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Also like. Veering into spoiler territory but for some actual plot/character analysis.

I really like that Angelica's being possessed by her own guardian angel. After falling, her angel likely comes specifically after her, because a human without an angelic protector would logically be a far easier target.

And we don't know how much of what Forcas says is lies- or whether he ever lies at all, he's meant to be testing Angelica's blind obedience faith, not lying to her. But he mentions that he was already assigned to a human in the church, and that he'd be reassigned to Angie if she listened to him... what happens to his initial human then? 

Is this, at least in part, why Forcas wasn't supposed to be helping? He's just trading one human for another, picking favorites instead of following his duty and being a steadfast protector. And yet, his "picking favorites" is based on a sense of morality and empathy: he doesn't want to ignore a helpless innocent while protecting one of the fundamentalist cultists who's hurting them.

All in all, I really like how Forcas is constantly compared negatively to the divine, and even takes his name from demonology- and yet, when push comes to shove, he's truly caring and merciful while the heavens are cold and detached, only not rebelling outright because he'd lose his position to help if he did.

Forcas, on his way to try to convince you to trust him while saying "don't start assuming I'm evil just yet", describing himself as a "suspicious angel reeking of old man energy" and occasionally trying to seem menacing in order to scare you into obeying:

Condemning Bok-su's actions not because she shouldn't have ruined Da-jeong's life, or because she shouldn't have been willing to sink to the depths of any crime, risking life in prison or death itself, all in name of a revenge that could never hope to fulfill her-

But because my man Myeong-hoon seemed like a bona fide sweetie pie!!! Go kill someone ELSE Bok-su!!!! You big stupid poopoo head!!!!!

I really like the way you executed the scares. I expected failing situation 1 would have me suddenly jumpscared without warning, but it didn't. Instead you get a text box prompting you to realize what'll happen and not proceeding until you click through- it gave me a chance to ready myself while still being eerie and foreboding.

The twist was also very fun, although I have to say I was also a little disappointed to see the original gameplay loop set in situation 1 change. It was creative and fun, and I would gladly play a puzzle/horror game based on that sort of premise.

I love how saying you have hay fever isn't an option, but eating a rose is. Those things have thorns.... But for a guy this cute, let's be honest, I'd do the same.

Man, I feel bad for Teddy. Poor boy doesn't need to come out of this with MORE trauma....

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.

As someone who doesn't know a single thing about baseball, I now do not want to learn anything unless it's like this for real.

Found myself surprisingly kind of loving this. The premise is refreshing in its refusal to justify being silly and ridiculous, the art is adorable, and the endings are funny. I hope you guys do decide to someday come back to this and add more endings.

Short, but never rushed or poorly fleshed out. Elegant choice mechanics whose juxtaposition creates lifelike nuance; an interesting spin on a common plot, and, lastly, beautiful prose- all resulting in a captivating game.

It's not rare for even monsters and inhuman threats to have some sort of value system and integrity of their own, making them more than a thoughtless obstacle for the protagonist, and I enjoyed the idea of the siren that manipulates and kills, yet only consumes prey that surrenders to her seduction of its own volition, rather than hunting ruthlessly, and is willing to engage in honest discussion and admission of her nature- but my favorite part is probably the love/lust passage upon choosing lust: the genuine smile and freely given parting kiss seem to not make sense unless read as an act of actual goodwill. 

Even with her candidly admitting that parting ways unharmed is the best that can happen, and tangibly witnessing death in the other endings, it can be hard to shake the hope that where mutual goodwill and cordiality can be found, there can be coexistence; having apparent redeeming qualities only makes the monster more dangerously misleading, and it seems ironically rather unintentional by her.

(Of course, it's possible that I'm being a sucker, and she does this on purpose to make victims struggle less and give herself a less frightening reputation- but even then, it's interesting how this is achieved by genuine integrity, especially given that she doesn't seem to at all resent humans or revel in their pain, only feed on them.)

well you can't just say that and not tell us what the other ones are. Go on, share it with the class.

Honestly, the one thing that genuinely bothered me was that the dialogue's "glitch" effect made it wayyy too hard to understand what my guy was saying. It got hard to play the games without hearing the rules, and even to get scared when I just didn't hear the dialogue that should unnerve me. Some subtitles or less glitched filtering would have been really nice.

Besides that, I really liked the name and the design for our little buddy, the perfect mix of "genuinely something kids could play with" and "oh, something's wrong here". The gameplay in the first game was great, at the same time providing a fun challenge and characterizing our little buddy as controlling, untrustworty, and willing to cheat to make things go his way. For the same reason, I really liked the last game with the questions, and the "choices" between "yes" and "yes". Genuinely fun to play, interesting characterization.

That said- although it's just a personal opinion, and maybe the dialogue I couldn't hear helped with that- I found the "scary images" in the middle two games and some jumpscares to be a little gratuitous and out of nowhere. "The character in the game is real and wants out" is fun, but it seemed bland for that to just lead to spamming creepy pictures. The ending was still good, but I felt like it could have been more interesting to lean into the "do what I say" aspect with more questions in the last game, slowly going from "questions" to "just outright commands" and leading to the climax like that- maybe he forces you to help him escape the game, or maybe he tries to force you into something and attacks you when you disobey. Again, just my two cents.

Overall, very fun game, and usually I'm not even that into analog horror.

Felt so sad that there wasn't a win condition where Melony actually just survives :(

Still a really good game though, simple yet elegant mechanics that are made far more interesting by the creative story and adorable art. I'd read a full comic or cartoon based on this little slime's story.

