Worst Game On Steam? - Hammer of Virtue
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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. - Hry
Honestly "Be careful with this unbreakable armour" is a great joke
They absolutely had to know lol But the VA reads it with the confidence of a guy selling you the golden gate bridge
@@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.
Nothing in this story is AI generated. Unless I am an AI @@iloveanothermanswives4278
The armor is unbreakable, but the guy inside is very much not.
@@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. 🤯
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 :-).
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.
Keep at it mate!! the combat and physics are a great base to keep building and polishing this!! Good luck!!
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
@@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.
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
I have to say I love the sarcastic voice over in the "combat training" level. "Pathetic." "No; no; no." "Wrong: try again." "Bad."
Kind of like GLaDOS lmao
@@prince_of_cats Yes, that's exactly who (?) I thought of as well! Though this one is terser.
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".
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.
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.
The price is the problem of the game
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.
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.
Yeah this game looks just like dumb fun to go around and make everything fly with hammer
lmao the game isn't even worth the price of free, let alone $5
Everytime you smack an enemy into a building, I keep thinking of scenes in dragon ball where someone gets hit through a mountain.
"Now, I'm going to throw you at that mountain."
"Actually, that looks more like a plateeeaaaauuuuu! "
*splat*
Be careful. We only have one sample of the unbreakable armor.
Okay... but if its unbreakable...?
Anyway, it's a skill issue
Tbf I think you could blame these games and be alright 😂
This game feels like someone has a humiliation fetish.
Truly, a skill issue.
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
Too much skill! 😁Just like Billy Mitchell 😂
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.
The difference is he extracts value from even the worst of games by putting out these videos, whereas a regular consumer does not
@@pooroldnostradamusyep, he can turn a shitty $15 game into rent for the month.
I mean I'd happily play any shitty game if I were making money off of it lol. "Open heart" right
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
My hope as a game dev is to be featured on the last video of this series titled *''Worst Game On Steam.''*
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
It never was my hope I must confess..
If you get employed by Blizzard then you will.
@@SuspiciousSilence why?
@@SuspiciousSilencewhy?
This game needs a lot of work, but the combat mixed with physics is a pretty cool concept.
This channel is so much less entertaining than your channel covering what wrong with games.
That game is generic Unreal engine
Just play edf
@@DaftanemoneI disagree.
@Daftanemone
Then dont watch it? Are you being ludvico techniqued into watching it or something?
“Screw this I’m going inside” and then just whacking the side of the house has me dead
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
Fr the idea is really cool !
Deep Rock Galactic *kind of* does that.
@@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
@@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
@@brunoslybruno EDF is a game so stupid its good
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
It has the bones. It just needs content, an fps fix and maybe more weapon variety
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
honestly, yeah, I agree. hell, if they made even just a few improvements and quartered the price...it kinda seems like a fun time.
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.
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.
9:55 I love how you killed the bear by hitting it in the nuts 😂
Love the games logic. You can bring down an entire building with a single swing but can only slightly dent a car.
As much as I miss Wicked Wiz's what went wrong videos, I wholeheartedly love this series.
Sadly he found most well backed projects that "went wrong" 😢
What happened to his other channel?
Okay, fast travel by literally yeeting yourself across the map is fun.
Winnie the Pooh goes into the public domain and now he's in a horror movie AND a sci-fi video game.
I think the best one yet is the upcoming "Hundred Acre Wood"; a first-person cosmic horror game.
the "teardown at home"
The voice delivery in that last bit.. "Imagine what we could accomplish together!" *chops you with his strange dual helicopter rotor blades/swords*
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.
I'm going to tell my kids this was Exoprimal.
Thanks for making these videos Mr. Wiz they make me very happy :)
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.
I think out of my 300 subscriptions, you are my favorite channel!
12:40 At that point a voice in my head shouted "it's only a flesh wound".
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.
This is one of like maybe 3 channels since CZcams 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.
Other two?
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.
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
I love that the skybox is literally a huge box
This video really HAMMERS home how bad this game is. I'm glad someone with VIRTUE is here to review it.
