Absolutely delightful. Love the UI, the art, the concept, and that you fit four pets and three endings into a 500 word game! Would pet the slime again.
Really enjoyed this! I interpreted the monster to be alcoholism specifically, although I see you clarified in another comment that it could be any addiction. The game does a great job overall of offering enough details to allow a specific interpretation, while still remaining general enough for different people to read different meanings into it. Good stuff, thanks for sharing.
Yeah I can see this game spider-webbing out into a massive number of options/endings if you wanted it to. Even at its current size, when I sent it around to my friends, none of us got the same ending! Feel free to hit me up at litrouke at gmail any time to connect about game stuff.
This is stunning. I love that this engine allows you not to choose at decision points, and that the UI foregrounds your writing, which is fantastically terse and searing. Gorgeous game, and massive for a jam game completed within a short time! If you're ever open to collaboration (or just shooting the shit about ideas), that would be sick.
hey there! this is a pretty old game, so you may run into support issues if you're accessing it on mobile. if you're on the computer, you should be able to open it in any browser and press the pink link near the bottom labeled "> start game"
One of the endings can be unlocked by failing the vocab game (unconscionable, I know :P). The final ending is unlocked by playing through all three levels and following your friend's advice. Glad you enjoyed!!
Hi there! Thanks so much for your comment, and I'm really flattered that you want to share the game so much.
All translations are by submitted by volunteers, so it's understandable there are some mistakes. Please do reach out by email (litrouke at gmail) so we can talk more. I'd be happy to update the game with corrections :)
Holy moly, thank you so much for this incredibly thorough and kind review. I've been thinking about it non-stop at work since I read it. Comparing this game favorably to Kentucky Route Zero and SH... I'm really flattered. THANK YOU. (Incidentally, my very first playtester made the same remark about the T-rex plushie, but Mr. Protagonist has no time for our sentimental frivolities.) So glad you enjoyed the game, and your review single-handedly re-motivated me to work on another game set in the same universe.
(Also, I definitely recommend A Dark Room. It's very different from this, but it's another good IF-adjacent game that will keep your attention with short bursts of text/narrative!)
Hey! It's most likely a compatibility issue with a browser extension, probably an adblocker or cookie remover. Whitelisting itch.io in your extensions should resolve it.
Hey! I made it using Twine, a free low-code game dev tool. If you look for Twine on reddit, you can find a link to the Twine Discord where expert coders help out new ones.
For this game, 90% of the effects were accomplished through CSS. There's very little "actual" coding (Javascript, etc.) going on, other than some basic variable tracking. Hope that helps!
hey sorry to hear that. it's possible that a browser add-on is blocking the game from loading. i often have to whitelist specific game pages in my browser's adblocker for them to load properly. hope that helps!
Thank you!! This is a great video -- the bit about wanting a ghost friend cracked me up. Nice selection on games on your channel too.... will be checking it out further!
Definitely not cheating! You can get the good and bad endings by playing through the game normally. For the "final" ending, check out the hint I posted to the previous commenter about turning off the phone in-game. Good luck!
