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Our direct inspirations are The Roottrees Are Dead and Her Story. The Return of the Obra Dinn is also foundational. If you want another small, fun family tree deduction game, try A Case of Fraud. You should also try Type Help and The Red Pearls of Borneo for a different and super fun narrative deduction mechanic. And we (Jamwitch) have two other small narrative deduction games, The Case of the Dungeon Descent and My Friends the Monster Trainers.

That’s what I’ve got off the top of my head! Enjoy!

Matthew L. Hornbostel2 days ago(+1)(-2)

Have you played Chants of Sennaar? Because the puzzle mechanic of translating unknown language terms is VERY similar in some ways to your basic puzzle solving concept. I can see this game as that idea merged with the mystery elements you mentioned (Obra Dinn, etc) and it makes for a fantastic hybrid of puzzle structure and narrative mystery. I think the mixture you used in this game works really well.

I'm also super impressed that somehow you did this in 72 hours. I suck at game jams. My problem's always seemingly endless delays due to feature creep and too many projects I'm rotating between. And at some point I just need to accept that an actual released project is better than a bigger, more ambitious and polished, but never finished thing.

I mean, I have gotten some stuff out there, but mostly just low priced game asset packs at this point. I've got 5000+ asset files released across 12+ packs by now. And they're increasingly well reviewed and well liked but I do need to move forward faster on actual game dev. Because the actual game projects I have on my itch.io page are mostly barely moving lately.