this is one of the most vibey things ive ever experienced. the writing instantly draws me in.
only tiny note of feedback is the text is a little hard to read with the dithering for me, but at thesame time having to squint a little with the music and story kind of forces me to be immersed :)

even tho its text i actually think the design elements visually and gameplay are brilliant and work very well, and i love the music. the atmosphere is so awesome

I absolutely loved this. Strong writing is increasingly rare to come by. So, when I see it, oh baby. I am in. And the audio! Foreboding. Squishy.

What feedback I do have mirrors what BC said. The scanline(?) effects led to some squinting, even in full screen. I also agree that the creature encounters take away from that part of it, many times I had to read from the beginning after being distracted by The Creature and go "wait, where was I?" I think this is generally a symptom of frequency - by having said Creature be so frequent (and honestly easy to take care of) the horror factor quickly vanishes. I don't know if this is intentional, but if the creature appears when looking at the map, I was stuck at the map. I could still take care of the creature, and doing so felt very powerful.

Not for nothing, I have never played anything like this before. And I mean that in the best way possible. Played all the way through, got the eagle, had a blast. Great work!

VERY interesting little experience! The writing is incredible, and the audio definitely enhances the experience. I died a couple times before I figured out how the fights work. (remind me somewhat of the game Enemy Zero, if you're familiar). At first the battles annoyed me because they were taking away from the stellar writing, but then once I had them figured out It sort of made me FEEL like I was really there, halting my train of thought to attack an unknown enemy. The experience is short enough that dying never felt like enough of a setback to be annoying, but still enough to be tense. I think games could stand to have a little more friction, and I think by the end you guys had me on board. Great stuff!!!

Love the writing, visuals, and design on this one! It feels like a very tense and well-composed dungeon-crawler with excellent writing and sound design.

I only wish the creature encounters were a bit more intuitive; even after figuring out the controls for combat, I often felt like I had no time to react to the creature appearing before I got hit with the death animation. And every time the creature appeared - it felt like I was being pulled away / discouraged from reading the excellent text.

Eventually to get the Aquila, I had to try a few runs rushing through the dungeon without reading anything - and even then I felt like I got lucky!

Very unique and inspired!! Engaging from beginning to end! It has that perfect balance of helplessness and tactfulness that makes a horror game feel especially nerve racking and exciting.  A wonderful twist on a classic dungeon crawler, with great visuals, great music and sfx, delightful mechanics and eye popping writing and storyline, this ones a 10/10 for me. Get that freaking aquila

This was a neat one! The concept is especially intriguing, and I like the presentation as a more classic text-based dungeon crawler. I maybe would have liked the effects to be a bit less strong, as it did make the text a little more difficult to read, which of course makes the whole experience a little rougher in this case. I enjoyed the writing, but I found the creature killing mechanics to get in the way more than anything. It felt mostly like it was there to kill me once or twice before I understood the controls, and then after that to just make things take longer as it pulled me away from reading the text, but it didn't provide much in the way of challenge or variety. I really just wanted to read the text, which felt like the actual meat of the game, but the creatures just made me want to rush through and I ended up skimming a lot more than I would've liked. The text and storytelling are strong, so I don't think you should shy away from just leaning on that more wholeheartedly!