When comparing Ren'Py vs Melharfi, the Slant community recommends Ren'Py for most people. In the question“What are the best 2D game engines?” Ren'Py is ranked 39th while Melharfi is ranked 108th. The most important reason people chose Ren'Py is:
Available on Windows, Linux, OSX, iOS and Android.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Cross-platform
Available on Windows, Linux, OSX, iOS and Android.
Pro Active and friendly community
Pro Reasonably good at creating puzzle and point-and-click games
Pro Mouse events built-in
All objects/graphics have a mouse events like MouseClic MouseDoubleClic MouseDown MouseUp MouseOver MouseMove MouseOut
Pro Network support
Lidgren Network Library
Pro Path finder built-in
Uses the A* algorithm or pathfinding
Pro GUI
It use a GDI to draw on windows forms. You can use all windows self GUI (controls) for your game like TextBox, Button Label ..., you don't need to install a third party or use an ugly controls.
Cons
Con Not for every genre
While technically capable of creating 2D games in any genre, Ren'Py excels in creating visual novels and has a reasonable feature set for creating puzzle and point-and-click games. Other genres are best tackled by other engines.
Con Outdated Documentation and official built-in tutorials
Unfortunately, you will have to hunt relevant info on how Ren'py script works. The Ren'Py dev has the working tutorials on his Patreon, other than that you might as well just code in Python.