(I am now in a rush to test as many games as possible to help, so please do not mind the cursory reviewing style.)

"Experience the last day of your patients and try to solve the mystery of their deaths." -> this reminds me of a science-fiction film where, at the beginning, the hero (possibly Robin Williams?? Not sure) could see the photographic memory of the deceased.

funny how your brother’s pseudonyme has "SmallBug" while yours has "Monsters" XD

just looking at the screen captures: nice typewriter font, seems very fitting :) Same for the grey filter/tint.

On the screen capture with the Deranged: antlers, hood, and one-eye; just as a side note, very esoteric symbolism (many people seem to use them without knowing it, actually! So, just saying).

Controls are layout-independent ! Great. :) (I have an AZERTY keyboard)

Dots to show interactions + dynamic indications: really user-friendly. :) Including the red colour; by the way, tints of grey + red is really great relatively to the theme.

Ah, you can examine things only once! Actually, good to know what has already been done. :) BUT you have not to miss the lines!

in the past: misspelling "themself" -> "themselves" (first one I spotted including the game page; I noticed the writing seemed conscientious :))

Just realizing now that the view (including top-view characters) and flashbacks are reminiscent of "Hotline Miami". :)

dot on lamp not obvious, as there is a circle! XD Really small detail, nothing serious. Suggestion: maybe make the white dots’ opacity ‘oscillate’? This would help ensuring the dots are always visible. Maybe also add a black outline as safety, in case a dot gets displayed on a white element.

You REALLY see the coffee stain rings on the coffee table! X) Awesome attention to detail.

Weird, during the line on drawing people, the camera is centred on a couch with nobody on it (although I sat), and on one of the screen captures, this very same line is displayed while the character is shown sitting at the table… I wonder if it is a bug.

(made it to the line with "innards") The narration is so well written. The noir theme inspired you to make wonders. :) Also like the soft piano music.

Small detail I notice: the walking animation keeps the right frame when you turn. Yes, I am a sucker for checking details. ;)

Seeing the Escapist’s portrait for the very first time: animal + clothes, reminds me once again of "Hotline Miami"! X) Although this is minor. And the Resentful’s portrait reminds me somewhat of the "Parasyte" anime. X)

I love how the portraits represent personalities. :) Reminds me of the Dark World from "A Link to the Past" (remember bunny Link?).

misprint? "somebody who wants to poison" -> "what somebody who wants to poison"

Grand hall: again great music.

A community with a hooded guide, sacrifice (seeing "offal" et "reenact"), and now "myel" (which I see is Ladino; the Wiktionary even gives the Hebrew spelling; reeks of cabalism)! Wow, are you knowledgeable about Freemasonry, by any chance? Because this ceremony sure looks comparable. I may be reading too much into it, but it really strikes me.

Finished the game… My hypothesis still stands, although this may also be a representation of any other ‘sect’.

Takeaway: very atmospheric narrative game, both visually and for the ears, with awesome writing. Having the constraint materialize as a flashback is cunning. The debugging-turned-final feature of dots and the use of colour also made interacting very clear, including knowing whether some action is a point of no return or not. The only and obvious possible criticism I can really think of would be on gameplay: I tend to think having the player as an actor rather than a spectator is paramount, and even if you go for a heavily narrative game, you can still make things less linear or let some guesswork for the player, so if it were just me, I would wish there were something along those lines in the prototype and the final version, but it depends on what you want to achieve, and if your aim is to tell an interactive story, then discard this. ;)

This was a very nice immersive moment, and I also trained my memory of English thanks to some unfrequent words and possibly some new ones (I looked up in dictionaries and read ALL the text — because, you know, that is what I do all the time in games, never want to miss anything or as little as possible XD —, so this testing session once again took me way too much time!). Great, and thanks! :)

I watched my friend stream this on discord to me, it was a really cool narrative and i really enjoy everything you did to set tone, particularly the art! (which whoa u did so much in the time span)

friend: “it was a very thematically interesting game, that was surprising and visually it was neat and audibly it was cool, the writing was good, i really liked the end. it was good. fuck, jeez.”

I have questions. Unfortunately, i do not deal very well with metaphors and allegories.

1. Is the main story line what the forensic doctor gathers from the autopsy he performs on the victim? 
2. Seems like the escapist was involved in a kind of body-themed cult — “Venules”? Had to look up this one in the dictionary — just to escape from the “outside world”, hence “The Escapist”. Is this true? What’s the purpose of the cult?
3. Does the last room have a path that leads to a different ending, or is the black space a symbolic representation of the corpe’s decay? I tried a couple of paths with no variation to the ending.

I really wish i could write like you do; i felt like i was reading a professional-level novel. Everything contributed to give the right atmosphere, and i specially liked the avatars of all the cult members that speak.

Interesting concept and I appreciated the little touches like the circle that would turn red on objects you could interact with. Well done!

Great concept! And cool realization!!!