The second puzzle might be a little misleading. I thought I was meant to interpret what the message was, not sort the weight. The third puzzle had me stumped when I thought I couldn't reset the puzzle. Was wondering why a big nail on the stairs had light.

I played all We Were Here series and this is a really good puzzle game, although most of them fall on the easy side.

I escaped!

 The presentation is nice and the 3 puzzles are all good, I really enjoyed those (the 3rd one took me much more time that I'd like to admit, I think I first tried this game like 5 days ago).

When you're walking upstairs you can easily leave the grid but that's no big deal since it takes barely 1 minute to come back there.

Good combat is so difficult to get right in a week I'm always thrilled to see a puzzle entry. There's a nice atmosphere as it is, but I think a cavity shader and some baked lighting for the orange goo in the dark realm would really bring it together. Audio mix was a little off too but no real complaints- this was a fun entry.

Cool short game with an original idea but had a lot of bugs on my playthrough, wrote them in your feedback form :) Nice graphics tho and mechanics with light and dark were great! 

Also, doesn't it say in the rules that games must have combat? //If it doesn't, well, damn it, i could have had it so much easier with my development if i knew :( 

That was a very polished experience, from the start screen to the notes to the light/dark effects. The fonts were nice and the sound effects and music were good. The low-poly graphics with great lighting worked really well. The hidden clues that were revealed when the light was off was a great idea, reminiscent of escape rooms. You did well on the theme with the light/dark mechanics.

We struggled with the free look being locked and being a bit sensitive, so we had trouble putting the mouse on the combination lock to turn the dials. Centring the view when you moved would have been good. The view restriction (45 degrees left/right) was slightly uncomfortable to play with. The steps were very small and the lack of keyboard repeat made it slow, unresponsive and a bit frustrating to walk around. 

We're not sure how big the game was because we never got past the door, despite play attempts. We always ran out of lantern charge before we could progress.

Well done on producing such a great looking and stylistic game. We'd play it again if it was a bit easier to progress in.

I really like the lighting effects and other visual elements of this entry, as well as the audio.

Just a couple minor tweaks that would make it more enjoyable for me: I would like to be able to hold down W (and maybe make the "steps" longer) and move forward constantly rather than having to tap, and I think in this game free look might be better as toggle-able (personal preference for me). The other thing was the lantern timeout was a little short for me, especially since I'm a smooth brain and was stuck trying to understand the weight riddle for ages when I died. I also wasn't able to click restart after Seymour called me pathetic lmao.

I do really like the theme implementation in the fear mechanic and having to stave off the darkness with the lantern, I think this game looks really good and there is a lot here to like.

Nice entry, good job!

Great visuals and atmosphere. Good interpretation of the theme. I like most of the mechanics here except the recharging got tedious quickly.

My biggest problem is that the grid is half the size it needs to be to make the game feel "right". As it is it feels like the grid was slapped on after the fact and not something the game was designed around. Also the mouse look must snap back to 90 degree angles and also be an optional thing, like if you press and hold a button to activate it.

Really nice aesthetic and atmosphere! I really loved the idea of light / dark puzzles. However, I found the recharging mechanic a little annoying as my light seemed to run out very quickly and I wouldn’t have enough time to read the clues.

This is definitely the type of game I would play a full version of! Great work :)

Unfortunately I had pretty bad z-fighting in the textures on my machine (M1 Macbook Air) ... to the point where I couldn't read the messages and know what to do. But I can tell it's a great start! 

Well done! I really liked the play with the light mechanic. When I died, the Restart button did nothing for me, and I LOL’d when I pressed Exit. The only thing I wish for would be to snap the user’s facing to the center when moving, otherwise, great job!

I like the lighting. Really makes a difference between a boring looking level and an interesting one. I liked the idea to toggle the lantern to see the secrets. However I think the time until you need to recharge is a bit short. Recharging the lantern becomes an mandatory and repetitive task really quickly and those are not fun. Also the level does not seem to be designed around a grid. It feels more like that is was build with an FPS in mind and then constrained into a grid with very small tiles to make it work. There is a lot of clipping of the lantern into other objects going on for example. Please do not enable free mouse look as a default, it makes it a lot more difficult to navigate on the grid because at the most freedom extent it could be that you are either facing north (with free look to the max right extend) or east (with the max left extend). Free mouse look is fine when you can enable it if you choose too not the other way around.