Hush Little Lily does a good job at creating atmosphere and tension. The story itself is pretty well done but leaves a lot of questions. It's one of the downsides of jam type games is that making it on a quick timetable doesn't leave a lot of time for depth and back story. The art is decent. The music and sound effects are good. The lullaby is great especially with the custom lyrics to suit the game.  Some of the choices seemed to be faux choices such as when you choose where to hide and it leads to the same conclusion.

I played the game on Linux. It never crashed and I didn't notice any spelling errors. You can manually save whenever you want but there are only four save slots. You can skip forward through text but there is no back option to go backwards. You can't load your saves while in game nor can you choose to exit to the main menu or exit the game. You have to use Alt-F4 to quit the game if you want to load a save or alter any options. You can adjust music and effects separately.

Game Engine: Ren'Py 7.3.0.271

Disk Space Used: 152 MB

Game Version Played: 2.0

GPU Usage: 2-11 %

VRAM Usage: 992-1857 MB

CPU Usage: 3-7 %

System RAM Usage: 2.4-2.9 GB

Overall a decent visual novel. It has good bones and the writer has some good talent. If it were more fleshed out and lack of technical polish fixed then I could see it being something great.  As is not a bad way to spend the thirty two minutes it took me to finish my first play through.

My Score: 6.5/10

My System:

Intel i5-12600K | 32GB DDR4-3200 RAM | Gigabyte Radeon RX 7800 XT 16GB | Artix | Kernel 6.10.10 | Mesa 24.2.2