Worst Game On Steam? - Hammer of Virtue

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11 ай бұрын

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The latest game in Worst Game On Steam is Hammer of Virtue. It's a game about physics, destruction and ragdoll effects. It came to my attention after seeing the same ad for it on Twitter almost daily.
For $20 Hammer of Virtue could really do with more polish, content and yeah that's basically it. Hammer of Virtue isn't the worst game I've ever played, I did have fun at times, it did make me laugh and smacking enemies across the map wont ever get old! The contrast in difficulty is very steep though, from launching monkeys and whacking bears to being relentlessly hassled by big dinosaurs.
In a way this is a review for Hammer of Virtue, I don't consider myself a reviewer, just a guy who dumpster dives strange indie games. But it's currently a "Cursor not locked into the screen"/10
I'll keep my eye on it with the hope that it improves. Hopefully this becomes a What Went Right some day.
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I'm WickedWiz from the What Went Wrong series coming at you with some of the most cursed indie games on Steam. This new series is for games that are so bad, that they're actually good. Worst Game On Steam, is a question that hopefully turns out to be false each time. These are games that won't fit the longer form What Went Wrong videos.

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@memeone3043 11 ай бұрын

Honestly "Be careful with this unbreakable armour" is a great joke

@Eta_Hoyimi 11 ай бұрын

They absolutely had to know lol But the VA reads it with the confidence of a guy selling you the golden gate bridge

@iloveanothermanswives4278 11 ай бұрын

@@Eta_Hoyimi If you notice, every dialogues and story are AI generated. The "lore" is extremely over convoluted and word vomitted for such a barebones game.

@nopestproductions 11 ай бұрын

Nothing in this story is AI generated. Unless I am an AI @@iloveanothermanswives4278

@devcrom3 11 ай бұрын

The armor is unbreakable, but the guy inside is very much not.

@PenguinDT 11 ай бұрын

@@devcrom3 That's one of those things that breaks your head if you stop to think about it. Like when I realized that in Knight Rider, Michael Knight would basically be liquefied inside KITT when it smashes through concrete. 🤯

@nopestproductions 11 ай бұрын

Hi All, I am the developer. I am working hard to turn this around and I hope people will enjoy it in the future. All constructive feedback is welcome! BTW, This is a great video! Really enjoyed it and I could hear you laugh out loud several times. That was my goal with this game :-).

@wicked_wizard 11 ай бұрын

I gotta give respect for taking it on the chin. Keep the updates coming, it’s possible to turn things around, we’ve all seen it before.

@elitereptilian200 11 ай бұрын

Keep at it mate!! the combat and physics are a great base to keep building and polishing this!! Good luck!!

@nopestproductions 11 ай бұрын

This might sound strange but after the negative hellscape on the Steam page of Hammer of Virtue the comments on this video gives me the power to keep on trying to turn it around. @@wicked_wizard

@spongerobert 11 ай бұрын

@@nopestproductions Physics games are hella fun so I would definitely love to see this game a bit more polished and fleshed out because the core concept seems like loads of fun.

@saucysacrilegious 11 ай бұрын

i think your concept art and the story you have for this game is great so far. there's a lot of good bases for game mechanics, and this would all be really well rounded with some more polish put into it. i think this game will be something great if you continue putting time into it and refining what's already there

@zh84 11 ай бұрын

I have to say I love the sarcastic voice over in the "combat training" level. "Pathetic." "No; no; no." "Wrong: try again." "Bad."

@prince_of_cats 11 ай бұрын

Kind of like GLaDOS lmao

@zh84 11 ай бұрын

@@prince_of_cats Yes, that's exactly who (?) I thought of as well! Though this one is terser.

@XaneMyers 10 ай бұрын

Me too. Even though it's rather basic text-to-speech samples, I think it would be cool if her "voice" was extracted from the game so it could be used for Windows sounds or something. Imagine an error dialog appearing and her saying "Bad".

