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💚good💚

🌸 very easy achievements gaining
🌸 very easy to make 100% achievements
🌸 free game
🌸 cute user interface icons and graphics

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❤️bad❤️

🌸 not accurate gender models
🌸 could be a good story about writer but wasted potential

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"Couple Maker" is a simple LGBTQIA+ friendly mobile app tier puzzle game where you put individuals on a grid. Each individual has various preferences, if you can match them with the right positioning then they form a couple and yeah... not much of a game really, but there you have it. I couldn't find this on the mobile app stores, but for all intents and purposes this might as well be a mobile app.

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.

On the matter of pricing and value for gamers, most "free" games on Steam aren't really free. There's often nasty mobile app cash shops, or content locked behind DLC, or donations being requested, or any other number of shady pricing schemes 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, or something you might want to spend your time on.

Despite having no up-front cost, this failed to appeal to the 120 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the game peaked at only 9 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?

Not this time. This isn't worth downloading. While this won't cost you any money, you get what you pay for, and sometimes, even when the game is free, it's still not enough.