i liked this one. my windows installation gave me a lot of guff about downloading, extracting, and running it. XNA be like that I guess. Or maybe it's because the executable doesn't have a digital signature? I'm not sure, don't quote me on this
The gameplay loop gets samey very fast, but the minigame itself is not bad, if you don't mind a bit of RNG. What I didn't like though is that the functionality of items you get is not explained anywhere. Some of them increase your sanity, but the rest don't do anything, or they do something I didn't notice?
Oh and rooms with 24 initial strength/however you call it is a bit much. Its up to your luck when you find and hit the first space, and then it gets significantly easier, but this also means that the variance of how much sanity a 24 room will cost you is extremely high -> basically those rooms decide whether your run is a bust or not.
I liked the oldschool aesthetic of the game, and sound/audio fits it nicely.
nice game/5