Wow TIC-80, I didn't expect that. Really cool.

When it comes to gameplay, i really like the "escape room" idea. One this I was missing was more "visual" help when it comes to directions. Like for example a minimap, to help me figure out where I'm at.

Great job, I enjoyed it very much and would love to play a "full version" of this ;-)

That's cool you gave pico a try!  I would not have been as brave.

It's a nice, short game.  The timer combined with a text adventure is interesting.  I usually don't like timers in games, but it helps to amp up the excitement here and isn't such a short timer to be penalizing.

If you haven't already, check out my game and let me know what you think!  Thanks!

I love this!

Small piece of trivia - I made a text based/imagination oriented game about navigating a burning building for the very first Linux Game Jam back in 2017.

I really enjoyed the sense of urgency that the timer gives, and I though the puzzle chain was nicely executed.

I found myself wishing that there were some sound effects for interactions and movement, but I don't think the game is significantly diminished by not having any, and I'm not sure whether TIC-80 games have explicit size limits.

I would love to play a bigger game like this.

One thing to note - your instructions do not mention the need to give the game binary executable permissions.

If you are on Linux or MacOS and had set that before uploading, it's worth knowing that those permissions don't survive when a file is transferred via HTTP. Executable permissions can be preserved inside zip files.

If you're on Windows and can't set that yourself, I made a free tool to help manage that.

Help needed! I can't use the big hammer on the locked door.

Nice real time element to a text adventure!