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An Estranged Forest's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Theme | #597 | 3.067 | 3.067 |
| Visuals | #706 | 2.933 | 2.933 |
| Audio | #843 | 2.333 | 2.333 |
| Overall | #866 | 2.444 | 2.444 |
| Gameplay | #883 | 2.267 | 2.267 |
| Innovation | #954 | 2.133 | 2.133 |
| Enjoyment | #1090 | 1.933 | 1.933 |
Ranked from 15 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does the game fit the theme?
You know, I am something of a strange forest myself.
What code and assets did you not make from scratch during the jam (if any)?
A few Assets were reused most were made now.
How many people worked on the game?2
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Heya fellow UE5 dev, you got quite the unique game here. I think that the camera effect with the music created a very eerie atmospehere which is good for this kind of jam. Now, performance didn't give me trouble at all but i wouldn't dissmiss this solely on UE because even for our own game optimization should be considered carefully (difficult in a week, i know). The camera movement itself felt a little disorienting and i can see why it would make someone a little sick. As far as the gameplay itself i had trouble figuring out the exact goal or task so maybe you could add a little description to the game page itself if you want to keep the UI as minimal as possible. Also i'm not sure about interacting with objects because sometimes it felt like nothing happened. Please check out our game as well so you can give feedback to us in the same way; keep it up!
Thank you for checking out the game!
Very strange game, player controller was good and the atmosphere was weird in good way, i would have liked if it showed i was holding stuff like the well handle but it is a game jam game so oh well, solid entry!
Thank you for playing!
Interesting game. The camera felt a bit weird but I think it is intented. Also the first house has no hitbox, just to let you know :). Otherwise fitting submission it is a really strange place. Nice work :)
Thank you very much for playing. I know about the hit box. We didn't have enough time to check for Bugs since we were running out of time. But it also kind of has made the map even more strange. Hope you enjoy it!
It ran more or less fine for me once I turned my settings down, so that was fine. I also really liked the graphics and the music! Unfortunately, the movement of the camera made my head hurt, so I had to stop playing. Also, for some reason, pressing the interact button didn't do anything for me.
Thank you for checking it out. There is a bug in the well scene that makes an object sometimes not be able to interact; we showed it in the trailer. Thanks again!
Game looks cool but also made me feel a little woozy for some reason. Not sure if its the fish eye effect. Also not to state what everyone else has said but my fans went crazy as soon as it opened. I also didn't really know what to do(could be im just dumb though). Visuals are cool though and i liked the vibe
Thank you for checking it out!
This game goes hard on my GPU... Even on the lowest settings I couldn't achieve 30 FPS
Aesthetics wise this game certainly has something. That weird forest looks like a nice stage for horror events. But this world could really use more things going on. It feels too empty even for a liminal space...
Also, the ambient isn't looped properly, so you KNOW when the theme restarts playing xD. Even after turning off the game, I can still hear it...
Liked the general style, though! Hope to see more games from you on other jams
Thank you for checking the game out. As for the GPU, well, you can thank the trees; they are nanite optimized, so they have a ton of polygons. And the game is based on UE5, so we can do so much for the optimisation. Thank you for the fair review!
Bro, that's a fire.
Thanks for checking it out!
For me, the game works but it so lag, hard to play. :l
Thank you for playing! We have tried so hard to optimise this game but its still based in UE5 which is notorious for bad performance also Pause menu is P so try lowering the graphics settings.
I couldnt get the game to run after downloading.
The video on the game page thought was funny
Thanks for checking it out. I might be able to help you with it if you give me your PCs specs. Thanks.
I am trying to play your game, but after I download the game, it would not lauch, sorry. Also it took very long to download
The game is half a gigabyte so thats why it took a long time to download as for not launching its probably UE5s fault I could help you if you gave me your specs. Thanks for checking it out!