@HappyBeezerStudios 2 ай бұрын

one of these games where all it takes is a little bit more work on the big issues and the right price would turn it into a sleeper.

@wicked_wizard 11 ай бұрын

Anyway, it's a skill issue

@whitehuayra 11 ай бұрын

Tbf I think you could blame these games and be alright 😂

@requiemagent3014 11 ай бұрын

This game feels like someone has a humiliation fetish.

@Blixt. 11 ай бұрын

Truly, a skill issue.

@MozzaBallBill 11 ай бұрын

what up king kreamcicle u make me twirl and whirl like a turtle in a swirly juniper berries aint got nothing on u my king kreamy king kone

@thereal2scummy636 11 ай бұрын

Too much skill! 😁Just like Billy Mitchell 😂

@gamingonamonday6342 11 ай бұрын

Everytime you smack an enemy into a building, I keep thinking of scenes in dragon ball where someone gets hit through a mountain.

@SuspiciousSilence 11 ай бұрын

"Now, I'm going to throw you at that mountain." "Actually, that looks more like a plateeeaaaauuuuu! " *splat*

@Gamer3427 11 ай бұрын

The concept for this game is sound, and the physics seem fun, but it definitely feels more like a student project game than something money went into. I could see picking it up for maybe $5, but anything more than that feels like you're being ripped off when there are so many well made free games out there.

@IdentifiantE.S 11 ай бұрын

The price is the problem of the game

@user-tp5yb4hr4w 11 ай бұрын

yeah i would rather purchase Styx again, and that game was a low budget indy game, and it was good, in fact it still is a good game.

@randomidoit9605 11 ай бұрын

The Developers also made "A Bastard's Tale" which goes for $5 and even less on a sale, it's 2d with pixel art, it's hard but also fells rewarding when you finally beat it.

@realdragon 11 ай бұрын

Yeah this game looks just like dumb fun to go around and make everything fly with hammer

@BigMan7o0 11 ай бұрын

lmao the game isn't even worth the price of free, let alone $5

@thekidben1077 11 ай бұрын

This game feels like it has some sort of essence that Goat Simulator had in it with its randomish fun of just smacking people and destroying things

@eros5420 11 ай бұрын

Be careful. We only have one sample of the unbreakable armor. Okay... but if its unbreakable...?

@ThunderWolfUE 11 ай бұрын

My hope as a game dev is to be featured on the last video of this series titled *''Worst Game On Steam.''*

@SuspiciousSilence 11 ай бұрын

I'm making a game for RPG Maker using mostly stock assets, so there's a good chance I'll be on a series like this one someday lol

@nopestproductions 11 ай бұрын

It never was my hope I must confess..

@tekky1202 11 ай бұрын

If you get employed by Blizzard then you will.

@biigsmokee 11 ай бұрын

@@SuspiciousSilence why?

@everythingpony 11 ай бұрын

@@SuspiciousSilencewhy?

@hippiedude666 11 ай бұрын

“Screw this I’m going inside” and then just whacking the side of the house has me dead

@darkwolf9637 11 ай бұрын

Love the games logic. You can bring down an entire building with a single swing but can only slightly dent a car.

@relativepi5046 11 ай бұрын

Mate, I admire your patience and willingness to dive into a game with an open heart. I've seen you cover so many games that I would not give 30 seconds to, let alone see what they have to offer past the main menu. You're a trooper we all could learn from, and funny as hell. :) I hope you keep on doing your thing.

@pooroldnostradamus 11 ай бұрын

The difference is he extracts value from even the worst of games by putting out these videos, whereas a regular consumer does not

@no-replies 11 ай бұрын

@@pooroldnostradamusyep, he can turn a shitty $15 game into rent for the month.

@monke12354 7 ай бұрын

I mean I'd happily play any shitty game if I were making money off of it lol. "Open heart" right

@GoaEnjoyer 11 ай бұрын

This game needs a lot of work, but the combat mixed with physics is a pretty cool concept.

