Reminded me of The Long Dark, but without the stress on survival (and escaping from hordes of ravenous wolves, that is).

The game itself is funny (I keep getting lost, but I take for granted it's my fault ^^;), the only thing really needing your intervention right now is... well, the palms. I think they should be changed to a different kind of tree as they don't quite fit into your "frozen wasteland" setting. Seeing a palm in the middle of a snowstorm is a bit odd.

I've spotted other trees around, could you simply replace the palms with them?

I had fun playing this game. Finished it in about half an hour - 40 minutes and did not notice the passing of time (which is a totally positive thing!).

Learning curve was a bit steep: I dropped the game at first because it was really TOO dark. In a visual sense. Pitch black. Then I got back to the game, slowly understood how to use the PULSE and found a way to navigate the environment. Let's say I put my trust into the game and he did not let me down. I personally like this kind of puzzle games where there is no real danger, just a general sense of uneasiness (and the plushies' shop with all those nasty critters looking at me with their red eyes really startled me at first!).

I'm a fan of HP Lovecraft and I still remember having had a lot of fun with Chaosium's pen-and-paper RPG, my opinion might be a bit biased because of this ^^!

The general feel was good, just a quick look at your work made my mind go back to the time I spent at a table with my friends trying to get out of a muddy swamp with a bunch of half-blooded cultists on our tail. Being a fan of the "light on rules, heavy on narration" style of gaming I can't but appreciate a solution where "rules" are limited to a tiny leaflet (and the game master's debauchery of course!)

In the hands of a seasoned master this kind of stuff might be a great way to attract newbies into roleplaying!

A small final note: I personally think sanity deserves a bit more space.  Taking inspiration more from your rules than Chaosium's, I'd add some twist like, temporary reduction of a character's skills due to the trauma, or the inability to adequately process the results of an action (say for example that I want to inspect a room. If my sanity has just dropped because of a traumatic experience I might be unable to tell what's real and what's just the fruit of my hallucination).

cool :)