Eleven minutes. That’s how long Eastern Era existed on Steam before FunYoo Games acknowledged its catastrophic launch bug — a game that shipped with no audio. SteamDB records show the title went live at 04:11 UTC on March 27; the developer’s “No Sound FAQ” appeared at 04:22. Within one to two hours, the patch was deployed.

The review bombers were faster.

Eastern Era currently sits at Mostly Negative on Steam — just 36% positive across 82 reviews as of March 28. That’s a brutal collapse from the early hours, when 13 of 17 reviews were positive and the rating held at 76% Mostly Positive.

The disconnect is stark. Multiple positive reviews explicitly defend the developer’s response time. One player with 3.9 hours logged wrote: “People are for the most part review bombing over a sound issue that was fixed within the hour of release.” Another called it “by far the best game in the Colony Building series i have played,” comparing it to RimWorld and Stranded: Alien Dawn.

But the damage compounds. At least one Steam curator left a negative review citing only that “FunYoo Games is owned by China” — suggesting the bombing isn’t purely about audio. Legitimate launch criticism gets tangled with nationalist trolling, and Steam’s algorithm doesn’t distinguish between the two.

FunYoo isn’t rolling over. The developer posted a formal apology on Steam and promised a free DLC pack within weeks as compensation. One player noted with suspicion that DLC being “already almost ready by launch day” raised eyebrows.

Meanwhile, 1,670 concurrent players are in-game, and Eastern Era sits at #6 on Steam’s New Releases chart. The game has legs. It also has a permanent record that says it shipped broken.

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