Lower? higher!: buy or bye 

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Not sure if this is a demo or a prologue but overall the game is interesting, If you are not sure about buying the full version, try this.

The list of translations is not entirely correct.
Lower? higher!: buy or bye Have only 4 translations:
English
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
Korean

"Lower? higher!: buy or bye " is a very badly made browser page pretending to be a game, a simple "more-book-than-game" tycoon experience where you click through static images and pretend to run a cyberpunk themed pawn shop. The English translation is a mangled mess, the gameplay is beneath a Flash/browser game, and the writing is cringey. The developer also wrote the store page with ChatGPT, just to make sure he insulted as many people as possible with AI Slop.

So, it's hard to describe this as a game, the focus of the product is more like that of an e-book/visual novel, there's only minor, shallow and uninteresting gameplay elements. The crux of this is to push some very low quality, badly done fan-fiction tier writing, where we see once more a developer fail to understand the importance of "Show, don't tell", and for whatever reason, weren't able to convey their narrative through gameplay, giving us endless lines of badly written e-book text instead. My gaming rig is not a kindle.

For gameplay purposes, because the user interface for this game is mostly just 2D static text/images... it might as well be a web page. It's functionally no different from a browser game. And we all know, Steam isn't here to compete with Chrome and Firefox. If the game can be done in a web browser, it's just not rich or compelling enough to appeal to serious gamers on PC.

There's also the old adage that those who lack the budget and talent to make their own game assets usually lack the budget and talent to do the rest of the job of game development properly, too, and that's glaringly obvious here.

Now on to pricing and value for gamers.

This is "free" enough (not every "free" game in the "free" section is truly free, there's usually some hidden price tag), at least you won't be expected to spend any more money after you download this, but just because something is free doesn't mean it's good, and the cost of a game is more than just financial, your time is valuable too.

In terms of public reception, this failed. There's over 130 million unique gamers visiting Steam every month. SteamDB showed the game peaked at only 10 concurrent players... this is a dismal public reception. This was so bad they couldn't even give it away.

Bearing in mind that free games don't add +1 to your game collector count, should you bother adding this to your library and downloading it?

I think you should give this one a miss. Although it's free, your time and storage are valuable resources, and the market is filled with superior options.