This was fun! The player character was really limited in what she could do - always good for a horror game imo - which made the exploration feel a bit richer. I couldn't jump on anything to get a vantage point, for example, which meant that I needed to properly search around every corner to progress. With the robots prowling around, this felt pretty tense!

Agree with Scream Catalogue about worldbuilding and story. Investigating the corpses could've been a lot scarier with more hints of story and threat around them: the one corpse that was surrounded by dead robots was intriguing for example, and got me asking questions about what happened.

The building with the organs on the side was well done! We'd already seen the organs on the robots, which tips us off to what the building is for. Seeing it from a distance a little while before we can physically reach it was a nice touch too - it gave a sense of achievement to getting to the final area.

Overall this was a fun, short game. Nicely done!

This game gives off a bit of a PS1/2 era Resident Evil / Silent Hill vibe, in the sense that I love exploring eerie empty environments just waiting for something to go wrong. The encounters with the robots are fairly balanced. I like how there's a loop you can do round the area so you can lose the robots, making the game not a constant chase. I think a little more worldbuilding/story could have aided the context to the gameplay, but otherwise it was a pretty fun experience. Good job!

Thanks for submitting Cult of the Gorebot to the SCREAM MACHINE jam!

- SCREAM CATALOGUE

Nice little game. I quite liked your robot and was curious about its origin and story. It took me a little too long to find the crowbar at the beginning. I also noticed some slight graphic clipping when I pressed other (useless) controller buttons, might be a webGL thing, or maybe it's on my end (using firefox btw). I also really liked your music track, even if you made it quick and are not happy with it, it felt like it belonged there, reminded me of fatal frame music.

I must say I thoroughly enjoyed playing as a crowbar wielding anime girl fighting robots ! That one robot behind the stack of canisters was a pretty solid scare too. same with the spider one! loved the soundtrack and overall i'd say that was a pretty memorable experience.

I was genuinely surprised by the robot behind the stack of canisters right before the gate needing the key! Nice placement. Have a few comments / suggestions after playing:

1. The style of the assets are somewhat inconsistent, which was distracting. Particularly the main character, who has an anime aesthetic, while the rest of the environment has a gritty, realistic look. Is this on purpose? Or were these assets made for this project? Would be helpful to have that information (or credits to the author) for clarity. 

2. There were a few instances where I popped in and out of the environment. One moment I noticed was right before the Alice Zun corpse. 

3. Do you plan to include falling damage? I was able to grab the key on the roof then easily escape the robot by just falling down. 

4. Adding a little more context in the opening would be helpful. As the character felt a little out of place (design wise) they also did as a character in this world. Why were they in this place? What do they have to fight for? Some questions worth thinking about. 

But I enjoyed playing your game and thank you for sharing! 

It looks really fun! Is there a way to play it without a controller?