About This Game BOOKS is a quiz-style game that will improve your knowledge of animal world as you play!The objective is easy: players should to choose any book from cupboard and try to answer all questions right!In this game you can learn 40 different animals:● pet animals (cats, dogs, cows, horses, pigs);● wild animals (bears, crocodiles, giraffes, hares, platypus, turtles,camels, lions, elephants, snakes, bats, raccoons, skunks, hedgehogs, monkeys, frogs,rhinoceroses, kangaroo, squirrels, wolves, deers, spiders, tigers);● sea animals (whales, sharks, jellyfish, octopus, crabs, rays, sea urchin);● birds (parrot, owl, hummingbirds, chickens, ostriches).Features:● Pleasant graphics and music;● Interesting questions;● 48 different books;● 4000+ achievements.● Beautiful emoticons and trading cards (coming soon). 1075eedd30 Title: BOOKSGenre: Casual, IndieDeveloper:UNIOCSPublisher:UNIOCSRelease Date: 23 Aug, 2017 BOOKS Torrent I bought Books after I got a 75% off voucher through steam and honestly after 1.5hrs I feel that I overpaid for it. Here's why:+ Books is an achievement grinding game app. If you accept it as such and you like mindless achievements grinding then it is for you.+ You learn some interesting and some otherwise funny facts about a small selection of animals and birds.+ The UI is so simple, a four year old could use this app (assuming they could read). Perhaps aimed to younger audience?+ At the time of writing this review, all 4,564 achievements could be unlocked in under 2hrs.- Books is not a game per se, so it is a waste of unreal engine's power. There are many other apps\/educational tools which are suited much better to this type of Q&A application and on top can provide stats and graphs for the progression of your learning.- Each answer right or wrong regardless will net you in between 9-14 achievements! Often you have to wait before proceeding for the achievements to catch up!!- Achievements are abstractly named and have nothing to do with the Q&A (except for a handful of miscellaneous ones). At the 4K mark, I could not keep track of which achievements were missing without a guide.- UE4 glitches galore and erratic frame rate (locks to 62fps! Drops to 40fps for no reason on static scenes). It spawns the Oculus store when starting and exiting the app! (why use VR functionality?)- Bad assets scaling on full screen (UHD mode, 4K mode or anything above 1080p); frequent crashes.- Non existent\/audible sounds or music; even when the volume is cranked up to extreme levels you can barely hear a pop sound here and there (at that level other games rattle the house windows). Bug?- Quite a few spelling and grammar mistakes. Some questions make no sense at all (Google translate?). Best part of the app, seriously!- No Steam trade-cards, backgrounds or icons-----TL;DR: If you are a completionist or on the hunt for steam achievements and don't care how you get them, then Books is made for you. You could be watching your favorite TV program while clicking away to earn 4.5K+ achievements on a $1. Otherwise, steer clear, as Books feels like a highschool project experiment at best with its elementary level of Q&A and it is not worth your valuable time.. at least I know sth new about animals......but spam achievements hurts.. Its a cute game to test what you know about animals, and I honestly learned a few things about some animals I didn't know, it was nice to learn these little facts that I guess I could use later down the line if someone wants to know something about an animal :D Anyway Pros & Cons.Pro:Easy 100% game.You Learn facts about animals and can do them in any order.Achievement hunters boost, I like to call them.Easy to run.Looks appealing to the eyes.Easy to figure out.Cheap Buy. (although mine was freeeee)Cons:A ton of acheivements for getting questions wrong, I mean yeah easy 100% but I like to work for my acheievements.It was easy to run but lagged here and there, and for no reason..Even when I got something wrong it was like, NO, here is the right anwser and a million achievements.Overall I can't really complain about the game, other than it being another Achievement hunter trap? But you can actually learn from it :D Plus it was cheap. If you want to learn about animals, I suggest it, you get to play a game, earn acheivements and feel accomplished I guess?Like I said you can't really hate the game, unless you hate, acheivement hunting xD. Aside from the badly translated English grammar, it's quite an interesting little game learning about various animals.. at least I know sth new about animals......but spam achievements hurts.. I was sure I had already reviewed this game..Anyways, it's