I really enjoyed the story in this game. Point and click games are hard to do well, but you did a great job with creating the vibes of a sad, also scary psychological game. The puzzles are overall good and aren't too easy or too hard.

I took note of some things you may want to consider:

• I would make the arrows for room switching more obvious. They're hard to see on the white backgrounds. Perhaps just add a black outline.
• I would add an extra indicator the door has been unlocked. With the first puzzle, it wasn't clear to me that I got it correct. You can add text which tells you something opened, or if the code failed.
• I think the dialogue tree's could use some work. Whether you're using the arrow keys or clicking, there should be some way to tell which dialogue option I have selected.
• I failed the count at the end and the kid got me, and after that I was done. I like the idea of multiple endings, but you should add some kind of checkpoint system so players don't need to start over, unless they want to.
• I think some of the puzzles could use some clarity, but as I said overall they're good.

Overall excellent work on your first jam. It's good to see someone else do a story-focused game. You should make more games like this in the future!

Unfortunately wasn't able to progress past this point. Putting in the code didn't do anything no matter how much I tried. The story behind the game is interesting; dealing with grief and survivor's guilt is hard. Good job (ᵔᴥᵔ)

A nice game with a great story. Struggled a bit on the first puzzle because of several ways of interpreting it. Great job!

I SCREAMED IN THE ROOM WITH KASANE TETO!!!!!!! I had problems with the first puzzle so i just figured out in trial and error, but other than that the other ones were pretty ok! I had to play the game again like 3 times to get the ending 5 so if i had a suggestion would be maybe increasing the timer of 60 seconds bc it takes a while to hear properly the heart beating puzzle. The story made me very sad (positive point ofc) and the game overall is really beautiful, great job and fantastic first game jam entry.

Pretty good conceptually as a first game jam submission and ambitious as well. I like how everything's presented and the story present within it too, plus all of the interactables as well, but I do believe that you already know some of the points that fall flat and I hope my own feedback won't be repetitive with what others have already said but my main point is that some of these puzzles do appear to be difficult for some people to get a grasp at for one reason or another.

For example, the first puzzle the interpretations of it are a bit too many, such as my own: My first was interpreting it as the numbers on the portrait beside the door as a reference and then the green numbers on it being an 8 since I figured I'd try something that was more blunt at first. The problem for me came with the X Green where I figured it meant to multiply the prior number by whatever Green was. With my interpretation coming out wrong I turned instead to consider alternatives such as Green meaning the Yellow and Blue numbers added together since they mix to green or maybe it was all in reference to the coloring of all the objects in the area/across all three rooms since those colors were present between the three rooms/the last room. I was stuck on that part till I checked these comments to figure out what the X Green ultimately meant, but that's part of the challenge whenever it comes to balancing out puzzles.

This part may have been my own overthinking of the situation, but these things can be very tricky to get right depending on the person, because if the balance is off and the puzzle is the blockade, then that may just be the end of the game for a player eventually. That all said, I'm not going to fault you for that, it is a tricky thing to get right and as we had mentioned before in my own post you responded to, this is part of the experience to come with this kind of thing that you can better implement later. Plus it's better for this experience to come up in a Game Jam rather than a published game where that can seriously hamper your own reviews of it. I think it's best to try to view the puzzles from different people's perspectives to see what conclusions they make come to upon looking at it or maybe to account for where those interpretations can go awry because of one scenario or another. But conceptually the ideas present are very solid and I think the depth to the puzzles and the interpreations of them just need better balancing out between the two in order to make something wonderful for all.

I tend to go into detail like this for things that I get a bit passionate about in the hopes that it can possibly help, but of course that is my own... terribly complex perspective/feedback on it. I very much like the ideas present here and the game as a whole but I figured perhaps it'd be helpful to give this feedback to try to help the craft of it all coming together maybe better if you do find it to be helpful, otherwise oops I did a ramble. Regardless, it's a good game very much so for a first time jam game. I hope you can keep up the good work.

For a begineer, this was awesome! I don't think i've seen a point and click game in a very long time and you executed it nearly perfectly. Amazing job!

I really like the structure of this game, where you get some of the story than do an escape room that's a good loop! while I do think it's clever idea to have the heart beat spell out the code, i tend to be quite tone deaf so i wasn't able to understand it unfortunately I'm sorry  , I would like if there was some sort of visual indication to help and distinctly different noises. I was also struggling to understand the X symbol as i thought it meant times like blank x green, would mean 0 X 8 = 0. I think it would be better if it there was some message saying like count green - blue for example, so that it's more clear to understand. 