Ohhhh I get it!! HAMMERS VIRTUE
It looks great.
It's probably just meant for controllers with really, really shitty mouse and Keyboard controls.
Nailed it
please never stop making these videos i always look forward to them, they make my day
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.
space AND Q X 2 or E ....and they are directionally related? on what axis?
Is this game for humans or cephalopods?
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
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
YOOO, I literally binged this series the other day and was hoping for a new upload soon
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.
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.
Well at least in this game it seems someone at least tried to make something
And people think Baldur's Gate 3 is going to win game of the year
I want a lot more Wicked Wiz videos. You are so relaxing to watch!
9:36 The bear really went "were you trying to do this?" lmao
I’m living or just waiting for you to do a upload?! 🎉
You got me at dinosaurs and monkeys.
I like how one of the Bear's sounds is literally Taurus Demon roar from Dark souls 1
You made this game look way more fun than it sounds 😂
Love your vids and this series. Keep it up, dude!
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.
Whole house - falls apart with one hammer strike
Car - *indestructible*
It's the donkey van
I love seeing the ads for this game and how everyone flames the dev in the qrts lmao
"Bears can be quite difficult" needs to be on a shirt.
Wild how far your channels have come brother.
21:11 I do like when a scenario properly punishes a player for ignoring mechanics.
That bear roar at 5:17 is from Ursa in Dota 2
12:53 “It’s just a flesh wound!” “Tis but a scratch!”
Okay genuinely the game does look like it has great ideas behind it, just needs a lot more work.
What great ideas?! It is completely random and it's just a guy walking around swinging a hammer. You are delusional.
Wizz just causally sounded like stanley from the parable with the "No, No, No, you're not supposed to do that"
We need more of these man
I can't stop laughing at you getting tossed around by the Babe Ruth T-Rex!
🤣🤣🤣
imagine if a game like this was made with euphoria
I'm so damn glad I found your channel.
The bear sound at 5:14 is just Dota 2 Ursa sound, what the hell
Absolutely love this series you make keep it up 😊😊😊
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
12:37 It's the Black Knight! "Tis only a flesh wound!"
I wonder if changing the attack keys to ZXCV would help things.
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
That tutorial gave me big "Where did you learn to fly!?" Vibes
0:58 If the armor is unbreakable, why would I need to be careful?
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
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
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!
You don't break the unbreakable armor, you hit it so hard that the guy inside the armor gets broken bones and brain trauma.
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.
The fact that the bear sounds are just Taurus Demon sounds from Dark Souls is easily telling.
someone needs to ad a mod that makes a "weeeeee" sound effect when ever a monkey goes flying
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
Holy hell... this looks like it was an awful experience. My thanks for performing the experiment!
Those skyboxes are something else
You fell down due to the massive wind of the deadly bear claw swing
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.
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
"Oh! I i figured it out you just move right into him!"
He's learning the ways of the souls
The bears make the same sound as the Taurus Demon.
The dino with the huge baton on its nose was pretty funny.
12:38 "Just a flash wound!" - The Black Knight
5:19 sound from Ursa character from Dota 2
WickedWiz never fails to create a worthwhile video
That Armor looks a bit like a classic cylon
Devs be like: Oh i know how to apply ragdoll physics to models...Time to sell a game!
Ilovemyothermothersbrother @ facts
33:45 omg I didn't expected this much people working on that
Seeing the guy getting tossed through stuff and the reactions the physics has makes me feel like some kind of concept exists. Games have really dropped off any physics destruction in recent high-profile releases, seeing your main character blasting between trees and them bending by the force actually feels inspired in this day and age.
is that music from the sims? at about 9:30?
If the armour is unbreakable then why would you have to be careful with it
Any time I see a game do the "level select from main menu" thing, I expect trash and I have yet to be wrong.
Have you played either of "The Surge" games? The parry thing in this game reminds me of it. Only thing is the surge games are legitimately awesome.
5:20 that "Pathetic" got me
that rhinorex looks way smaller than a regular t-rex.
also looks like a pain in the ass to fight lol