Max Massacre

I enjoyed the story, although it went slightly off course to what I expected. It's nothing super special, but it's a decent story for an hour's playtime.

Recommended

free kinetic novel(singular twist choice), but only like 10 minutes long, meh work from a decent author, works on deck.

"Max Massacre" isn't a game. It's an e-book dumped on Steam masquerading as a game. As a visual novel/e-book/fan-fiction, this has no notable gameplay. It's just clicking through badly written dialogue that would never be accepted in print by an actual professional publisher. How did something this badly written end up on Steam? When someone can't get published in print, they spend $100 and dump their high school fan-fiction onto Steam Direct under the guise of a game. This is exactly in the middle of what we expect for garbage Steam E-books... this is a high school anime club dropout fan-fiction about the author and his imaginary anime girlfriend called "Celeste". The book follows a godawful cringey plot about fighting monsters and the author having conversations with his imaginary girlfriend. Because this was put together with the Ren'Py e-book construction kit, it didn't require any actual coding or development. It's a tool for failed authors to push their garbage high school anime club dropout fanfictions as games. Just like there's no professional writing here, there isn't any professional software development either. Visual novels/e-books are the worst way to try read a b…

Zetsubou games are quite short, but nicely told stories, though sometimes going a bit overboard with choice options and consequences, same thing was present here. Gameplaywise it's visual novel, there is pretty much only one choice in game, since as mentioned it is short one, so it's pretty much a linear story. Visually Max Massacre looks decent, nothing outstanding, but distinct enough to not be roped with ton of short VN slop present on steam. Though, that's mostly about characters, backgrounds are something you'd not notice if they were to be copy pasted anywhere else. Audio is basic, it's short free VN, what else would you expect. Plot is about living in a prejudice filled place, where you are an outcast, but there is a close person with you. That single choice in the game though gives you two very drastic options with extreme consequences. While one of them is kinda okaish, other one is too much in my opinion. If you play, you'd see what I meant. All in all - this is decent title, and it's free so you won't lose anything if you like VN and try it, also does not take much time.

It's a quick visual novel about found family. I believe it could be longer, however what we got is worth the free price tag. Definitely something easy to get a 100%.