Instructions unclear, soul lost to devil.
On a more serious note, this game is a really interesting concept, but I feel like the execution is missing some conveyance. It's not very clear what to do or how to succeed, and consequently, I spent around 15 minutes just totally lost as to what I was doing. I think more feedback and more instruction would be very nice. Game isn't really all that scary unless you take the central concept super seriously, but there's also a bit of a narrative issue. The song which this consistently borrows from (The Devil Went Down to Georgia) has a very strong interpretation which suggests that Johnny still loses his soul to the devil for the sin of pride; his belief that he could beat the devil is hellworthy even if he does, successfully, beat the devil in the fiddle contest. This isn't really a problem for the song because the song is a bit ambiguous about how things are going to go at the end of Johnny's life, but it does present a couple of issues for the game, one of which is narrative.
The other one is a bit more nebulous and has to do with credit. This game cribs a lot of lines from Devil Went Down to Georgia, but there's absolutely NO credit given to the Charlie Daniels Band whatsoever. This might not rub everybody the wrong way, but with lines taken very directly from the song like "I'm the best there's ever been," and the title of the game being directly from the chorus of the song, it feels a bit strange to have absolutely no mention of the origin of the story being retold here. It feels a bit like the story has been stolen, and that makes me sad.
Don't get me wrong, I like it in concept, but these things bother me as someone interested in marketing, and who likes to see credit given its due. It especially bothers me when I scroll through the comments and notice absolutely no mention of any of the versions of Devil Went Down to Georgia being mentioned there either.
-Hadal