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A jam submission

Nightmare in the Forever WoodsView game page

Puzzle Horror game developed for Scream Forever 2025
Submitted by lyght.games (@lyghtgames), lyghtkruz@gmail.com, Osmicow, mapr — 2 hours, 5 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Aesthetics#153.8333.833
Enjoyment (Best Game)#173.3333.333
Creativity#283.1673.167
Horror#412.3332.333
Sound Design#412.5002.500
Story#442.1672.167

Ranked from 12 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Do you allow SCREAM ZONE to promote your game via social media?

Yes

What game engine did you make this project in?
3

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Comments

Submitted(+2)

Cool game

Developer

Thanks for playing.

Submitted(+1)

Nice game, pretty original and fun, i did get stuck quite a lot, but overall original and very nice looking game. 

Developer

Thanks for playing. Do you mean stuck like, you backed yourself into a corner or stuck like you found a bug? Because if you backed yourself into a corner, the answer is usually just put blobs below yourself to get out.

Submitted(+1)

i didn't know what i was doing and i was just surrounded by blobs from every direction. 

Submitted

i didn't know what i was doing and i was just surrounded by blobs from every direction. 

Submitted(+1)

Great puzzler!
Developer

Thanks for playing. I think this is the first time someone made a video of one of our jam games so that was fun.

Developer

Thanks for playing!  That was cool to watch the video of someone playing.  Yeah, you did die and when you pressed spacebar, you basically clicked "retry," on the game over/score screen.  We will need to have a delay there so it doesn't instantly restart.  I did notice a bug while you were playing where the little blob changed colors and I hadn't seen that one before.  We are planning doing some more fixes later, so I'll try to reproduce that one. 

Submitted(+1)

I like the puzzle and art style (specifically the colour palette) of this game! Congrats on this submission!

Developer

Thanks for playing! :D 

Submitted(+1)

What an interesting way to go with the theme of the jam!

Very enjoyable, congratulations!

Developer

Thanks. The theme just made me think of Tetris so we had to go with a puzzle game and we just added horror elements to it.

Submitted(+1)

That was pretty cute, not what I expected from a scream jam game. 

Well done!

Developer(+1)

Thanks for playing!  The stinger / jumpscare was originally a bit loud and was VERY effective, it kept getting me.  But I think we wanted to focus more on the puzzle aspect than the jumpscare part but still keep to the horror theme. 

Submitted (2 edits) (+1)

Cool game, impressive making a puzzle game that's a remix of puyo puyo like this in the time we had, took me a while to understand the controls (movement select the blob, space is to pickup & putdown I wouldn't label that as "interact"). I would add a combo meter so you can get point multipliers like in puyo puyo! And also maybe a jump so you can place towers to make combos? The only issues I had was that certain shapes of 4 or more touching (particularly in shapes with pluses) wouldn't pop all the blobs like in other similar games, and that there isn't much game feel though I'm impressed this game works and feels as well as it does regardless.

Developer

Thanks for playing. Yeah a combo counter and a jump feature are both things we would have added if we had more time.

Submitted(+2)

Wow I did not expect a puzzle game like this! Very cool idea and the art style is fantastic

Developer(+1)

Thanks for playing!  ^_^

Submitted(+2)

I LOVE THISS SO MUCH THE PIXEL ART IS SOOO NICE!!! I love the slasher animation icon the most!! The color scheme really brings the artwork together as well! I also found that this runs really smooth and I hardly ever got stuck or soft-locked in some way ! AMAZING game!

Developer(+1)

Thanks for playing!  We used the https://lospec.com/palette-list/retrotronic-dx palette for all of the game except the Lilith, we wanted her to stand out a little more.  Glad you enjoyed it! :D