[Steam] Mirror 2: Project X: buy the game and get 10 other Steam games [07 Feb - EVENT1 restarted]

I'm not sure what else I can add to the explanations from the OP to make it clearer.
You buy the game. You idle it for 2h20m. After that you click on those 2 links (step 3 from "How to" in the OP), the first one will give you 10 random Steam keys from the ones listed in the chart, as long as they still have keys available.
If you try accessing the links before you finished idling it, then it will throw an error.
I hope this helps, if not, ask away!

Out of a garage? For real?

As for this "article".. Imo it's nuisance.. I tried to read it with a straight face.. Then I came across a huge blue title "Questionable Sexual Content".. It's funny when people try to write in a "serious" tone amazingly bad "arguments" (not even arguments.. a bunch of "facts" that many times are unfounded built upon a string of 0 logic).

Your initial comment covers all the rest

SMH more justification for shitty behavior by a game publisher.

"Just pointing out that they are a small Chinese publisher based out of a garage (for real) and certain things cannot be expected from them not because i justify anything but by common sense."

Yeah, I think I've read enough. I just don't really have any interest in discussing anything else with ya. I guess we both can finish it off with "End Of Story".

Both different but I'd suggest Tales of the Black Forest over The Vagrant. It's actually quite good at what it wants to deliver.. Surprised me tbh

They seem to be making Mirror X right? Or is this not their IP? I understand that for the most part they buy(or steal?) games from other people, whichever, but at least this is their own ip now? They have to be making this game because the publisher and developer are engaging in the exact same shady tactics. You have "KAGAMI WORKS" under "Paradise Project" with the game "Mirror" and you have "KAGAMI Ⅱ WORKs" under "NIJICO" with their game "Mirror 2: Project X". Why is the same dev releasing their new game in a series under a new developer name, and the publisher changes names as well after changing them how many times in the past? Makes no sense unless this is a new developer. Unless they're evading something with Valve or they can't publish on their accounts anymore.

Honestly I'd like to dig more into it, but the first 60 threads in the discussion forums of Mirror X are not in English, I believe its Chinese, and I don't understand it. Maybe that's where the audience is and maybe they're targeting a specific demographic in China. Not sure. The dev is chinese I think and I've noticed this trend in a lot of chinese dev games where the community just pushes them up for the same of more chinese devs being out there, but they don't seem to jump on US indie devs as much, however there was "It takes two" that had an overwhelming majority of chinese reviews recently I think too.. I don't have enough info on this either to know if people are just positively review bombing it for no reason.

As for the two games you mentioned, both seem like decent games, I own both somehow which is probably why I didn't see them so oopsie my bad. I guess they can afford to buy 2 decent games with 50 porn games tho. I'll give them that. Not sure what you expect to get outta me, but it's not like I'm about to praise any triple AAA publisher either if they decide to push out 10 porn games for 1 normal game to meet their quota, you know what I mean?. 70 000+ reviews in Mirror 1, 15 000+ reviews in Mirror 2 with less than an hour of content in three days since release, while both Vagrant and Tales of the Black Forest are at 10 400 reviews combined, after being out for 2+ years each. This is just my opinion, but I do think just by looking at it that "Tales of the Black Forest" is a much better game than "Mirror", and yet, sex sold one more than another. It's hard to compare since one is an jrpg, and the other is a match 3 game, but even then, take their other normal game, and even their 2d sidescroller didn't work out even close, like, not even 10% as close. That's why I was saying that people don't care for the game, but for the sexual images, and this was all before I even knew they published those two games for those poor devs who can't erase that, which I'm particularly somewhat fond off. We can of course disagree, since I do believe it's alright for people to have different opionions.

Thank you tho, I was surprised to actually see they bought two games that actually had over 1000 reviews that weren't porn games. They were maybe experimenting with the market and gave up afterwards.

I haven't tried any of the games from this publisher yet, I think, maybe I did or not, I wouldn't remember, and that probably says something for me at least. I just don't find them special at all. I understand some people do, but wanted to at least share my side as well. I can definitely tell what people "enjoy/relax" to. Mirror 1 is at 70 000 reviews and people just want more booba, It's not necessarily a compliment. This is all about the toiler paper and the lotion, not the match 3 game, which is what I was making my point to be. Which is okay, but I don't want to sell this idea to anyone that hey this match 3 game is special in any way. It just sells anime titties, not new gameplay. It doesn't do a better job than Candy Crush and I know this isn't even close to as popular as candy crush of course, but even with games like Bejeweld or Rise of Atlantis for instance, which are somewhat forgotten due to their age, but are still better.

Regarding of whether this impacts me the same as a dev who publishes shovelware, yes, of course it does. The different thing here is that someone actually went out of their way to make a "game" just not good, but then added "sex" to it, because they knew it would sell well. In the case of an asset flip or shovelware, like games from publisher "RewindApp", all of his games are unity assets just copy pasted put onto the steam store. Of course I think it's toxic to the gaming community and the game development community. You don't? I think they're both toxic. They're both low effort when other people have a hard time getting discovered because these people are just allowed to spam post low effort games(with tactics like making new dev names and publisher names for every game they release), which then just forces devs probably like vagrant and tales to end up with a publisher like sakura in the desperate attempt to get some recognition for their work, somewhere, anywhere in the toxic space. So what? Not sure, I suppose calling these works "trashy" as they are is better than just accepting them as the norm of "at least 1% fun indie games", and rather expect more from a game release.

I didn't look where the reviews come from until just now, there's 8073 reviews in English, with a total of 83 183 reviews in all languages.