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I was very positively surprised by how much I loved this game. The baffling premise and lack of initial explaination left me afraid this would only be a loose bag of non-sequiturs, but instead I found a story whose wild premise catches the player's attention to draw them into a world with very human tales, only highlit by the strangeness of the setting and jokes.

The Workie and Stranger draw more obvious and tangible parallels to real life, but the more fantastic and diegetic reasonings of the others are both fun to read and make the world feel more genuine, building nicely into the theme of people from different walks of life meeting by chance. I cracked up at the stranger, at a loss for words, trying to express themself with a meme, only for nobody to know what they were talking about.

It's rare to see a writer so aptly capture such different backgrounds, lived experiences, and perspectives without flanderizing or demonizing any of them, and even rarer to see it done with a central queer character in a straight crowd. I can't help admitting I'm biased to them, if only because they're who I relate to most.

It feels a bit silly to talk so seriously about the game after that ending, but I loved that part too. It was funny and ironic without being disingenuous about the strange earnestness before, and I found myself laughing at the gambler with a tinge of melancholy for my beloved stranger.


TL;DR- dunno what to say, it's weird and silly and I really liked it.

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 is one of the most thoughtful comments I've ever received, thank you so so SO much!💜

I  wanted to show a whole smorgasbord of dysfunctional masculinities, and I'm really proud especially of some of the subtler ways that the characters suck, like the Wagie clearly looking to the Gambler for approval constantly because he's the most Big Boy Alpha in the room.

I really love hearing about people's favourite character! Somehow they're all good. Will I ever pull that off again??? Hopefully! The stranger is such a like, if you're the right kind of person it's going to shoot straight into your soul, which makes sense, coz they're comprised at least partly of mine (although not quite autobiographical as some folks have assumed lmao). Personally, I just can't get over my beloved cowboy as like basically a flawless beautiful kind humble fellow who is also maybe the biggest freak of them all, but in a way that's so ridiculous it's hard to take seriously.

Thank you again so much for playing and sharing such beautiful thoughts :) i'm gonna keep telling weird stories about weird people and I hope you enjoy them! (Perhaps chuck me a follow? :3) I think you might like City of Piss a lot too, by the by!