The Vertigo might be the most pathetic thing I have ever seen pop up on Steam.
I saw The Vertigo in my Steam release list when it showed up with the January 30 launch date. It costs $2 and I wouldn’t buy it as a joke since it is a battle royale game with no bots (presumably) and not a single person playing it. It would be a bigger waste of my money than Cyber Watch. Judging by the screenshots, it looks like The Vertigo was compiled over the course of a day since it uses untextured flat models, the default placeholder character models, and what I assume is a combination of placeholder blocks and asset store items.
I’ve seen low-effort trash but this is truly the lowest of low. Even worse is that SteamDB shows that this game was once categorized with in-app purchases. The Vertigo doesn’t look like it’s worth $2, and you’re going to ask for more from the nobody stupid enough to give you money? How dare you. I decided to look up the developer, Chango Games, and I’m honestly not sure if I’m being punked.
Head over to the Chango Games website and the first thing you’ll see is a teaser page for a game called Slash. I have no idea what Slashed is, but Chango Games is proud enough of it to label themselves “Creators of Slashed and Vertigo” at every opportunity. I know it’s available for pre-order at a $10 discount and they’ll send you a Steam key. Slashed isn’t on Steam, it doesn’t even have a database entry.
Also the website uses Dark Souls III trailers to advertise Slashed.
I should note at this point that the website absolutely takes you to a Paypal link that will allow you to pay Chango Games $20. I’m not stupid enough to see what happens if I paypal them the money. The more I view this website the more confident I am that someone spiked my sugarless Virgil’s root beer with LSD and I’m just muttering nonsense into this WordPress editor while spamming photos of my cat.
Chango Games also sells $1,000 t-shirts that say “$1,000 t-shirt” on them. At this point I’m 99.99% certain this is all an elaborate trolling operation. There is a gallery page that appears to be nothing more than compiled sets using pre-bought asset packs. I think I managed to find one or two of the asset packs used in the screenshots.
It’s 2a.m. and I’ve been trying to make sense of this “developer” for the last three hours, which very likely makes me exactly the kind of sucker they hoped to rope in with this weirdness. So congratulations, Chango Games is either a ridiculous troll group or a deeply incompetent developer. I’m not sure which is worse.
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