Wow, I'm not really a person that gets chills from games but this? This game was something else. Thank you to everyone who worked on this little masterpiece.
I don't get why this game is not popular enough. It's deep and really meaningful. I lost my wish to play any game or to do anything at all due to the responsibilities and stress ive on me, also the aging. But this game made me enjoy the thing im doing once again, after a really long time. Thank you so much. The perspectives, stories, THE WAY YOU LET US GET THE IDEA ABOUT IT BY OURSELVES WITH THOSE TINY DETAILS, IM CRAZY ABOUT THAT PART, the way it makes us think so deeply on the answers we are getting without any other questions left... It's an amazing game. Thank you for existing and making this game, haha<3 (as a music lover and creator myself, im in love with the soundtrack also)
Loooooooved this. I like that it was a bit more bleak than I thought it'd be, like I thought the old woman would find a love note from her adoring husband and not THAT. Creative and didn't take the obvious easy storylines.
(Sidenote, when I saw the figure in the hospital bed (no spoilers) I thought it was going to for an aborted fetus route...glad it didn't haha)
Gonna recommend this to my friends :) Thanks for making it!
I love this game, an almost perfect mix of horror, thoughtfulness, and emotion. I loved every painting, and the lore being discovered instead of shown. 8/10
Prägnantere Triggerwarnungen über häusliche Gewalt wären nett gewesen, wenn nicht sogar absolute Pflicht. Da gerne mal Credits geskippt oder ignoriert werden, sollte man Triggerwarnungen besonders in diesem Schweregrad gesondert und auffälliger platzieren und nicht im Stil der Credits verschleiern.
Alles in allem kann ich nicht viel dazu sagen, denn ich find die Geschichte wenig lehrreich, sehr deprimierend, die Ai "Art" auch für das was es ist unabhängig vom moralischem Thema absolut unästhetisch und durch die Gamemaker Engine auch das Gameplay mehr als dürftig.
Die Rätsel waren cool, die Storys sehr bewegend, wenn auch verstörend und sehr deprimierend und die Musik war insofern das Highlight.
Dennoch kann ich persönlich empfehlen. Ich verstehe, dass die Geschichten Emotionen triggern sollen, aber gerade davor sollte für manche Menschen Rücksicht genommen und zumindest gewarnt werden, Vor allem auch auf der Spieleinformationsseite. Und selbst wenn es "nur" Strichmännchen sind, könnte man getrost auf AI verzichten, denn die Geschichte die erzählt wird passiert im Kopf und diese Monstrositäten geben mir für's feeling gar nichts.
I don't normally comment on itch, but I really wanna say how much I love this game after one play only and some random stuff that came to mind. (yeah theres yapping prob spoilers ahead but this is a like 40 min game so just go play it rq doofus :3)
Anyways, time for the random 3am inspiration rant. And first off. I really wanna mention the small detail on how Chevron (I think the head dude right?) is Charon the ferryman, on the River Styx. Though I don't know a lot at all about Greek mythology, I think it's a nice nod to his character and placement in the story where he's just showing the Player their way out to their own painting in the end. It's a really nice touch that I didn't expect in the slightest going into playing this and tbh I can only thank my 8th grade ELA teacher for me even getting this reference lmao.
I also like how in painting 3 with the retrospective army man, and the spider which I quite don't know the meaning of yet that the lead up to the man is a winding path of seemingly flesh and bone walls. It's like in his (hers? theirs?) flashbacks they realize that the soil is all made up of death, bone, and flesh that proves more to himself that he and his people weren't the good guy.
Sorry for the 3 gadamn paragraphs (w/ the first one anw) but this was a really cool play and I didn't expect how good it was. I mean as soon as you boot up the game it foreshadows the ending and you go back to the title and just go "OOOOOOOOHHH OMFG" but I've mentioned one to many things now. I actually don't know how to end this pretty much one-pager so I guess thank you for making such an incredible game and also thank everyone who read this far. Cya :3
Thank you so much! Yes Charon is meant to invoke the ferryman and the walls in the final level are meant to invoke flesh, specifically a birth canal! I always love seeing analysis like this, thank you so much for your comment!
o ma lord I loved this, the concept of peoples story/death being converted into a painting after reaching a conclusion strikes something within me. Just everything about this game is really inspiring, and i love that u had a change of heart about the AI stuff.
