Midnight Witch

This was an amazing experience, from the start it had such a nice vibe to it and the ways the story kept shocking me in a good way it truly is one of the best VNs I have ever played. I can't say much other than, Bren please keep on making games, I really hope you do because this was so worth the time played, and I will surely replay it again just to have that feeling again (also on a side note ty for giving us plenty of save files, those certainly helped lol) tl;dr: play this game and enjoy it cause nothing will hit you like the first time going through the story

"Midnight Witch" isn't a game. It's an e-book dumped on Steam masquerading as a game. As a visual novel/e-book/fan-fiction, this has no notable gameplay. It's just clicking through badly written dialogue that would never be accepted in print by an actual professional publisher. How did something this badly written end up on Steam? When someone can't get published in print, they spend $100 and dump their high school fan-fiction onto Steam Direct under the guise of a game. This e-book is square in the middle of what we expect from e-books on Steam... yep, it's a high school anime club dropout fan-fiction featuring the author himself and his harem of imaginary anime girlfriends. At least they're not underaged in this one. Anyway the author relates his fantasy of being trapped with a bunch of girls so they have no choice but to talk to him. So there's horror elements, I guess. This was made using the Ren'Py e-book construction kit, which lets people who aren't developers create godawfully bad e-books that they then pretend are actually PC games. Just like no real writing talent was involved in this garbage, it's no surprise that no real software development happened here either. Ren'Py is just a shortcut for polluting the store with non-game e-book garbage. Visual novels/e-books are the worst way to try read a book (and they're always written far worse than real books too). Imagine reading your favorite book, be that War and Peace or The Davinci Code (are you ok??), but you have to click the mouse for every single sentence that appears. You'd hate it. It's a garbage way to try read a book... and even if it wasn't, this still isn't a game. Now take that annoying clicking and add utterly cringey high-school anime club dropout writing to it. Real authors are published in print and found on bookshelves. This garbage only ended up on Steam because they paid $100 to self-publish, because let's face it, professional publishers would not only reject this garbage they saw it, they'd take out restraining orders. E-books are just a collection of cringe writing and badly generated character imagery (usually done with a construction kit/image generator). So it might as well be a web page. We don't spend thousands on gaming rigs just to use them for what might as well be reading a website. You don't have to take my word about this e-book cringe, we can judge a product by how popular it is. Steam has millions of daily logons, but this only ever had a peak reader count of couple dozen very disappointed readers. That's very poor reception. Most likely for the reasons presented in this review. While this e-book's free, you can get better quality books and comics for free online or from public libraries. Steam is for PC games. Your gaming rig is not a Kindle or a mobile phone e-book reader. It's impossible for me to recommend things to PC gamers that aren't really games.