a complete bugged mess.I'm not complaining (yeah just a little bit in the end XD) about the promises the developers made months ago (like trading cards, never implemented, nor any other kind of upgrade) but just on the actual game, which has never been on early access.Fortunately there's an awesome guide here on Steam on how to get every achievement, 'cos there are more than 4000 of them..The game is made up by three rooms (one of which is kinda secret) and lots of books, every one of them dedicated to a single animal. It's a basic quiz game, four answers for every question and nothing more.The achievements unlock mainly by clicking nonsense things on the walls or the floor and such, like flags books pins papers flyers and so on.I know that given the number of the achievements and the low price, 1\u20ac, this could be nice but really, to me has been painful to play.It's completely bugged, full of lag and crash, even on a good PC (I mean, I can run every modern JRPG and I have issues with this?), the graphics are less than minimalistic since everything is in 2D, it really seems that no effort of any kind has been made to at least improve a little bit the graphical compartment.Of course, the core of the game are the animal quizs so probably this can be enjoyed if you like animals; I don't like animals but I love puzzle\/logic games of every category so I thought to have something more interesting and challenging on my hands. Here you're provided with animal facts (of course you can find everything by searching deer or chicken on Google..) and there are no difficulties or issues if you go wrong or such, you can just replay the same book with the same five question over and over again.I know that this game has lots of positive reviews so I'm trying to explain at my best my reasons. To me, this hasn't proven educational at all. And for children too, due to the lag and to the stupid system; I mean, it's nice to have dozens of books dedicated to each animal you can think about, but they provide the same five questions and even if you answer wrong you 1- get the achievements 2- can restart with the same answers in the same four positions they had before.. so there's no real challenge, it's more (if you want to do everything right) a question of learning the correct position in the book of the right answer..There are lots of errors in the vocabulary, grammar and lexical fields - since this game is available only in English and Russian I suppose the developers are Russians - and nothing has ever been fixed.Moreover, you can't track down your progress and keep an eye on your achievements: no completed book will ever be marked since as I said many times, you can do them over and over and it does not matter if you give a wrong or right answer.If this game doesn't get a complete renewal\/renovation well, it isn't educational at all and it's frustrating due to errors and game lag\/crashes, so it's worthy only for the achievements - and since it's been months it's out and no trading cards or such has been added, I think this will never get a proper renovation.. Great game!! This game has been well-researched. Great to let your kids play it teaches them useful information about a range of different animals.. There is no point system or way of keeping track of your progress. Not even a marker for which books you have finished. That makes this "game" pretty pointless in my book (pun intended).. Its a cute game to test what you know about animals, and I honestly learned a few things about some animals I didn't know, it was nice to learn these little facts that I guess I could use later down the line if someone wants to know something about an animal :D Anyway Pros & Cons.Pro:Easy 100% game.You Learn facts about animals and can do them in any order.Achievement hunters boost, I like to call them.Easy to run.Looks appealing to the eyes.Easy to figure out.Cheap Buy. (although mine was freeeee)Cons:A ton of acheivements for getting questions wrong, I mean yeah easy 100% but I like to work for my acheievements.It was easy to run but lagged here and there, and for no reason..Even when I got something wrong it was like, NO, here is the right anwser and a million achievements.Overall I can't really complain about the game, other than it being another Achievement hunter trap? But you can actually learn from it :D Plus it was cheap. If you want to learn about animals, I suggest it, you get to play a game, earn acheivements and feel accomplished I guess?Like I said you can't really hate the game, unless you hate, acheivement hunting xD. You're basically paying money for 4000+ achievements, total cancer.
- protimexananhus