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I like the theming of all the rooms, solved 3 so far! (spoilers) currently stalled in engineer room. Have a metal gear, have a fretsaw. haven't found valid use for saw yet. feel like I might need maybe another gear (or something like it) for the machine? otherwise I think it has to do with the two 5x5 grids in other rooms (esp the star chart, which I think is what looktostars might refer to), don't know how those might map to the 3x3 sockets though.

(spoilers) A-ha, I found it, it was in the passcode door room. Was able to finish the game from there!

I played this for a bit a day or so ago.  I like the premise so far, and the main character as well.

(spoiler-y) I'd made my way past the numpad (which did seem like it gave me a fail response after I first entered the wrong code but then let me past anyways, but I went back and entered the right code). Did look at the pdf since I couldn't figure out what to do next, which told me how to find the bcase. I can't find the tbox though, I feel like I've tried examining every room the pdf said it might be, so that's where I stalled. HINT also never seemed to give me a hint.

This is REALLY good! Thank you for making this and sharing it.

Note, when I play this from the itch.io page and click on the external links in Firefox on Windows 11 desktop, I get a "Firefox Can’t Open This Page" error page. If I click on the learn more I get this page: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/xframe-neterror-page?as=u&utm_source=inprod...

I got around it by just middle-clicking on the links to open them in a new tab.

Scariest thing in the comp, I'm sure!

I want to think about it more, but this seemed like a really, really good ratio of text-to-choice! It felt propulsive, it didn't feel too click-heavy, and I'm not sure how much is the passage length and how much is the writing, but this jammed a lot of good exploratory dialogue about work and Brexit and anti-immigrant tensions, wanting to help out while also just trying to get by, it never dragged, and it introduced a bunch of interesting characters!

I think I lean towards it looking weird not to put periods at the end of sentence-long links, and there were other dialogue links that just ended in commas which was odd.

But yes, lovely!

Ending I got:
Christine made a friend. How lovely!

There might have been even more joy in store for her, if things had worked out a little differently...

Does a great job mimicking the style and cadence of a cheerful recipe blog. I'll admit I skim a lot of the memoir-y preambles in recipe blogs (just give me the ingredients list!), so I did skim some of it here as well. That might especially go for the secret ingredient page (I found it w/o hints, go me), which was very effective but could also trim some fat, since that's the one that needs to land. But that's maybe Le Grand Guignol nit-picking!

Playing this in Firefox, and the images were getting vertically squashed fyi. Fine in Chrome.

Quite polished, liked the setting and premise! Some of the middle tasks did start feeling similar, since they all sort of went the same way, but the last couple changed things up nicely. I liked the idea for the guessing puzzle, though I did also have trouble getting it (Didn't have the article). Felt bad for the Samurai! Liked the ending!

Bonuses I got:
Confess your true feelings.
Give the exorcist a bath.

Very neat game! Liked the ghost a lot, tone/writing, and the multiple endings. Seemed well implemented. I'd already thrown everything into the bowl before I found the recipe, so though I did bake it right, I think I ended up with a score somewhere in the 70s? I played this a while ago, so that might be wrong.