I really love this game and highly recommend it!
The gameplay itself consists of some easy puzzles and a pretty good story. Even though the gameplay is not that challenging, the variety of what you have to do in order to pursue your goal makes it fun to solve those puzzles.
I played the game multiple times in order to find all of the endings and therefore I appreciate that you can skip through the dioalogues by holding the space bar.
I recommend saving regularly! There are some minor bugs when entering the item menu. At some points the game gives you an error and you have to restart it. But even so...
Keep up the good work! I'd like to see more of this game.
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I'd really like to know more about the lore and the secrets that were mentioned.
What the game gives us and what I think about it:
Ian Davis and Ares Petrova are siblings, but she is only his half-sister.
They at least don't share the same mother. I assume that because the woman in the photograph with baby Ian is not the same as in the family picture.
The other person on the telephone tried to get information about Ians father and asked why Ares stays at home. Maybe the school called and tried to get further informaion.
Before Ares kicked us out of her room she mentioned her father. I'm not sure, if he is really just travelling or rather just dead. For two reasons. First: It sounds like he has not much contact to Ares or the person on the telephone, which called twice in a short time because of that. Second: One of the heads in the basement was a man. Because of the missing eyes and the shorter looking hair it might not be him, but it could be the fathers head.
Anya Petrova died because of suicide days before her wedding.
Anyas birthday is 11/12 and the password for the parents bedroom.
A Wedding date is 12/20.
The picture in Ians pocket with his mother (probably) dates 06/17.
Anya Petrova is probably Ares mother. They at least share the same name.
If this was Ians mother than they (Ares mother and Anya) must be related, because of the same surname. Like sisters for example. And there was no clue that would let me think that it is so. The only thing that makes it plausible is that Anya as Ares mother died 50 days before her wedding day, which contradicts the newspaper article a little. This doesn't seem like days before her wedding. Nevertheless, her being Ares mother sounds more plausible right now to me.
My theory about the story behind Ian and Ares is that Anya Petrova didn't kill herself as mentioned in the newspaper. She was killed and I think it might have been Ares who did it. At least Ians line 'Now your little secret is safe with your big brother.' lets me think she might have been involved. It could have been an accident. Even so either intended or accidentally it would explain why she seems traumatized. (That or maybe because her brother seems to like collecting heads of his guests).