Not sure if bugged or not, but I also couldn't give items to entities? Also picked up cross - couldn't hold it. Neither I could hold locket like it shown in screenshots (I looked through all 1-0 combinations for those) Maybe something with this is to do with that.

Not sure if I like the idea of 'guessing' what we see and having always need to select 'correct answer'. I want to be stupid and do mistakes there! Also... spoilers! They tell story way before we see it... unless its implied we aware about all of it already, of course.

If you are to fix game after jam (not allowed while voting time is going) - try focus on movement (not needing to press each time for move to tile) and making dialogues stay until user input - they kind of fast sometimes. Well and bug fixes. I am not sure if I did something wrong and needed to hold something prior encounter... or its indeed bugged in there.

Would love little tutorial about how to interact with entities and if we able to restore mental power to detect them... stuff like that. For now I am not sure how to play :(

(But monster desings are awesome, by the way)

The graphics and atmosphere are fairly solid, but there are a few places where you can peer into the void and some kind of graphic indicating the interaction locations of the asylum's inhabitants would significantly improve the experience. I'm also not entirely sure if I actually finished the game, but I couldn't find anything more to do, so...

I think I did not really understand, what I had to do. The game has some nice atmosphere and the graphic are well done, but the movement is a bit on the clunky side. I often moved a space too much etc.
The idea of completing the story, by guessing what happend is interesting. So there is quite some cool stuff here, but it need a bit more refinement.

The interface and direction were a bit awkward, but it had some fun dialogue.
Nice work playing to the theme as well.
For some reason the last minute is cut off but I walk out into the Garden and die after the video ends:  Minds Twisted by tagis & Company

I'm a bit torn on this one. On the one hand, the premise is really cool, the gathering of items and using each as a solution to encounters is cool, the atmosphere is great. On the other hand, the movement was really clunky and the encounters seemed bugged. Although I had all the items on me, I could never use them in encounters. I had the oujia board but couldn't give it to the Friend, I couldn't give the camera to the Son. Did I need to have those as active items? What DID the active items do? But you can never tell when an encounter is near, unless maybe those items tell you?

As such, I died in the basement due to running out of lives even though I had the necessary things on me:(

If you make movement snappier (perhaps even instant given the scope of the asylum) and add a few tooltips in game here and there, this could be a really cool horror story.

The game has a nice atmosphere and a good vibe. The information from the text are needed later in the game, but it goes pass to quickly, better to have player step forward by input when they have had time to read it. WASD is queued up but infinite and player is not able to hold keys to keep moving in a direction. There were a few places with missing walls player can see through.

Anyway its a nice entry. Good job.

I played the game for  about 15 minutes. I got bored because i couldn't find where i should go next and the game didn't make me want to play more. Every room and corridor is similar and there is no map. Art style of the game is nice but a little dull. The environment is too bright, it should be darker. I like the retro look. I don't  know how combat works since i didn't progress that far. Insanity meter is nice touch too but again i didn't play it that far to see how it works. I don't like that you should walk into the interactable object in order interact with them, you should be able to interact with the game world with mouse cursor in these kind of games. I think also that in grid based dungeon crawlers, corridors should be narrower. Levels are designed like labyrinths in dungeon crawlers.  I respect your hardwork and time spent for this game. You gain valuable experience from this effort no matter what the reception be. I wish you all good luck!