I enjoy the nontraditional visual format of the text, switching between character dialogue boxes and full-screen text depending on the context. It brings a freshness to the VN experience, as well as providing a clear delineation between the characters' individual storytelling and the interactions they have between stories.
I am also a fan of the decision for a short-story anthology, almost as if Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark had a framing narrative that connected the individual tales, yet the link between tales was not as tenuous as in Ovid's Metamorphoses. The characterisation, shown through dialogue banter, is also off to a strong start. While extended-narrative gay horror—à la Echo (et al.), Cienie, or Burrows—is satisfying in its own way, I appreciate that this project is more segmented, and will not seem to require frequently reacquainting oneself with the previous updates in order to understand the latest ones.
Overall, this seems like a very solid, tastefully gay piece of horror media, and I am very excited to follow it. Whenever it isn't possible to gather around a real fire this summer, it is comforting to have the option of sidling up to the digital campfire and hearing the stories of 18 Mile Hike.