My brain keeps deceiving me as I always tend to read GabeN: The Final DESTINATION. Not DECISION.

GabeN: The Final Decision is simply a game made in RPG Maker as a joke over the weekend. The story is a lot of childish meta gibberish filled with outdated dank memes written with a mentality of a 5-year old who has discovered the Internet just the other day; and yet I believe it makes narratively more sense than a David Cage interactive movie chocking on heroin. But that is like commending this game for something which would be mindboggling. So the story, or the lack of a coherent one (do not worry, even the game warns you), essentially revolves around Gabe Newell, Valve, Illuminati and Gabe’s final decision; yes, how original. Whilst there are a few moments that may make you grin accidently, more so at how bad everything is rather than at any redeemable quality, it miserably fails at any form of comedy. There was potential, but it was all wasted.

The gameplay is mostly always on rails. Whenever the game attempts to throw a puzzle in, it is generally the most dull and badly implemented fetch quest that you could imagine as the random enemy encounter is also absurdly way too high. But that is okey as the battles, which require no tactics and are devoid of any depth whatsoever, always end up just one-shot killing your generic asset enemies. On the other band, bosses can be stupidly overpowered. There is no pace, consistency, balance nor progression in the entire gameplay as also seen by a majority of items and skills which make no sense statistically, leaving you clueless what to do or use half of the time. The developer furthermore put no effort into the game world as everything is bland, copy-pasted and full of large “empty” rooms. From a design standpoint, everything is utterly lazy.

Then there is the disproportionate use of stock assets from RPG Maker and, presumably, royalty-free websites. But I do also believe half of these assets were "stolen" one way or another. This leads to a lack in personality and feel for the game to at least stand out amongst the rest of the carbon-copy trash games made in RPG Maker on Steam Greenlight. However, the soundtrack can be catchy despite looping poorly at times. Makes you wonder from where the developer “stole” it in the first place.

You would expect such a rushed game to be riddled with bugs, but surprisingly there are no game-breaking ones. Conversely, there are many things which needed to be ironed out such as when either you or your companion dies, at least do not display the deceased party member as if he is still alive. Also, spelling mistakes are present here and there, and it is a headache figuring out whether they were intentional or not.

In conclusion, GabeN: The Final Decision is just another by-the-numbers trash RPG Maker game that gives Steam Greenlight a bad reputation, but it is the exact kind of trash that you should only play it once for the novelty experience when you are absolutely drunk or bored and received it as a free gift from someone. Additionally, it is also the kind of trash where you should shoot yourself for even paying a single penny for it. It would have been received a lot less harshly by the community if the developer would not have had the guts to even ask for an overpriced admission fee for this load of junk. It should have been completely free. Period.

I knew from the start that the game was made as a (poor) parody, so I guess the joke is on me for even giving it the slightest bit of attention by writing all this. But hey, got some free time to kill this evening and free trading cards from a free gift.

My brain keeps deceiving me as I always tend to read GabeN: The Final DESTINATION. Not DECISION. GabeN: The Final Decision is simply a game made in RPG Maker as a joke over the weekend. The story is a lot of childish meta gibberish filled with outdated dank memes written with a mentality of a 5-year old who has discovered the Internet just the other day; and yet I believe it makes narratively more sense than a David Cage interactive movie chocking on heroin. But that is like commending this game for something which would be mindboggling. So the story, or the lack of a coherent one (do not worry, even the game warns you), essentially revolves around Gabe Newell, Valve, Illuminati and Gabe’s final decision; yes, how original. Whilst there are a few moments that may make you grin accidently, more so at how bad everything is rather than at any redeemable quality, it miserably fails at any form of comedy. There was potential, but it was all wasted. The gameplay is mostly always on rails. Whenever the game attempts to throw a puzzle in, it is generally the most dull and badly implemented fetch quest that you could imagine as the random enemy encounter is also absurdly way too high. But that is okey as the battles, which require no tactics and are devoid of any depth whatsoever, always end up just one-shot killing your generic asset enemies. On the other band, bosses can be stupidly overpowered. There is no pace, consistency, balance nor progression in the entire gameplay as also seen by a majority of items and skills which make no sense statistically, leaving you clueless what to do or use half of the time. The developer furthermore put no effort into the game world as everything is bland, copy-pasted and full of large “empty” rooms. From a design standpoint, everything is utterly lazy. Then there is the disproportionate use of stock assets from RPG Maker and, presumably, royalty-free websites. But I do also believe half of these assets were "stolen" one way or another. This leads to a lack in personality and feel for the game to at least stand out amongst the rest of the carbon-copy trash games made in RPG Maker on Steam Greenlight. However, the soundtrack can be catchy despite looping poorly at times. Makes you wonder from where the developer “stole” it in the first place. You would expect such a rushed game to be riddled with bugs, but surprisingly there are no game-breaking ones. Conversely, there are many things which needed to be ironed out such as when either you or your companion dies, at least do not display the deceased party member as if he is still alive. Also, spelling mistakes are present here and there, and it is a headache figuring out whether they were intentional or not. In conclusion, GabeN: The Final Decision is just another by-the-numbers trash RPG Maker game that gives Steam Greenlight a bad reputation, but it is the exact kind of trash that you should only play it once for the novelty experience when you are absolutely drunk or bored and received it as a free gift from someone. Additionally, it is also the kind of trash where you should shoot yourself for even paying a single penny for it. It would have been received a lot less harshly by the community if the developer would not have had the guts to even ask for an overpriced admission fee for this load of junk. It should have been completely free. Period. I knew from the start that the game was made as a (poor) parody, so I guess the joke is on me for even giving it the slightest bit of attention by writing all this. But hey, got some free time to kill this evening and free trading cards from a free gift.