Divaラヴァーズ is not a game, it's an e-book that's been dumped on Steam masquerading as a game. As a visual/interactive novel, this doesn't feature any notable gameplay, it's just a lot of clicking through badly written dialogue that would never have been accepted or published in print, which poses the question, "How did something this badly written end up on Steam?". When someone hoping to become an author is unable to get published in print, they spend $100 and dump their high school fan-fiction onto Steam, under the guise of a game.
This is truly some of the cringiest stuff you'll see on Steam. This e-book is a godawfully bad, bile raising romance fanfiction about the authors imaginary boyfriends. That certainly is sad and maybe even pitiful, except they decided this has to be on Steam so now it's everyone's problem. Anyway, really cringey ebook about the author's imaginary boyfriends. You wouldn't know them, they go to another school.
And just like the writing is some of the worst ever, the "author" couldn't work out how to use Ren'Py so everything here is done with the even worse E-book construction kit, Tyrano, and some animations with Live2D... so yeah, effectively on the same tier as RPG Maker junk and other asset flips, no real game development took place, just like no real writing took place either.
Visual novels/e-books are tedious at best... imagine the best novel you ever read, be that Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy or 2001: A Space Odyssey or Twilight (if you have terrible taste in literature), but then translate that to a format where the words dribble out and you have to click your mouse every time you wanted to read the next sentence, instead of just turning the pages. You'd think it was garbage.
Now imagine that experience, but with much worse writing (because if these guys could write professionally, they'd be published authors and this would be on shelves in bookstores, and they wouldn't have to pay Valve $100 to self-publish this on Steam), and you have your average Steam e-book.
One of the chief problems with failed authors polluting Steam with non-game E-books is that E-books can easily just be presented in a web browser... there's no justification for charging money on Steam for what might as well be a webpage. We don't spend thousands on buying a gaming rig to spend money on Steam for something Chrome or Firefox could do.
The poor quality of this e-book is also reflected by how many people spent time reading it. At the time of this review, SteamDB shows the book all-time peak reader count was only ONE reader. That's right, only one person ever read this at a time. When I tried reading this for the purposes of reviewing it, I equalled the peak reader count for the e-book. OUCH.
Now, the only reader activity occurs once or twice a month, presumably someone loading it up to see what it is then quickly uninstalling it.
Considering there's over 120 million gamers on Steam and well over 110,000 games (real games, not e-books) for gamers to choose from, the overwhelming lack of interest in this low quality e-book is to be expected. The funny thing is, if you wanted to print this book, you'd only need to print one copy to satsify the entire world's demand for it.
While this E-book is "free", you can get better quality, professionally written books and comics for free online (from places like Project Gutenberg) or from public libraries. Steam isn't a comic book store, neither is it Netflix, it's for games. Your gaming rig is not a Kindle. It's impossible for me to recommend things to PC gamers that aren't really games.
