De Profundis

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"De Profundis" 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 garbage Ren'Py e-book isn't your usual high school anime club dropout fan-fiction about the authors imaginary girlfriend. Instead it's a high school French club dropout fan-fiction about a murder mystery. French being such an elegant language, it's quite perverse to see it being used to write cringey fan-fictions, but Ren'Py has allowed all kinds of horrible things to happen to Steam Direct. This most certainly is a horror story, and the horror is the thought someone out there genuinely believed people would pay him $5 USD for a garbage Ren'Py fan-fiction. Makes you shudder to think, doesn't it? This was slapped together with the godawf…