Chronicles of Tal'Dun: The Remainder - Act 1

"Chronicles of Tal'Dun: The Remainder - Act 1" is not a game. It's an advertisement for a product called "Chronicles of Tal'Dun: The Remainder". Chronicles of Tal'Dun: The Remainder is a very badly written "Choose Your Own Adventure" E-book... which also isn't a game. Nobody read a Choose Your Own Adventure book, then put it down and said "What a great game I just played". Because books aren't games. But this isn't completely relevant because this is not Chronicles of Tal'Dun: The Remainder, it's just an advertisment for it, so it's not correct to try to review that completely distinct product. We must instead review this for what it is... an advertisement. If you enjoy advertisements, you can consume them for free on the web or on Youtube without needing to add them to your game library, download them, and then launch the advertising. It's impossible in a general sense to recommend people should do that over playing real, full games on Steam, and that applies here with "Chronicles of Tal'Dun: The Remainder - Act 1" too. The objective of this advertisement is to get you to pay an eye watering TWENTY EIGHT UNITED STATES DOLLARS for the rest of the garbage e-book... the pricing for the Ren'Py fanfiction this is advertising is pure delusion. This is only free in the same way that adverts on Youtube and banner ads in your browser are. This is a game demo that's been dumped on Steam to advertise another Steam store page in the hopes of raking in some cash. Just because advertisements are free, doesn't mean they're worth your time. It's important to understand there's a formal process to create a demo/page for a game which hasn't been followed here: https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/application/demos While it might seem like an inocuous mistake, publishing demos and advertisements as if they are full games is misleading and in some ways harmful. This advertisement is taking up marketing space and visibility that would be better made available to a developer that's done the right thing and created a full game. Instead, that visibility is given over to a demo/advert that's been published incorrectly and is polluting the marketplace. It's unclear if this mistake was made through incompetence or a deliberate intent to mislead gamers. Often developers may choose to incorrectly publish demo/advertisements as separate games as a cheap way to bypass paying Valve for marketing presence on the Steam front page, which may seem clever to them, but it's harmful behaviour and it's not good for gamers. Even though this is "free", it failed to appeal to the 120 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the game peaked at only 6 concurrent players... this is a dismal public reception. This was so bad they couldn't even give it away. Advertisements and incorrectly published demos don't add +1 to your game collector count, they aren't full games. It's impossible for me to recommend this incorrectly published advertising spam to gamers, you deserve better than adverts.