Having played both MiSide and Umfend, I think I can see some connections between these two games (even though they are not connected in any shape or form) and I believe that this was made before MiSide so that makes sense. I don't know what I would have thought if I played Umfend and then MiSide but I enjoyed playing it. It has some "horror" aspects but its a story based game. Definitely give this game a try.

An hour or two hour long horror experience for only 79 cents! Like a ton of other people, I got it after playing Miside. It was fun, I liked the weird stuff a lot.

I'm not really sure if Umfend is an asset flip. Some elements of this game certainly make it seem like the developer put some effort into assembling some kind of original here. On the other hand, a lot of the game assets don't seem like they were created by the developer, but they haven't credited any asset creators for supplying assets, which might be a case of plagiarism. There's no evidence, so we need to give the benefit of the doubt... regardless, asset flip or not, the quality here is indistinguishable from many asset flip/cash grab scams, and that's a problem in itself.

This is pushed on Steam by serial Russian shovelware pushers, Volens Nolens Games/QuiQuoPro/Nedo Studio. These guys do nothing but copy premade game templates and game tutorials, fill out a few things/stamp out basic levels using the construction kit templates, slap on an asset flipped set of sprites/assets, and dump them on Steam and into cheap nasty shovelware game bundles as cash grabs. Trying to get paid for someone else's game templates, assets... at best, this is shovelware, at worst, it's a scam/cash grab.

It's also worth noting some of Volens Nolens shell accounts like "QuiQuoPro" were banned from Steam for trading card farming and manipulation... just to make sure you know where this game comes from, which will help you understand what it is, and why therefore you should not want to buy it. Because reviews are about the game, not the shady developers behind it. Let's go into why this is an awful game.

Umfend is a simple first person puzzle aventure game kitbashed together with Unity, with some very poor quality assets, very clunky sluggish controls, practically zero polish, and it's only about an hour long. Which is amazing considering the price, but not quite so amazing when you consider who the "developer" is.

There's a vague and pointless "plot" about a "glass sphere" breaking, which is a weird way to describe a "ho hum the supernatural happened and now there's ghosts" plotline. So you explore a basic, badly slapped together "house" thing and do some puzzles... it's a major yawnfest, and the clumsy, minimum viable product technical implementation makes the whole experience thoroughly unpleasant.

So, should you buy this game? Is this one of the best of the 110,000+ games on Steam?

Umfend is relatively cheap at $10 USD, but it's not worth it. Given the defects and quality issues with the game, coupled with the unrealistic price, this is impossible to recommend. This is also competing with over 14,000 free games available on Steam, many of them far better than this paid product.

It's important to note that, despite this being such a low quality product, there's a number of positive reviews that all appeared immediately after the game launched, from suspiciously inactive Steam accounts that have reviewed almost no other games apart from this, all in Russian or broken English. Take the review score of this game with a grain of salt.