From talking to Charon about monster trucks, to helping him to dicover his favourite food. Every single character iin this was able to discover something abou themselves.
The puzzles were the perfect difficulty to still be engaging and the story had so much depth while still being light enough to be fun and engaging.
An amazing experience that I would happily take again and again. An extended version would be amazing, but I feel that the current length of the game is actually perfect, each experience new and refreshing.
i played this game about a couple years ago and it just kinda never left my mind. i decided to play it again when i was in a bit of a bad state n it was like i opened a time capsule. change is one of those things that not everyone is comfortable with n i'm included. moving on is a process of emotions n we do sometimes need others to guide us to sanctity. very wonderful game, 10/10 ^_^
Thank you for the experience. Absolutely loved it from beginning to end! :)
I can't tell you enough how cool the soundtrack is, it's some stuff I would unironically listen on a daily basis. Would you mind if I asked where you got it from? Is is authoral? Or you got it somewhere else?
About the gameplay, the middle painting (the one with the enigmas and the boy) made me straight up sad. Made me think for a good 20 minutes or so. I guess that's what you were going for, so, yeah, it definitely worked, so congrats!
Lastly, I would like to thank you for your pronouncement rearding the AI art you used. As a fellow artist, I really appreciate your honesty and would like to say that, hands down, this game was the best use I saw someone finding to that, despite all of the implications of using it.
The musician monom made the soundtrack, you can find more of his work here: https://monom.bandcamp.com/ He made it from scratch, though it includes a lot of samples and remixes of pre-existing music.
Cheers to you as well and I hope you have a good one too :) Thank you for the comment.
as in nothing pops up at all -- in the space where the numbers are supposed to pop up, does the game just freeze? or does it go back to the point where you walk around? Does this happen on different devices/downloads?
It's a very good game with a lot of symbolism to think about. I went in playing completely blind and was amazed at the pixel sprites of AI art. The stories are astonishing to read, the writing really is good. I do wish there were more secrets, although I don't know if your dialouge choices change anything.
Charon is the best character and his favorite food is meatloaf
The dialogue choices change some things, but overall I would make them change more (and introduce more secrets) if I were to make this game again. It unfortunately was made in a very rushed development cycle, but I hope to spend more time and effort in future projects. Nevertheless thank you so much for the kind words!
Great game, I don't know what else to say. They definitely need to release an extended version because the gameplay, the story, the characters, the art. It's all so unique and perfect. I want and NEED more, they can't just leave this like this, it would be like painting the Mona Lisa in half and leaving it like that.
this is really coool game the theam is just f perfect the art is desgasting and well the story and the ending is somthing else best free game (after ddlc and the murder of sonic the hedgehog) 9 out of 10 just because it gave me bleu balls mate
I would give this a 10 stars out of 5 if I could!! Such a mind blowing game! I hope to see more games from you in the future! As someone who REALLY hates horror, I will say that this was totally worth it. No bugs found in the gameplay. (If anyone is really stuck for solutions you can cheat with my gameplay... or if you just want to watch me scream at painting 3... there is also that... oops). Thanks for making such an amazing game!
Honestly one of the best games I've ever played on my channel. The design, the atmosphere, the music the story had me hooked and invested the whole time would highly recommend to anyone
Super surreal, super spooky, and genuinely a heartwarming but also heartbreaking story. I'm obsessed with your work and cannot wait for you to put out more!!!
no!no! not my life lol. i just meant real life in general. it just felt like more than a game. i really dont know how to word it 😭 thats just how good ur game is, i cant find words for it haha
This is such an inspiration for me. Makes me think about life and such that no other indie bite sized game ever made me feel like. Thank you for this game, it really means a lot to me.
