It’s totally uncommon for a recreation to be so dire that it earns a single-digit score on Steam. It actually occurs, although, as confirmed by O2Jam On-line (opens in new tab)‘s launch final week. The rhythm recreation is at present sitting on a 4% score, with solely round 41 of its 1,000+ opinions recommending it.
It is a fairly justifiable reception, too. The collection has been largely useless for some time. It initially appeared as a PC recreation within the 2000s, with all of its public servers being closed down by 2012. Devoted followers have been establishing non-public servers since then, and a cell model tried to revive the collection some years later. So when the announcement for O2Jam On-line got here out of comparatively nowhere, it was a nice shock. My very own mates have been hyped to see basic rhythm video games returning, and hopes have been excessive.
oh pricey. o2jam steam has crossed a brand new line when it comes to incompetence – apparently if you buy the month-to-month subscription.. it payments you for it day by day…https://t.co/x0zEHza9HWJanuary 20, 2023
Sadly, O2Jam On-line’s launch has been mired by some horribly questionable choices and a myriad of bugs. The sport’s at present free-to-play, however forces gamers to purchase songs that they will solely preserve for both seven days or 30 days. There is no choice to completely unlock a monitor, with each facet of the sport—together with observe skins—solely being provided to you for every week or a month.
Exterior of shady enterprise practices, opinions have lamented how rubbish the sport appears. It seems to have lifted a big chunk of its UI from the cell model. The decision goes no greater than 1920×1080, trying painfully blurry on 1440p displays. Every part is stretched out and notes are comically giant, making the entire thing fairly tough to have a look at. We can’t even discuss the truth that BPM is misspelt as BMP.
There have additionally been points with monitor audio desyncing, making songs extremely annoying to play. I seen in my transient time with the sport that makes an attempt to make use of comparable keybindings to what I’ve in fellow rhythm recreation DJMax straight-up did not work. I may bind them, however then attempting to make use of them would lead to an computerized miss. Gamers have additionally vented their frustration on the key colors—with O2Jam historically being a seven-button recreation, having a differently-coloured center button helps heaps with determining which facet the notes are coming in from. However with no tertiary color for the center button, observe charts have confirmed unnecessarily tough to learn.
Guys I will likely be cancelling o2jam on my sched and change it some Muse sprint (lets play some new modded songs!)o2Jam On-line simply received out right this moment and simply examined it out…no nostalgia right here simply disappointmentThe recreation already has so many unhealthy opinions on steam!🤦♀️ pic.twitter.com/VVGr5IXEHnJanuary 17, 2023
Maybe essentially the most weird factor of all is the truth that O2Jam On-line has, the truth is, no on-line performance to be seen. All the factor is single-player solely, which is the crap icing on prime of an already fairly garbage cake. It is now the 18th worst-reviewed recreation on Steam, in response to a rating given by Steam250. Even then, its share score nonetheless stays considerably worse than the 17 video games above it. It is also, so far as I can inform, the one recreation on Steam to have an total score beneath 10%.
The one recreation I can consider in current reminiscence that had an equally poor reception is final yr’s eFootball. The sport initially launched with a measly 8% score on Steam and rapidly turned one of many worst-reviewed video games (opens in new tab) of all time for the platform. It is managed to claw its approach as much as 32% since then. Will O2Jam On-line handle comparable enhancements? Proper now, it does not appear doubtless. And that is a darn disgrace.
