Block, Love, and Ancient Greece

You are a philosopher named Epistemonos in a quest to fight a bunch of famous philosophers from the Ancient Greece and develop your own school of knowledge. The gameplay is easy and fun, you just have to connect blocks and mix their letters together in order to achieve a big combo and defeat your enemy. A remarkable feature of the game is that it is in Korean, so you are a Greek philosopher talking in Korean reading an english translation, quite comical if you ask me. Would recommend to friends and loved ones, 10/10. Ἄνθρωπος μέτρον.

- Only a mere 6 levels - Bad English translation - Corny dialogue - bland and boring game play with no variety Overall, not a great game. It might be better in the Korean version, with less... cringe worthy dialogue, but for the english version, it's definitely a nope from me.

"Block, Love, and Ancient Greece" is, well, a new one for me, and that's saying something after over 16,000 game reviews. This is a Korean letter/block puzzle game with some weird narrative about ancient Greece, and let me tell you, I didn't ever think Korean video games would be the first place you should go if you want to learn about ancient Greece. After playing Block, Love, and Ancient Greece, I now know I was right all along. What do you do in the game? This might as well be a mobile app... it's a very short, pointless and badly made block puzzle game (common on the app stores, out of place on Steam) with some really cringey weird narrative. And that's it. Nothing really to see here. The game features really lacklustre 2D visuals (does the developer not know 3D graphics became mainstream in the mid-1990s?). Gamers don't spend thousands of dollars on gaming rigs and the latest 3D graphics cards to play 2D games. Even mobile phones and game consoles can do 3D graphics now. There's no excuse. You're forced to sign a highly questionable yet legally unenforceable End User License Agreement... for such a relatively low effort, low quality product, this comes across more as a delusion of grandeur than anything else. This agreement includes questionable requirements that may attempt to revoke consumer law protections that gamers expect to have, which is also highly problematic. Developers must learn they are here to serve gamers, not control them. I had my cat walk over the keyboard while the EULA was displaying, which fixed that problem for me. 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. Even though this is "free", it failed to appeal to the 120 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the game peaked at only 5 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.