I would've rated it a 2/5, but the game was very short, which lead to it not feeling like a waste of time. But I just want to be honest about how I wasn't very impressed. I could already tell the way this game was going to go from the start, with monday to thursday being totally normal, and stuff going down on friday.

I really hoped this wasn't going to be the case, and there would be some genuine surprises sprinkled throughout the game to keep me on my tone or build atmosphere, but no not really, the game plays it fully straight from the start, with the exception of a floating coast near the shore. 

It wasn't very scary since the trope of "game is totally normal until the end where it's all suddenly scary" wasn't played with and was just done by the book. I do appreciate that the game had no cheap jumpscares! 

I do genuinely really love this game's graphical style, I can tell effort was put into emulating that old N64 Animal Forest type look, and the music was nice too! I also genuinely liked the gameplay as simplistic as it was! The map was very small so it wasn't difficult to do the tasks, and running around in this environment and appreciating the artwork was very nice!!

But, when the main hook of the game is supposed to be lulling you into a false sense of security and then shocking you with spooks and scares at the very end, and the game did an in my opinion very lackluster job of executing on this concept, I can't rate it well. 

It ended up feeling more like a parody game than a genuine attempt to be scary. I fully understand why people are so positive about the game, but it just didn't hit the spot for me. Still, the aesthetic was on point, and I simply wish the concept was better executed on. 

No shade to the dev at all with any of is, this was clearly just a little project for fun and it's fun for what it is, a little ~20 minute romp through this animal forest inspired world, with a little horror twist at the end.