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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Aesthetics | #5 | 4.586 | 4.586 |
| Sound Design | #7 | 4.172 | 4.172 |
| Enjoyment (Best Game) | #26 | 3.828 | 3.828 |
| Horror | #68 | 3.345 | 3.345 |
| Story | #85 | 3.207 | 3.207 |
Ranked from 29 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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- Great lo-poly horror title reminiscent of 90s console graphics. Maze games can be a dime a dozen, but this game has plenty of unusual characters with interesting hand-drawn sprites and some light puzzles to keep the game fresh. The atmosphere and tone is an absolute gem and I would love to see more worldbuilding like this!
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I don't know why, but I like those hands. Although i'm not a fan of maze, but nice work!
Love your honest comment, the maze isn't for everyone :)
The sound and visuals are wonderful, especially the designs of the creatures and the contrast of the green maze vs the eerie red/violet sky. And the realistic hand and wrench add to the surrealness in a good way.
My main criticism is that the monster TPing the player back to the start got more frustrating than scary, I think. I was enjoying walking around the world and it felt like an interruption of that
Very fun to play, Love the atmosphere and sound design, Real big fan of the old school mystery vibes. I think I would have liked mouse-look but not including it surely helps the slow pace of the game, good job, Very fun game.
Very atmospheric and enjoyable visual design. Fascinating themes turned into the gameplay and very unnerving experience altogether. I was actually relieved the controls prevented mouselook, it was appropriate for the design overall. Great work!
Glad you liked it! I almost included mouse look but decided I prefer it without aswell! :)
Good atmosphere and design!
Me when I'm being pursued by an entity and I don't have hands:
:(
Me when I meet a "hand"some stranger:
:)
The atmosphere is really, really cool. So many great stylistic choices; I loved the visuals, the sound, the writing, all of it. Impressive stuff.
glad you liked it! We're planning an update to complete the intended vision for the game so stay tuned!!!!
Oh hell yeah! I'll absolutely be checking that out when it's released
I love the music!! And the atmosphere. I couldn't find third skull, so I don't got to trade with the merchant x( I like how you basically told where to go by the entity following you. And also I like that I have time to realize I'm going the wrong way.
I was laughing hard at hand-some stranger
Great job! I enjoyed playing it so much!
So glad you had a great time! Did you manage to reach the center of the maze and escape the nightmare?
Also we're going to release an update that adds alot of cool stuff and improvements in the future, so drop me a follow if you'd like to see that :D
Yes I did! I actually was walking with the wrench for a while trying to find the last skull but the entity kept coming for me so I had to kill it :D
Also I only now, looking at your profile, realize how many eastern eggs were in the game! Yep, deff will look forward to the next update!
I like the retro/disturbing feeling, great job! :)
I really loved this game. I really loved the aesthetic and man the music in this game was great. I also shouldn't have gone out of the maze, it wasn't a good idea.
haha, no leaving the maze is definitely a bad idea! Did you manage to find your way back into it? :D
Yeah I did eventually
I loved the atmosphere! Receiving the hands felt great, what a nice touch. I liked all the little easter eggs too! One thing I'd suggest is maybe resetting the entity's position, or randomizing it, after it catches you, as it might get a bit much to try to navigate the same area with it never leaving.
Glad you liked it, Its position does reset, to its originally place outside the maze, it also give you a grace period before its pursuit :D
Did you manage to reach the center of the maze?
Really loved this game. The aesthetics were amazing. The super retro visuals + pink sky and man the audio (oh my god the ambiant track is so good.) I have no idea how I found the exit (one of the exits maybe?), I just sorta kept moving and wound up outside the maze lmao. Loved being handless, was very freeing of responsibility. Amazing game, you should be super proud tbh.
Haha glad you liked it! the goal of the game is actually to reach the center of the maze! maybe i should have made that more clear at the start XD
Oh man I had no idea hahaha. Maybe a bit of a nudge in that direction if you get around to updating the game lmao.
We will sore sure be updating it! Be sure to read games descriptions, they often have the missing info in these game jams :D
Sounds like you most likely walked in a circle and went out the way you came in haha! There is alot more content after you find a pair of hands to use :D
That's super nice, thank you! Glad you had a good time
Really enjoyed the mood of this game, the hands give it a very retro/VHS creepy vibe also the pink sky and desaturated green give it a very surrealistic touch. Only things can bump up the experience would be: Sprint buttone cuz sometimes you end up walking slowly throw long corridors and maze innts like sounds int in order to find out the passages without feeling like getting lost in the maze. Great job overall.
Glad you liked it! We have lots of improvements planned for a future update, drop me a follow if you like to play it!
Followed :D
I wasn't really sure where to go after getting the candle. I got that there was something following me but I wasn't very sure what my goal was at any given point.
The retro style is really cool, I like the atmosphere it brings. The greenish ground with pink sky and fog also does a lot for the atmosphere.
Not being able to open stuff because I don't have hands was funny at first but when I met the hand lady it turned really creepy; cool world-building idea.
Aw damn, after you get the candle you can open "secret" passages, they are walls that are a much lighter color of purple, the first ones is right behind the candles pedestal, I tried to make it as obvious as possible while still feeling secret, sorry it was confusing for you! The goal is to reach the center of the maze.
I didn't make it very clear, but I did find the first wall.
Oh okay!, Well if you try again there is 2 entrances into the final area :)
Very well done atmospheric setup, the hands really added a vibe that isn't seen a lot. Only could find two skulls sadly, but I did get to open up the secret gate thing.
Good job!
Did you manage to escape the nightmare? :)
Eerie vibe in the labyrinth. I noticed all kinds of easter eggs hidden like a painting and a mirror.
I made the mirror and I haven't even found it lol, good job !
Excellent atmosphere! One of my favourites so far
Atmosphere and sounds is fantastic, love the use of colour and 2D characters, reminds me alot of the ENA series. My main feedback would be the speed at which the character moves is very low, even a short sprint would go a long way, especially when being caught resets you to the beginning.
Awesome game tho, great job!!
thanks for the feed back! I'll definitely improve this in an update!
Loved atmosphere and music, idea is great
Loved atmosphere and music, idea is great
Love the visuals, super cool sound design too.
Thank you, glad you like it!