I really liked this game! It’s really relaxing and cozy and the color choices really evoke that nostalgic “early morning” feeling rather than a “spooky” pitch-black night.
Despite the art being simple, it was really expressive in the important parts. Some things I can appreciate are: the running back animation(it’s cute), and how the light sprites slowly pulsed. The aliased borders of light overlays give it an aura-like feeling; was that intended? It serves it’s job really well~
One thing I think you could do that would be interesting is, since the concept centers around you taking them back home, maybe you could have a drawn paper map the player could reference?
Nice job!