Robot Daycare

более тупой ♥♥♥♥♥ я в жизни не слышал. Но если быть точнее, плохая концовка самая бессмысленная и не логичная, а хорошая просто есть и не особо она хорошая. Хотя образ Нано очень миловидный и это единственный хороший момент игры, в остальном так себе. Оформление очень хорошее от саундтрека до дизайна, сюжет ужасен.

They weren't kidding about the 2 endings being WILDLY different.... Overall though it was a wonderful Visual Novel! Makes me want to adopt my own little robot child!

starting to think i may be the only person who likes this game

"Robot Daycare" isn't a game, it's a cringey non-game high school anime club dropout fan-fiction that's been dumped on Steam into the games section. As a visual novel, it doesn't have any gameplay. It's just a lot of clicking through bad, cringe dialogue that no real publisher would ever accept. When people can't get their work published in print, they pay the $100 fee to dump their fan-fiction here instead, where we have to put up with it when looking for things that are actual PC games. This e-book eschews the usual high school anime fan club dropout fan-fiction writing about the author and his imaginary girlfriend (sad how many e-books on Steam cover this topic), and instead deals with the authors acceptance of his fate and instead relies on creating an AI child in college as the only form of procreation available to him. Now, raising an AI should be a charming experience, we may remember the TV show "Small Wonder" or "Not Quite Human", but somehow the author of this garbage fan-fiction managed to find a way to make it creepy, and also at the same time still so badly written. This was made using the Ren'Py 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 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 clicking experience, but with utterly cringe anime club fan-fiction writing. If the author had any talent, this would have been published in print, instead, it's on Steam. This garbage only ended up on Steam because they paid $100 to self-publish since no real publisher would take them. 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. Despite having no cost, this failed to appeal to gamers. SteamDB shows it peaked at only 14 concurrent readers. This is a dismal public reception. They couldn't even give it away. To satisfy the global demand for this book, you'd only ever need to print 14 copies. 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.

Just because it has 2 endings doesn't really make it a "game" - could have easily stayed a web novel. Writing/story isn't great, one of the characters is weird towards the "child".

Your honor, they may be stupid

Рада, что разработчик поднял серьезную тему депрессии. Читать было интересно, очень неплохая короткая новелла, тем более бесплатная. Хорошая концовка милая. Но плохая концовка мне все-таки показалась не очень логичной. Не хватило обоснований действий робота, как он пришел к тому, что нужно поступить именно так, как он поступил. Как он вдруг научился врать. Перевод очень приличный, ошибок было мало. Только не поняла, почему переводчик полностью поменял необычные имена героев. И почему Джеймс все время был Джимом.

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