Oh my, here we have a completely unknown gem, a game everyone should play and yet basically no one knows. Beautifully hand drawn story with alluring sci-fi themes, lovely characters, mild puzzles who serve mostly to better explain the environment and an adorable, melanchonic story that touched me personally. It's short but deserves your time.

https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3338810948

“Universe For Sale” is like a cosmic yard sale where you can buy a whole universe for pennies. ☕✨

The game is full of quirky characters and stunning hand-drawn art. The only downside? It’s short, but oh so sweet! 🎁

If you love adventures with a touch of sci-fi and mystery, give it a go. 🌠

It looks great, the music is nice, the story is probably well told...

But I can't play it. Just like so many other dialog-intensive game, there are almost no settings for the text. Speed slow/medium/fast, and auto-continue, that's it. There is no scaling, no color blind options, no font choice.

But even more importantly, there is no option to click and/or keypress to go to the next bubble text and immediately write it out in full, and there is no way to read a text bubble that you accidentally forwarded before you were done reading. Which happens to me A LOT, because I find myself frustratedly clicking to force the text to appear all at once, but no, there's this weird type-writer-like roll-on. Even in fast mode, there is like half a second of text roll-on that you can't click through or force. And you can't disable the typing-like noise, probably because a few actors have slightly different typing sounds.

I don't get why so many developers of these clearly text-intensive dialog games leave their most important storytelling device so utterly bare-bones. To me, it sucks all the fun out of the game within minutes and is so jarring that I can't play through it. Not even because it's so bad, but because it would be so easy to improve this so immensely. So it's a *choice* to do it this annoyingly... And that is just not doable for me.

Also, the interactable items and NPC's in the game are often bleak and unremarkable, so very easy to miss. At least in the first half an hour.

And there is no "double-click-to-speed-up-function".

Lastly, I can't seem to contain the mouse in the game window, so I constantly click out of the game.

The gameplay and UI are just totally frustrating and immersion-breaking and make it a disappointing ordeal. I really, REALLY hope dialog-heavy game developers start improving this.

Would certainly refund if I didn't get it from HumbleBundle.