this asset flip.

Warning: Review Manipulation!

This game features a number of fake positive reviews from accounts known to be in the business of review manipulation/paid reviews. They're all written in either Russian or broken English, appear at almost exactly the same time, very shortly after the game launched on Steam, all have a direct Steam purchase of the game, and the accounts are used consistently to write fake reviews for asset flips and other cash grabs/scams. The "Positive" review score on this game should be disregarded due to this blatant, unethical review manipulation. This is done to deceive and scam gamers into paying for a bad, or in this case malicious product.

So, should you buy this highly suspicious BSOD generator/RPG Maker asset flip? No.

Profile Features Limited!
Valve have marked this game as "Profile Features Limited" at the time of this review. This is usually caused by poor sales figures and low community acceptance for the game (to date). Until this status changes, this game will not give you +1 to your Game Collector badge count, appear in profile achievements or any other Steam meta-accomplishments, nor can it be displayed in some profile showcases. If these factors are important to you, it may be worth holding off before buying this game.

This game is bad, there's no tutorial and no way to heal that I was able to achieve because the enemies do too much damage and you get a game over before even getting a chance to figure out the controls. I do not recommend, it isn't even fun in the souls type of way because of janky controls. I really wanted to give it a chance because I liked the music and it seemed like a decent little RPG but it was just awful and frustrating and no fun at all. The first game I've ever asked for a refund solely because of gameplay. Do not buy, it isn't even worth the $0.29 I paid when it was on sale.