Dreamatrix Game Studios

Dreamatrix Game Studios
Industry Video game
Headquarters Zagreb, Croatia
Parent Pro vox d.o.o.

Dreamatrix Game Studios (also known as Provox Games) is a Croatian computer game developer and a subsidiary of Pro vox d.o.o. (Pro vox Ltd.) Based in Zagreb, Croatia, the studio is led by Dino Potrebica. Dreamatrix developed the ill-fated games Legends of Dawn and Space Force: Rogue Universe.[1]

Legends of Dawn (2013)

Shortly after release on the 27th of June, 2013, Legends of Dawn received exclusively negative reviews from critics and gamers. The score of 29/100[2] on Metacritic places it in the 200 worst games ever made across all platforms. As of October 20 of 2014, it ranks as the 139th worst game of all time out of almost 14,200 entries.[3] It was included in IGN's round-up of worst reviewed games of 2013,[4] with the description: "Legends Of Dawn isn’t just bad, it’s an embarrassment to its developers and @steam_games for selling it."[5] CD-Action gave it 10/100 stating: "An apology is in order to everyone who fell for the promises on Kickstarter and paid for this ruin of a game." LEVEL commented in their review: "A crappy system, technologically speaking it's an unfinished, irritating, and every now and then arrogant action RPG, with flaws as merits, demonstrating how to not make a game.", giving it 20/100.[6]

Users expressed an enormous disdain for the game on the rating system of the Steam distribution platform,[7] with only 12% of 140 reviews expressing positive feedback. As the game was finished with financing gathered through a crowd-sourcing project on Kickstarter,[8] both critics and gamers expressed concerns as to whether the Kickstarter initiative was merely an attempt by the developer to cover the costs of a failed project. As the critics deemed the game an embarrassment to the developer and a complete failure with no redeeming qualities,[9] questions have been raised about the whereabouts of the $21,536 financing surplus, which is almost twice the original amount requested.[10] As IGN included it in their worst-reviewed games of 2013 listing,[11]

Space Force: Rogue Universe (2007)

Space Force: Rogue Universe was received with predominantly mixed reviews, giving it an average score of 62/100[12] on Metacritic. IGN gave it a mediocre rating of 51/100, citing poor lasting appeal, abysmal storyline, excessive difficulty and bad gameplay mechanics that prevent it from being a better game.[13] Other publications have offered similar reasoning, with the exception of Gamespot which gave it a 75/100 primarily because it ventures into the space simulation genre other developers tend to avoid.

References

  1. ↑ Dreamatrix games
  2. ↑ "Legends of Dawn (29/100) on Metacritic".
  3. ↑ "Metacritic's list of worst games of all time".
  4. ↑ "Round-up of worst-reviewed games of 2013".
  5. ↑ "Legends of Dawn IGN Review".
  6. ↑ "Summary of Legends of Dawn critic reviews on Metacritic".
  7. ↑ Steampowered customer reviews
  8. ↑ Legends of Dawn Kickstarter page
  9. ↑ Legend of Dawn metacritic critic reviews
  10. ↑
  11. ↑ "Round-up of worst-reviewed games of 2013".
  12. ↑ Spaceforce Rogue Universe on Metacritic
  13. ↑ Space Force: Rogue Universe IGN Review

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