Loved the use of repetition to get you lulled into a false sense of security. As I would start going on auto pilot something would happen to make me snap back to reality. A little long, but kinda nice in a jam full of shorter stuff. Didn't get to finish the whole thing cause I wanna get to every game but I will absolutely be coming back to finish this!
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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Theme Usage | #7 | 3.938 | 4.067 |
| Audio | #11 | 3.357 | 3.467 |
| X Factor | #13 | 3.292 | 3.400 |
| Overall | #13 | 3.266 | 3.373 |
| Engagement | #17 | 2.517 | 2.600 |
| Visuals | #17 | 3.227 | 3.333 |
Ranked from 15 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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I actually liked the repetition. It reinforced the themes. Audio was great and adaptive it seemed. I was going to wait for emergency help but i got tired of waiting :)
Definitely some great moodiness and concept, but I think it lost some tension by virtue of running fairly long and the repetition with unskippable VO. I enjoyed discovering that the commands only cared if they contained the word "log" or "dome" and not if there was any other text, so I started entering those commands in silly ways every time. Come to think of it, maybe that's why it felt less tense... Also, there's no max character length, and if you go long enough the characters break out of the terminal screen!
Really cool rating. Lots to like and genuinely sent shivers up my spine. I want more though more action, more scares, more than the atmospheric creepiness and shadows. A date counter would be nice or something I almost quit two days before the end...
I really enjoyed playing through this! The environment was sparse and calmly spook, which felt perfect for a narrative heavy beginning like you have here. The use of the default text to speech voices were a clever choice! I think it may have been a bit better to use as a flavor moment (like some visual novels do to emphasize a moment rather than everyone line). The only request I would have is like someone else said, the ability to speed up the text!
Wish you could speed through the text quicker given the amount of repetition, but this was a really interesting take on cosmic horror!! Was on the edge of my seat for a bit of it, really cool concept! Though it was a bit long for my taste, but maybe I'm not a visual novel type of guy
super cool, there is a lot of X Factor here, I love how dark and lonely everything feels and I love the computer voices, adds to the coldness
Pretty fun game for the quick turnaround. I really enjoyed the atmospheric music and the terminal's dialogue really pulled me in. I was never sure who was actually talking to me, the computer, myself, or something else. Great job!


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