To anybody wondering, yes I refunded the game. I wasn't boutta let my money go like that 😭. Also, the developer has started paying for fake reviews so put your tin foil hats on with me and don't fall for the positive ones 👽, though they don't even sound remotely real.

There are two kinds of Indie developers. Those put their life's work into a game they sell for $5 and those who put 5 minutes in a game they sell for $200.

HOLY SHIT!! IT'S CRAIG FROM THE AMUSEMENT DIABETES CIRCLE!!

Someone once made a video that dug a bit deeper into these low effort high price games. And it pretty much came out that its usually part of a bigger system with key resellers, and how well reviewed it is. On most key seller sites, you can buy a mystery key for like a dollar and you get a random game that might be worth 30 dollars, with these shit games thrown in that are highly reviewed by friends, or alt accounts of the developers themselves. The high price is there to prevent other people from buying this game, and give it a negative review, which I think disqualifies them from being put into the pool you pull from when you buy these mystery keys. Edit : the video was called "These Games Cost Over $2,000... and they're all shovelware.".

It was a tax write off, and you got to be #1 in the world for the game, so it was very worth it.

Cyberpunk isn't copyrighted as it's a GENRE. Cyberpunk the GAME is copyrighted, but the Genre itself isn't

That’s not the amazing digital circus, that’s the worse reality show💀

They got Caine's crackhead cousin Paine to star in this game

Holy shit, it's actually the bit in deltarune where the scam item's prices randomize every second

Steam should definitely add a "block the developer" option

imagine having to pay 400 dollars for a tadc ripoff game lmao

As a person who can read korean, 5:46 is mistranslation from your system. "Male childbirth" part just means "only the male person"

as a gamedev i can say for certain that they spent less time making any of their games than you did making this video. also cyberpunk is just a word, it can't really be trademarked by itself.

That scream sounds familiar, but i just can't put my finger on it, either they stole it from breaking bad or they cut off william shatner yelling "KHAAAAN!"

This kind of thing happens at Walmart, too. Those rollback prices that you see items discounted from... often, they never did cost that much. Much like these devs, they never intended to actually sell the product at a high price, they just want to show you a big "SAVINGS" sign and sell it to you for the price they aimed for all along. It's disingenuous smoke and mirrors designed to fool the buyer into thinking they are getting a huge deal. Very old trick.

someone might've already commented this, but it could be one of those steam key scams. you buy a bundle a steam keys on a website for a "good deal", for example it'll say you get 100 $60 or more games for like 20-50 bucks. but all the games are low effort garbage with an insane price to seem more legit and be technically not a scam. weird little rabbit hole! great video!

This is gonna blow up and you're gonna make 2+ times the money spent (and refunded) on this game. Genius.

Now this is truly- the digital circus.

the legally distinct digital circus

Man new digital circus episode look sick!/j (P.S You sacrificing your own money for this game its insane!)

that ain't the amazing digital circus that's the great cyber carnival

this is like the equivalent of those bootleg Game cartridges that have a thousand games on them, but like a huge portion of theme are just the same game and they all have stupid titles like Super 99 Bros 6: the lost world 2

The Abysmal Virtual Circus

i feel like steam should start banning/taking games off their platform that have such negative reviews, these type of "games" don't do anything for the gaming community

What they are doing isn't illegal in America but in European countries giving a product a fake price and then using its discount price as the real price is against the law which is definitely what this project is doing.

ill name the characters of this game pomni = pome jax = jack caine = canine kinger = king gangle = gaggle kaufmo = clown abstraction = glitch bubble = spherey gloinks = shapes gloink queen = shape king mannequins = placeholders

the scary digital circles!! 😨😨😨😨😨

devs have to wait months to change their games price when they accidentally make it too expensive, but these "devs" can somehow constantly change their prices. steam is a joke. EDIT: also I looked into the cyberpunk trademark. it appears to only be trademarked for mobile games. so they appear to be in the clear for that.

I'm actually really high while watching this video and honestly it just way more funnier when you noticed the cover art and remade it

these videos are so well made been binge watching em good stuff!

As a proud owner of 3D Puzzle Battle Royal I can say that most of these games are given to you in G2A game bundles. Which websites like G2A are known for supplying their games through credit card fraud so the idea of money laundering is not the wildest idea

As a future project, I wish to begin a game. Though that's for the far future. But seeing people have to ability to create something for the world to see and just abuse this skill is beyond frustrating and just sad. I hope these games (and creators) would be banned, honestly.

