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It's clear a lot of love went into this game, especially since you made every part of it during the jam.     It's very immersive with excellent polish and great art and music.  Voice acting really stands out in a jam as well.  The mini games work great and feel immersive, with a particular shout of to the Morse Code game.  Having to type the message yourself slowly letter by letter is wonderfully suspenseful.  Transition between having the side view of the whole light house on and off is satisfying as well I toggled it a few times just for fun.  I really loved the small pieces of dialogue that would happen outside of a conversation like burning the food.

Since this is an extremely polished experience already, I'm going to give much pickier feedback than usual and more of it.  Ya'll got full marks from me, these are just some bolts I think could be tightened to push it over the top.

This game is incredibly immersive, but the loading screens actually broke that immersion for me eachtime.  They're excellent loading screens, but I would consider something like a fade to black, black loading screen, fade back in when going to and from a mini game.

The target phrase box in the Morse Code mini game is really hard to see.   The book on the left showing the alphabet is MUCH more eye catching and my attention was immediately drawn there.  I spent at least a minute wondering if I should be hearing the beeps or trying to spell out words before I even noticed the target phrase.  

The controls for the gear mini game:  Right now you click to pick up a gear and click to place it.  I would change it to holding the mouse button down to pick up the gear and releasing to drop it.  This is what I intuitively thought it would be and it matches the kitchen mini game.

The cooking mini game felt overwhelming.  I think it would be a great idea to have a small cooking section on the first day with a much simpler recipe and without time restrictions.  It can frustrate a player if they have to learn a mechanic while also being timed on it's execution.  You also have to click into the book spending some seconds to look at the recipe.  I also wasn't sure if after the food was burned if you were supposed to start all the way over?  This is a well made mini game it just needs a bit more clarity.  

Maybe an autosave system?  This one is maybe a bigger ask if you don't have save slots but you do have a save system.  I was playing the windows build and the third time I burnt the food my game crashed.  I remembered seeing a continue button on the home screen and was sad when it didn't let me resume prior to the crash.  I didn't realize that I had to manually save, even though that's a reasonable expectation.

And finally check the below screenshot.  Navigating the bedroom stairs has some awkwardness.  When you go up the stairs from below the player character is put in the corner above the stairs.  I pressed S and D together to try and walk diagonally down but since I hit S I was sent down the stairs.  This happened multiple times.  I would move where the player spawns to the red circle to make this a bit better.    

Exceptional work! I look forward to seeing what ya'll make next.