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it's giving American Deepseek. 5/5

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Thanks for telling me about the music. You were right, so I went back and changed a lot of the songs to something more downtempo.

Thanks for telling me. Will try to fix that soon. Sorry you couldn't finish the whole thing - I did test it, but bugs have a way of slipping through. Could I ask what browser you were using? It worked for me when I was testing using both Brave Browser and Firefox.

Edit: I've tested the game using Firefox, Brave Browser, Opera Browser, Microsoft Edge, and Google Chrome. I couldn't recreate the error. I'll have to put the bugfixing on hold, since I can' t exactly fix a bug if it doesn't show up for me.

I clicked every word my first playthrough and it was great seeing how everything is progressively erased. I read it as a gesture at the fallibility of memory, degradation over time, and how individual experience is ultimately just a sliver of the reality that can never be captured in full. The writing is awesome too.

everything’s constantly in some state of appearance and reappearance"

That's what I get for not looking that close at the playlist/credits section. Nice to see another fan of the story out in the wild!

Fun game. I imagine one person sitting calmly in the center with a random parser game while another runs around like your average adventure monkey, slamming doors and fiddling with ropes and marbles.

Genius concept. It's short, but incredibly well done.

I'm a sucker for multiverse type stories, and this one nails the concept. I'm also a sucker for the idea of running a safe shelter/rest stop in the middle of the apocalypse. It's fun to see the society that would arise in this situation.

Was reminded of the story "And Then There Were (N-One)" by Sarah Pinkser. That one's a murder mystery, though, so I think it's darker in tone, despite its slightly more hopeful setting.

When a fawn is born, it is slick and bare and yet walks only with the vague dreaminess of one long slumbering. It knows already which berries are wholesome, which poison. The forest floor is thick with seeds that germinate only in fire.

Interesting and moody writing. I like the idea of wandering a strange and holy place that seems to be filled with fragments of other realities. Mazes like this remind me of Piranesi by Susanna Clarke.

Thank you. I'll submit it there, I guess, since it does fit the concept.

Came into this with an inkling of what it would be about, and it delivered everything I expected and did it well. Peak game, made me feel things 5/5

Thanks for the feedback. Just added a settings menu where you can change the speed of the scrolling text as well as the font size. Having other people look at the game helps with this kind of thing.

Hey there! I tried playing the game and it had a really interesting start, but I got stuck in the Factotum's Hut because I did "sit on hammock" and then couldn't find any commands that would get me out of the hammock. Tried "get off hammock", "get out of hammock", "out", "leave", "stand up", but no dice. Am I missing something?

Was not expecting Celeste mini golf, was pleasantly surprised. They really made Celeste into everything.

Came for the art, stayed for the alternate universe bird Christianity. Great game.

Clicked "Colophon" at the start and couldn't get back to the main menu, so I had to refresh to actually play the game.

Driving through small towns and strip malls in the night and rain is a very specific American experience for me. Actually, the whole story reminds me of places I've been. I'm familiar with the suburban environment where everyone is separated in their own house and you need a car to get anywhere, where there isn't much to do and not many people to talk to. Even with the people you do know that you could call "friends", there still isn't much to talk about and you're never really sure what to say to each other. At least, it was like that for me.

Got the ending where you tell Charlie how you feel, but I found it interesting how there wasn't a major love confession or something, which part of me expected. Instead there's only a promise to meet up later, which might turn into something or might not. I found myself thinking that it's still possible for these people to drift apart and eventually stop talking to each other, because that's what happened in my life.

Creepy. I liked it.

The modern fairy tale we need but don't deserve, better than Rapunzel

It's nice to see a timeline where Karen and Emily are out there living their best lives. This is wholesome. Makes me hungry.

when the SHOT is BIG

Cool project. Really like the various types of interactivity and how different each minigame is. The pill one in particular gets at the mundanity of living through a daily routine without end, thinking about how strange it is that this is what you wanted and now have.

It's like an interactive version of a weird animation you find on Youtube at 3am. Or a collection of obscure Flash games that might have existed in the 2010s.

If you like acid trips, you should totally get this game. Trust me.

Why is this so quality

Not the Among Us fan content we deserve, but what we need. sus/10

For anyone reading, the game takes a few minutes to load in browser so just wait a bit.

Fascinating gameplay, I suck at Minesweeper so I also suck at this, but once I figured out what left-click and right-click do it was really engaging. Can see myself spending hours on this.

Pretty topical.

Peak shitpost, YOU DIED/10 (with bonus points for realistic sound effects)

JUMPING JACKS

Made me realize I never actually played the real Super Mario game before. Why is 1-1 so hard

Edit: Apparently feet collision is bugged, that's part of it

Pretty sus

In all seriousness cute art. Rocking the pixel Gameboy style

sus

CLASSIC

I really liked this game. Ending B was my favorite.

I got the one where
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Basically I said the lottery numbers were the only thing I wanted, when obviously people want the lottery money and not just the numbers, so I was screwed over when I tried to exchange them for the money. Hindsight is 20/20!

Reminds me of https://slitherpunk.itch.io/voidland-mystery-goodnight. Stace's plotline, my favorite, gave me Death by Powerpoint vibes. Her story was trippy af in a good way.

This exactly. It's so funny. Peak

A pleasantly creepy experience, and I'm a huge fan of the ending. Ouch.

This is a really creepy game! Unsettling in a subtle way and raises fun questions about identity. Reminds me of this story I read a while back.

This one had me hooked from the start. Worms! Worms!!

I've never seen an Inform game like this before too. Kudos for getting such an unusual format to work in 4 hours.

Really interesting. Reminiscent of Annihilation like Zachary said (seconding his recommendation, it goes hard) but what it really reminded me of was a game we played in middle school biology when the teacher wanted to demonstrate disease transmission. We had to group up in pairs and try to avoid being infected.

 If expanded, more character work would help with the guessing game stuff and make the ending more emotionally fraught. Awesome concept.