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'Huge Business INC.' does an outstanding job of capturing office work vibe. While you are not normally supposed to take care of mysterious entities straight out of hell, it still feels like true horror in real life too!

On a more serious note, I like the detail you put on making cutscenes extra creepy with those subliminal frames appearing for a split second. The lifeless text-to-speech voicing also works well for creating unnerving atmosphere. My favorite part was the escape from horde of businessmen, reminiscent of Garry's Mod NextBots (actually promising material to base a horror game on in spite of being a meme!). Despite the humorous nature of the game, it was still quite exciting to run away from murderous 2D sprites and the energetic chase music definitely is one of the reasons for that.

I wish there was a way to skip the jail cutscene though as it takes more than one attempt to complete this part. Overall, it definitely would be fun to play a full game about escaping a huge office building filled with deadly entities and fast-paced mini-games!

Thank you for submitting your game to the 'Out of Stock' jam!

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:0 Thank you!

The game was more-so inspired by the Venge remastered chase sequences than Nextbots since the game started development before the YouTube nextbot videos started showing up in my recommended, the nextbot looking NPCs were almost like a happy side-effect XD

The cutscene skipping mechanic is kind of funny, I originally meant to add that in but i then realized that I'd have to hard-code every single event that happens in the cutscenes so it would happen after the cutscenes ended aswell, and since i myself managed to beat the game in under 2 minutes i thought it'd be fine to just remove it XD. I'll try to add in some way to fast-forward cutscenes after the voting ends however!

I am also thinking of indeed turning it into a full game, tho keeping myself motivated when i don't have a hard deadline and when possibly no one would play the game once it's finished is quite terrifying and it's kinda why i joined the game jam XD

Thank you for the really nice light-hearted review!! And thank you for hosting this game jam! I learnt a heck of a lot from it and i legit managed to publish a game for once, which is incredibly hard for me since I've been making games for the past like 5-6 years and i didn't manage to even publish one single game before this game. Seeing everyone playing my game and reviewing it has legit made my month xD