Save Daddy Trump 3: Rise Of Evil

I'll be straight with you: I went into this one expecting very little, and it delivered almost exactly that, while somehow still being oddly watchable. Save Daddy Trump 3 is a low-poly action RPG built in Unreal Engine, developed solo by Tero Lunkka, and it belongs squarely in that small, weird category of micro-budget Steam games that exist mostly to make you raise an eyebrow and laugh at the title screen. You play as Kiki Trump, a sword-swinging, magic-hurling daughter on a rescue mission across 16 themed levels. The villain is a character named Lord Pig, who fights with a magic sword and fires skulls at you. His army includes female swordswomen, ninjas carrying bows, and a rhino enemy with magical abilities and a small dinosaur companion. That sentence is not a joke. Combat itself rotates between melee using a sword and shield, ranged with a slow but effective bow, and a five-skill magic kit covering fireballs, a tornado attack, electricity, a bomb skill, and self-healing. The healing skill doing double duty as your survival crutch is genuinely useful design for a sub-three-dollar game, and the variety of combat options is more than you might expect at this price tier. The problems are real and worth naming. Community commentary points clearly to boss fights that can be cheesed without much effort, low production values throughout, and essentially no replay incentive once the 16 levels are cleared. The interface carries over largely unchanged from earlier entries in the series, so veterans of the first two games will feel zero learning curve. The writing, to put it kindly, is charmingly unpolished. This is not a game that sweats over its dialogue or its lore. Peaceland is not going to stick with you the way a well-crafted setting does. What it does have, in its own odd way, is honesty. The Steam rating sits in mostly-positive territory with a small but genuine sample of player reviews. The people giving it a thumbs up know what they bought. They wanted a silly low-poly brawler with a meme premise, and they got a silly low-poly brawler with a meme premise. The achievement list is completable in a single sitting, which makes it something of a magnet for collectors who want a quick 100%. That is a legitimate use case, and I will not pretend otherwise. If you are someone who appreciates handcrafted, intentional indie work, this will not scratch that itch. The soundscape is functional rather than atmospheric, the level design is repetitive, and the whole thing feels assembled quickly. But if you approach it as a curiosity, a micro-session meme game with more weapon variety than it has any right to claim, and you find the price appropriately absurd, you will probably get your money's worth before the second level.

Kai · Scout Team

Indie & narrative

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