me and my wife finished this game but it kinda was not the best. the controls are kinda confusing and figuring out how to play co-op on 2 separate computers was kinda confusing and laggy.

"Handy Dandy" is a 2D retro platformer with a co-op focus, which features simple hand drawn 2D illustration instead of pixelcrap (always looking for the silver lining, me), unfortunately rather tired gameplay, and not all that much success on Steam (despite there being a lot worse games than this one, I can assure you).

What do you do in the game? You and a friend work together to solve puzzles that require two players (like standing on a switch while the other moves stuff around and so on). You take on the role of Handy or Dandy and try to solve a dimensional tear which means the game levels are "split" between dimensions and each player can only access their half. I've seen worse ideas for games.

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.

Not every "free" game really is. There's often MTX, or content locked behind DLC, or donations being requested, or any other number of things that could mislead gamers, but in this case I'm glad to say this really does appear to be a fully free game.

Nothing demonstrates a developers belief in themselves and their work than giving it away without any remuneration. This is a service to themselves, and the gaming industry, and should be applauded. Of course, just because something is free, doesn't necessarily mean it's valuable.

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?

This is a "maybe" experience... if you have a lot of free time on your hands and nothing else to do, why not? But for the purposes of a review, this isn't something I can say everyone must try. It's not quite there. Valve doesn't give us a "maybe" option in reviews, but if they did, that's what I'd choose for this.