Welcome to depression :/
My experience was not that severe for sure, so i can just not have enough knowledge here. Personally i get it about watching tv, drinking, smoking and stuff but i'm confused about cleaning because, as i understand it, if you have energy to phisycally clean some deep-dirty staff then you can gather food (it does not mean you have to cook it, can just order to home or just buy food at near shop or even go into cafe) and it feels like more of a first line of self-help, not cleaning your room. Even tho mb cleaning here was using metaphorically so like you are rather cleaning your soul than room - that i can understand but this difference (if it's here) was not obvious to me
I'm curious what was your intention and how do you see it?
Could you explain this part a bit more? Your stats do change depending on choices with fighting demons and if you clean/use cleaned areas - do you feel those stat changes were not noticeable or impactful? For example, after you clean the bed you can rest in it to up your energy stat.
Sure! I saw changes at stats but they felt strange to me - like you are cleaning something, you have everything up including energy (prob because i also was investigating what i've just cleaned, not sure). What i was expecting - i'm depleting my physical energy and prob gain mental one (which is Will here or is it in energy as well?) so then i should rest before cleaning again. But suddenly i could clean without obvious negative consequences, so it's like easy choice - just clean everything, so in that sense prob stats felt not impactful because i was afraid to do things considering problems with energy but it just went through
Thanks for such extensive feedback! It's very appreciated and overall I really hope this game could evoke something emotionally that you'll be thinking about for a while afterwards.
That became more than a game experience already with history of comments and devlog for me. But game itslef gave me dark, sad mood which i appreciate sometimes including now