Absolutely brilliant writing; it made me feel utterly dreadful, but I think that's point.

The prose is excellent, and I really felt the weight of the moments despite there being such a small amount of time to familiarise myself with the characters and situation. The characterisation of the crewmembers is so strong, everyone has a strong sense of identity too.

Really great, thank you, and congratulations!

Wow, the amount of work you put in for the narrative is impressive. There’s so many choices, and given the four days. I really enjoyed my time playing. Congrats on the Narrative win.

🎉 Your overall rank is #538 in GMTK Game Jam 2026! Congrats!

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this filled me with much horror and dread and warmth. it was moving. i liked the art and the music added a lot as well! for me it was reminiscent of Zelda: Majora’s Mask with a couple of the motifs, which set a great mood. great work!!

.. also, the “dev ran out of time” 4th wall break was great lmao

A very good narrative for a visual novel. I'd like to see this expanded more, be able to play more from the other characters' perspectives, have more branching storylines. It's really well thought out, really well done, sci-fi stories hit hard because they only say things about the human condition and our own world through a different lens. Very good job for the countdown theme. 

I'm not gonna lie, this made me pretty uncomfortable since I really dislike thinking about death, but I really wanted to see more of the narrative either way. You portrayed the feeling of the final moments of a group of people very well in this, here with them running out of air on a spaceship. Seeing everyone cope differently felt very real, and it's messed up how it makes insane ideas like letting a sick crewmate die, by purposefully killing them, for a little extra air actually seem like an option, no matter how little the chance of recovery was. Hard subject matter but you did a great job making it.

I laughed so hard when I saw the line, "The dev ran out of time and only wrote the transmitter path."  If it were me, I probably would have written something like that very seriously in the game too, haha! I also made a VN game before, so I know how impressive it is to create this much dialogue within 48 hours. Writing branching conversations takes so much time. 

The ending felt really heavy, but it also felt like it was asking a question like if there is truly no choice left in the end, what kind of attitude would you choose to face it with?  Very nice work! I had fun playing it!

this genre isn't my gave but this is executed very well. Definitely very thoughtful in the crew personalities and how they react to you as a captain, good work!