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Lovely game! The UI and entire scenario is pitch perfect, and I really enjoyed getting to know the characters and putting together what was going on. Really touching!

I really enjoyed the search experience - I'd say searching felt less deliberate than Her Story and more just about trying stuff until I got everything, but on the flip side it flowed really well and I could just focus on putting together who was who and what was going on. I thought the flow of searching for something, seeing a snippet, collecting the log, and then it's marked as new until you read the whole thing was excellent! Seeing a snippet but then still having it marked as new let me move between trying out search terms and closely reading the logs without getting lost. (The only thing I was missing was a back and forward button to jump through recently read logs.)

Answering security questions was a great way to set up the game! They were satisfying to solve, though I admit I got confused by dumb_moth's. (I can see there's a hint that "he" for the cat is just a typo, but it still seems like two different stories for what happened to the cat, did she disappear outside or die of old age?) I had such a good time just reading all the logs, it made me wish for more hint options for the security questions (like one to reveal specifically which answer was wrong) so I didn't end the game feeling stuck. But totally worth it for the touching final emails!

Anyway, sorry to go on, just thought I'd share my thoughts. I'm really glad I heard of this game on Bushmonkey's discord and I'll be spreading the word!

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Thank you for such an in-depth review, please never apologise for that, it’s a gift to know someone put so much thought into our game!

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Edit: I’m just realising two hours later that you’re behind the Archives of Trevosa, which along bushmonkey’s game was definitely one of our starting point when discussing deduction games, kudos to you!

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Makes sense! The game is incredibly polished and tight for a jam game so that didn’t even cross my mind and I was sure it was a cunning misdirect that was successfully stumping me, haha.

And thanks! It’s very exciting to be part of a community building on different ideas in the world of narrative deduction!