holy shit this was so good!! and terrifying honestly 😭😭😭 it gave me the creeps in the best way possible... i changed my name to see what happened and the 4th wall breaks scared me so much--- IT REMEMBERED MY NAME HELP

also Aster... you're nightmare fuel but ily... AND THE INTRO SCREEN CHANGING ONCE YOU GIVE IN IS SUCH A COOL DETAIL.. OUGHHHH

Its crazy how, as soon as I seen Aster pop up on screen, I giggled and kicked my feet and said "Aster... it ain't even Halloween yet and you're already dressed up as my baby girl." Little did I know how true that would end up being~

At the start, I was completely unaware of the digital sounds of the voices the characters made. It threw me off, but I quickly went back into learning the story. It's a great game! The backgrounds are pretty, and that goes for the art style with the characters as well! Along with the visual options I thought that was pretty neat as well!

Looool, this unnerved me so much I actually quit the game! When I'm feeling... stable enough, I'll actually get round to finishing it. I just wanted to comment and say, I've played a few thriller vns and games in my time. Weirdly, none of them even came close to the levels of uneasiness this made me feel, and I mean that in a positive way. The art, the cheery music, and the funny sort of digital voice acting (???) would normally take the edge off, but it didn't. Like the mc says, I felt my internal systems firing off and screaming "Danger!"

i started this game a while ago and didnt finish it, but now that i have, i would reccomend this game to ANYONE!! well-written, well drawn, engaging story, routes, and characters-- i loved it!

Took me awhile to get to playing this, but this was well worth the read.

I did enjoy the descriptions of the horrors that MC goes through as the story progresses. I couldn't help but think back on MyHouse.wad (I swear, I'll finish House Of Leaves one day) with their descent into madness.

My critique of the game exists only in its use of audio and the lack of visuals for some of the more terrifying parts of the game. There are some moments where I feel the cheery music really undercuts the terror, and I'm often left wishing we could witness the horror for ourselves.

However, being a jam game - I can understand how the time constraint could affect these aspects. I can only hope that either this game or the team's future horror entries will improve over time.

Definitely give this game a shot. The text and available scenes still convey the intensity of the horror, and it definitely helps that there are such cute men you can attempt to romance.

The game was so unexpected holy sh and AAASASAAAAAAA I LOVE THEO GODAMN IT AAA

I absolutely adored this game, I am very curious if there will be any more released revolving around them? (totally not needing more Aster xD)

Having 'the king in yellow' suddenly appear amongst the books was really unexpected, and now I'm worried for my poor MC

uhmmmmmmm no I wasn't expecting that, why is everyone so hot, Theo is my fav route very close second to him is Aster, so the cat was FAKE?!?!

Very cool VERY amazing fell in love with the art

(SPOILERS!!!!!!!!)

THE CHANGE IN THE MAIN MENU IS WOAAA

THAT WAS SO GOOD!! I just played the game a few hours ago, it was so fun, so interesting and mysterious and still even after playing all routes, leaves open questions (which was intended on your part and leaves us hooked even more). Even with being a scaredy cat I'm glad I played it! After I was finished I'm still left with interest and questions and then immediately started googling about the title of the game, the flowers and the yellow king to maybe understand the story even more. And now after knowing about your inspirations with this work of Chambers, I'm even more appreciative of this game and your work and the story! 

Edit:// And you completed it in 10 days?!!? Wow!Oh okay yeah, oh okay!"//

- Spoilers ahead -

The way you incorporated the fictional book itself in the story with our MC picking it up, then the elements, motifs of the work of Chambers within the actual story we played. So cool! Like with MC reading the book within our story, so the story within the story that was also a theme of Chambers work. Then like the characters in the work of repairer of reputations, the first Act was described as boring by them, but the second act was the reason Hildred caught interest. Or the whole unmasking thing even though that was a bit confusing :D. I'm also assuming that Aster is the stranger or at least the iteration of the stranger where they are the same or the stand in as the yellow king! Then also the name itself explains the flower we see on the home screen. The titan arum also pretty interesting being the corpse flower because it smells like rotten flesh, and the spider lillies being in the text bar. So amazing! I've known about spider lillie's meanings and symbolism but the rest has been new info for me! Learned so much today :D thank you for that as well! Speaking of the gui! I love love LOVE, when it changes after routes have been played, or a secret route has been unlocked. The way everything changed after unlocking Aster is so cool: from the main menu, to the choices options, the text bar and even the save/load window!