@Daftanemone 11 ай бұрын

This channel is so much less entertaining than your channel covering what wrong with games.

@ognyanbelchev4190 11 ай бұрын

That game is generic Unreal engine

@huan_4life 11 ай бұрын

Just play edf

@2dheethbar 11 ай бұрын

@@DaftanemoneI disagree.

@childofcascadia 11 ай бұрын

@Daftanemone Then dont watch it? Are you being ludvico techniqued into watching it or something?

@suffering9668 11 ай бұрын

honestly the idea behind it about making an Earth defence force inspired game with the destruction of a Red faction guerilla and OG crackdown is actually neat its a shame it was so poorly executed i wish some people would make that kind of combination

@IdentifiantE.S 11 ай бұрын

Fr the idea is really cool !

@SpikeRose 11 ай бұрын

Deep Rock Galactic *kind of* does that.

@suffering9668 10 ай бұрын

@@SpikeRose not really Deep rock galactic is more of a left 4 dead with bugs , Earth defence force is something on its own its over the top grand scale battle with hundreds of devastating weaponry and armies of insects ,aliens , kaijus , mechas to kill and all the series need is a destruction system like a red faction game

@brunoslybruno 10 ай бұрын

@@suffering9668 yeah fully agreed deep rock is a fun game but its nowhere like an edf, its truly closer to a l4d with the ability to mine edf goes way harder on rule of cool, and theres an insane amount of weapons which can feel completely different (and be beyond absurd) a edf+red faction game would be amazing, it sucks that theres some amazing games that had no one take inspiration from, much less fuse genres to create something even better

@bruhgod123 9 ай бұрын

@@brunoslybruno EDF is a game so stupid its good

@HappyBeezerStudios 11 ай бұрын

Okay, fast travel by literally yeeting yourself across the map is fun.

@pshnd 11 ай бұрын

9:55 I love how you killed the bear by hitting it in the nuts 😂

@SamJust 11 ай бұрын

I don't know, this game feels like it has some potential. If it gets no man's sky treatment over the next couple of years it might actually pan out to something reasonably good

@user-wl3vf9hs5x 11 ай бұрын

It has the bones. It just needs content, an fps fix and maybe more weapon variety

@dobrx6199 11 ай бұрын

This is an asset flip that was probably thrown together in a few weeks by some new game devs, it's strange how they were so cheap that they used free animations from Miximo but spend tons of money on marketing

@AvoytDesign 11 ай бұрын

honestly, yeah, I agree. hell, if they made even just a few improvements and quartered the price...it kinda seems like a fun time.

@SuspiciousSilence 11 ай бұрын

Agree fully on the potential. The gameplay looks fun, imagine this with online MP w/ your friends. Could be a game that streamers would pick up on, but it looks like it needs quite a lot of work. No Man's Sky is a very rare minority in games that were actually able to "turn it around", sadly.

@KaoticGamer117 11 ай бұрын

100%, halfway through and I’m wishing this thing had a coat of polish with some fleshed out content. It would 100% be a hit. For honor combat and red faction destruction? Hell yeah.

@alicorngummy3894 11 ай бұрын

As much as I miss Wicked Wiz's what went wrong videos, I wholeheartedly love this series.

@funkie1221 11 ай бұрын

Sadly he found most well backed projects that "went wrong" 😢

@Otra_Ronda 7 ай бұрын

What happened to his other channel?

@Anon_Spartan 11 ай бұрын

Winnie the Pooh goes into the public domain and now he's in a horror movie AND a sci-fi video game.

@PenguinDT 11 ай бұрын

I think the best one yet is the upcoming "Hundred Acre Wood"; a first-person cosmic horror game.

@Justout133 11 ай бұрын

The voice delivery in that last bit.. "Imagine what we could accomplish together!" *chops you with his strange dual helicopter rotor blades/swords*

@UZero1997 11 ай бұрын

the "teardown at home"

@autodidacticasphyxiation7895 11 ай бұрын

I'm going to tell my kids this was Exoprimal.

