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Thank you so much for the kind feedback!

This is a wonderful game!! I had so much fun playing this. The concept is great and you executed it perfectly. The artstyle is quite cool and so are the music and sound effects. The dialogue is fun, and the puzzles are refreshing and made me think on top of the box. Did not feel too hard.  

Only feedback I have is  I'm not sure if I dragged hammer man out of the screen the intended way. I just positioned the hammer man game menu above the settings button and dragged it down till hammerman popped out. He did get stuck for a bit but I just moved with the arrow keys a bit and eventually he popped completely out. After I did this I saw breakable blocks on the top left, so I guess that's the intended way out? 

Anyway the game is also very well polished in terms of animation and highlighting items of interest with different colors. Overall really great job. 

Keep up the amazing work!

nice game!

This is a well polished game! I love the cute artstyle of the game and the sound track is sooo good. I was just listening to the background music  for a solid 5 minutes without playing hahaha. The idea of possessing dead bodies is cool, and it's very nice how you designed puzzles around that. For example the bat to fly, or the goblin to cut the wire powering a door. I got to the point after the scale of 18 units, and managed to open the open the door. However afterwards I think i left my body while in the poison mist and it broke the game. My character kept getting pushed upwards no matter what I did. I could move sideways, but if I try to go down my character would barely move :((. I posted a pic below of where this happened, but yeah sucks that I couldn't continue. I will give it another shot later.

Overall was still fun to play and figure out how to do the puzzles so far. Great job! 

Keep up the good work.

Thanks for your kind feedback! I did already dial the difficulty a bit due to reviews from others hehe, all the minigames need more careful tuning imo. 

Yes I did see how different they are and it is quite creative. Though I think you can complete the game using only one of the characters, unless there was more to the solar panels than providing light. Regardless it's a well-executed lovely game, just something to keep in mind if you do pursue this concept.

great game! Had fun trying to find all the endings

Simple concept but you managed to make it fun! This is such a creepy ass game. I managed to find all endings except the one with the hint "You have a job to do". The green world ending particularly was so weird and creepy hahaha. Sound design is perfect and kept me on edge the whole time, especially the random "HIDE" jesus. I do think the hitboxes of the items in the store could be bigger so it's easier to interact, but that's all the feedback I have. I loved that one of the endings requires you to sleep the whole 5 days, that's the first one I got. 

Also, not sure if you are supposed to do this but I spent a couple minutes trying to shove the guy into my house. I got them in my shower for uh, reasons.

Anyway well done! Keep up the great work.

Hey there! Here's my game: https://itch.io/jam/game-off-2024/rate/3149653#post-11572933

I will play yours in the weekend.

glad you enjoyed the atmosphere. Was there any particular minigame you felt lacking?

Thanks for the feedback! I did want to control the ghost hunting minigame to guarantee a certain amount of good ghosts every run, but ran out of time before implementing it. Glad you enjoyed the game!

hope you liked it!

very fun coop game!

Very cool game and concept! I played it with my fiance and we had a lot of fun. The idea is very nice and I think you can expand on this quite a lot. The artstyle is lovely too, and the sound effects are nice. If you want to expand on this, I think you should make Ellie and Dee more distinct and give each clear purposes that the other cannot fulfill. Otherwise, wonderful game. 

Keep up the great work!

nice one!

Nice that you did voice acting for the characters, adds a nice touch even though the voice is out of sync sometimes. Having many minigames is nice and keeps it refreshing, my favorite was the shooting skeletons one though I did cheese by spamming fire and alternating my direction hehe. I found the ending where you get married to the girl very funny. Cool graphics, although they are wildly disproportionate in scale, but that is more nitpicking.

Keep it up!

Nice game!

Cool game! I loved the pixel art a lot, especially the pods at the end. The music was super nice to listen to throughout, props to the composer! It was nice exploring and uncovering what the planet has to offer, and it left me wondering what did the player character do before. Nicely done! I did notice that text would get hidden behind some of the walls, see image below. Also the text did move too slowly for my liking.

Keep up the good work!

Very cool horror game!

This was a great experience! You managed to set the atmosphere so nicely with the music and the darkness, creating perfect tension. Especially when that thing appears and the music shifts, it was terrifying the first couple times I saw it. The art is so cute as well. I did struggle a bit with the flashlight, would be nicer to have a stronger light for the flashlight. Also for some objects it was very difficult to interact with them because the interactable text box would disappear as I moved my mouse from the object to the text box, so I had to spam LMB to be able to click the box in time. I love the story telling through the environment, very nicely done. I think I fucked up because I forgot what music grandma listens to, and Aurora woke up, looked in the mirror and grandma was there instead. Not sure if that's the good or bad ending hahahaha, but I like that there are multiple.

extremely polished game!

Cool idea!

Great idea, and the art looks so cute. Unfortunately after the tutorial/calibration the game rarely reacts to my sound anymore, even if the bar fills up fully red. Also the game audio stops when you press calibration and never starts again, which is a shame since it was so good. I was playing on windows 10, not sure if it's an issue on my end or a bug. I loved that you used Anya inspiration hahaha.
I would love to replay this game if I could get the mic to work

Already rated it, great game!

