Thank you for playing, I'm so glad you enjoyed the game! That's a cool detail about Amnesia, I didn't know that. I've heard good things about the series, but I don't handle first-person jump scares very well haha, so I tend to stick to top-down and side-scrolling horror games. The whole no-battles idea actually came from the first Fear and Hunger game (a very disturbing RPG Maker horror game, so tread lightly if needed), where you're encouraged to avoid most of the enemies and don't have to fight the large majority of them! I also think leaving everything in the top-down perspective gives the player's imagination more room to fill in the gaps of what the enemies look like.

Letting Xander out doesn't bar you from any endings, but it does make one of the endings in the final Cave area more difficult to reach as he'll chase you from it. That's great you were able to get at least half of the endings though--I didn't want it to be TOO big of a challenge to get more than one in a sitting.

And I'm happy to read you found the story engaging and the music spoopy, those were my main goals :D Thanks for your comment!