I used to do steam queues daily but after those showed up I look at my queues less and less, mostly only during events. During the winter sale event I saw at least two of these scam games in every queue even though I try to immediatly put all the games from the publishers on my ignore list. Feels like those scam games pop up quicker than I can ignore them. So annoying!! It discourages people from going through queues and discovering indie gems that way.

Child: I want to dress as Caine for Halloween! Mother: Sweetie, we already have a Caine costume in the wardrobe. The Caine costume at home:

how they profit is they sell the keys of these games and make them high price so no one buys these games and reduce the user rating. For example G2A. They sell keys that are -high price -high user rating -random So a random poor guy buys that key only to get this game since it meets all the criteria above. Buy hey! that's just a theory

unacceptable price for a game no matter how good it is

Could also be a "fake sale", where they claim that it's on discount when in reality that's just the regular price, manipulating people into thinking they're getting a deal. *It's illegal by the way.*

I already abused this Steam refund rules, I just turned of my internet and played the game for 10 days, when I got the final I just turned WIFI on and got with 2 minutes of gameplay so I could get the refund

This game would be a scam even if it was free

Damn, and I thought Ban Ban was bad!

11:22 the actual subscribe button does an animation when you say subscribe. What a random feature.

the main character in this game really do be thinking they are Dovahkiin 💀

That lip sync at 0:49 is so perfect.

Cyberpunk itself is a genre of something like fantasy or western so that cannot be trademarked. Howver CDPR has trademarked the name to protect their game assett but have stated they do not intend to use it offensively so realistically u could get away with useing the word cyberpunk in the description or name of your video game as long as its not vlearly u trying to rip off CDPR So u could make a game called Cyberpunk war or some shit and be fine but making Cyberpunk 2076 would land u in some hot water

The big scam here is for key scammers. They go to a keys site that has mystery boxes for keys, jack the price, and sell that key where it's placed in a mystery box valued highly. Like for games that are 20-60 dollars. They flood the site with em so they get included in the mystery boxes.

wow he's so good that he got number #1 on the leaderboard

Fr i would love to see some breaking bed gameplay

Damn, Super Fight 2 is so epic they doubled the price

Is nobody talking about that digital circus was made by the people that made smg4?

I don't do *dugs* (if you know, you know) but I feel like... Whatever that game is, is exactly what you'd see after having the STRONG STUFF Edit: Cyberpunk is a genre, so, the word itself is probably not copyrighted

Sad times. In the old times, games were made with passion, it was hard to fix the games, yet they had quality. Nowadays, it is rare to get a good game, even in times of huge jump in quality and accessible patches

Thank you for supporting small developers

10:57 you can actually play a game more than two hours and still refund it i for example refunded a game wich i played for 2.6 hours i think everything under 3 hours is fine.

"My name is Caine and this $120 game is a $h!tstain"

Good to see Digital Homicide is still making games.

Glitch Productions is gonna sue!

The insane prices with the discounts for a fraction of a price is likely to draw in people with a fake discount (in reality the game costs not even as much as you oay for it...). Interesting video!

That's the same scream from Rusty Lake Roots! I've replayed it so many.

We need a way to bring this to steams attention. The base price of any game being higher than $70 should just flat out not be allowed. . No legitimate game costs more at launch, (excluding deluxe or premium editions obviously. )

The absolute max I would pay for a game is $150 and that's only if it's a really good game with some sort of special edition benefit, $400 for a game is pathetic

I don't think the game's filesize has any relation to its price. For example, I think most people would rather spend $60 for Super Mario Bros. Wonder (3.5 GB) than spend $50 for Gollum (30 GB).

They sell for cheap and boost price after purchases, it does something to the market. Someone made a video about what this does but I can't remember exactly what it was.

Fun Fact top selling of these games have "Steam still learning about this game" or "Profile Features Limited" so achievments hunters will never buy these games 'cause achievments from these games aren't counting towards other achievments or cannot be place in a showcase gallery.

