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So fun! Especially once it clicked that not everyone should be taken for their word, and that there may be more normal explanations for what some experienced. 

Very challenging at times, but everything was fair in retrospect. It took me way too long to see the "next" button on the hammocks (not the game's fault) which stumped me for a while. 

A few suggestions:

-An in-game notepad would have been nice but wasn't necessary.

-It wasn't obvious (to me) that brimstone is synonymous with sulfur

-The solution has 3,5 as L, but L is not in the clue sets. The correct answer according to cluesetI.1 is A ( _ _ _ _ A). I was given a checkmark for clue set 1 even before I "fixed" 3,5 and put in L.

- A checkmark did not appear over cluesetI.3, even though I had SWTXU in the correct positions, until I put "L" in 3,5.

-I didn't know how to undo a box after I placed a letter, which made things messy while figuring things out. (I used X's as placeholders where I screwed up)

-The cypher was otherwise great, and II.1/II.2 cleverly explained shape order, the behavior of the square/circle, and what a shape does if their path is blocked. 

Overall, would recommend to fans of the Obra Dinn.


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Thank you so much for playing and the comment. It means a lot!

It's easy to get blind spots when testing your own game, especially one that's been made in 10 days. So your feedback has been very helpful! I'll use some of the points you mentioned to improve it in a post-jam version. :)

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I agree, the game doesn't make it clear enough that brimstone is sulfur. The only clue is when you're speaking to Elijah the engineer, he says he smelled brimstone and you, in turn, ask him when he smelled the sulfur. As for the letter "L", it's meant to be filled in last and since it was the only letter left after you've filled all the other letters, I didn't add it to clue set 3 (Maybe I should have though.). Your point about undoing is very good, I'll make it clearer when I update the game.