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This game is designed very thoughtfully, and I'd like to give you a more thorough review in regards to it, but I got stuck at this spot, just not sure what to do, seemingly have no options other than clicking that one orb on the right.

I really liked the gradual progression of mechanics, I thought the pacing was very well done, the music and sound effects worked oh so well together, and the general vibe and atmosphere was a nice mix of relaxing while still maintaining a high level of engagement for me, that timer really gets you to focus to try to make the most optimized decision you can think of in the moment, and the chasing enemy feels like it speeds up as the timer goes down which really adds to the tension in the moment.

The visual design was spot on, communicated everything it needed to, while also providing a really thick atmosphere that you can really lose yourself in while playing through this.

It wouldn't be fair to rate it as a whole as I was not able to figure this part out (it could very well just be due to post-jam exhaustion, my brain feels like a boiled boot).

That being said, if you can give me a hint as how to progress, I'll share more thoughts.

This is a really well done game, would work great on mobile I think, should contact some publishers soon, I had great luck with far less than this.

Thanks a lot for your detailed response on mine as well, really appreciate it!

BTW I can't rate this, as it's not in my queue and I have not gone through yet, but I shall after.

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Miya Loustalot3 years ago (1 edit)

Thank you for your very detailed review, it's been a pleasure to read it! I'll try to answer quickly:

The level you've been stuck at (level 6) is easily doable but quick response is necessary, You need to click the orb on the right in the first few seconds of the level, the torch will light up and the wall block you, but it'll come back in place after I think 6 seconds, so you have enough time to get to the final orb. It's meant as a simple yet clear teaching that: Torch can be lit up / Torch move walls that have the blue lock on them / Those walls can come back to their original position after a time.
Sorry if that wasn't clear enough. (Also I advise running in fullscreen mode, we didn't know itch.io's formatting beforehand so it's messed up and can crop the game if it's not in fullscreen).

Don't worry, come back rating us when you can, it's kind enough to want to rate back the game already!
Thank you very much and good luck for the Jam!

EDIT: I played the game on another computer and it appears that if the game is lagging out too much, the wall doesn't come back in place in time... This is fixed if you play in computer mode (with the .exe file that we made available to download). We'll make sure to not repeat this error later, sorry about that!

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