Food Monster and Animals Memory Match

Warning: Asset Flip!

Food Monster and Animals Memory Match is an asset flip, or what Valve calls a "Fake Game". The "developer" paid for/pirated a Unity tutorial for a Memory card matching game, changed the name, dumped on an icon pack they stole off the internet, and submitted it to Valve as if it was their own game. As usual with asset flip thieves and scammers, Boogygames don't credit the people who created the game engine or they assets they used, so it's plagiarism as well as being a scam.

Boogygames Studios have shown a repeat pattern of unethically dumping other people's work onto Steam as a cheap, nasty cash grab, through this account or through closely linked/alt accounts. Here's some examples so you can see for yourself:

• "Case Simulator Weapons and Armors" = Yet Another Case Opener developed by NeraQuam
• "Color By Number - Pixel Draw" = Pixel Art: Color By Number developed by Moana Studio
• "Pixel Art Monster - Color By Number" = Pixel Art: Color By Number developed by Moana Studio
• "Rainbow Duck" = Switch The Gravity developed by App Advisory
• "Weapon and Armor: Mahjong" = Mahjong Game Engine developed by SmallBigSquare
• "Loot Collection: Mahjong" = Mahjong Game Engine developed by SmallBigSquare
• "Food Mahjong" = Mahjong Game Engine developed by SmallBigSquare

Taking this shovelware seriously as if it was a genuine attempt to make a game, it doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard.

There's no options to change the resolution for the game or customise the graphics settings. There's no way for gamers to ensure this is running at the native resolution of their displays... there's no guarantee this game will look right on any PC as a result of this hamfisted design decision. There's no way for gamers to try improve the low quality graphics.

The game features simple, cartoony 2D graphics, of the type you normally expect to see in low effort mobile apps. 3D graphics programming does require a degree of skill and competence and unfortunately not all developers have the budget or talent to deliver this, despite 3D graphics cards hitting the mainstream in the 1990's. Considering this is being evaluated as a PC game, having the graphics phoned in like this isn't going to result in a high quality, visually impressive game that PC gamers are used to seeing.

The controls can't be customised because the game has such a dumbed down, simplified interface that it's just point and click stuff like a browser/Flash game. The fact that the interface is this dumbed down might be seen as a problem in itself, however... this is a fairly shallow experience if you're the kind of gamer that likes to play games with deep, rich control schemes and interaction. You'll get none of that here.

These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game.

The poor quality of this game is reflected in the general public reception. At the time of this review, SteamDB shows the all-time peak player number was only 2 players. That's right, only 2. This is a remarkably low number, and now, the only player activity occurs once or twice a month, presumably someone loading it up to see what it is then quickly uninstalling it. Considering there's over 120 million gamers on Steam and well over 50,000 games for gamers to choose from, the overwhelming lack of interest in the game is to be expected. Gamers just didn't take this low quality game seriously, and for good reason.

Food Monster and Animals Memory Match is relatively cheap at $2 USD, but it's not worth it. Given the defects and quality issues with the game, coupled with the unrealistic price and the unethical nature of the developer, this is impossible to recommend.

Great game