Great concept, well done!

it's fantastic what you did with just a game of chess! The atmosphere, sounds and art are all so creepy and well done. Very unique twist on chess with fun gameplay. I could never kill the queen because I would get into a no-win situation, but I enjoyed playing a lot. Great job!

Keep up the amazing work

Okay I uh forgot to get the invitation letter from Evelyn's Art Studio :D. After I got that I got the popup, but then I ran into the same issue as the others where I can't make a final decision on the culprit :((

I did not see anything clickable other than the phone, receipt and statue. Is the photo in the same drawer or another one? I'll try again soon

What a wonderful experience. Truly great job!

This is simply an astonishing game holy shit. The art is insanely good, the music creates the perfect tension. The gameplay is very unique and quite fun. I loved how the questions varied on each run and that you implemented checkpoint for each interview. It is also quite balanced generally, even though the final interview lasted so long. This is a full game, polished to the last detail. Incredible work, great job. I have nothing else to say about this art piece. 

Keep up the amazing work!

Nice game! If you post a walkthrough it would help quite a bit with people who are lost (me)

I really like the feel of this game. The world was cool, from the space ship to the fungal forest, and the energy plant. I liked the sound track too, and the movement felt quite nice and smooth, especially the jetpack bouncing. I did feel like the clues lead too often to dead ends, everytime I would find a clue, I'd get excited, only to get a message saying haha not here look somewhere else. It's fine in the beginning but I genuinely got lost so often that I stopped playing after an hour or 2. Posting a walkthrough would be nice so people (me included) can experience the full game without feeling stuck. Idk maybe it is just a skill issue.

I was hesitant about the the color palette in the beginning but it grew on me and I did find it visually appealing in the end. I loved how the colors would change as you got closer and closer to some objects. The artstyle as well in general is quite cool, especially the doors with eyes. The story I found engaging which is why I want to replay this game and actually finish it when I have the time to sink into it. 

Keep up the good work!

nice game! I love the artstyle soooo much and the background music/sound effects too. I love the screen fuzz on the edges, and the sound effect when characters say something itneresting. The idea of going into pictures for clues is also very cool. Extremely polished game overall, even the detective's pc has a lot of detail hahaha.

I did not finish the game though because I got stuck. After going into Marina's house and taking a photo of it, I managed to enter the photo and open the drawer and find the phone, statue and sleeping pills. After that I couldn't figure out what to do. Marina would kick me out everytime I would go in, and I couldn't visit Victor anymore. I tried using all my clues on Lucas and in my office but nothing progressed the story further. I do want to finish this game, can you please guide me on what to do next?

Cool hacking game! I played hacknet a bit some years ago and this reminded me of it a lot

very fun game! reminds me a lot of hacknet and uplink. You polished this so well. I love that the cmd line actually looks real, and that you can copy paste from all the various windows. Resizable and repositionable windows are really nice touch too.  The chat is so funny to be honest (yes I did insult everyone I talked with), and the radio is a nice feature. I did spam keywords at some point to get a response from my uncle and cousin, but no complaints there. 

I'm just sad there isn't more of the game to play, it felt quite short even for a game jam. There are so many apps to use but I didn't end up using a lot of them. I read below that you removed a lot of missions because they were too complex, which makes me sad but I understand. That would also explain why there are many apps that aren't too useful. I did notice that the pet of your cousin changes with every run, which is a nice feature hehe.

Well done! Keep up the good work.

Nice strategy game, and good luck with your (school/university I assume) finals!

this is a nice idea, mixing strategy into an otherwise arcade-style game. I like the waypoint system but I think it needs to be explained better in the tutorial and highlighted with visual cues when you set the waypoints. Once I did figure out how to use it, it felt nice flanking the enemy or distracting the circle of laser ships so we can pick them off one by one. The overheating mechanic adds good anti-spam but I do think it can be balanced better with enemy health and weapon damage. I also didn't feel like thinking so I just bought the standard ship every single level and it worked out most of the time hahah, so overall balancing is in order. The sound effects are cool, so are the ships.  I did notice my game would lag severely when I had like 34 ships shooting a shit ton of bullets, but that's probably related to me playing in browser mode. 

I didn't beat the giant at the end unfortunately but I did have fun playing. I think if you improve the movement (imo moving and shooting in the same direction does not leave room for skillful play) and balance, and also polish command mode, you'd have a really nice game in your hands. You're on the right path. 

Keep up the good work!

the link you posted is invalid but I went on your page and found the game anyway. genuinely a wonderful game

This is so great! I had so much fun with this, played it a couple times and tried cheat mode too. I love puzzle games so this was right in my alley. I loved how there are always 9 liars and that they have a feature in common, it helps a lot with the guessing.  The sticky notes are a great addition but they do make the scree a lot more cluttered. The soundtrack in the back is lovely and cute, so is the art. There are so many parameters that kept the game refreshing in every run. Very well polished game!

Keep up the amazing work

Quite fun game!See my msg for more detailed feedback