This is amazing in a way I haven't experienced in a long while.
First, the art. I love love love LOVE the artstyle, I was always a sucker for this painting style. I reminded me alot of Fear and Hunger's artstyle. Also, The Guide is WAY TOO CLOSE so the camera, I could almost feel his onion smelling breath (in a good way!!). The way he is a rather dark object in a rather light background makes my eyes gravitate toward him, which is so weird and uncomfortable because, again, HE'S TOO CLOSE BACK OFF (in a good way!!)! Props to the artist!!
Then, the story. The use of restarting the game was interesting, it's always interesting to see how these kinds of stuff can be utilized. Also, this game DID NOT felt like it was 1k words long. You must have removed the choices from the counting, because there's NO way you managed to make such an interesting story in 1k words only, it genuiely felt more like 3k, Props to the writer (which seems to be you, so props to you :) )
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The whole "killed 2 people lol" was a bit expected, sure, but I was more curious regarding the situationship we found ourselves into. Where AM I? Who is The Guide?? Why does he call me "Miss Pumpkin"??? Atleast in my case, these questions haven't got an answer. Perhaps I missed something (Haven't got Ending D, but I'm guessing it has something to do with the name input or the last choice. I'll try to get it again after writing this review, and perhaps my questions will get an anwser.), or maybe these questions were/will be anwsered in another game, or maybe they had to be left ambiguous due to the word limit. Even so, the ending felt satisfying enough, even without all the answers :)
EDIT: Totally ignored the featured games. Pretty sure this game takes place in a similar place as the rest of the Purgatoryverse series, and perhaps The Guide is a character from the series too, so I guess the questions have answers after all :D)
In the end, this was an amazing short game, props to everyone who worked on it, everything was amazing!! Definetly my new favourite entry to this game jam, and hopefully way more people check it out!!!