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Preface

In my opinion, whether it is practitioners or ordinary players, many people will automatically filter out web games when discussing games. The reason is that these games often charge a lot of money, which is like the word "氪金" written on their faces.

Just recently, an independent game called "Chinese Online Games" was quietly released on Steam. In the game, the player is a single man in his thirties who unfortunately meets a blind date who asks for a dowry of 300,000 yuan. He has no choice but to rely on the "domestic online game" with a "one-knife 999" to seek a turnaround, and thus embarked on the road of gold farming and equipment recycling.

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A satirical work full of realistic meaning

Whether from the style of painting or the consumption model, it is not difficult to see the blueprint that "Chinese Online Games" refers to. In a sense, it is a combination of domestic web games: it has the characteristics of advertising magic and deep-rootedness, and it is quite in line with the stereotype of this type of game in the minds of players.

But it is worth mentioning that this game, like "Far Cry", leaves players with a hidden ending that allows them to pass the game directly. If players successfully find the deeply hidden "Close" button and turn off the ads, they can directly trigger the perfect ending of continuing blind dates and then meeting a girl who is more suitable for living together and getting married.

If you don't click it, you will enter the game directly and start your miserable life as a bricklayer.

After entering the game, players need to make a decision, whether to experience "Moth Factory Mode" or "Spider Factory Mode". According to the description in the game, different choices do not affect the plot, but will change the way to obtain some game props.

The so-called "domestic online games" do understand the players' minds, and have indeed achieved the "one hit for 999" as advertised. With the help of automatic pathfinding, everyone hardly needs to control anything. They just need to click simply to continuously increase the values, and kill one monster with one hit.

But soon a new problem will appear: you can no longer push the map like chopping melons and vegetables. Originally, you can kill a small monster with one hit, but now the small monsters can kill you with one hit. If you want to continue to become stronger, you can only "recharge" according to the prompts that appear at the right time, regain the pleasure of killing 999 with one hit, and continue the game.

Monthly cards, season gift packs, and "shills" who actively add you as friends, players' stereotypes of traditional online games have all been replicated.

Obviously, "Chinese Online Games" criticizes the profit-making method of domestic web games in this blatant way. It almost meets all the complaints of everyone in the past: daily check-ins and weekly sign-ins are all required, but even if the player clicks all the "red dots", they can only get dozens of diamonds.

The only way to become stronger in the game is to spend a lot of money, sell the three golds, diamond rings, famous wines and other items you have prepared for your marriage, and even mortgage your house in the end.

It is precisely because of the existence of these highly ironic contents that the overall structure of "Chinese Online Games" is not exactly the same as those inferior web games, but at least it does not require real krypton gold.

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Various interesting endings

However, apart from the irony, the depth of this game is far more than that. In addition to the hidden ending at the beginning, this game also arranges various bizarre endings for players.

For example, in a certain ending, players can directly use CE to change the values. Modifying the values ​​of online games is obviously not something that ordinary people can do, but relying on CE to change some gold coins, some game materials, etc., there is no high threshold from a technical point of view, so players can also achieve it in "Chinese Online Games".

As for the result, of course it was very cruel!

In addition, "Chinese Online Games" also provides the "royal ending" that best fits the theme of the game. Lao Wang really kills all the enemies in the game, and makes a lot of money by "equipment recycling"... Putting this kind of "the more you play, the more the official loses" that everyone usually talks about into the game plot will undoubtedly provide a very unique gaming experience.

But all this happened in a dream.

In fact, the examples I have given are just the tip of the iceberg. There are actually many more endings in "Chinese Online Games". If you really have so much free time to try out all the endings of "Chinese Online Games", you should easily find that all the so-called "good endings" have little to do with krypton gold. Either turn off the ads directly, or work diligently and only charge a few dollars in the game.

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one question

So in the final analysis, "Chinese Online Games" is a work that criticizes the profit model of traditional online games in a humorous and satirical way. Compared with the gameplay that is exactly the same as traditional online games, its fun is more reflected in the development of multiple endings and the slightly funny plot...

So, what do you think of games like "Chinese Online Games"?