Excellent submission!

I played it through the end—what a twist and fun final puzzle! The voice acting and sound design were a delight! Beyond our inner monologue, I appreciated how it trusted me with its puzzles and barely held my hand. The atmosphere was unsettling, but the whole package kept this weenie glued to their seat!

The custom audio engine is solid. Perhaps I find the reflections to be a little bright, leading me to confuse the doors being in front or behind? I often wished the rooms had more flavorful sonic details to tell them apart, mostly to prevent me from feeling lost. For example, maybe there’s a leaky sprinkler or electrical sparks somewhere in the ceiling of corridor one? Hearing that would help orient and further immerse me.

I only encountered one gamebreaking bug which forced me to Alt+F4 and continue from my last save a few times. Either the audio crashed or I got stuck in a wall—it was hard to tell exactly—but the controls went unresponsive. Perhaps I was tapping my foot too often?

The minimalist graphics are effective and don’t need changed, but I would suggest a minimal UI for the title and menu screens. Perhaps a settings screen, controller support, and haptics would be nice? That’s all that I feel is missing from this for it to receive an official release.

OK, so I admit I might have a bit of a positive bias here. As someone who used to adore Code 7, this game manages to push my nostalgia buttons. OK sure, it’s horror on a space ship rather than on a space station, but still! I mean, there’s even the familiar (yet different) power puzzle!

But this is also incredibly well-made in its own right. The voice acting’s great (apart from perhaps the computer voice being a bit of an odd choice, but hey, it’s charming enough), the sound design is simple and effective, and I can’t spot any major flaws with the writing either. The navigation system doesn’t do anything especially new that I haven’t seen in other audio games, but that just means it is intuitive and easy to pick up. And with all the simple layouts and audio cues, it does everything really well. And that, IMO, is much better than needlessly trying to reinvent the wheel.

The main things I’d wish to see added here are small QoL improvements. A key that tells you your current facing direction, another to remind you of the name of the room you are currently in, etc. And I’d set q and e as turning keys instead of/alongside the arrow keys, setting something else as the interacting key. F perhaps? Then most things could be played one-handed, which would be great for some other disabilities, but mainly I’d stop pressing w when I meant to press e, which … I might’ve done a few times too many. I definitely know how to keyboard, why would you ever doubt?

Easily one of my favorite games of this jam. I loved loved loved this. I'm blown away at what everyone accomplished here for this project. I'll echo what Patricia said, this is honestly award-winning stuff.

The voice acting and dialog was amazing (shout out to both the actors), the music was perfectly eerie. I loved the story - the reveal was TOO GOOD. I really enjoyed the puzzles too - a lot of ah-ha moments, and just the right amount of difficulty.

I feel like with a lot of other games I can really easily get lost in movement, but the combination of the sound design, layout, controls, and the echo step made it all super easy to traverse. I think there were maybe one or two times where I really got stuck, but it was never hard to get my bearings again.

The only hiccup I ran into was after playing for a while the audio started to glitch (some sorta memory leak) and I had to save and quit, but I was able to pick back up right after that with no issues and finish the game.

Again, congrats on this amazing submission. You all literally knocked it out of the park, and this is easily going to be one of my go-to recommendations for nailing a great game jam game.

I’m so glad I was able to figure out how to get this game running, because had I not been able to play this game I would have been so sad! This game is straight up extraordinary! The voice acting, the writing, the audio design, and the puzzles are all so well crafted and polished. I haven’t stopped thinking about my experience with the game since I finished it for the first time.

Thank you for this incredible experience.

I’m usually a bit skeptical about full 3D audio games, because I often find it difficult to orient myself in them.

However, many design choices here make the gameplay very accessible: simply opening a door places you directly in the adjacent room, the walls are easy to perceive, open spaces have clear reverb cues, and you can’t accidentally move backwards.

The atmosphere also deserves a mention. Honestly, it gave me chills, a bit like the Alien film series by Ridley Scott. I absolutely love this kind of mood: the events that trigger, what you hear on thewalkie-talkie, the very high-quality voice acting… Sigourney Weaver, aka Ellen Ripley, would better watch out.

Finally, the puzzle system is extremely clever. It’s simple to understand, yet I still spent about twenty minutes going back and forth on the final puzzle before having the “aha” moment. But that’s also part of what makes it enjoyable.

Thank you!

At first I thought that the game was not working, but after a minute, the game started. Oh, I love the audio and some of the mechanics in this game. The ambiental music is perfect, the echolocation system works nicely and the puzzles are interesting, also the story. I didnt end the game (I have limited free time this days and I cant play more than some minutes), but this game is fantastic.

This game was very intertesting, i love the atmosphere and it really made me feel uneasy. The music was really great and i love the voice acting for quinn, really well done. The audio cues were very good, i could navigate through the game without any issues and play through the whole game just by listening to the sounds. I did notice some interaction prompts didn't get announced when i got close so i think it could be improved in the future. Also i had a bug happen when i was near the med bay room and quinn was whispering, i was just walking endlessly and had to restart the game since apparently i had walked off the ship. Also the loading sequence could be made faster since i started up the game and it took like a minute before i heard the main menu, which made me think the game was broken or something. The puzzles were very well done, that last puzzle really had me stumped for quite some time beofr ei finally figured out what i had missed and it made me feel relaly smart when i figured it out. Really well done with this, i love the game.

Haven't had a chance to play yet, but you can try zipping the exe, that might prevent warnings from stopping the download. 

I like the terminal voice, I guess you cloned your own voice with AI