Superstorm Melon Date

I was just gonna play a couple of minutes since I just got a bunch of games and wanted to sample each one, but I played it all in one go and I can already tell I'll be playing it over and over until I have enjoyed all the possibilities. What an ADORABLE game, it tugged at all my heartstrings. Just so delightful and charming. Mel, my beloved. What a time.

Pretty good and not bad

"Superstorm Melon Date" is not a game, it's an e-book that's been dumped on Steam masquerading as a game. As a visual/interactive novel, this doesn't feature any notable gameplay, it's just a lot of clicking through badly written dialogue that would never have been accepted or published in print, which poses the question, "How did something this badly written end up on Steam?". When someone hoping to become an author is unable to get published in print, they spend $100 and dump their high school fan-fiction onto Steam, under the guise of a game. This is a somewhat surreal "dating sim" CYOA adventure e-book (not game) with the topic being, weirdly, a melon-human hybrid, who I presume is the authors imaginary girlfriend or something. This is not a genre of book anybody asked for, and certainly, not a game. Even if this was well written, it would not be popular, but as usual, here we have the typical high school anime club dropout fan-fiction tier writing and quite a lot of cringe. This was slapped together with the godawful Ren'Py visual novel construction kit... enabling terrible authors to publish books as if they were games when otherwise we might have been spared the pollution. So, just like no professional writing took place here, no professional software development took place, either. Visual novels/e-books are tedious at best... imagine the best novel you ever read, be that Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy or 2001: A Space Odyssey or Twilight (if you have terrible taste in literature), but then translate that to a format where the words dribble out and you have to click your mouse every time you wanted to read the next sentence, instead of just turning the pages. You'd think it was garbage. Now imagine that experience, but with much worse writing (because if these guys could write professionally, they'd be published authors and this would be on shelves in bookstores, and they wouldn't have to pay Valve $100 to self-publish this on Steam), and you have your average Steam e-book. One of the chief problems with failed authors polluting Steam with non-game E-books is that E-books can easily just be presented in a web browser... there's no justification for charging money on Steam for what might as well be a webpage. We don't spend thousands on buying a gaming rig to spend money on Steam for something Chrome or Firefox could do. Despite having no up-front cost, this failed to appeal to the 130 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the e-book peaked at only 7 concurrent readers... this is a dismal public reception. This was so bad they couldn't even give it away. The funny thing is, if you wanted to print this book, you'd only need to print 7 copies to satisfy the entire world's demand for it. While this E-book has no up-front cost, you can get better quality, professionally written books and comics for free online (from places like Project Gutenberg) or from public libraries. Steam isn't a comic book store, neither is it Netflix, it's for games. Your gaming rig is not a Kindle. It's impossible for me to recommend things to PC gamers that aren't really games.

One of my favourites, thank you so much for making this <3 <3

This game is wild you should for sure play it

Un videojuego único si lo que quieres es dormir bien esa noche. Chill.