Hoping this Finds You Well

THEY SO GAYYYYYYY lovely concept, done pretty well no notes

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A cute prequel. The ability to watch both their reactions was pretty neat.

7/10 短小精悍基佬文，他甚至给你上垒结束了！就是这么直接，放狗粮还撒把糖，我吃吃吃！ 无压力点点点完全没有选择肢 虽然翻译腔是挺严重的，但这个短篇甚至有简中汉化，真是没想到 那么正作会有汉化吗…？ 整体制作都很不错，感觉正作至少制作上不会有大问题

All I can say really about this game is that it has cute art as I skipped everything else.

I love how you're able to pan back and forth between the characters to see their reactions. Nothing funnier than reading one guy's perspective where he's all smiles and sunshine only to tab over to see the other dude with a horrified expression on his face, complete with horror movie music. Hilarious every time.

Hoping this Finds You Well 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 a cringey, badly written romance E-book about LGBTQIA+ romances in the Edwardian/Victorian era... and there's probably a niche for that but I guarantee it's not the millions of gamers here on Steam playing Counter-Strike every day. It's slapped together with Ren'Py, of course, so just like no professional writing took place, no professional game development 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. Even though this is "free", it failed to appeal to the 120 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the e-book peaked at only 3 concurrent readers... this is a dismal public reception. This was so bad they couldn't even give it away. The funny thing is, if you wanted to print this book, you'd only need to print 3 copies 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. To paraphrase another review I saw for another bad product, I don't agree this should be free... it should be a paid product. You'd have to pay me money to try read this again.