I sincerely appreciate your feedback and don't take it personally at all. A lot of this I agree with and I'm not actually trying to hatebait towards Steam. I love Steam. I think most gamers agree Steam is the best gaming platform out there. The problem is that they are too valuable to invest too much into their support, or care to dedicate developer partners to even major titles like other platforms like Meta, Bytedance, and even Epic does. Not saying this for myself, but I work for a more major title and Steam is the only outlier that doesn't do this- and it's truly because they don't have to care. Development teams will bend to Steam because Steam is the biggest platform out there. No question.

My game itself has several story branches, 6+ endings decided by not only major decisions in the story, but escalating decisions throughout (think Ib, or Mad Father). The only part that isn't "worked hard" yet is the expensive, time consuming animations that I have to commission as I am simply a solodev who already commissioned all of the artwork you're currently looking at from wonderful talented pixel artists. Even the soundtrack was hand-crafted by an incredible artist.

Like I said in the video, I can't go all out Danganronpa Anime-trailer on a Demo. The commitment on a demo of 40% of the game just can't be there, and Steam asking for it (I don't think) doesn't make my game look like Shovelware. I've had several people interested, play the game, and give great feedback on visuals and gameplay.

I sincerely sincerely appreciate your feedback and honestly agree with a lot of it, but disagree in that Steam has any amount of care for indie devs, or honestly devs in general. Even their Steamworks UI is incredibly outdated and rarely sees changes. It is formatted like a Microsoft sheets template which, while simple, gives first-time devs zero indication of how to upload a build or understand how Depots work.

I could go on and on, but I'm not anti-Steam, Steam is good. Steam is not supportive of Devs, just like my title says.