Molytropia: Cloud in Shape of Hurt

The "free" section of Steam is being abused for marketing and advertising. "Molytropia: Cloud in Shape of Hurt" isn't a game, it's an advertisement for the rest of the e-book and you're expected to pay real cash money to unlock the full high school anime club dropout fan-fiction... no thanks. At no point should anyone just trying to find a real, complete PC game on Steam have to deal with an advertisement for a garbage e-book instead. So, this is an advertisement for a non-game visual novel/e-book fan-fiction and it has zero gameplay, it's just clicking through endless completely garbage, cringey high-school anime club dropout fan-fiction writing. So cringey that no real publisher would ever print it... So the author spends $100 USD on Steam Direct to publish an advertisement for their fan-fiction with the expectation that gamers will decide e-books are the same thing as games (they are not) and pay cash money for the full cringe fan-fiction experience. Ugh. The author chose to mislead gamers by publishing this as a full product instead of a demo just to get cheap marketing. To show that this author is abusing the store to push their garbage e-book, here is the official demo process they chose to ignore: https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/application/demos This is a bizarre and pointless e-book excerpt about a girl and her friends finding a mysterious red door, opening it reveals some of the worst writing ever to insult the world of literature. At least this isn't a cringefest about some high school anime club dropout and his imaginary girlfriend? Because this was put together with the Ren'Py e-book construction kit, it didn't require any actual coding or development. It's a tool for failed authors to push their garbage high school anime club dropout fanfictions as games. Just like there's no professional writing here, there isn't any professional software development either. Visual novels are tedious at best. Imagine the best novel you ever read, be that Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy or Twilight (kidding), but translate it to a format where you've to click your mouse for every single sentence instead of just turning pages. You'd think it was garbage. Now imagine that experience with much worse writing. If these guys could write professionally, they'd be in bookstores. They wouldn't have to pay Valve $100 to self-publish this on Steam. But here we are. There's no reason for this to be on Steam when it could just be a webpage... e-books are just a bunch of cringe text and (usually character generator created) static 2D imagery. You don't buy an expensive gaming PC to use it for something your web browser can do for free. Even as a free e-book, this couldn't find an audience, not just because this is Steam, for PC games, not garbage e-books. With a peak of only 4 concurrent readers, it's clear nobody wanted this. They literally couldn't pay people to read it. Even more comical, to satisfy the global demand for this book, you'd only ever need to print 4 copies. And that's probably too many. Advertisements aren't games. This advert for a cringey amateur fan-fiction is just a commercial trying to get your money. It takes up store space that should go to genuine game developers who make real, complete PC games for gamers. You shouldn't support authors who use Steam to dump ads for their badly written fan-fictions.