Yeah but I'm still so curious now, bc the different routes feel like playing different realities ig? Like in Theo's route Bartie has been dead for years, whilst in Oscar's route the cat was seen, touched and saved by him. Even hears the yellow kings voice? I also thought that maybe Aster was the cat, but at the very least there's some special connection to it. As it is kinda central and even part of the Aster we see in the main menu!So yeah the cat is still a big mystery to me. Why was it upstairs the whole time, why did MC not go upstairs and check after it. Where is the family? Like in one reality (?) it's as if they are dead/have been even killed by the protagonist? In the other they are on vacation? Then the book, in Oscars route they hate it, in Theos they love it. In Oscars route she was basically a sobbing mess when he came, whilst with Theo the horror started days later.

The question still stands not only for the MC but for us players too: what is real and what is fake? It's cool how you incorporated this one theme of The Yellow King as well: the reader of the book within the story going insane after reading the book. I suppose that's what had happened to MC? But yeah it's still like even after being saved from the house, the MC still connects to the entity. Or you have them thinking about how it is real. Or Aster talking about that this can't be what MC truly wants. It makes one think, are the endings that happen with Theo or Oscar real? Or was that orchestrated? Is our MC lying? Why do we still get the glitching with some of the ending sentences?: "Wasn't it night?"; "Is it real?" (omg now i have to think of peeta noo my baby ToT) in Theo's route. Or "His mouth crashes against yours" and Asters words at the end in Oscars route. Bc before their conscience was probably overwriting things, like with the towel being pink bc of the washing machine etc. but why would it overwrite or our MC lie to themselves in those situations at the end... //But yeah that also ties in the whole unreliable narrator trope that also was in the yellow king, is a popular trope and which I just saw was the theme of the jam you made this game for!!//

After writing this as if had an assignment due xD, all that's left to say: Thanks for your work! And yes the dudes were incredibly attractive and yes I'm now going to the short stories you have published for the three, as well as reading what other players have theorized about in this comment section *_*!

Are  the other updates still happening ?

DIOSMIO!!!! AMO ESTOOO!!!

Nescesito saber si el final de la mascara es canonicamente bueno. Nescesito saber si salgo con vida!

Spoilers!

this is actually really creepy but in an amazingly suspenseful way. felt like i couldnt put it down when i started. glad we got to rizz up the monster at the end LMAO

Spoilers?

So you killed all (even the cat) and theo knows that the family died in the house? Also the celebration stotys suggest that aster dont eat you but hehe eaaats you

TO THINK THIS MASTERPIECE OF A GAME WAS MADE IN 10 DAYS? I LOVED IT SM <3 SO MUCH WORK WAS PUT INTO AND YOU CAN TELL. <333

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HI!! First of all the game has me on a choke hold that I physically can't explain 

It's Soo good the art style the plot the music truly a masterpiece , it gives me a feeling of nostalgia that I can't understand!and the ending oh my god they left me yearning for more like the more I play the more questions I need to answer 😭 😭

Like what is aster ? 

And why he needs the player to write that bad ?

And his name is quite the opposite of it's meaning?!!

and what kind of deal did the player do in order to meet him ? And the cat and the player family? And ton more of questions? 

It's truly a masterpiece 

And the fact that the game appeared on my recommendation after my parents left the country for a a vacation, leaving me alone at our new apartment is really making me hooked on the game more 😔  

I might find more answers to my question, when I choose every options tho 

But it's a really good game would recommend it to anyone 10/10