Same thing happened to me on two runs in a row, and I can't seem to get any other kind of ending. The most I managed to progress with Remie was getting her to say that she's rusty with people but was willing to try, then trying to interact with her just gives me her in her room fidgeting and a "what's she doing?" from the narrator. I spent like fifteen minutes managing rats and having Karina give me the silent treatment while I waited on Remie but no go.

The only CG I managed to find was getting buried immediately if you scream at Karina at the start, which I'm assuming is also what happens if the rats bite you to death or you piss Karina off too much in other ways?

Either way, I'd love an endings guide of some sort. I like the characters but I am very confused.

I'm not sure I'm encountering a bug, but my game won't progress in any way past "WAIT..." hovering on top of the screen. It doesn't scroll down like "END" did, either. 

I was expecting for the "wait" text to either scroll down so I could do something, or to mean that there was something I could still do on that black screen, but nothing seems to happen. It's otherwise a fine place to end the game, but the text seems to outright affirm that there's still things to do without giving me any chance to do anything.

chipmunks.

"I don't miss her" is a lie but "I love you" also is. Well played; you really got the most depression-mileage out of every single word in this little story.

I still can't help but feel like, maybe, they're better with each other than without (even though they definitely shouldn't be dating)- when you're depressed, sometimes you just need someone to commiserate with, rather than practical but unwanted advice. It must be hell never getting to lie for privacy on a sensitive subject, or tell a white lie not to hurt someone's feelings, so it must also be really nice to find someone who understands that problem.

those aren't squirrels,that's just the LSD he took and he knows it.

Hope someone manages to kill the prince one of these days. Nice story.

I'd say doing this with your shareholders seems like an unsustainable business model, but I guess I'm not an expert on the subject.

GOTY 2023

The ending's unhinged in the best way possible, 11/10.

....If the pond scum really can talk, and the father isn't just hallucinating. What could capture a child's fancy more than a magic lake? One that never seemed too concerned about the murders of innocent people. One that seemed almost eager to swallow more and more bodies....

This is both adorable and hilarious. Loved it.

Plot twist of the century, 11/10. Shame about those poor bunnies though, plus Carter moving away. Hope Benjamin goes to therapy soon.

Christ, this was stressful in the very best way possible. I hope we get the girls' full story soon. I couldn't help but fear that what Sam ran into at the end wasn't Mel, given the verse about the beast's shameful lies...

With all the horror games you made, I expected a Doki Doki Literature Club style twist. I played all the way through nervously waiting for some jumpscare or something then it never came. I considered playing again while "cheating" to see if horror elements came then, but was both too cowardly and too impatient with the relatively long timer between numbers to do so. 10/10 experience.

the true horror here is how much the game will make you cry. Meowmie...

Nice little game. I do wish it had some sound, and the falling rocks were hard to avoid, but the story was pretty good. The font was surprisingly readable backwards, albeit still a bit of a headache.

I have to say, this gets a lot more interesting having played Upstream. You're really going to turn salmon into a horror genre, at this rate.

I hope you manage to do something with it eventually! I loved this concept.

Damn, Note Dude doesn't mess around.

This game is oddly adorable. The pizza-making gameplay was fun, the story was a bit predictable but interesting, and overall it was just a nice experience. Not particularly scary, but I found myself not particularly caring.

I think I found a bug: on day 1, I got curious, explored the desert, and found a note on another bunker. On day 2 nothing happened, I wasn't prompted to do anything, waited a bit, and was prompted to sleep. I assume I was meant to try to meet the person on that bunker and find the note? I suppose it's a more than understandable glitch given the time given.

That said, I still felt like the game lacked a lot of story. The protagonist's tiny, one-room bunker seems meant to be claustrophobic and sad, but together with the lack of expanding upon the plot (only mentioned in the description) it just made me confused. Where does the protagonist get food?  What is the windmaker for? Does it create electricity? Food? Does it just fight off sandstorms? Why do sandstorms matter underground? Day 3 felt like one big letdown, as the protagonist's reaction to the windmaker's malfunction made me just lose interest in the concept, as the worldbuilding felt empty.

This game seems like it wants to be a walking sim- carried by the plot, without much challenge in the gameplay, only an interesting world to explore. The problem was, there just wasn't a plot.

Short and sweet. Well, not sweet, but. You know.

After getting the normal ending in my first run, and the good ending in my second, I find myself unwilling to try the bad ending... for several reasons. The good ending was quite interesting, though. It amused me how, a few minutes before it triggered, I was thinking that I envied Aj's situation in it.

Great game, I loved the designs for the huntsman and the wolf.

Most games based on classic stories like this tend to try to change the very premise by making little red more dangerous than the wolf, making the wolf the main character, or something of the sort- so the fact that you managed to make a game that felt new and compelling while being faithful to the original story (to the point the normal ending was the same) was interesting.

I did wish there was a bit more variation in what the wolf did, or that picking flowers let you get new endings. That being said, I can see how a man-eating wolf would be a bit predictable in just trying to eat people, and for a game meant to be short this was great- it just feels like it has even more to offer.

Honestly, I'd say "absolutely no twists" is an apt description, the story went in no direction that didn't feel expected- not that this is bad, quite on the contrary! Game's fun. I only wish it took less time to unlock the code. The appearance of numbers is triggered by dying, right? It wasn't clear if one needed to die in different locations, just die often, or what.

got to 136 and lost count because I could no longer see the number properly. 11/10.