I also like how well you created tension in the story, the sound design and especially with the time limit of the final puzzle, I think that worked very well. and as I was replaying a few times to try and get to the end, i thought the humour of the speed run ending was well done with the sudden tonal shift. 

also I encountered a bug where i was stuck in a loop talking to monika in case you weren't aware that happens and I'd also like Nyx to be expanded on as I didn't know what relation she was to the protagonist, guessing i thought she was monika's alter ego but nothing came of it. 

overall good effort though!      

Super sad story, but very well done game. I love this type of puzzle games.

I was very confused by the first puzzle because I thought green was supposed to be the sign of infinity, so I thought infinity times 0 is equal to 0. But then I got it and solved it. The next ones where more simple for me. I got the ending where the son catches you.  

Beautiful game and narrative. Good job!

I love this game, the art and dialogue is really good!

The puzzles were also pretty fun :)

Hmm, interesting point-and-click adventure game, I used to love these a lot when I was a kid.

Your narrative is very good. Sad story can be very powerful narrative tool in the video game world, and I thought you did very well.

Good job on your first jam!

I thought this was a very ambitious game, both in its gameplay and also its narrative themes, but I think you did a great job! I like point-n-click games so I found the puzzles enjoyable and intuitive for the most part. Great job for your first jam!

This can be an interesting story, grief and that kind of topic can be entertaining and usually I like sad stories and topics for a variety of personal reasons, though, I’m not a fan of this kind of character or the father family ones, just don’t stick to me haha.

That said, I would liked to know more about Nyx and the entire strange place the game develops on. I think it can be interesting to explore or can lead to some twists. It’s nice that at the end of the game, you can see what are the important actions that lead to different endings, so you can focus on that easily and I appreciate that touch, more games should do that. :) 

About the gameplay, the audio puzzle can be good but it can be a bit difficult to have it right when the differences are subtle between 2 sounds, 1 was clearly more lower than the other 2 but I had a bit of trouble solving it haha, The code one is simple but good, I guess the only trouble I had in general in this game was with the interaction system, I could touch the level objects while the dialogue was on and that make them overlap, which isn’t much of a problem with the game since most dialogues can be repeated and the important ones are almost by their own, but could lead to a bit of frustration when open the puzzle panel and already I introduced an input by accident, which can be time consuming in the last part.

Also, a bit of feedback when you hover an object that you can interact with would be nice, just to make it clearer that you can do that, in this case it wasn’t needed because everything in the room is playable.

About objects in rooms, I had fun exploding Teto, very funny hahaha, also I would liked to see the teddy bear.

The audio fits the mood and the sfx is good, the only downside is that the sfx are too loud, but are good. Everything feels coherent and that helps the story.

To end my comment, I appreciate that you uploaded the game despite the missing rooms and all the cut content, I respect that! (And I laugh a little when I saw the incomplete room because the text in the wall hahaha, also thanks for putting what content was cut, helped me to see a little bit your original idea :) )

Sometimes the fear of judgement keeps us from doing stuff, seeing people don’t post their games because it’s incomplete can be a little saddening but I like that you upload the game. I could read this interesting story that maybe I’m not much into it but some people do, also it’s great that you decided to make your own visuals! It can be hard and time consuming, so even if you think you suck at it, you did it and eventually you will get better at it, I know how that feels but if you keep doing it, you will get better at it, just keep going. ^_^

And grats on finishing your 1st game jam, keep doing games! :D

Sadly i couldn't get pass the first level lol but looks fun, it does give the feeling of these escape puzzly games, good job to both of you for your first jam!

Wow you managed to get so much story into this. I love how the last level just said yeah it's not finished haha. I could solve the puzzles so I'm glad they weren't too hard :) My only real criticism is that for me the paper sound was kinda loud sometimes. Maybe a volume slider or soomething like that could help? Well done man really impressive for afirst game jam. 

What an incredible story and puzzle game! I think my favorite part of it all was all the small pieces of dialogue you get by clicking on each object, it really adds a lot to the ambiance and makes me feel immersed. The story itself is also very well done. A great game, especially for your first jam!

Great narrative-puzzle game you made!

I experienced some minor bugs, e.g. Dialog-boxes that spawned over one another or the sfx for the heart beat monitor only played once (where as im not so sure if this may be intended?). But nothing game breaking.

Congratulation on your first game jam submission, you did great.

awesome game. I do suck at sound based puzzles though

Great job! This is an amazing game right here, the theme and story reminds me a lot from a game called 'Inmost'. I loved it, really! Only thing I would change would be to mute, slow down or lower the volume of the music when you are trying to hear the heart monitor. Overall a great game!

Hey there! I can see the work you put on this game! Very nice work! I loved the idea for the theme and all the endings. Kinda hard at the beggining, got stuck in the safe part and had to see the solution. I also died in my first playthrough XD