▼ Not recommended
4 hrs
"Scouting Simulator" isn't a game. Real games require "gameplay", in the form of game loops and gamelike interaction, which is absent here.
Rather than functioning as a game, "Scouting Simulator" is just a software application that This is a garbage tier software utility that's designed to allow you to "virtually scout" a couple of 3D environments... basically you can pretend you're doing a photo shoot and explore where you might put your camera if you were in that environment. Which is an environment you will never be in because it's not a real place, making this utterly useless as an application, and also still not an actual video game..
For those unfamiliar with what actually makes something a game, a "game loop" describes the interaction and feedback a gamer has when playing a game.
Tetris, for example, has a game loop where a random block appears, the gamer interacts with the block to position it, and then the game decides if that finishes a row or not, increases the players score if any rows were completed, then gives the gamer another block to position. Counter-Strike has a game loop where a player seeks another player, tests their skill against that player by shooting them or being shot, the computer rewards the player if they win, and then if the player survives, they repeat that loop.
There's no loop here, no true interactive game-like feedback. It simply is not a game, it cannot be "played".
Launching software applications in the "Games" category on Steam can be seen as misleading. Many amateur "developers" don't seem to understand the difference between a software app and a game (this should be obvious)! We should at least assume this is ignorance over malice, but it's still a non-game published in the game section.
There's a correct process for publishing games which the developer has either deliberately or incompetently not followed:
Steam Developer Help With Software Publishing
It is a shame the developer failed to follow the correct process, as we now have this garbage software app taking up space in the games section of the store where it doesn't belong.
When developers publish things that obviously are not games as if they are games, it pollutes the marketplace and makes it harder to find real, genuinely made games from game developers who did the right thing. This kind of store pollution makes it harder for gamers to find those genuinely games. It's bad for everyone.
Without a game loop or interactive feedback, this is just junkware in the wrong section. It's a software app, not a game, and I won't recommend it as a game to gamers.
A peak of 3 concurrent users (according to SteamDB) for a "free" application is a disastrous public reception. Out of 130 million potential gamers here on Steam, almost nobody was interested. Even though this is "free". That level of rejection speaks a lot for the quality of the product.
Rather than functioning as a game, "Scouting Simulator" is just a software application that This is a garbage tier software utility that's designed to allow you to "virtually scout" a couple of 3D environments... basically you can pretend you're doing a photo shoot and explore where you might put your camera if you were in that environment. Which is an environment you will never be in because it's not a real place, making this utterly useless as an application, and also still not an actual video game..
For those unfamiliar with what actually makes something a game, a "game loop" describes the interaction and feedback a gamer has when playing a game.
Tetris, for example, has a game loop where a random block appears, the gamer interacts with the block to position it, and then the game decides if that finishes a row or not, increases the players score if any rows were completed, then gives the gamer another block to position. Counter-Strike has a game loop where a player seeks another player, tests their skill against that player by shooting them or being shot, the computer rewards the player if they win, and then if the player survives, they repeat that loop.
There's no loop here, no true interactive game-like feedback. It simply is not a game, it cannot be "played".
Launching software applications in the "Games" category on Steam can be seen as misleading. Many amateur "developers" don't seem to understand the difference between a software app and a game (this should be obvious)! We should at least assume this is ignorance over malice, but it's still a non-game published in the game section.
There's a correct process for publishing games which the developer has either deliberately or incompetently not followed:
Steam Developer Help With Software Publishing
It is a shame the developer failed to follow the correct process, as we now have this garbage software app taking up space in the games section of the store where it doesn't belong.
When developers publish things that obviously are not games as if they are games, it pollutes the marketplace and makes it harder to find real, genuinely made games from game developers who did the right thing. This kind of store pollution makes it harder for gamers to find those genuinely games. It's bad for everyone.
Without a game loop or interactive feedback, this is just junkware in the wrong section. It's a software app, not a game, and I won't recommend it as a game to gamers.
A peak of 3 concurrent users (according to SteamDB) for a "free" application is a disastrous public reception. Out of 130 million potential gamers here on Steam, almost nobody was interested. Even though this is "free". That level of rejection speaks a lot for the quality of the product.
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