Silicon Echo Studios

Silicon Echo Studios was a "game developer" that was notorious for spamming shovelware games on Steam. After it was confirmed that all of their 173 "games" were stolen Unity tutorials and they used 12 sockpuppets accounts to spam their "games" onto Steam, Valve banned all of their accounts and deleted all of their games.

However, the incident also hurt Valve by revealing that SOMEHOW their new quality control system, Steam Direct, was WORSE than Steam Greenlight.

List of accounts

 * Anteater Games
 * Broadplay Games
 * Cubecumber Games
 * Crimson Duck Studios
 * Digital Airony
 * Digital Airony Studios
 * Digital Carrot Productions
 * Floop Productions
 * GooCubelets Games
 * Netfork Studios
 * Pixberry Studios
 * Silicon Echo
 * Zonitron Productions

List of "games"

 * 3 GooCubelets Games Vol.1
 * 3 GooCubelets Games Vol.2
 * 3 GooCubelets Games Vol.3
 * 3 GooCubelets Games Vol.4
 * Absconding Zatwor
 * AimerBall (unreleased)
 * AimerBall 2 (unreleased)
 * Airon Ball
 * AironBall: The Floating Lands
 * AironBall: The Loop
 * Ball of Paint
 * Barclay: The Marrowdale Murder
 * Beast Blaster
 * Berry Pop Match
 * Berryblast Matchmaker
 * Black My White
 * Black My White Again
 * Blu Bandana
 * Break Into Zatwor
 * Break The Wall
 * Brilliant Bob
 * Burger in Hyperland (unreleased)
 * Burger in Partyland
 * Burger on Acid (unreleased)
 * Camera Obscura
 * Camera Obscura Soundtrack
 * Carnival Ball
 * Clickey
 * Clickey: The Velocity Click
 * Color Balling
 * Color Snooker
 * ColorSpill Ball
 * Crush The Berries
 * Cyborg Detonator
 * Edges
 * Edges 2
 * Fiends of Imprisonment
 * Flipper Hazard
 * Flipper Hazard 2
 * Flipper Hazard 3
 * Flipper Hazard 4
 * Flipper Hazard 5
 * Fruit Candypop
 * GooCubelets: Color Blocking
 * GooCubelets: RGB
 * GooCubelets: The Void
 * Good Eggzample (unreleased)
 * GooHuebelets (unreleased)
 * Gravity At Its Finest
 * Gravity At Its Finest 2
 * Great Eggzample (unreleased)
 * Grin Bandana
 * Helium Skies
 * Helium Skies 2 (unreleased)
 * Hexa Faction
 * Hexa Faction 2
 * HexaPlunge (unreleased)
 * HexaPlunge 2 (unreleased)
 * Laseronium
 * Laseronium – The Reflexion
 * Laseronium 2
 * Laseronium: Over The Line
 * Laseronium: The Beam Focus
 * Laseronium: The Line
 * Machinegun Geometry (unreleased)
 * Machinegun Geometry: The Right Angle (unreleased)
 * Match and Crash
 * Mr. Jumpington
 * Mr. Jumpington 2
 * Mr. Jumpington 3 (unreleased)
 * Mr. Jumpington 4 (unreleased)
 * Paint Polygon
 * PaintPool
 * Paintsplash Ball
 * Paper Knights
 * Pass The Time (unreleased)
 * Pass The Time 2 (unreleased)
 * Pins
 * Pins 2
 * Pins 3
 * Pins 4 (unreleased)
 * Point Connect
 * Point Connect 2
 * Point Connect 3
 * Point Connect 4
 * Point Connect 5 (unreleased)
 * Point Snake (unreleased)
 * Purpul Bandana
 * Raccoon Hero
 * Raccoon Hero: Among The Cacti
 * Raccoon Hero: Monkey Business
 * Raccoon Hero: Starlight
 * Raccoon Hero: The Frost
 * Raccoon Hero: The Marsh
 * Raccoon Hero: The Sunrise
 * Raccoon Hero: Under The Sea
 * Rage Parking Simulator 2016
 * Rage Parking Simulator 2017
 * RemOOve (unreleased)
 * RemOOve 2 (unreleased)
 * RINGOӘͶIЯ
 * RINGOӘͶIЯ 2
 * RINGOӘͶIЯ 3 (unreleased)
 * Run, Goo, Run
 * RunZ
 * RunZ 2
 * SHAPES
 * SHAPES2
 * SHAPES3
 * SHAPES4
 * SHAPES5
 * SHAPES6
 * SHAPES7
 * SHAPES8
 * Sketchy
 * Sketchy 2
 * Sketchy 3
 * Sketchy 4
 * Sleengster
 * Sleengster 2
 * Sleengster 3
 * SlingSkull Zombies
 * SlingSkull Zombies 2
 * SlingSkull Zombies: Gravedigger
 * SlingSkull Zombies: Graveyard Shift
 * SlingSkull Zombies: The Dawn
 * Sound Balling
 * Sound Balling 2
 * Sound Balling 3 (unreleased)
 * Sphere Toss
 * Sphere Toss 2
 * Sphere Toss 3
 * Sphere Toss 4
 * Staplers!
 * Staplers! 2
 * Staplers! 3
 * Staplers! 4 (unreleased)
 * Sugar Fruit Match
 * Sum Sketch (unreleased)
 * Sweet Berry Crush
 * Tesla’s Best Friend
 * The First Spark
 * The Herbologist (unreleased)
 * The Last Photon
 * The Return of Bantara
 * The Safeguard Garrison
 * The Safeguard Garrison 2
 * The Safeguard Garrison: Space Colonies
 * They Came From The Moon
 * THREE CANDYBERRY MATCH
 * Tinge (unreleased)
 * Tinge 2 (unreleased)
 * Torch Cave
 * Torch Cave 2
 * Torch Cave 3
 * TOREj
 * TOREj 2
 * TOREj 3 (unreleased)
 * TOREj 4 (unreleased)
 * TOREj: Red Cubes (unreleased)
 * Tracks of Triumph: Good Old Times
 * Tracks of Triumph: Industrial Zone
 * Tracks of Triumph: Summertime
 * Unblocky (unreleased)
 * Unblocky 2 (unreleased)
 * Unblocky 3 (unreleased)
 * Unblocky 4 (unreleased)
 * Whait Bandana
 * Why So Evil
 * Why So Evil 2: Dystopia
 * Wild Goo Chase
 * Yello Bandana
 * Zombie Boom

Why They and Their "Games" Sucked

 * 1) Similar to Digital Homicide, they spammed asset flips on Steam, but unlike Digital Homicide, who took Unity Asset Store assets and threw them into Unity with almost no care whatsoever, Silicon Echo simply bought Unity tutorials and uploaded them to Steam with little to no modifications. Silicon Echo didn't even bother developing games at all!
 * 2) Just like many other toxic game developers, they can't take criticism, as they reacted to criticism by attacking the critics.
 * 3) Their "games" were achievement spammers. In other words, they gave a lot of achievements at once to lure people into buying them.
 * 4) They used 12 sockpuppet accounts to get around Steam Direct's already non-existent "quality control". Due to this, they had over 173 "games" at once, something that was not even possible with Greenlight.
 * 5) Literally, their "game" spam on Steam basically proved that they wanted to flood Steam by spamming many "games" as possible. They probably didn't even realize that not many people would buy their games on Steam.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) They proved that Steam Direct was worse than Greenlight.
 * 2) Despite their reaction to criticism still being bad, they fortunately didn't go as far as Digital Homicide did.
 * 3) Their logo is pretty cool.

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