Hello, played it for 45 minutes. Looks nice and atmospheric despite the low fidelity, and I didn't notice any major bugs. Dialogue system worked pretty well for the most part - I especially like the little encyclopedia hyperlinks to tell you about the world you're in.

Stuff I noticed:

Tiny thing, but you'll want to name your folder something like "Project Arcane" instead of just a version number. It's easy to lose it if you just extract it in a folder with a bunch of other stuff.

Pressing enter when entering a name for your save should really count as pressing continue, instead of adding a line break.

You really stick to stuff. Like if you jump into a wall, you don't fall down until you let go of the movement key. Letting you slide along the walls more easily would feel much better I think.

Dialogue choices seem to pop up before the text I'm supposed to respond to has finished displaying. I feel like it'd be good to display the dialogue I'm responding to as I consider my options, anyway, rather than in sequence.

I beat the sign puzzle by accident and I'm not sure how I was supposed to work things out properly. Kind of annoying that the top sign says "downtown" but that's not an option you can select - like how am I supposed to know Main Street counts as downtown but not the Dockside?

I hope that sign puzzle was the one thing you were supposed to be able to solve in the demo, cuz in the junkyard I can't even figure out what the question is after going through the whole place two or three times.

Anyway, my brainlet inability to solve puzzles aside, game seems promising; just needs to work out some of the kinks and burrs and then it should be smooth sailing (for people who don't suck at puzzles, anyway).

Really liked the look of it, the graphics and ui visuals are great. Sadly, it's too hard to play and maybe just unfinished. I had to look at the comments here to figure out you could walk through the grass to find the beach signs. Then the sign puzzle itself made no sense either. I had a eureka moment where I thought maybe the nail holes matched with the signs, but then I realized that they didn't match either. Watched a twitch stream to find the answer. Not sure if there is anything to do yet at the junkyard. I'll assume most of this is down to the gameplay being unfinished. Would probably be better to just hide all of the tutorials and UI if it isn't being utilized in the gameplay yet, because otherwise it's information overload. I'm looking forward to seeing this game in a more functional state.

I had some issues with the sign puzzle. I'll also echo that the movement gets stuck too much. It's needlessly aggravating. Looking forward to when more of the game is added in.

• Movement needs to be interpolated or updated every frame, it seems to be at the default 50Hz and is a jittery mess at 144Hz.
• Walking diagonally is faster. I get that slow walking is better for muh ’mersion but I only moved around by attempting to strafe jump.
• Cursor locks at center when UI is opened for me (can be unlocked by alt tab and I think the bug is also triggered by it)
• When the path splits into three, whichever way you go a map shows and can’t do anything but close it and walk back.
• Found the sign, mentioned the place to the other guy, he says there’s nothing to say about it and that’s where I give up.

Feels like I’m either missing something obvious or something’s bugged.

Maybe “Wait a minute that card” was made for me all along.

Edit: Gave it another go, found some other thing (yeah nobody would expect you could go there), figured out where I am and where the signs go but still stuck. Consider me filtered and out of patience.

I might be retarded but I can't get out of the woods Each path leads to map screen but not a single place seems to be unlocked. Since overall game quality is pretty high, I'd say revealing yourself as brainlet might be the reason why you've got no comments so far.

As for what I managed to see, the bushes, the PS1 graphics (not an insult), the UI, the conversation systems - all of it is working and functional, I'd go as far as to say it's solid basis for good game. There's a lot of mechanics setting up a great detective game, but again, I can't get out of the forest to explore it.

Will certainly be back