At first blush I found the mechanics a little frustrating. Like, I wasn't a huge fan of how if the person said what they were looking for and you were in a position where you had to reality shift before you could get to the medicine to keep from getting psychotic or depressed, then the reality version of what they said would linger and you had to try to discern between their request and the fantastical options presented to you. I also though that it was way too many medicines to have 2 variants of. As I stuck with it though I started to realize I was just thinking about the game wrong. Once I started to get the hang of the fact that the mechanic was intentionally designed to force me to monitor my bars, I realized that it was my fault that I was getting the discrepancy and that I just needed to manage my meters better. Past that though, I also noticed that I was starting to discern between the real and fantastical more consistently by just remembering the positions. I just had to play long enough to get familiar with it. The game gets a lot more fun when you realize that you have a lot more time to grab medicine than you would think. I ended my last game with 2200 points.
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Thank you, I'm glad you like it!
The intention of the game is to be a bit of a memory game, as well as a time-balancing game, so your experience makes a lot of sense. In future, I think we would have liked to have a more in-depth tutorial to explain the mechanics, but there's only so much you can do in 48 hours. I'm glad you picked it up so quickly!