Hey this was a lot of fun, at least in concept. After a while the game gets a bit repetitive and grindy but I think that if expanded upon, the game could be quite fun, and you could maybe have some real side quests to get your lying levels up. The ending was a bit predictable but I liked how the Accept and Sense lying UI was just faded out so you kind of had to look around there to see it.
The art is very nice, but maybe you could make the map feel more like a village cause it kinda just looks like roads with houses here and there.
The music (even though after a few loops it got repetitive) was also quite nice: simple repeated motiff that isn't too annoying to the ears and relaxes.
Im not too sure what the health was for at the top left but maybe that's when you deplete a villager trust bar?
Anyways, nicely made entry, even though you could have maybe found ways to make it a tad less repetitive. Good job!

I really liked the ending in the game! The game did get a little repetitive though.

I played your game for half an hour. It's very cute and interesting! Here is what I thought about it.

GAME MECHANICS

• The game mechanics are pretty neat. Not so many RPG got to explore social skills instead of just slashing monsters. Maybe some games like Mother or Undertale inspired you?
• I didn't understand why dark characters appear when I click on a building door. And why the screen goes black when I get close to them. I even got stuck with the black screen, nothing happened after, had to restart the game. Intentional?

STORY/NARRATIVE

• Every fake quest is very funny and entertaining to read. But there is not enough of them, felt like maybe 5 total? It should be simple to add 20 more to avoid redundancy.
• Seemed like there was only 2 types of trustful quests (the pub investigation one, and the fedex one). Was this redundancy intentional?

NAVIGATION

• I liked the small town, because in RPG games, it's easy to make vastly empty world that are boring to navigate through. In your game, the scale is just right and feels good.
• Is the mini-map actually useful? It doesn't show much more than the game screen.
• The black square marker is confusing if you don't already know its purpose.

ART

• Nice minimalist design. But did you make everything yourself? It feels like some tiles, like the trees, are just imported from the Unity package. The game jam instructions required to do everything from scratch.
• The guard is to similar to other NPCs. His design should feel like a boss. Someone special.

THEME

• To my eyes, you're one of the few projets that interpreted the game jam theme in an interesting way. The game itself is not a troll, the mechanics are actually built around the truth/lie trope.

I like the graphical style and the concept with the lying, however I'm not a fan of the minimap, its honestly completely useless as it only shows maybe and inch more than whats on screen. Also some of the dialogue didn't seem to make sense. I agree with what other people said about needing an indicator that the player was scammed. It was also hard to find where I was going, improvements to the map would likely fix this.

I also liked the characters you made and many of the quests were fun. Overall good job!

The art is nice, but the music is a bit repetitive. I got a mission to go to the pub, but I couldn't figure out how to get into the pub. Perhaps you can also make the map a bit bigger, since it currently doesn't show more than is already on the screen.

Like the idea! Art was really good. Audio was nice! Good job.

Though the mini map can't look further than the main screen so what's the purpose of it?

Other than that, amazing game!

interesting consept. love it. had a few graphical issues though. the screen will black out and freeze for a couple seconds. could see the minimap showing the player moving animation but he doesnt move.. dont know if its just the webplayer or its somehow intentional.

Great take on the theme and even though I'm not a big 2d pixel rpg fan, this felt fun and very well put together. A strong contender for a winning game!

The game is really original, but it still needs some work on it. Like, instead of putting black squares, put arrows pointing to where you have to go. It could have been way better if the execution had been more worked at. Great game, though!