This game is great! I love the music, the dialogue, the uniqueness in which you bring to the topics of the human condition. I love games like this and am excited to play more from you
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Wow, I'm not really a person that gets chills from games but this? This game was something else.
Thank you to everyone who worked on this little masterpiece.
I don't get why this game is not popular enough. It's deep and really meaningful. I lost my wish to play any game or to do anything at all due to the responsibilities and stress ive on me, also the aging. But this game made me enjoy the thing im doing once again, after a really long time. Thank you so much. The perspectives, stories, THE WAY YOU LET US GET THE IDEA ABOUT IT BY OURSELVES WITH THOSE TINY DETAILS, IM CRAZY ABOUT THAT PART, the way it makes us think so deeply on the answers we are getting without any other questions left... It's an amazing game. Thank you for existing and making this game, haha<3
(as a music lover and creator myself, im in love with the soundtrack also)
… Incredible game. Maybe one of the bests on Itch.io.
Loooooooved this. I like that it was a bit more bleak than I thought it'd be, like I thought the old woman would find a love note from her adoring husband and not THAT. Creative and didn't take the obvious easy storylines.
(Sidenote, when I saw the figure in the hospital bed (no spoilers) I thought it was going to for an aborted fetus route...glad it didn't haha)
Gonna recommend this to my friends :) Thanks for making it!
Can anyone please tell me how to enter my save file
What do you mean by enter your save file? If you mean continue from an existing save file, please use the "Carry On" option in the start menu.
oh thank you so much, i thought i had to start over!
Amazing game! It was fun and a bit scary and the soundtrack is amazing
I love this game, an almost perfect mix of horror, thoughtfulness, and emotion. I loved every painting, and the lore being discovered instead of shown. 8/10
God... I don't have words, damn. I 100% recommend playing this!!! I LOVE IT
A masterpiece of art, nothing more, nothing less.
This has got to be one of the best games i've ever played.
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Prägnantere Triggerwarnungen über häusliche Gewalt wären nett gewesen, wenn nicht sogar absolute Pflicht. Da gerne mal Credits geskippt oder ignoriert werden, sollte man Triggerwarnungen besonders in diesem Schweregrad gesondert und auffälliger platzieren und nicht im Stil der Credits verschleiern.
Alles in allem kann ich nicht viel dazu sagen, denn ich find die Geschichte wenig lehrreich, sehr deprimierend, die Ai "Art" auch für das was es ist unabhängig vom moralischem Thema absolut unästhetisch und durch die Gamemaker Engine auch das Gameplay mehr als dürftig.
Die Rätsel waren cool, die Storys sehr bewegend, wenn auch verstörend und sehr deprimierend und die Musik war insofern das Highlight.
Dennoch kann ich persönlich empfehlen. Ich verstehe, dass die Geschichten Emotionen triggern sollen, aber gerade davor sollte für manche Menschen Rücksicht genommen und zumindest gewarnt werden, Vor allem auch auf der Spieleinformationsseite. Und selbst wenn es "nur" Strichmännchen sind, könnte man getrost auf AI verzichten, denn die Geschichte die erzählt wird passiert im Kopf und diese Monstrositäten geben mir für's feeling gar nichts.
Rating:
Dito: 2.1/5
Chat: 2.13/5
Gesamt: 2.12/5
That was a work of art, good lord. I felt my heart race when that "monster" was out, I genuinely thought I was cooked.
On a serious note though, this was honestly one of the best games I've ever played, and I'll definitely play this again sometime.
Also, I loved the music so much, it was banger after banger.
This game is incredible, I wish there were more paintings to discover or an option to discover more about yourself.
The music pulled me into the game as if I could feel what is happening inside, it's really good.
I'm not a fan of ai but I think it works well here, as it helps evoke a dreamy and confusing feel.
10/10 experience.
This game beat my expectations, I usually just play to kill time but this one, I enjoyed it!
I'm expecting spanish translation!
A spanish translation is currently in the works and almost done! :)
Wow, such a good experience, huh.