@PenguinDT 11 ай бұрын

The whole 'only a few destructible environments to kill things in' thing does work, if done right and the areas are big enough and there's enough different kinds of enemies to spice things up. EDF is basically that.

@Geno746 11 ай бұрын

I'm glad this game got covered. Twitter was advertising this pretty hard to atleast me for a while so seeing a review for it is actually kinda interesting.

@dalejhunter1 11 ай бұрын

I hear the victory jingle and my first thought is... "Wiz, are you playing Happy Wheels?" Like that is just a pitched down victory jingle from Happy Wheels.

@CrispyLilGuy 11 ай бұрын

Thanks for making these videos Mr. Wiz they make me very happy :)

@michaeldonoghue9015 11 ай бұрын

I think out of my 300 subscriptions, you are my favorite channel!

@mbrackeva 6 ай бұрын

12:40 At that point a voice in my head shouted "it's only a flesh wound".

@Zvasra 11 ай бұрын

This is one of like maybe 3 channels since KZfaq opened (I think it was 2005?) that I’ve randomly stumbled upon and I’m actually excited to see new uploads. You’re a gem.

@ImNobodySoAreYou 5 ай бұрын

Other two?

@themodernfrontiersmen 11 ай бұрын

This video really HAMMERS home how bad this game is. I'm glad someone with VIRTUE is here to review it.

@DaVoxxii 11 ай бұрын

Ohhhh I get it!! HAMMERS VIRTUE

@robertwildschwein7207 11 ай бұрын

It looks great. It's probably just meant for controllers with really, really shitty mouse and Keyboard controls.

@thebudgetgamer 10 ай бұрын

Nailed it

@icecold1805 11 ай бұрын

9:00 honestly, looking at this, I can see the wasted potential here, imagine, looking at this fight with the bear, a dark souls with this wacky ass physics.

@MegaMiquelon 9 ай бұрын

Of all the bad games you've played, this honestly looks kinda fun if you're really really bored. Sadly it needs huge polishing, but the idea is fun... you're a robot of total mayhem, you'll destroy ANYTHING in a neighborhood or a city just to destroy the bad guy. If the guy had more budget and make things much more chaotic, it'll be like the game Rampage Edit: ALso it does seem like you have a lot of fun too

@alexc1485 11 ай бұрын

I love that the skybox is literally a huge box

@epsilonthedragon1249 11 ай бұрын

I recognize that font they used on the UI and menus. It’s neuropol, the font used in the Animusic logo. The whole rest of the Animusic community goes insane like sleeper agents when they see it and it’s starting to rub off on me

@tai9014 11 ай бұрын

please never stop making these videos i always look forward to them, they make my day

@ArnieMcStranglehold 11 ай бұрын

This actually looks really fun for like, two younger brothers to play. The physics are ridiculous, and the frustrating parts would be made hilarious with two players.

@a7x5631 11 ай бұрын

And people think Baldur's Gate 3 is going to win game of the year

@requiemagent3014 11 ай бұрын

You got me at dinosaurs and monkeys.

@ags8507 11 ай бұрын

would prob be better if bears werent heavy and gave them a charge attack, so they actually pose a threat, since their attacks are too slow, that way bears are engaging and dangerous and fun to go against, maybe add a way to launch nearby debris into enemies while locking on, like an acurate way maybe

@--_--_--_--_ 11 ай бұрын

Well at least in this game it seems someone at least tried to make something

@darklilligant2636 11 ай бұрын

Yo Wiz I got a suggestion for a game for this video series. It's called Sir WhoopAss and it falls perfectly into that so bad it's good territory.

@Punisher0362 11 ай бұрын

YOOO, I literally binged this series the other day and was hoping for a new upload soon

@Jokoko2828 11 ай бұрын

Think the last game I've played with destructible enemies was Valk Profile 2 for the PS2, there's some downright amazing stuff you can inflict on most things in that game. As long as they aren't ghosts or bees(who count as ghosts) since they don't really have any destructible parts.