Amazing Digital Circus game looks awesome!

the fact that they tried to use "Oh it's on discount,i should buy it" tactic but fails horribly at it is pathetic lol

Steam shouldn’t let ppl go price games above a certain threshold without a human being checking it. Like it’s ridiculous how someone can price a game for over $4000 and steam just goes yep nothing weird or wrong here

welp, schteve you may have just ruined your credit, BUT IT WAS WORTH THE CONTENT (: KEEP IT UP

Oh hell no…..poor goodeworx….

I think i watched a video on how these devs use the steam key scam thingy where people buy bundles and get games like these due to some algo thingy

Hede has been one hell of a character to me, their games vlog up 90% of my discovery queue, i've tried to block every game of theirs but they just keep churning out more and more. I assume thisis on purepose

I can't believe it. It's a game with somehow less effort put into it than Garten of Banban.

Damn, TADC Episode 2 looks fire/j

Brow clicking all the adds we ignore in our daily life and find lore behind it

fnaf +the amazing digital circus be like

i highly doubt that the game targets achievement hunters we usually play games like zup!, qop, learn to die or seen, which gives achievements for the alphabet and symbols

8:01 oh, i know that map asset. Was thinking about turning it into s VR world on CVR.

that is Dave from the awesome virtual carnival

this is explained in another video, the thing is these games get bundled when u buy mystery keys that you can buy at steam. The games are "valuable" and gets downloaded if someone buys a RANDOM KEY PACKAGE LIKE: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/iZyZlrCAq8qxmY0.html&ab_channel=Deej Games like these will be valued "high" (because price is high). And they include them in these random key packages, i saw once a video about this trick and the people who are making games like this earn good money on these practices.

you can get the games in random steam keys

Man gamers weren't wrong. Indie devs really do make the best games

I recognize that skybox. It's part of a surreal skyboxes asset pack on the Unity Asset Store. It's free. The skyboxes in it are of the nicer free skyboxes I've seen, certainly more interesting than the usual thin clouds in a blue sky. I wouldn't expect to find it in a game that's genuinely worth $100+ though.

This game feels AI generated.

The painfully average virtual amusement tent

I kinda like the dreamcore asthetic they were going with buuut, thats the only thing they had going for them The gameplay, the character design and especially the Pathfinding of the npcs, theres not even collisions to the npcs they phase into the walls

8:40 well im a bit late but we all know that 30% is nothing compared to doing it the "normal way" right?

Ah steam and asset flips, a match made in heaven.

Bro recording went of my screen😂😂

wow, this video escalated from talking about a silly overpriced game to a literal documentary about scams.

this whole price thing with bundles is super common

the dev dont honestly think people are going to pay that ammount. im pretty sure they made it expensive so when people buy "expensive" steam key packs they get a bunch of crap like that

I DO actually happen to be high and was more terrified that you mentioned watching the video high than the bright colors lol apologies if this makes no sense this comment took wayyyy too long to type

POV: You get sent to the cellar

Kinda reminds me of some games I saw on the Play Store back then, basically a hello neighboor clone with spongebob (or at least the first version), they took it down for using actually licensed spongebob models (one from probably a psp game and the other one was the dehydrated spongebob from bfbb), then they would released other one but with "original" models (and with *original* I mean they made ORIGINAL characters *dnot steal* , that were pretty ugly-looking and off-branded versions of spongebob characters such as an sphere headed spongebob with hat and moustache or a mouse Sandy) then they would re-released the same game changing some models.

I found this rabbit hole on my own recently (I actually saw your review on the circus game lmao), I personally thought that since the positive reviews came from largely the same handful of steam accounts, which were all real accounts owned by real people, those accounts got hacked and forced to purchase these asset flips for ridiculous prices so the “dev” could get money. Those just being paid reviews makes more sense, though

"im sorry if you're watching this video high" its ok bro... its ok...

Cyberpunk is not copyrighted, as it’s a genre first before being a IP.

WOW! Excellent video -- I didn't even know this type of thing existed. Excellent looking out.

Oooh that's why there are games that expensive on steam, its because they know there is a chance a KZfaqr will actually buy it. I respect all who take that risk.

I'm getting, kind of, sort of, "digital homicide" vibes from this review and that "developer". Hope you won't end up in a mess as Jim Sterling had!😉 Good job exposing those scammers!🤘

im glad that someone is talking about these, I personally haven't seen anyone talking about how weird these "games" are. It's a shame that steam cant really do anything about it.