Really Impressive how much you made in the short time frame! I really liked the atmosphere, visuals and audio. The story is really great and I liked how it connected with the gameplay. Great Game :D

wow, both a great game and a great callout post xd! this really reminded me of Yume Nikki in the best way possible! you're kind of just thrown into the game and are left to your own devices to explore this abstract (at least on the surface) world that you've built. allows players to kind of just vibe and wonder the meaning of it all, with each room contributing to the overall message of the story and the "hallways" acting as a nice transition to slow down the pace and allow players to think about what they experienced in one room before reaching the other, great stuff! a lot of the dialogue and narrative bits felt pretty relatable for me personally, and this grapple between the main character's experience between the real and virtual world matches up with the aesthetics of the game really well, with the real world being visualized as slightly broken and uncannily off-putting!

i agree with most of the comment's feedback about how the game would be elevated with audio and how some parts could have been better communicated more, but i think despite that this was a really nice experience to go through, especially for a first completed game! great work!

I really like the overall atmosphere of this game! Unfortunately, I couldn't figure out the mushroom part :/

I enjoyed playing this - it had it's own style and a particular feel unlike any other games I've played so far, and I appreciate the walkthrough too, I don't think I would've worked out some of solutions initially.

 ...and now for the feedback bit.

It was a little confusing where the exits were in the levels, sometimes there's paths and lighter areas, but I felt this wasn't clear enough so it was a case of randomly picking areas and seeing if the player would travel beyond the current screen. Perhaps a cursor change or something when hovering may help with this.

I did find the detection boxes on things too small, I think you mention this in the description, but in some cases it was make or break for progressing with the game. Like picking up the rod and the right most alter, I think it's natural for object like that to click on the object itself, rather than where you think the character should interact with it - and I think perhaps this is where the triggers were placed.

I felt the characters animations were a little too robotic and there was a lot of foot sliding, which broke the atmosphere a bit for me - it made the character not seem planted in the world.

Also, although the atmosphere of the game was great I did find it was lacking in the audio side - would've been great with a bit more ambience, sfx for interactions and cutscenes etc...  (probably down to time, I know, it's a short space of time to make something complete...)

One last minor thing, but worth mentioning - the game was about 1Gb on disk... not sure why, as the resources in the game didn't seem be that big. You'd probably want to see where the size is being taken up, perhaps it's a massive texture or audio file somewhere, but the size definitely didn't match the game.

Saying all that, I really enjoyed it and with more time I see it being a really cool game :)

That was really interesting. I love the way you used textures "wrong" to get a nice effect.

there’s an uneasy vibe to this game’s audiovisuals, which contrasts nicely with the writing. it comes together to form an intriguing liminal experience, that unfortunately suffers from the same problem as most other point-and-click games: obscurity.

the guide was appreciated, I needed it to figure out what to do with the router. the rest was not too hard to figure out with some trial-and-error, I just have some thoughts about the UI:

• having to press E to interact is a bit awkward, as everything else is handled with the mouse.
• the small text box that pops up in the top-left corner is not great, maybe it should appear near the interactive thing instead, where the player’s focus is.
• the text message view should scroll to the bottom when new messages appear.
• the entire mushroom puzzle UI could be overhauled by not requiring discarding — instead, focus on which mushrooms to keep, and build the UI around that. if I picked the 3 correct mushrooms, why do I also have to discard the 3 wrong ones? it’s implied.

in conclusion, great mood and interesting writing, somewhat held back by a lack of clarity and some UI issues. and I gotta say, I really dig that wonky house.

Wow that was great. Thanks for making that

what a beautiful art piece, there's not much more i can say, just got me thinking. masterful work.

I resonated with the message; the feeling of being trapped in virtual crystal cages is something many can relate to. I look forward to seeing more stories like this in the future.

The setting and premise (and even the gameplay) remind me of digital dystopian horror stories, such as "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream."

This was a nicely packed story, which left enough to interpretation for me to find some connection with it. 

Great choice (or design) of music, the visuals tell the story well. The only thing I struggled with was knowing where certain movement breakpoints were - and whether or not they should all happen automatically, vs which should require input. 

All in all, I enjoyed it :) 

The first exploration point and click game I played this jam. I wasn't sure exactly where to click to get to the other areas but I was able to figure it out as there was just enough indication present. The art you did was also neat, good job.

Ooh. You really nailed the "liminal space" concept with this while neatly hinting that basically the entire world (maybe thanks to the internet) has become something of a liminal space in the process. This is just the wonderfully weird stuff I love to see in game jams.

I was filtered by the mushroom check 🍄. There’s some old adage about not eating something you haven’t seen someone else eat, cause your brain won’t believe it and you’ll get sick anyway.

Nice little game. The pentagram power line ritual site was inspired.

wow! i dont know what i just play, really enjoy the experience

yo I know enough about mushrooms I didn't even need the guide :P 5/5 from me shrooms 4 lyfe

The RTS-style point to move control scheme is interesting. Don't see that too much anymore in my experience. I did get stuck on the first screen for quite a bit. Not too bad for a one man project.