A new free game is getting a lot of surprisingly positive feedback on Steam… so much so that it’s setting off some alarm bells in my head.
The Deep Creep is an indie first-person shooter on Steam from developer and publisher WUT Studio, and it's currently sitting at a "Very Positive" review score with over 100 reviews.
Wait… WUT Studio… where have I heard that name before?
Oh, that’s right, I wrote an article that included another free game they published called Axios Football back in March. I remember reading through the reviews for that one and thinking “hey, these sound suspiciously fake!”
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Coincidentally, all the positive reviews for The Deep Creep sound fake as hell too.
“700 hours of unrestrained action and fun,” writes user minesita… who has 2.3 hours of recorded playtime.
“Not a single race like the previous ones. Random online players don't hesitate to click "rock and stone" in response as soon as you greet them.”
"Well. I've been playing this game for over five hundred hours," writes another reviewer... with 1.3 hours on record.
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“However, the longer you play DRG, the more clearly you realize that this game will not bring you the same emotions.”
Right, these reviews aren't just fake, they're actually written as if they’re for the game Deep Rock Galactic.
Now that I look at this game a little closer, it's definitely supposed to be a ripoff of Deep Rock Galactic as well.
Plus, that banner on Steam… that’s AI-generated, isn’t it?
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Also, just putting this out there, isn’t it a little bloody strange that WUT Studio published nine different games on Steam on the same date?
Take a look for yourself. Nine different games, all published on March 26... less than three weeks after they also published nine completely different games in one day on March 7.
That game I mentioned before, Axios Football? Yeah, that used to be free. Now it’s £0.89.
So what’s going on here? Well, I have a theory.
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I think this developer is pushing out a bunch of AI-generated slop, tricking players into downloading it while it’s free due to their good (and fake) review scores, and then charging for them afterwards once they’ve gained a little traction.
In short, don’t download this crap. Actually, go a step further than not downloading it: report the developer to Steam.
Nobody deserves to be conned out of a dollar by these clowns.
Topics: Steam, Valve, Free Games