Shovelware is a term for individual video games or software bundles known more for the quantity of what is included than for the quality or usefulness...

Contributing factors include its reduction of the market price by releasing shovelware discs of freeware and shareware, hostile takeovers of major edutainment...

well-received, are often referred to as "bargain bin" titles. The term shovelware has also been used to describe games that are quickly made without great...

An asset flip is a type of shovelware in which a video game developer purchases pre-made assets and uses them to create numerous permutations of generic...

developers, a remnant from the WiiWare program that allowed a great deal of shovelware to be pushed onto it. These anonymous developers found that Nintendo was...

Interactive Entertainment. It has been used as an example of Nintendo eShop shovelware, and has been considered one of the worst video games of 2023. The gameplay...

Company, an American educational software company SoftKey, a Canadian shovelware company which acquired The Learning Company and used its name from 1995...

gaming, multimedia, or other demanding tasks. Homebuilt computers avoid shovelware, trial software and other commission-driven additions that are usually...

submissions to the service and weed out poor quality games that are treated as shovelware, improving the discovery pipeline to Steam's customers. Smaller developers...

helped set a standard for game quality that protected consumers from shovelware. In NTSC regions, this seal is an elliptical starburst named the "Official...