"The End?"
I had plenty of fun playing this. First I really like your implementation of the horror+solitude themes. I enjoyed the weird "It was only a dream. Now bear's talking" ending, it's very appropriate. I think the game felt surreal at least in some parts, which given the ending was intended. I like the dialogs, for example the cat being a cat when talking about the rats, I'll deal about them if I feel like it. One thing I really liked was that the dialogs did not interrupt exploration. The 3D part is functional, there are several environments and the view is good but I love the 2D parts of the art, the portraits look great and so do all the enemies, I took some notes that I liked The Rat King and the Moon dog? but all of these really. I also really like the music as you reach the basement. I like the push-your-luck aspect of the combat, as you don't want to use your lifes too early, and in the same time the more into the game the less you want to die with remaining lifes left. I restarted twice. I think I won the game with one remaining life and was very lucky with the two last encounters so from my experience the difficulty was appropriate, which is something I highly value.
I can see the game benefit from just a few extra consumables. Tecnically I'd say movement is a bit slow but with the tight levels it was not much of a problem here.
That's a very cool and original entry, thanks for sharing.