Awesome Earthbound vibes, and nice execution of the silent protagonist theme. The escape room had a solid concept behind it, but the way it was done led for a bit of confusion. For example I checked my bed multiple times, but not in the right direction so I did not find the item on the first, second, or third pass. This was a bit frustrating. Having to recheck areas that did not provide items before is a bit rough as well. 

Combat was a bit too long and one dimensional to be good. In fact I think having a single fight or no fights would have improved the overall experience, as the game was too short to have any level progression, and there was no good reason to learn new skills or level up.

I enjoyed the game and thought there was clever design and storytelling here. It felt like the first month of work done on a longer game, instead of a game created for a game jam, and it almost feels like you were stuck in that mindset. If this were created to be a shorter jam game, a few modifications could have helped, like giving a cure skill to start, totally scrapping experience and the skill learning system, reducing fights to 1 or 0, and possible a boss fight (a bigger rat perhaps?), perhaps an story arc that doesn't end too abruptly.

Hope you keep developing it though! Would love to get to the bottom of that strange creature and the MC's sister.

This is a  neat entry!! Like the custom art. The semi thriller horror vibe its good. i like the puzzle, not very complicated but not super easy. Time span of the game was perfect and characters and interesting.

Mapping was also a strong point. Battle system was regular but a twist of equippingng skills, not bad at all. (Rats might be too high on hp)

Overall a very pleasant experience. It maaaay be too short for a demo, but for a jam its prefect.

Great Job!

The cartoony art style with fairly modern setting and front-view battle system reminds me of Earthbound. However, there are some design decisions that hold the game back from being successful in my opinion. For example, the first area is like an escape room: you have to solve a puzzle by collecting required items and placing them appropriately. My problem is that while it's possible to access all parts of the house right away, you can't collect certain items before you collect other items. The order is pretty arbitrary; I would rather have had the ability to collect each item in any order.

Similarly, the only way to collect all of the ice crystals in the "outside" part of the game is to collect all of the crystals in the pond area, then exit the area and reenter to grab an additional respawned crystal. Why not just have all of the necessary crystals available from the start? There are plenty of stalagmites to hold all of the required crystals, so the decision to withhold one is just baffling.

I suspect English is not your first language, but there are several spelling errors and some odd text choices that keep the story from having the impact you were going for.

I found the battles needlessly difficult and boring. The skill choices are effectively attack, guard, and slightly stronger attack, and even when using all of these choices as efficiently as possible the battles still took what seemed like too many turns and I ended up close to dead by the end of each battle.

I know that the long walk near the end of the game was supposed to drive home the idea that the player was walking for a long time, but the scenery was boring and pretty meaningless;  it was needlessly long and just pads out the play time. I think going from the transition point on the previous map and cutting to the end cutscene would have been better without losing any impact.

In summary, the game looks good, but I think there are some structural issues that should be addressed before proceeding with development. I hope these criticisms are helpful for the game's future progress.

The graphic is cute, the story and the gameplay are interesting. I had some issues seeing the winter orbs, and it took me 5-10 minutes to figure out that I need to write the password in uppercase. I feel strange about the fact that a child is running around with a knife and kills animals, but the battlegraphics look nice too.

Lovely game so far!