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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Story | #151 | 3.834 | 4.200 |
| Visuals | #153 | 4.017 | 4.400 |
| Overall Experience | #162 | 3.834 | 4.200 |
| Category: Cinematography | #175 | 3.286 | 3.600 |
| Category: Music | #199 | 3.104 | 3.400 |
| Category: Voice Acting | #350 | 1.095 | 1.200 |
Ranked from 5 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Content Warnings
Body Horror Gore Blood Themes of War Religious Themes/Religious Horror Disturbing Imagery
Log Line
Blessed are you, the gifted. Gifted with the ability to hear when others are deaf, the ability to see amongst the blind, the ability to speak when others are shunned. Given this knowledge of people, what should be done when only you have the courage to give yourself a name?
Work Start Date
September 1, 2026
Which engines and/or plugins did you use? (NaniNovel, Light.VN, etc.)
Ren'Py
University League Participant
No
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Comments
Oh this was gooooood. I don't want to be too specific in case people read the comments before playing but! The art was so good, I enjoyed the variety, and the different scenes, also just the little details? Even the simplified textures in the backgrounds helped keep things from looking too busy while also still looking part of a scene. I'd only gotten one ending, but I'm curious to try and find more later.
Thanks for playing!!! I’m glad you enjoyed our artists’ work, they did such an amazing job. Hope you have fun finding all the endings<3
A very sweet story (at least in the ending I played, haha... I sense not all of them are as nice as the child finding a home in the circus.)
There's a lot of gorgeous little details like the loading animation, I really appreciate how much effort went into this for a (mostly) first time game jam. Intriguing themes about war and religion stripping people of their identity. You guys did great!
Thank you so much for playing! (also sorry for the late response) We could’ve done a lot more but college kinda kept getting in the way T~T, I’m so glad you enjoyed our game!!!
spoilers!:
incredible hook immediately, both that you could read a corpse's mind, and the people not having names. Had some trouble getting to Act II, but it made sense once I learned how to actually do it. Got ending 5,6, and traveling stray
the eldritch gods have incredibly sick designs, and the overall story, I'm wondering if it's metaphorical or if things are happening as they seemed , in any case, really like the vibes of this
Thank you so much for playing! Props to the writers and artists for bringing this world to life, they had a lot of fun making the art and the religion here. As for the question, I’ve already asked them about it and will update you on their response! (kinda busy with uni and allat). ^v^ <3