![]() Each of Nintendo's portable systems had shovelware games released due to their successes and popularity, from the Game Boy to the Nintendo 3DS.In fact, the PlayStation 4's PlayStation Store quality control is so poor that it makes Steam Greenlight look tolerable. The PS4 version of the PS Store was filled with tons of shovelware.These "games" would eventually overshadow genuine adult video games as much as ordinary shovelware does to normal games and consoles. They flooded Steam after Valve announced they would getting rid of restrictions regarding adult video games. Generic hentai shovelware games are the Hentai equivalent of shovelware.Games such as Raywin and Arcane Raise are examples of this. Generic RPG Maker games are the RPG Maker equivalent of shovelware, and due to Steam Greenlight has caused these games to degrade RPG Maker's reputation.Most of those games are made with Unity, an easy-to-use game engine that contains an asset store. This has gone to the point that now many indie developers are abandoning Steam and because it's "too crowded". Nowadays, Steam is infamous for the countless amount of shovelware overshadowing real quality games. The practice of asset flipping allows people to easily produce massive amounts of shovelware by copy-pasting pre-made assets into free-to-use game engines, which can then be released with little trouble on Steam.At one point they had over 100 entries on Steam Greenlight. Digital Homicide Studios flooded Steam Greenlight with tons of shovelware with the intention of farming Steam Trading Cards, often putting countless amounts of reskins of the same game over and over.More games like Myth Makers: Trixie in Toyland, Rock 'N' Roll Adventures, Action Girlz Racing, Kawasaki Jet Ski and others were released some years later for the PS2 and Wii. A day later, a clone of the game, Anubis II, was released. Data Design Interactive released a game of such term, titled Ninjabread Man, released for the PS2, Microsoft Windows and the Wii.4.2 Scott The Woz's Shovelware Variety Hour series.Many of them often being otherwise free shareware games. Steam, in particular, has become arguably became the worst offender of shovelware target platforms due to its complete lack of quality control (and attempts at quality control like Greenlight and Direct backfiring).Ī slightly different but arguably just as crappy form of shovelware also existed back in the 1990s, thanks to the advent and large storage capacities of CDs, it was common for companies to cram in as many old and cheap to license floppy disk games on a single one as possible and sell it as "100 games for the price of one!". Normally, each gaming generation has a specific "shovelware target" platform where most shovelware games end at often because it's the easiest platform to release games for, such as the Atari 2600, Nintendo Entertainment System, PlayStation, PlayStation 2, Wii, currently PS4 (mostly on the PS Store), DS, Game Boy Color and Nintendo Switch (mostly on the eShop as well). ![]() These games are often at a lower price than other AAA games and are often found in bargain bins. Usually, shovelware titles are made for licensed franchises such as television shows, movies, toys and books to sell more copies based on brand recognition alone. Shovelware is labeled as the tool used to quickly dig rocks out of the ground. Shovelware developers have a " quantity over quality" mentality, so rather than working hard on making a good or at least average game, they insist on throwing out as much games as possible to make a quick buck on platforms. Shovelware games are video games that are made with a low budget and possibly little time, resulting in poor quality, terrible programming, numerous flaws such as crashing frequently, and possibly lots of glitches as well. Good thing we have a shovel to bury these games where they belong, in a specially marked chest underground where no one will find them. ![]()
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