@CainXVII 11 ай бұрын

Whole house - falls apart with one hammer strike Car - *indestructible* It's the donkey van

@UlshaRS 11 ай бұрын

space AND Q X 2 or E ....and they are directionally related? on what axis? Is this game for humans or cephalopods?

@BiteMe3331 11 ай бұрын

I want a lot more Wicked Wiz videos. You are so relaxing to watch!

@personpersona1079 4 ай бұрын

12:53 “It’s just a flesh wound!” “Tis but a scratch!”

@joshua-kramer 11 ай бұрын

"Bears can be quite difficult" needs to be on a shirt.

@lusiek9 11 ай бұрын

I like how one of the Bear's sounds is literally Taurus Demon roar from Dark souls 1

@Capt.Pikles 11 ай бұрын

You made this game look way more fun than it sounds 😂

@victordeluca7360 8 ай бұрын

9:36 The bear really went "were you trying to do this?" lmao

@GalvesR 11 ай бұрын

I’m living or just waiting for you to do a upload?! 🎉

@ComfyCherry 11 ай бұрын

the concept art looks pretty good, they should have just made a comic, or vn and a destruction sandbox with a level editor or some shit, not mashed them together into one game.

@mellowshooter 11 ай бұрын

I love seeing the ads for this game and how everyone flames the dev in the qrts lmao

@seleuf 10 ай бұрын

12:37 It's the Black Knight! "Tis only a flesh wound!"

@mattiasorup4181 Ай бұрын

Wizz just causally sounded like stanley from the parable with the "No, No, No, you're not supposed to do that"

@RynKen 11 ай бұрын

21:11 I do like when a scenario properly punishes a player for ignoring mechanics.

@JT-32 7 ай бұрын

someone needs to ad a mod that makes a "weeeeee" sound effect when ever a monkey goes flying

@Doophen 11 ай бұрын

You know watching this, If this game was only a couple usd or free, it would most likely be heralded as a underrated gem, the story is actually interesting, the physics seem fun, I think it’s the price that is keeping it down

@SuspiciousSilence 11 ай бұрын

Love your vids and this series. Keep it up, dude!

@Nami-x 6 ай бұрын

That bear roar at 5:17 is from Ursa in Dota 2

@UranusKiller 11 ай бұрын

I can't stop laughing at you getting tossed around by the Babe Ruth T-Rex! 🤣🤣🤣

@donavancampbell6658 6 ай бұрын

"Oh! I i figured it out you just move right into him!" He's learning the ways of the souls

@peconi47 11 ай бұрын

imagine if a game like this was made with euphoria

@robertwildschwein7207 11 ай бұрын

You don't break the unbreakable armor, you hit it so hard that the guy inside the armor gets broken bones and brain trauma.

@no-replies 11 ай бұрын

Wild how far your channels have come brother.

@BonesAlexander 11 ай бұрын

The fact that the bear sounds are just Taurus Demon sounds from Dark Souls is easily telling.

@voicesfromtheaether1939 11 ай бұрын

Holy hell... this looks like it was an awful experience. My thanks for performing the experiment!

@gobliino 11 ай бұрын

Okay genuinely the game does look like it has great ideas behind it, just needs a lot more work.

@gregoryl.levitre9759 11 ай бұрын

What great ideas?! It is completely random and it's just a guy walking around swinging a hammer. You are delusional.

@thefischdeo 11 ай бұрын

This is like a proof-of-concept demo for a cool idea but not really something one should charge $20 for. The elaborate concept art mixed with the small team in the credits makes me wonder if they maybe bit off more than they could chew resource-wise, but I hope they can turn it around and figure out a scale that works for them. Maybe cut down on the amount of levels and rework them with better art direction and more varied environmental gameplay opportunities, that kind of thing. Those raptors screeching and flying around and the fragile robots kicking with one leg are hilarious, though. My god.

