Quite different from the other entries I’ve played, but beautiful in its own way. (Also, I wrote some of this some time ago and got interrupted, I didn’t check sentence by sentence if everything I had written was still true about the current version of the game. Also, I’m making this feedback a bit shorter than I could want to, to save time writing it, sorry about that.)
Story
Somewhat sad, but not really scary. And the friendship between the characters was nice (I like when characters care about each other for other reasons than romance). And a nice change of pace both from the horror entries and the comedy ones.
And I’m not sure how to pronounce the MC’s name, but I’m sorta guessing it ends in something that sounds like “life” or “leaf”, and the first part sounds related to break, so that seems to make sense.
Audio
The music is beautiful (I particularly like the part that plays when the characters are in the forest) and goes well with the art. The different themes seem consistent with each other and they also seem to fit the moods of the MC.
Art
I like how some of the art, especially plants, is in colour and some of it (buildings and inserts/CGs) is in black and white. The art also looks like it was made with love, which I think goes well with the theme of the game.
UI and accessibility
The UI using black and white fits the artstyle and the sad mood. And you have the usual accessibility features of Ren’Py. But if I may nitpick, I think the quick menu buttons are hard to read in front of the forest background. But yeah, quick menu readability issues seem to be kinda common in Ren’Py VNs.
Marketing
The game page seems to answer all the questions I would have about the game, including the wordcount. I also see several screenshots on it.
And the logo fits both the mood of the story and the artstyle of the game. And the text in it is easy to read.
Other
What I liked most: the atmosphere that permeates the writing, music and art all at once.
What I’d suggest changing: perhaps you could make the quick menu easier to see in the forest scene.