I quite like how their is a story and a "why" to what you are doing. My thing only though would be a on-screen prompt to forward the text of the characters. Just to be more clear.

Amazing gameplay, I' had so much fun playing this, a very polished game! Congratulations

Loved the adventurer sprites. Including wood samples in the manual would have reduced some ambiguity.

This game was quite fun and if something tells me you were inspired by the game "That's not my neighbor" in terms of some mechanics. great game and i has soo much fun playing it, Could use a little but more polish  and make it a little easier to understand but for a jam game definitely impressive especially considering you made the art yourself all while with a team of 5!
Underrated game: 10/10

btw, I hope you can try out my game as well :D
Racookie Heist

A really interesting game! I liked how it makes you think while also teaching you about the different types of wood and their colors XD

I especially enjoyed the characters and the dialogues - they gave the game a lot of charm. The dialogue screen was a little bit confusing at times, and since the game is on the longer side (with all the reading and thinking), it might be nice to have a pause menu with the option to save your progress by day.

Overall, I truly enjoyed the experience. It feels unique and special, so congratulations on creating something so creative!

This idea is right up my alley, I love the basic logic-based gameplay, but once the lid pattern rules were introduced I basically started failing to identify a single chest. I really don’t understand the rule that a “lid without a pattern can only go on an oak base” - the vast majority of lids, if not all of them? have no pattern. I’m also not sure I ever saw a circular base pattern.

The one thing a game like this has to have is clear, consistent rules, and I felt like from that point on I couldn’t trust anything the game was telling me. Honestly I don’t understand why you put a guide for some of the ambiguous things on your page but not all of them. It’s still not too late to edit it with answers! I would love to know why the chest on the left is a mimic and the one on the right isn’t…

I didn’t really have any agency (it felt like) over the decision to harm a certain someone towards the end because my income had completely dried up at that point and there was no other way to get the money needed to keep my mom alive (which seemed like a game over trigger), so I didn’t really feel like my choices mattered at the end. I knew something was wrong, that nearly every chest evaluated as mimic, which I think made the frustration even worse.

Figuring out the need to press space at the start was also a tiny issue. But not as big a deal as the game seemingly throwing its reliability of rules out at a certain point.

I went back through and indeed not a single chest with any patterns on their top ever shows up except a couple with the v shaped presumably ‘straight’ pattern, only as part of incorrect quest assignments. Similarly, the circle base pattern only shows up once, also as part of a quest prompt. So people not being able to differentiate circles and spirals didn’t matter.

Anyway I really wanted to love this, but I guess I’m feeling heartbroken that this otherwise amazing game let me down D:

Great game 10/10! Loved the idea of being a mimic inspector, such a unique idea, also it was a great choice to include story elements that changed depending on what you did during each day, the art and animations are very well done, the game has a great risk mechanic which gets more difficult and tense as each day passes.

Great Job to the team and hoping more people can play your game!

Very well put-together game! I really like the character designs and concept of the game. I did notice that the dialogues sometimes repeated themselves. Like the last sentence of one blurb is the first/only one in the next. Not a huge deal but hopefully an easy fix! Other things that would have been nice: An in-game guide with what each wood looks like (I wasn't sure so I had to look some up haha). Some more sounds/music. Maybe not all the time but at least for revealing treasure and dialogue popping up. Again, a very clever, well-executed idea with plenty of risk involved!

Great game! It's a brilliant idea that's very well executed. I love the graphics. The background sound is pleasant and helps set the mood, but I would have liked a little music. Congrats!

Interesting deduction game! I ended up taking quite a while just to get to Day 6, and I ended up avoiding all mimics. The art is incredibly good, such a cool aesthetic, and I can only imagine how long it took to make! The amount of content is also very impressive,but I do find it gets repetitive, despite the added things to look for. It just ended up making me take longer to solve. Aside from that, the UI was great, it was easy to read and was nice and quick to get through, and thee style of music was a good pick, it added to the atmosphere greatly. Very cool experience, great work!