Warning: Asset Flip![en.wikipedia.org]

"Lords Mobile" is one of literally thousands of creatively bankrupt asset flips infesting Steam and lowering the average quality of all video games everywhere.

This is an asset flip of a basic Unity RTS game blueprint, that's just another day that ends in "Y" for Steam Direct, but the funny part here is the deliberate attempt to scam/defraud gamers into thinking this is actually Lords Mobile (copyright 2016, IGG). This is NOT Lords Mobile. Yet the developer here is not just deliberately infringing on a trademark (This is illegal... seriously), he also stole the sales blurb for Lords Mobile word-for-word and is using it on this Steam Store page!!!!

Disgusting, isn't it?

This stub/placeholder, obviously being set up to be a kind of "Fake Palworld scam", is not really a game or anything, it's just that reskinned/lazily slapped together pile of Unity assets, your basic common asset flip. We've got a bunch of stolen Synty Studios assets in there, too.

It shouldn't be taken seriously beyond the very serious attempt to defraud gamers through deliberate trademark and copyright infringement.

So, "Lords Mobile" is partially or completely made up of stock assets, "borrowed" from asset stores and free asset websites. Little, if anything in this game is the creation of the "developer".

While there's no up front price for this asset flip, the other problem with asset flips is that when developers aren't capable of doing their job and creating high quality assets, it's also true they can't do any of the rest of the job of a game developer either. That's definitely true for "Lords Mobile", and this kind of asset flipping never results in games that have quality or value for PC gamers.

On pricing, 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, and the cost of a game is more than just financial, your time is valuable too.

Despite having no up-front cost, this failed to appeal to the 120 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the game peaked at only 2 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?

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