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A jam submission

XanthaphobiaView game page

Submitted by Willyboy0509 — 23 days, 20 hours before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Audio#332.4753.500
Visuals#332.8284.000
Overall#462.1213.000
Theme#620.7071.000

Ranked from 2 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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Definitely one of those games that feels totally unhinged. I did like the mechanics, as weird as they were. The fact that you can at any time gain the ability to sprint extremely fast had me on edge for a while, trying to save it in case something appeared that I would need to break the sound barrier to escape from. I think a few more threats, or at least the implication of a threat, could have helped the earlier levels - especially the forest level. Strangely enough I felt things got more normal the further in the game you got.

Out of the three weird yellow monster designs I saw , the one that actually hunts the player is the least interesting in my opinion. Having the other two appear from time to time to spook the player would have helped - the biggest scare I got in the game was trying to get into the forest and accidentally grabbing a skeleton, causing it to come flying at my face.

I also don't think its actually possible to beat the warehouse level, I had all the boxes and the door open but the physics kept throwing me off the box pile. Also, good god trying to carry boxes around in the dark while my flashlight made the box completely blind me was bloody hard.

Anyways, it was interesting enough for me to finish it. My advice is to lean more into the weirdness that was more present the first level -  it got a bit boring wandering the totally normal forest and backrooms warehouse after the bizarre intro, meme-filled house and strange labs.

Developer

Thank you for the feedback! We are reworking the game with more detail and spookiness. We are keeping the memes also lol. We will be sure to add more "Weirdness" :)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2090310/Xanthaphobia/