Stories of Mara

Quite boring... none of the townspeople care what happened to the girl, and neither do I.

[h2]Спин-офф к экшн-платформеру Summers of Mara[/h2] Stories of Mara — это визуальная новелла, в которой вы можете свободно перемещаться по различным локациям острова Мара. Посетите своих соседей и сделайте им подходящие подарки. Умело распределяйте ресурсы дерева, чтобы помочь тем, кто в этом нуждается (толстый кот). В ходе своего путешествия вы узнаете продробности о пропаже главного героя игры Summers of Mara. К сожалению, похоже, что продолжения этой истории не будет. Хотя планировалось создать пять глав, пока доступна только одна. В игре есть три концовки, но они не имеют никакого значения, за исключением нескольких диалогов.

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Very nice quick content for the base game. Though its not necessary to play in order to get this, even if I recommend to do so in order to fully grasp things completely. I hope they will actually release further chapters for this eventually. Im all for more Summer In Mara content.

Not fun at all.

Two and a half years after release, the story of this game remains barely started, as only the first chapter that is given for free is available. Chibig studio has been working on other games in the mean time, so don't hold your breath and just skip this one.

The "free" section of Steam is being abused for marketing and advertising. "Stories of Mara" 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. As an advertisement for a visual novel, this has no notable gameplay. It's just clicking through badly written, cringey fan-fiction tryhard dialogue that wouldn't be accepted in print by any real book publisher. How did such garbage end up on Steam? When failed authors can't get published in print (and possibly laughed at by publishers), they spend $100 to dump their high school fan-fiction e-book onto Steam under the guise of a game... but this time they made the conscious choice to try mislead gamers with this incorrectly published demo. To prove the author of this garbage e-book and corresponding advertisement is abusing the free section of Steam for the purpose of marketing garbage, here's the correct process that [i]the author deliberately did not follow:[/i] https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/application/demos This e-book is intended to be an advertisement for a series of badly written and badly translated Spanish high school anime club dropout fan-fictions related to another game series called "Summer in Mara"... whew. So this is a bit like an advert for an advert. The author indicated an intention to publish episodic content for this garbage e-book, but didn't bother when it turned out people don't actually like incomplete garbage high school fan-fictions being published on Steam as if they are games. 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 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. In terms of public reception, this having no up-front cost still didn't help. SteamDB stats show this peaked at a tiny handful of readers and then cratered. With a peak count of just a dozen or so readers, it's safe to say the PC community wisely decided to ignore this. 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.

visual novel's are not my cup of tea but it's free