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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Horror | #18 | 3.848 | 3.848 |
| Aesthetics | #70 | 3.970 | 3.970 |
| Enjoyment (Best Game) | #124 | 3.152 | 3.152 |
| Sound Design | #133 | 3.121 | 3.121 |
| Story | #144 | 2.788 | 2.788 |
Ranked from 33 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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The art style was Awesome! The monster had really good sound design! Too bad there was no save system, but that's how jams go i guess. Nice Work!
Thank you so much! We're really happy that you liked the game overall! The monster design is something we're really happy with and we're glad you liked it too! Yeah we wanted to add a save system that would respawn you at every station you made it to but we ran out of time in the final crunch trying to add in all the last features sadly hahaha.
You're welcome! Keep making great games!
Best art style on this jam for me so far, really nice work. The controlls were smooth, I like the flow and atmosphere of the game. The flashlight movement was annoyingly slow, but I didn't even find a legit usecase for this mechanic. It would be nice to make it more useful. Nice submit after all, GG!
Thank you so much! We're glad that you liked the game and the art style! You're absolutely right that the flashlight moves too slowly, sorry about that haha. The reason we added it was so you could look around and see the items you had to collect more easily but it could've been implemented in a better way! Thank you for taking the time to play our game and we're happy you liked it overall!
that was good, did you hand draw all the assets?
Thank you so much! Yes all the assets have been done by us by hand! It took a while but was fun to make! Hope you liked the game!
I loved, it, especially the walk animation on the main character, I know that takes some skill.
Thanks! The animation took a bit of working it out lol
Very disturbing and eerie atmosphere goodjob!
I like the sound design in this a lot, really spooky and unsettling!
Great handrawn art, nice sound effects. A pity game got stuck after i open the door with the crowbar. The text doesn't disappear and it keeps pushing the character backwards when i press space(after using the crowbar on the door). I love the monster desing on the page. I think you took some inspirations from games like Silent Hill 3. It shows in your artstyle too. The game also has a nice adventure game flow but it needs some challenge in it. Nicely done and good luck on your future projects
Thanks for the detailed feedback! Indeed, Silent Hill was a major source of inspiration for us when making the game! We tried recreating the bug you encountered on multiple attempts with the built version but couldn't manage it -- however, it's an issue that we ran into a few times during development that we cleaned up, but obviously once in a while it seems to still make it through! Ironically enough, the monster starts spawning right after the point where you use the crowbar, so it's normal that you didn't encounter a challenge in your shorter than expected playthrough. We hope you still enjoyed the experience!
Thank you very much for the nice words! We hope you enjoyed the experience.