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A jam submission

EVICT PHANTASIAView game page

A short cosmic horror murder mystery visual novel set in an early 20th century village
Submitted by plainSightDev (@aDitchSomewhere) — 5 hours, 46 minutes before the deadline
Rated by 7 people so far
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Content Warnings
Slight blood, body horror and trypophobia, allusion to racism

Log Line
A detective cosmic horror visual novel set in an early 20th century Belgian village

Team Credits & Cast
All assets and music by PlainSight on itchio. SFX are from freesound, creative commons.

Work Start Date
01-09-26

Which engines and/or plugins did you use? (NaniNovel, Light.VN, etc.)
Renpy

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Comments

Submitted(+1)

The presentation is wonderful. The sprites and CGs are varied and of high quality. The character designs are strong and certainly give off the "Professor Layton vibe". The cosmic horror edge contrasts sharply with these designs. The opening scene was quite unsettling. I will have to play through it again to fully grasp the mystery, but overall it is impressive work. Well done.

Developer(+1)

Thank you, i'm really glad you liked it! I'll be adding some things to the mystery reveal so it's a bit clearer

Submitted(+1)

A very interesting game! There's a lot of dedication placed towards the sheer number of animations and varied CGs. I encourage anyone who might be a little skeptical about the 'layton' art style to still give it a shot-- while it is kind of 'cutesy' most of the time, it makes the couple of unsettling moments stand out. The thing which encouraged me to try this, and the part that I found most visually striking, were the vividly colorful cosmic horror elements present during the scene where Oswald is running, and immediately after. Also, I loved how immediately you're slammed with something very surreal and scary happening in the very first scene.

The mystery story is very classic and well executed, as you follow a great detective and even have a big 'reveal' scene at the end. Personally, I prefer when mysteries are completely solvable by the reader and unfortunately needing to know that the poison gas smells like corn wasn't seeded anywhere in the VN to my knowledge.

A few things lost me a little in the 3rd act-- "phantasia" gets thrown around a lot even though it's not actually a commonplace word, so it initially gave me an incorrect impression (I thought that the bunker scene was revealing that Ms. Sol was actually imagining this entire detective story and the mysterious woman was going to suddenly ruin it and destroy everyone like she did in the first scene.) I wish the cosmic horror and mysterious woman had gotten a little more payoff, it felt like we had some build in that direction only to revert back to a normal detective novel ending. But that's all personal preference. 

I think this is really impressive work and very polished! Great job! 

Developer(+1)

Thank you for playing it! I think your points are very fair, there was a lot on the horror side i had to leave out mainly bc it was sprits/cgs i didn't have time to finish, but i plan to update the project so  the cosmic horror pays off more at the end and tweak a few things so the pacing/mystery is better. 

Submitted(+1)

Although I was a bit skeptical when I first started playing, the story kept me hooked until the end. The artwork is really well done and has a unique style to it! The story was pretty convoluted, though, like a classic detective mystery. I didn't quite understand what the witch had to do with the whole thing, or why the investigator seemed to know about her at the end?

Developer

thank you for giving it a try, i'm glad you enjoyed it! i agree, there's not too much payoff to the cosmic horror plot, but i plan to update it so it's a little less confusing!

(+1)

I don´t know why nobody is giving more attention to this project... it´s a banger and plainSightDev always delivers!      I´m not spoiling the game, but if you like mistery-solving games and you have a few minutes to spare you ought to give it a try! 

Toodles!