"Space Yandere" is a badly made high school anime club dropout fanfiction about the developers waifu or whatever, this one, remarkably, not made with RPG Maker or Ren'Py (but it might as well be), but instead the equally garbage GameMaker Studio... worth noting none of these have ever been used to make a truly successful game, but failed game developers sure love them.
Anyway you just wander around this VN heavy lightweight adventure game and discover the best thing about it is that it's short which means it's over quickly and you can delete it quickly.
This features really godawful, lazy pixelcrap "art" instead of real graphics. It's hard to say if this was because the developer didn't have the skill to do the job of creating 3D visuals, or couldn't afford to hire someone who does, but it also doesn't matter. What matters is that this looks bad because of that decision, and that's a major deterrent to gamers. Games like Terraria and Stardew Valley succeeded [i]despite[/i] the bad graphics, not because of them.
It's free... now, but it wasn't before. The developer was charging $$1.99 USD for this. Price barriers, especially on low quality products, can be a direct cause of failure. It's a nice gesture for the game to be given away for free, but it also tells us that the game wasn't good enough to succeed as a paid product.
Even though this is "free", it failed to appeal to the 120 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the game peaked at only 4 concurrent players... this is a dismal public reception. This was so bad they couldn't even give it away.
Bearing in mind that free games don't add +1 to your game collector count, should you bother adding this to your library and downloading it?
Nope. This isn't worth downloading. While this didn't cost me any money up front, I still feel ripped off.