Thank you so much for the comment :)
I don't normally comment on itch, but I really wanna say how much I love this game after one play only and some random stuff that came to mind. (yeah theres yapping prob spoilers ahead but this is a like 40 min game so just go play it rq doofus :3)
Anyways, time for the random 3am inspiration rant.
And first off. I really wanna mention the small detail on how Chevron (I think the head dude right?) is Charon the ferryman, on the River Styx. Though I don't know a lot at all about Greek mythology, I think it's a nice nod to his character and placement in the story where he's just showing the Player their way out to their own painting in the end. It's a really nice touch that I didn't expect in the slightest going into playing this and tbh I can only thank my 8th grade ELA teacher for me even getting this reference lmao.
I also like how in painting 3 with the retrospective army man, and the spider which I quite don't know the meaning of yet that the lead up to the man is a winding path of seemingly flesh and bone walls. It's like in his (hers? theirs?) flashbacks they realize that the soil is all made up of death, bone, and flesh that proves more to himself that he and his people weren't the good guy.
Sorry for the 3 gadamn paragraphs (w/ the first one anw) but this was a really cool play and I didn't expect how good it was. I mean as soon as you boot up the game it foreshadows the ending and you go back to the title and just go "OOOOOOOOHHH OMFG" but I've mentioned one to many things now. I actually don't know how to end this pretty much one-pager so I guess thank you for making such an incredible game and also thank everyone who read this far. Cya :3
Thank you so much! Yes Charon is meant to invoke the ferryman and the walls in the final level are meant to invoke flesh, specifically a birth canal! I always love seeing analysis like this, thank you so much for your comment!
o ma lord I loved this, the concept of peoples story/death being converted into a painting after reaching a conclusion strikes something within me. Just everything about this game is really inspiring, and i love that u had a change of heart about the AI stuff.
Thank you so much!
As in sarcasm or actual shit?
I loved every second of this game
From talking to Charon about monster trucks, to helping him to dicover his favourite food. Every single character iin this was able to discover something abou themselves.
The puzzles were the perfect difficulty to still be engaging and the story had so much depth while still being light enough to be fun and engaging.
An amazing experience that I would happily take again and again. An extended version would be amazing, but I feel that the current length of the game is actually perfect, each experience new and refreshing.
Thank you so much! We always envisioned the game being a short experience so I'm glad you enjoyed that aspect
i played this game about a couple years ago and it just kinda never left my mind. i decided to play it again when i was in a bit of a bad state n it was like i opened a time capsule. change is one of those things that not everyone is comfortable with n i'm included. moving on is a process of emotions n we do sometimes need others to guide us to sanctity. very wonderful game, 10/10 ^_^
I'm so happy this game could help you move on in its own little way :) Hope you are doing well!
Thank you for the experience. Absolutely loved it from beginning to end! :)
I can't tell you enough how cool the soundtrack is, it's some stuff I would unironically listen on a daily basis. Would you mind if I asked where you got it from? Is is authoral? Or you got it somewhere else?
About the gameplay, the middle painting (the one with the enigmas and the boy) made me straight up sad. Made me think for a good 20 minutes or so. I guess that's what you were going for, so, yeah, it definitely worked, so congrats!
Lastly, I would like to thank you for your pronouncement rearding the AI art you used. As a fellow artist, I really appreciate your honesty and would like to say that, hands down, this game was the best use I saw someone finding to that, despite all of the implications of using it.
Cheers! Have a good one.
The musician monom made the soundtrack, you can find more of his work here: https://monom.bandcamp.com/
He made it from scratch, though it includes a lot of samples and remixes of pre-existing music.
Cheers to you as well and I hope you have a good one too :) Thank you for the comment.
for some reason I can't input the code on the second painting, last door.
What happens when you try to input the code? does an error message pop up?
no, nothing happens
as in nothing pops up at all -- in the space where the numbers are supposed to pop up, does the game just freeze? or does it go back to the point where you walk around? Does this happen on different devices/downloads?
its ok I figured it out, i think it was because I was playing on Chromebook instead of laptop.
