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Really fun game! I enjoy it a lot. I've recommended it to my friends. Here are a few quality-of-life comments/suggestions:

1.) Allow us to use the numpad on our keyboard to dial the phone. Dialing the rotary phone was fun and retro at first, but I got sick of it pretty quickly. I know it's not historically accurate but who cares? It makes thinks clunky and slow. Speaking of that...

2.) Allow us to summon the DDD by just pressing the button. Having to press the button AND call them is redundant and slows the game down.

3.) Allow us to change the length/duration of a game. Currently I believe it sends about 10 total people per game. It would be nice to have longer games or 15, 20, 25, 30, etc.

4.) Add Nightmare-level difficulty with "normal" people too. I was hoping that Nightmare difficulty would just be the normal people but with crazier doppelgangers + immediately being killed. The current Nightmare mode is fine too, but maybe call it Monster Mode or Evil Mode or something?

5.) Add more variety to the ways that doppels can trick us, and more subtle ways too. I've played dozens of games already but only seen doppels with the wrong ID numbers 1 or 2 times. I also saw a doppel with a misspelled name once... that would be another good, subtle clue if it appeared more often. Another one would be simply making them get other facts wrong, like giving the wrong job, the wrong apartment number/floor, etc. Also, minor visual clues like a twitching, blinking, drooling, etc. Lots of fun new ways to make doppels and to have them get discovered!

6.) There are a few minor mistranslations for English that I've noticed. At first I thought these were clues that people were doppels but after seeing them enough, I realized they were just simple grammar mistakes. I don't say this to be rude! I am willing to send you a list of these mistakes if you like, free of charge. I am a native English speaker with a university degree in English language and linguistics. Please let me know if you'd like any assistance fixing some of the grammar in the game.

Thanks again for this game, it's really fun! Doppelganger/impostor horror is one of the creepiest types of horror imo, so thanks for creating this game!

Stevenc9479 days ago(+1)

1) As much as not having to manually dial would be a nice quality of life change I do think it would take away from some of the charm. Maybe after earning a certain number of wins the phone can be replaced with a numberpad phone instead? Just a thought.

2) Again I think it adds to the charm. It slows you down sure but for me that's the feel the game is giving. The steps of closeing the shutter, picking up the phone and then manually dialing the DDD all feel like a way to pace the game out. I do see how it gets tedious after doing it 100 times however. (I myself have put a good amount of time into the game)

3) Would be a cool change I agree.

4) Yeah I also think this'll be pretty cool. Make the noraml difficulty super hard and much more subtle changes. (as a seperate mode or difficulty slider)

5) Think you've just been lucky/unlucky. I've had loads of wrong names and numbers. Heck some rounds I don't get a single appearence difference and all just document based changes. "like giving the wrong job, the wrong apartment number/floor, etc" They can have the wrong reason where it says "My apartment is floor 3 room 2". Sometimes that can say the wrong place. I agree on the apartment number and job though. I always check these just encase but they're always right.

6) Oh interesting! I've never noticed any myself (Native english speaker) but i'm just likely too ignorant to pay attention.

One quality of life change i'd like to personally see is the ability to cross people off the list. If I let someone in I think it'd be cool if I could open the list back up and just cross that person off. However I do see why maybe this won't be a good idea because at the momen the lack of ability to do this does add to having to memorize who you have and haven't let in yet. It also gives you an exucse to call their apartment to check if you already let them in. So this might not be a great quality of life change.

Something that could also be cool is the ability to earn money? Then spend that money ON quality of life upgrades. So like mentioned before about a numpad phone or like i just said with crossing people off. The ability to buy a numpad phone with points earned from playing or a pen would be kind of cool. Would make the game feel like there is more of an "end goal" even if it's to just unlock things.

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