The number of players in Steam Magic Parkour “Cursed Land” is low, and the “Cat Meow Cloak” DLC is free for a limited time | 4Gamers

On the Steam store page, developed by the Luminous Productions team and released by Square Enix, the new magical parkour work “Forspoken” (Forspoken) recently released a free DLC on Steam for a limited time. Although it is only a cloak, it is still well received by players. , but this little free gift seems to be hard to restore the overall evaluation of the game.

Steam “Spelled Lands” DLC “Cat Meow Cloak” is now free for a limited time, until 1:00 am on February 17, you can get it for free and keep it forever. The cloak is the main loot in the game, it can be equipped and provides different attribute bonuses, and this “cat meow cloak” emphasizes that it is a cloak that bestows power on those who love cats.

However, the evaluation of “Spelled Land” in the player community is not very impressive. The game won the PS5 exclusive console market. Before the release, it was vigorously promoted by Sony Interactive Entertainment, but the game finally received mixed reviews.

And the PC platform is not much better. Although it can be released simultaneously on Steam and Epic Games, due to the lagging and optimization problems of the game performance, “Spelled Land” fell into the “Callisto Protocol”. dilemma. Due to the poor response from players, the director of “Cursed Land” Takeshi Aramaki recently announced that he will improve the bugs and optimizations in the game, and promises to make up for updates and fixes as soon as possible.

A message from @LumiPro_EN’s Takeshi Aramaki on upcoming updates for #Foretelling pic.twitter.com/BH0zC9edEb

— Forspoken (@Forspoken) February 8, 2023

In fact, in recent years, the first release of 3A works on the PC platform will inevitably lead to optimization performance problems. Even “Hogwarts Inheritance” or “Eldon’s Circle”, which are highly praised by players, were also rejected by players when they were first released. Criticisms include freezes, dropped frames, and even flashbacks.

However, optimization issues cannot be the main excuse for poor game sales, because if the game is fun, most players are willing to wait for the official fix, or even without waiting for the official fix, the self-reliant modding community of players will launch Mods early to improve performance issues.

Today, the player evaluation of “Cursed Land” in Steam is only mixed, and in the Metacritic The player rating is still unsatisfactory 3.4 so far. The number of Steam players has reached a peak of 9,824 players since it was released in January, and it is now less than a thousand.

There is no harm in no comparison, but on the Steam store page, “Cursed Lands” is systematically compared with two other similar games, “Hogwarts Inheritance” and “Witcher 3: Wild Hunt”, although they are both the same There is a game with magic, but the word-of-mouth of the player community is not the same level of game.

“Cursed Lands” has been on the PS5, Steam, and Epic Games platforms on January 25. The standard version is priced at 1,990 yuan. By the way, the standard version of Steam’s “Hogwarts Inheritance” is only 1,490 yuan. For Square Enix’s distribution, the pricing strategy may also be a part that needs to be reviewed.