It might look and play like an asset flip, however Refund Me If You Can is nothing if not intelligent with its premise: You will have two hours to evade a monster, get out of a sewer-like maze, and it’s essential to to vow—in your honor—that you’ll not request a refund via Steam. You might be in any other case, and the sport isn’t shy about calling you this, a coward.
Valve allowed customers to refund a sport on Steam beginning in 2015 with solely two standards for eligibility: 1. You could not have performed greater than two hours of mentioned sport and a pair of. You could request a refund inside 14 days of buy of mentioned sport. Refund insurance policies like this would possibly make sense in an more and more digital-only panorama of video video games, however the two hour restrict carries with it the danger of screwing over shorter video games, permitting customers to type of use the coverage like a rental service. Refund Me If You Can dares customers to be so shitty.
Surfacing on Steam right this moment, Refund Me If You Can, from Sungame Studio, is actually a tough sport visually and I bumped into not less than two or three invisible partitions as I attempted to parse my means via the dungeon-like surroundings. There are technically two video games it asks you to play. Considered one of them is the escape problem and time restrict. The opposite, extra intelligent half I believe, is a “The Recreation”-like problem the place it’s a must to conform to not refund the sport or else turn out to be, properly, a coward.
Who’re you a coward to precisely? The dev? Your self? Steam? What even is cowardice? Promoting at a low $3.99 on Steam positively makes it simple to not refund the sport. This would possibly’ve been a more durable problem if the sport price above 10 bucks…buuuut with a sport that performs and appears like this, I dunno should you may actually get away with charging something past what Sungame is presently asking for.
The sport lives as much as its premise from the second you load in. The clock begins ticking on the principle menu, not even giving me a freebie to change on full display and modify just a few different issues. It encourages you to leap into a brief tutorial that exhibits you the ropes. You get a flashlight, which I believe by no means recharges when it depletes (not less than that was my expertise), and you’ll lay down two completely different coloured flares to maintain observe of your actions, a inexperienced and pink one.
That monster although. Yeah. I didn’t have to be jump-scared like that so early within the rattling morning. The opening warning, which is definitely extra of a unfastened contractual settlement to not refund the sport, states that the extent will be accomplished in quarter-hour. I put about seven in earlier than deciding to see what the monster would do to me. Shock, he killed me and I needed to begin over, this time with seven plus minutes in opposition to me.
Refund Me If You Can is fully a “premise sport,” a lot in order that there’s little else to get pleasure from right here exterior of the “don’t refund this sport, haha” joke it’s providing to the participant. I do want Refund Me wasn’t so sloppy visually and mechanically, as a result of this isn’t a nasty premise! Simply wanted extra time within the oven. Or, maybe ought to’ve been not less than cooked first.
