Sovereign Elect

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Warning: AI Slop
This game is partially or completely made with talentless, soulless AI generated content.

"Sovereign Elect" looks like some kind of strategic RPG, but really this is a web-browser tier idler/incrementer where you pretend you're playing a real game, but really you're just being pushed to buy toxic proced DLC so the developer can get paid for polluting Steam and insulting gamers with digsusting AI slop.

The developers haven't touched this for 4 months. It's in development hell and never be completed. This unfinished game is just polluting Steam and making it harder for gamers to find genuinely, completely made games.

As mentioned, this features really godawful, "wrong" looking AI slop instead of genuinely and sincerely created game assets. It's hard to say if this was because the developer didn't have the skill to do the job of creating real game assets or couldn't afford to hire someone who does, but it also doesn't matter. What matters is that this looks bad because of that decision. AI slop sticks out like a sore thumb... and it comes across as insulting.

There's also the old adage that those who lack the budget and talent to make their own game assets usually lack the budget and talent to do the rest of the job of game development properly, too, and that's glaringly obvious here.

As mentioned, this isn't really free as the game is infested with mobile app store like microtransactions. This is a consumer hostile model that we don't need to see on PC. It's deceptively priced to gouge gamers, and that's a reason in itself to avoid this.

Even after that, the developer has their hand out for $29 USD worth of DLC for this as you're expected to buy some extra DLC packages from Steam to fully unlock everything. This is deliberately deceptive pricing when a single up front free would be more honest. The game should not be considered free due to this shady pricing structure.

TWENTY NINE UNITED STATES DOLLARS for AI slop. Just disgusting.

So the developer doesn't have enough time and can't be bothered to finish making this disgusting AI slop, is well past the deadline to complete the game, but apparently had all the time in the world to make up crap DLC and a toxic mobile app cash shop and working financial back end transaction system. AI slop, can't be bothered making the game, but the cash shop works fine. That tells you everything you need to know about the developer behind this and why such a crap game got dumped on Steam.,

Despite having no up-front cost, this failed to appeal to the 120 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the game peaked at just a dozen or so concurrent players, and now there's basically nobody playing it. Even though it's free. This is a dismal public reception, but it's easy to see why gamers rejected it.

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?

Nope. This isn't worth downloading. While this didn't cost me any money up front, I still feel ripped off.

I was captivated for maybe an hour or 2 before I get bored with staring at the same few areas when 'collecting'. Getting more mercenaries does speed up collection, but there really isn't anything different between areas besides the background and collection entities' artwork. It's hard to really feel the different between mercenaries when they're ultimately just collecting, regardless of the spells/effects they do.