This was a really interesting, fun, and complete game – awesome work! You created a great urban atmosphere with your artwork, and I can tell how much work went into making all the various scenes come alive with people, deliveries, buildings, cars, vendors, sounds, etc. The mechanics functioned well, and I loved the variety of types of gameplay I engaged in to play this – it kept it much more engaging and interesting than narrative-driven games often are. I was even learning Vietnamese proverbs and expressions – I love it. I’d never heard of “cozy horror” as a genre, but this was exactly that.
[Narrative spoilers ahead]: Maybe the best part, though, was that the game was expressive: it linked the financial struggles of a young person in the city to the very real precarious situations he finds himself in: isolated from family, alone during Tet, financially compelled to take a suspiciously low-rent apartment that subjects him to unhealthy conditions, harassment, etc. Wrapping it in the supernatural/horror element felt to me like a means of expressing that danger. Awesome work!
I don’t speak Vietnamese. I played this game by using translation tools on my phone, and searching online for the Vietnamese cultural/linguistic info I needed. It was well worth the effort!