I like the aesthetic and the ambience of the game. Very relaxing. Everything fit together. I wasn't expecting a tarot reading game, even tho it was obvious by the screenshot. Its actually a good idea, and reminded me of a SNES game, Ogre Battle!

Really interesting concept,  Great way for a storyteller to make a simple game out of it to portray the story. I didnt get to go through the whole thing yet but I did play it on my livestream tonight and read through a bunch of it but then had move on to other games for time. Not sure if it will give much for feedback but you can see the replay here if you would like 

Now, where is the source code, so I can build a Linux version of it for play-testing?

beautiful art and great design, You managed to capture the tarot card readers atmosphere just right. Great job.

Interesting concept! I wonder how the story will continue, so thumbs up for that.

EDIT It’s listed as play in browser but didn’t see that version on the page. Maybe you’d like to check that.

Very unique idea! I do agree with the others that the conversation in the beginning was a bit long but the music and the theme played really well together to make it really fun. Great work on this one!

This is a really cool concept for the game. Tarot naturally lends itself to the jam's theme! I really liked the music. With the tarot, it gave me big Persona 5 vibes. However, there were two big detractors to this game - the pacing and the overall dialogue. The pacing was just a bit too slow for a demo. I understand this is what a visual novel does, but it took a little bit too long. We don't know these characters that well, so it's tough to be invested in their banter. Secondly, the dialogue was riddled with grammatical and spelling errors. Games like this rely on well written dialogue, but the sentence structure and frequent errors really takes you out of the moment. I would consider hiring an editor or proofreader if you intend to further develop this project. 

Overall, really cool project and I'm glad I got to experience it. The music and the talking greek statue heads had a unique vibe. Well done!

I love the idea of this game, I think you set the scene well but maybe took a little to long to do so.

Would be good to have more interactions at a slightly faster pace imo, but maybe I am just impatient!

Overall nothing to not like about this game, keep working on it am sure it will be excellent in the end!

Well done!

I was very much hyped to play this game since the menu screen that you posted on Discord :D And I’m not disappointed!

I love the atmosphere, setting, graphic elements (sculptures as avatars of characters? AMAZING!)

You definitely stand out for the fact that there is a lot of plot and story here, which I have missed after checking a dozen games so far. It reads very well. I see potential for a great game here, because the dramatic situation you use is very capacious and you can stuff a lot of interesting threads here (even this short demo could be discussed for long minutes).

Recently, I also had the idea of setting the psychotherapy situation as a frame for the game, but the fortune teller is even better because it allows similar things and at the same time adds mysticism.

One thing I don't know - as a person who has never had any contact with the tarot. Who chooses these 3 cards out of the 7 drawn? The fortune teller or the "client"? From the description I understood that the person who comes for the fortune telling, but then why am I, as a player, pointing them? (I understand that the player takes on the role of a fortune teller, not guests).

Regardless of the above, I see a lot of room here to add a little more "game" to the mix. For now, there is less interactivity in my opinion than it could be. I think "Paper, please" might be some kind of inspiration here. Depending on how we interpret the cards (maybe we have 3 interpretations to choose from for each card?), we will influence the fate of our "clients". Maybe I can somehow convince the character from the demo to start creating a more balanced and open City (lead him on a good path), or maybe I can convince him to take a risky deal that will result in him going to jail. But there should be some indicator than helps me predict what will be outcome of my decisions (it shouldn’t be too much clear, but still).

Anyway, you have to be careful, because there are potentially a lot of plot branching here, so from the very beginning you have to come up with a system of solving them to give the player a sense of "influence" and that his decisions have consequences, but not to make 1000 story paths, what would be really impossible to do for one person. On my profile I have a simple text game called "The run", you can check it, where you can make different decisions that are NOT mutually exclusive. That is, either you follow the storyline "A - make coffee" first, then "B - go to work" or vice versa. Problem with this solution? You have to include in the texts that sometimes the player has not done certain things, and sometimes that he has already done them. If the player chose to made coffee first, then at work you will not give him the dialogue line like: "hell, I could make coffee at home, I'm so sleepy!". Little things, but they build the consistency (or destroy it) of the story.

What I want to say is that your game really gives opportunity to make different plot branches, and therefore create a danger of getting lost in them.

Perhaps it would be interesting to do it as a separate small stories (one for each client) that doesn’t necessarily interact between each other, and then you will able to avoid cumulation of different threads.

Either way, I’m happy you are about to continue that work! I’ll follow your itch page and be happy to test next iterations of your game :)

My first time playing a visual novel game, I don't think its my favourite type of game but I can see you put in a lot of work, so thanks for that!

Hey! I replayed your game a few times since I can really see where it is going.  Reminds me a lot of Phoenix Bright series and those are some of my favorite games. The setting and character are already very interesting and the potential for nice mechanics is there, so I encourage you to keep going with the development and design of the game. I’ll love to see more of it in the future. About bugs and that, I didn’t find anything bad, only typos on the dialogue but that’s no biggie and easily fixable. If you ever need help with something development or feedback related hit me up on Discord. I’m there as Senbonzakura#4029 but you can find me more easily (I'm the leader) on our studio discord https://discord.gg/Mf6KNmSZuD (tho rn is mostly Spanish speakers). Keep us posted with your development progress and ton of luck in the journey!!!

As a fellow Tarot card reader I really appreciated the use of them here, would love to see more of this game and for you to get some of those features in. The game page looks great and while the actual models are basic, I really enjoyed the card art and UI. 

I normally  don't play visual novel style games. But your game looked very unique so I decided to give it a try and it is amazing. The art style and atmospere were very captivating. The music is definitely a big part of this. A lot of time must've gone into the dialogue and the characters, i hope to see more of it in future updates.  Maybe one little thing, I found some typo's here and there. But other than that great game, it definitely changed my mind on visual novels.

A very good and original idea!  It is a bit tedious to read all the beginning...  I know that in two weeks it is impossible to find a way to reduce it and give enough info to make the prediction, but when the jam finishes, polish it with visuals that gives that info without so many writing and you will have a fantastic  game!  Please, send me a message via discord if you do, I would gladly play it again.