"Sportsfriends" is a collection of very poorly made, very low quality 2D retro pixel "minigames" that you're supposed to play local co-op with friends... but let me tell you, if you ask your friends to stop playing Counter-Strike or Helldivers 2 and play retro pixel garbage instead, you soon won't have any friends.

These retro pixel toys are really shallow little action/reflexes games so dumbed down they make Pong look like 3D chess... the visual quality (dismal) is on par with the depth and gameplay quality (dismal).

This features really godawful, lazy pixelcrap "art" instead of real graphics. It's hard to say if this was because the developer didn't have the skill to do the job of creating 3D visuals, or couldn't afford to hire someone who does, but it also doesn't matter. What matters is that this looks bad because of that decision, and that's a major deterrent to gamers. Games like Terraria and Stardew Valley succeeded despite the bad graphics, not because of them.

It's free... now, but it wasn't before. The developer was charging $15 USD for this (FIFTEEN BUCKS FOR THIS GARBAGE???). Price barriers, especially on low quality products, can be a direct cause of failure. It's a nice gesture for the game to be given away for free, but it also tells us that the game wasn't good enough to succeed as a paid product.

Even though this is "free", it failed to appeal to the 120 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the game peaked at just a dozen or so concurrent players, and now there's basically nobody playing it. Even though it's free. This is a dismal public reception, but it's easy to see why gamers rejected it.

Bearing in mind that free games don't add +1 to your game collector count, should you bother adding this to your library and downloading it?

Not this time. This isn't worth downloading. While this won't cost you any money, you get what you pay for, and sometimes, even when the game is free, it's still not enough.