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A jam submission

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"Quione starts questioning her role as a mother after disturbing events force her to choose between her two sons."
Submitted by MustacheSkulls (@MskullsGames) — 1 hour, 21 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Score#274.6924.692

Ranked from 13 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Log Line
"Quione starts questioning her role as a mother after disturbing events force her to choose between her two sons."

Content Warnings
Blood, disturbing images, mentions of child death and occasional bright colors

Team Members
Game by: MskullsGames
Script by: MustacheSkulls and TeasingMasterVi
Editor: SacrificedToRNG
Composer: EltonMso
Background art by: SortrosPhoresia, Cehamato, TeasingMasterVi and MustacheSkulls
Sprite Art, GUI, CG art by: MustacheSkulls

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Comments

Submitted(+1)

I got the bad ending on my first playthrough, oops x3 I'll have to try the other choices when I have more time! 

This is such a unique and incredibly unsettling tale :D I don't think I've read anything quite like it before. I mean, I sort of felt uncomfortable from the very beginning (in a good way!) because motherhood is something that the mere thought of terrifies me xD I don't like kids and I don't want them, haha. I think the ending I got only cements that, haha.

Developer(+1)

Thank you sm for your comment! We are glad you had fun with the game 😊🙏

Submitted

There are spoilers below.

At the start, it feels like we'll get a bit of the horrors of the mundane. It just immediately seems like there's something off and the fact that we're witnessing the seemingly normal day of a random SAHM, while knowing for this to be a Spooktober entry, only helps to deepen that hunch.

We quickly find some cracks in the "perfectly normal" life we're being shown. It's short, yet effective, quickly breaking down everyday life and twisting it into a horror story.

I needed a second try until I got the good ending. While I had my eyes on Aiden from the start, I figured I should check on him more to make sure he didn't do anything bad, which ended up being my downfall, haha.

Sometimes the music resets after choices. Ren'py offers ways to avoid this if you want to look into that for future games. It's a tiny change that can improve the overall feel of the VN :)

The sprites are very expressive and I especially like the CG with the eyes on top of the black background and the one of the close-up mouth.

Good job!

Developer(+1)

Thank you sm for your feedback! I'm glad to hear you had a good time with the game, we haven't made any updates yet but I'll let the programmer know about the music reset, thanks again ^^

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Developer(+1)

Thank you sm for your feedback! We are happy to hear that you had a good time 😁

(+1)

aaaaand I finally stopped to play your game

I'm pretty tired right now so I can't write a text commenting every little thing ^^"

But all in all I liked the game a lot, the story has a slice of life vibe the way I like it and the monster I thought was cool. 

Although I feel a bit of expository dialogue when it comes to the monster, but i can overlook that because otherwise there are some details in the game that draw my attention, but of course I will not speak because spoilers :)

And I loved how all the time during the development I was sympathizing with quione's husband, and in the end I ended up liking the mother more as a character hahahahah she has a lot of tired mom vibes and I loved it

And that's it, I'm rooting for you guys, I really hope you win some prizes <3

Developer(+1)

Thank you for your feedback that's highly appreciated! :D

We're glad you liked the game