Orcs Must Die! 3 recently arrived on Steam and other platforms this week. This comes after over an entire year as an exclusive for the Google Stadia. While the game itself was warmly received by fans and critics, but there's a small portion of the community who bombed the game with negative reviews on Steam. Here's what happened.

Orcs Must Die! 3 arrives on Steam, gets review bombed

Orcs Must Die! 3 is mostly more of the same for the series. That means long-term fans will enjoy the same kind of gameplay they've grown to love in the series. That means, anyone who liked the games before this, who are most likely the same people buying this third game, would give Orcs Must Die! 3 a positive review. However, a small part of the community didn't like one single change in Orcs Must Die! 3. This small change resulted in a barrage of negative reviews on Steam.

The change: Developers Robot Entertainment localized the game to various languages for the first time. However, the team didn't spend a lot of resources ensuring that their Chinese localization of the game would be buttery smooth. Hence, Chinese fans of the game review bombed Orcs Must Die! 3 on Steam for the poor Chinese localization of the game.

The ironic part of this whole debacle is that the Chinese crowd has had no issues playing previous games in the series. That means, had Orcs Must Die! 3 did not have localization at all, it would receive even better reviews now. But because of a failed attempt to cater to the Chinese market, their strategy has terribly backfired.

Thankfully, even with these negative reviews, Orcs Must Die! 3‘s average review scores are still high enough to stay on the green. Still, this is a cautionary tale for anyone doing things half-heartedly.