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It was interesting how after reading a very detailed description on the game page I still had no idea how the game is played and what it looks like. But judging from the interface alone, the idea is interesting: you essentially program several beavers simultaneously on a grid map, which you have to update manually to reflect their progress. Unfortunately, I was unable to tell if any of my commands were actually executed or not and with what results, because game gave me no feedback in that regard. It would have been cool if the log panel showed messages like "beaver A has arrived to location B", or "beaver C senses wolves on location D", and then you can process this information and make markings on the map.

Yet more unfortunately, the current version of the game was not stable on my computer, and both times I tried to play it I crashed after a couple of minutes. Nevertheless, I think the core idea of the game is cool! I also liked toying around with pencils, markers and little cutsy stickers, they were the real joy of this game for me :)

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Thank you for your interest! There were a lot of issues with our game that we're (eventually) hoping to get fixed most notably the crashes. 

Our idea was mainly for something where the "horror" part of the game was the absolute lack of information that you receive from the game. Despite this, our idea didn't come out as we envisioned it in our heads. Some more responsiveness is needed and is hopefully the plan for when we update the game. 

Thanks again for your feedback, it is heavily appreciated!

Oh, interesting, so you're saying that the lack of feedback was intentional? That's an interesting idea, but it does come off as more of a frustration than horror. Or even just bewilderment, because most of the time I was not even able to tell if the game was working or not. I think to achieve horror, some sort of informational feedback to your actions is needed,  but you can play with players' expectations and/or make it ambivalent or confusing at times. For example, you can have reports coming from beavers, but they can be inconsistent, or when they stop coming, you would know, that the wolves have gotten to them.