I'll start with what I liked: the discripton was good, the uneasy feelings and, surprisingly, some good sreamers. The plot is awesome too, as well as characters. The path from my bedroom to the toilet in the dark was never this eery.
Now, about this 1 point i took out: the atmosphere was kinda ruined — you get scared one moment, the next — you're chilling with this calm and happy music. Also, i was hoping to get a little more visuals from spooks, but eh it's fine i guess. Game still scared the living poo out of me.
And, finally, bevare — spoilers ahead.
Maybe i stumbled across a bug, maybe it was me at fault. I alway give any female or nb mc name Ana (the short version of my long-ass name). It's important, because i gave my mc here this name too. And there i was — just finished my first route, got my first ending. Still pure and naive, yet already cautious. I start my second, type "Ana" again, and...our eldritch fairy's like "nah that's not your name bbg, i know who you are you are my enemy". At first i was like "huh r u playing with me?", but then no, Aster says "It's very nice to see you again. You.". Sooo yeaaahhh, the game changed my name to "You" somehow. Maybe i did something wrong idk.
But there's a bright side to everything: without Aster turning full mode joe goldberg i wouldn't know about 4th wall breaking business.
Long story short, now i can't sleep and i blame You :') Thank you for this game.
But this game is one of the rare few that actually spooked me TF OUT. I wasn't expecting much when i started but oh....OH I WAS FOOLISH. I absolutly love it, it's the exact type of game that manage to bug me off, and the feeling of something "not been right" is certainly one of my favorite !! Even if the lore is a bit confuse, i can piece most of the things out (thanks to somes of you guys in the comment) and i find it even more inresting !!
However, i can't for the life of me find the two last ending...(｡•́︿•̀｡) I've (again) went through the comment and severals yt vids, so i half know what it is, but stil...if someone can break it doxn for me i would owe you my life because curiosity is eating me up rn
i just finished all the routes and its 2:35am for me rn and no joke i was so scared playing this i started listening to a happy music playlist on spotify <//3 anyways it was rlly good though i need every single one of the characters (also my real question from the start is how the hell was an exorcist or priest not called the second asters #FFFFFF self came in 😭)
Holycow, this is amazing. I cannot believe this was a 10-day VF game. Jeez. I’m so glad I finally got to play! I absolutely loved each of the routes, the characters, their stories. I loved how you could see/feel their feelings for the MC - they each had chemistry, even when they talked about things being awkward or disliking it - it wasn’t that at all, it was great. Literally, only thing I noticed - in Theo’s, they mention his blue nails and blue eyes, but neither were blue. That’s literally it. Everything was so well-done, well-paced, well-developed. I loved the “voices”. I loved the music and sound effects. The graphics were great visuals, the changes in atmosphere so perfect. Even just the menu/UI change at that certain point was on-point, the cherry on top. I just absolutely loved this, I cannot get enough. I will keep replaying.
Oh! I absolutely LOVED the extras. I loved seeing them in a bunch of others’ styles, especially ones I love/d! Such an added bonus, truly.
And, if anybody has any recs of games like this, please throw them my way! I want/need more of this.
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.
OMGosh!! I wanted to wait till I finished playing entirely to comment but i am HOOKED on this story now! I'll try not to spoil anything but this was an amazing experience!! I was desperately searching for more answers after playing but love it none the less!! I hope you enjoy watching my playthroughs if you chose to. ALSO I want to ask before I do it, would it be OK with you if I also made a video reading the 1000 download celebration short stories as well? This is such a phenomenal story and ALL the characters are so likable, I would totally read an entire novel about this story!!
I never realized how frightening it can be to be engrossed in a game and reading in silence, only to be startled by sudden loud noises. this game truly made me feel uneasy even after i finished it ;') lovely game, i definitely recommend it!
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 *_*!
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GRRR this was very cool. I like Aster and Oscar :)
So it's a solid 9/10 for me here.
I'll start with what I liked: the discripton was good, the uneasy feelings and, surprisingly, some good sreamers. The plot is awesome too, as well as characters. The path from my bedroom to the toilet in the dark was never this eery.
Now, about this 1 point i took out: the atmosphere was kinda ruined — you get scared one moment, the next — you're chilling with this calm and happy music. Also, i was hoping to get a little more visuals from spooks, but eh it's fine i guess. Game still scared the living poo out of me.
And, finally, bevare — spoilers ahead.
Maybe i stumbled across a bug, maybe it was me at fault. I alway give any female or nb mc name Ana (the short version of my long-ass name). It's important, because i gave my mc here this name too. And there i was — just finished my first route, got my first ending. Still pure and naive, yet already cautious. I start my second, type "Ana" again, and...our eldritch fairy's like "nah that's not your name bbg, i know who you are
you are my enemy". At first i was like "huh r u playing with me?", but then no, Aster says "It's very nice to see you again. You.". Sooo yeaaahhh, the game changed my name to "You" somehow. Maybe i did something wrong idk.But there's a bright side to everything: without Aster turning full mode joe goldberg i wouldn't know about 4th wall breaking business.
Long story short, now i can't sleep and i blame You :') Thank you for this game.
Yes, i come a year after the war...
But this game is one of the rare few that actually spooked me TF OUT. I wasn't expecting much when i started but oh....OH I WAS FOOLISH.
I absolutly love it, it's the exact type of game that manage to bug me off, and the feeling of something "not been right" is certainly one of my favorite !!
Even if the lore is a bit confuse, i can piece most of the things out (thanks to somes of you guys in the comment) and i find it even more inresting !!
However, i can't for the life of me find the two last ending...(｡•́︿•̀｡)
I've (again) went through the comment and severals yt vids, so i half know what it is, but stil...if someone can break it doxn for me i would owe you my life because curiosity is eating me up rn
Waiittt what are the 5 endings???
I got the one where Theo pull u out of the house, and the one where u leave the house with Oscar, and one where you accept aster.
What's the last 2!?? 😭😭😭
I'm pretty sure it's the different ways you refuse Aster the two other endings.
i just finished all the routes and its 2:35am for me rn and no joke i was so scared playing this i started listening to a happy music playlist on spotify <//3 anyways it was rlly good though i need every single one of the characters (also my real question from the start is how the hell was an exorcist or priest not called the second asters #FFFFFF self came in 😭)
Holycow, this is amazing. I cannot believe this was a 10-day VF game. Jeez. I’m so glad I finally got to play! I absolutely loved each of the routes, the characters, their stories. I loved how you could see/feel their feelings for the MC - they each had chemistry, even when they talked about things being awkward or disliking it - it wasn’t that at all, it was great. Literally, only thing I noticed - in Theo’s, they mention his blue nails and blue eyes, but neither were blue. That’s literally it. Everything was so well-done, well-paced, well-developed. I loved the “voices”. I loved the music and sound effects. The graphics were great visuals, the changes in atmosphere so perfect. Even just the menu/UI change at that certain point was on-point, the cherry on top. I just absolutely loved this, I cannot get enough. I will keep replaying.
Oh! I absolutely LOVED the extras. I loved seeing them in a bunch of others’ styles, especially ones I love/d! Such an added bonus, truly.
And, if anybody has any recs of games like this, please throw them my way! I want/need more of this.
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
I never realized how frightening it can be to be engrossed in a game and reading in silence, only to be startled by sudden loud noises. this game truly made me feel uneasy even after i finished it ;') lovely game, i definitely recommend it!
Okay, now I'm extra glad I play with the sound off
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 ?