I play in Chromebook and it worked pretty well. It could've been something else.
It's a very good game with a lot of symbolism to think about. I went in playing completely blind and was amazed at the pixel sprites of AI art. The stories are astonishing to read, the writing really is good. I do wish there were more secrets, although I don't know if your dialouge choices change anything.
Charon is the best character and his favorite food is meatloaf
The dialogue choices change some things, but overall I would make them change more (and introduce more secrets) if I were to make this game again. It unfortunately was made in a very rushed development cycle, but I hope to spend more time and effort in future projects. Nevertheless thank you so much for the kind words!
Great game, I don't know what else to say. They definitely need to release an extended version because the gameplay, the story, the characters, the art. It's all so unique and perfect. I want and NEED more, they can't just leave this like this, it would be like painting the Mona Lisa in half and leaving it like that.
Thank you so much! If you're looking for more, I think you will enjoy my upcoming game, Project Obelisk!
this is really coool game the theam is just f perfect the art is desgasting and well the story and the ending is somthing else best free game (after ddlc and the murder of sonic the hedgehog) 9 out of 10 just because it gave me bleu balls mate
Glad to hear it mate lol
I would give this a 10 stars out of 5 if I could!! Such a mind blowing game! I hope to see more games from you in the future! As someone who REALLY hates horror, I will say that this was totally worth it. No bugs found in the gameplay. (If anyone is really stuck for solutions you can cheat with my gameplay... or if you just want to watch me scream at painting 3... there is also that... oops). Thanks for making such an amazing game!
Thank you so much! I love your avatar, it is so detailed you can see the fear when the monster shows up lol
the way i died but im just laughing
kind of stuck on the settings menu...
oh no I hope you became unstuck! (by your later comment it seems you were lol
I really loved the game, i played it a few months ago and its still on my mind :3
I'm glad to hear it :) thank you!
Absolutely loved the game, really hit hard. Keep it up!
Thank you so much for the let's play! I didn't even know my own game had controller support lol
Honestly one of the best games I've ever played on my channel. The design, the atmosphere, the music the story had me hooked and invested the whole time would highly recommend to anyone
Thank you so much! I was so touched when you complimented the story at the end of the video :)
Honestly the Ai art really inhanes the game, as this is the inbetween, what humans can't imagine, and the second painting made me cry T-T
Thank you! Though I regret associating my work so much with AI art and using it here, at the time I felt it suited the tone quite well.
this was so good that if I weren't in school I would shed one single tear but it would also rise up into my eye again... really really awsome sauce
Thank you! I hope I didn't disturb your school session that much haha
Super surreal, super spooky, and genuinely a heartwarming but also heartbreaking story. I'm obsessed with your work and cannot wait for you to put out more!!!
Thank you so much! Please look forward to my next game, Project Obelisk!
Ahh!!! So excited!
I LOVE IT. AND THE END WAS SO CREATIVE (the game also felt really realistic if that makes sense?)
Thank you! If this is realistic to your life I would be scared to live in your shoes though 0.0
no!no! not my life lol. i just meant real life in general. it just felt like more than a game. i really dont know how to word it 😭 thats just how good ur game is, i cant find words for it haha
This is such an inspiration for me. Makes me think about life and such that no other indie bite sized game ever made me feel like. Thank you for this game, it really means a lot to me.
Thank YOU for playing it!! :)
A weird atmospheric experience with a very good soundtrack and story. I enjoyed playing it.
Thank you! :D
Thank you so much for playing! And yes that is the right piece by Debussy in the comments :)
haha! I mentioned it in the video but I wasn't sure of the name! I love Debussy
this game is soooo cool i love it i wish i could erase my memory and play it for the first time again. amazing work!
same thing here. awesome job man.
that is high praise!! thank you so much :,)
THIS GAME IS SO GOOD WTF. Not to spoil it but the end being the way it is is SO good. It really cheered me up
thank you! i'm not sure how else i would end the game lol it seemed like the right way to end it