@ghostoflazlo 10 ай бұрын

You fell down due to the massive wind of the deadly bear claw swing

@shinrailp1416 11 ай бұрын

That tutorial gave me big "Where did you learn to fly!?" Vibes

@pottingsoil723 10 ай бұрын

Those skyboxes are something else

@ReiverBlue1971 11 ай бұрын

12:38 "Just a flash wound!" - The Black Knight

@patrickblakethesaint 11 ай бұрын

Is this Fortnight? All i know is i saw wiz upload, so i went to get some takeaway so i could eat and watch. Cheers my dude

@Sevenigma777 11 ай бұрын

I love when you can thrash enemies like this. Still to this day one of the best feelings i ever had in a video game came from The Force Unleashed games where you can force grab an Ewok or Jawa and throw then off the planet. Its the best form of therapy i ever had lol

@opalbinia 9 ай бұрын

Tbh the concept needs a little fleshing out but its a great start. A goofy physics based tokusatsu-inspired dynasty warrior-esque game that fully embraces the b-movie vibes is personally the direction I would go with the concept.

@DaBroofUrner 11 ай бұрын

The bear sound at 5:14 is just Dota 2 Ursa sound, what the hell

@Skimaskgunna 11 ай бұрын

We need more of these man

@vizthex 6 ай бұрын

that rhinorex looks way smaller than a regular t-rex. also looks like a pain in the ass to fight lol

@favoritemustard3542 11 ай бұрын

The Moon physics being mixed in with the Earth physics was... disconcerting. GG on Stickhead Mc🦖 who kept you on the ropes for a bit, but trapping you in the corner of the map like that was harsh!

@Raziel1984 10 ай бұрын

i can imagine a world where this is the greatest fun game ever... make it multiplayer and getting hit reduces your weight, killing small NPCs can get you weight back, goal is to smack the other players off the battlefield, and the story: just make it some futuristic sport or something. it could be a third person scifi smash bros .... but no they just fucked up :(

@GodKingBob 11 ай бұрын

“Be careful we only have one sample of the unbreakable armour” it’s unbreakable why am I being careful

@iloveanothermanswives4278 11 ай бұрын

Devs be like: Oh i know how to apply ragdoll physics to models...Time to sell a game!

@stzaleft7355 3 ай бұрын

Ilovemyothermothersbrother @ facts

@strikingsarcophagus 8 ай бұрын

I always wanted some superhero/anime type fighting game sort of like this. I mean sort of like prototype but with this style of physics

@VaStarPlus 11 ай бұрын

I remember playing the demo of it, I feel like it may be like the beta... but I never expect WickedWiz would tackle this one

@kayokay610 11 ай бұрын

5:20 that "Pathetic" got me

@ThisHandleIsDefinatelyTaken 11 ай бұрын

The dino with the huge baton on its nose was pretty funny.

@onomatopoeia7505 11 ай бұрын

Well this gives a new meaning to the phrase "spanking your monkey" 🤔

@feelinghealing3890 11 ай бұрын

Any time I see a game do the "level select from main menu" thing, I expect trash and I have yet to be wrong.

@Fauxchem 11 ай бұрын

I'm so damn glad I found your channel.

@thecuza9716 11 ай бұрын

The bears make the same sound as the Taurus Demon.

@heroiccombatengineer6018 10 ай бұрын

33:45 omg I didn't expected this much people working on that

@RoxieSparks 11 ай бұрын

Dude, that parry is comedic gold. it's literally something out of a silly kid's cartoon. lol

@creeperizak8971 4 ай бұрын

for a game all about destroying stuff you'd think they'd give you more to destroy.

@Dragonfire511 10 ай бұрын

I love how on this game all destructible and movable items weight like 1 kilogram.

@klaatoris 11 ай бұрын

0:58 If the armor is unbreakable, why would I need to be careful?

@ZeldaTheSwordsman 5 ай бұрын

I guess because _you're_ not unbreakable, and if you die it might be difficult for them to recover it. Also, it's not un*loseable* armor, so you still have to be careful in that sense :P