How wonderful! I had a great time with the puzzling and figuring out the story; even guessing some of the twists ahead just made me feel smart and just made it harder when I eventually found the scene that revealed them. Great job on the HerStory-like writing to make each separate scene interesting in various order of discovery. Love the pixel art style also. A lovely little gem!
Yup! There will be zero consequences, positive or negative, because I believe in polyamory and it would be hell (and unpleasant) to code each character reacting to each other possible relationship. No one even minds if you date Elias.
So cute! It feels like a wonderful tribute to monsters-collecting games but with its own mechanics. I had a blast. I'm very impressed with the personality all characters got from so little text. Loved having two takes on some events, and quickly becoming able to tell right away which friend wrote this letter -- I love these kids and want to protect and nurture them!! So wholesome ;w; I want to keep playing in this world for hours and hours :)
There's a tiny mini route about getting its attention (which gets you an achievement), but not a full route nor an established relationship like the other characters.
there's no "good ending", there's a few non-standard early endings (where you die, mostly) but that aside the game always ends at the end of S4/start of S5 with the canon setting :D of course, some players may find that ruling a domain as an avatar of some unspeakable horror with their traumatised and/or also monstrous partne is an ideal and happy ending!
Whoah, thank you for the explanation of the mystery! I managed to fill the yearbook but absolutely didn't understand the machine, that took the game from "fun but I didn't really get it" to "WHOAH SO COOL" :D
Love it! It feels like a full game already, very excited to see that it's still in active development. Will definitely return to play more endless mode and check out any future update :D
Loved it! I was just having some light fun and enjoying Eli's fun "teehee i'm totally not an alien" lines and incredible design, then I started getting void 1 stuff and got completely sucked in. Really enjoyed the slightly-off and casual horror scenes, and the True End hit harder than I thought. I love Eli and will remember them for a long time! (If they let me)
Thank you for the walkthrough, that helped a lot and I had a lot of fun exploring to get all the endings.
There's just the Skip button being finicky sometimes (not always showing correctly as on or off, and quite a few times I would suddenly skip quickly through completely new ending text and have to reload to actually read it). And the start of the True End dialogue had everything suddenly really slow down for a couple lines before normalising again (possibly bc of the animation or music?). Even with that, very pretty game and polished-looking UI.
Yup, you can get all the marks you want (though some are easier than others, eg there are a lot of opportunities to encounter the Corruption in season 1 and the Lonely in season 4), it's just once you have answered the call and picked one that you can't switch to another on this run!
Thank you! I originally did plan to expand it, before getting hit with a multi-years writing drought/Fallow Period, but even if I do manage to pick it back up and post a content update, it's more likely to be extra characters routes than a season 5 storyline.
Oh whoah!!! That's fantastic, I'll be following the new version for sure! While playing, I felt that the format was perfect for the mechanic, but I'm excited to see what more you had thought and couldn't put in and will now... :DD
Got linked this by a friend within 24h of watching the movie, was delighted by the mere concept, and so charmed with the execution. How delightful! I keep chuckling at dialogue options -- your Tedesco is dangerously charming!!
Having fun but keep getting got stupidly because my eyes skim over monsters when they don't have their number displayed. Please please please leave the numbers displayed over monster sprites! I'm never gonna remember that by heart!
-Edit- NVM i found the setting to do that, yaaay! :D
Fun!! Really enjoyed this, the characters are all delightful in their own way (YEAH THAT EURY ART, and Cain is very efficientaly adooorable) and the atmosphere is great, especially its sudden tonal shift near the end (Rafael, babe???). Very impressed with how much you packed in so little playtime, and the level of effort and all the little details everywhere. Will absolutely be back for the additional route when it happens <3
Loved it! The graphic style is absolutely incredible, I truly cannot tell how much (if at all) is photos of real life stuff and how much is computer art, if you tell me these characters are actually clay figures doing stop-motion animation I'll believe it.
And again, the puzzles are so cute, creative and refreshing. Always a little spark of delight when an element is reused later when I expected to be fully done with it.
And i GASPED in happiness when making the final solution.
Heck yeah! Feeling very smart and cool for getting 303 knowing what i was doing. Love the little mechanics like the scrolls, walls and the leprechaun :)
completely addicted to this game. asked a friend for their Strategy and Tips. went from being unable to get a bear most of the time to getting blue bees multiple times in a row. we've both lost like 3 days total to this game. couldn't be happier. why and how are these animals so CUTE. why can't i have a pink impossibly round hamstersquirrelchinchillachipmunk in real life?
btw friend and i strongly feel like when you merge two blees (blue bees) together you shoud get a blouse (blue mouse). if you feel like updating this masterpiece with something most people will never see.
Thank you so much for giving this "strategy" tip, I wasn't good enough normally but I really wanted to play through that ending myself (and it was so worth it!)
LOVELY! Adored it, and for a high-concept game you didn't neglect the gameplay, the combat was still really fun and engaging :D Caught myself going "HA!" when I could still geddem.
And my native language (French) doesn't have a neutral grammatical gender, but then I learned some Dutch and German, as well as English with its "it" pronouns, which all made me really comfortable with the concept of separating actual gender, sex, and pronouns and grammatical gender. I know the use of it/its pronouns for a person, like you mentioned, is really touchy and loaded in English, but I jumped to claim it the minute I realised I was nonbinary (on top of also using they/them and she/her), because this feeling of being completely divorced from any gender at all, even grammatical. It gives me the same gender euphoria that Beth described above. Especially since it is impossible for me to get that in my native language.
In French, I can be a she the same way that Beth is a she (deliberate, conscious, that's our gender), or the same way that a table is a she. And in English, I can be a they the same way that a stranger with an unknown or irrelevant gender is a they, or I can be an it, the same way that a table is an it.
hi! chiming in a native french-speaker nonbinary girl! i'm afab, i've always been a girl and i love being a girl, but i thought nonbinaryness was awesome and i wished i was nonbinary, and one day i realised hey that's what nonbinary means, i don't have to be one or the other of anything. i can be both. i'm nonbinary, i'm a nongendered blob and i'm a girl. it's great. i realise it probably feels different if being a girl was something you have to fight for in the first place, so it might not work for you as it did for me, but still, just throwing that out, it's an option, you could try it out.
and one of the things that helped me with that was, yeah, this experience. my native language is one of the ones that does gender absolutely everything. the table is a girl. my armchair is a boy. but only in my language -- i know that in German the table is a guy, and in Hebrew the genders of cutlery are swapped around compared to the French ones. gender is made up! grammatical gender doesn't have shit to do with biology or even societal role actually! in German and Dutch the girl is neutral gender!
Immediately addictive in a great way! I'm really enjoying it, good idea to add classes and a random pool of upgrades to choose from, keeping it fresh and fun and exciting.
i don't have this kind of intelligence and i'm not very good but i still managed to get to 3rd floor on first try and a win on second try! (on the forgiving difficulty level) Don't be afraid to try again if you had fun, it's totally doable even for us dumbasses ^^
