I love the concept for this, but it's in a really rough state. 90% of what I tried to do does nothing, and what does work has to be worded very specifically. For example, struggle, resist, escape, etc don't work. You HAVE to word it as "Struggle against Salem" unless in seemingly the perfect scenario. I found that if I was grappled at one stage and tried "Struggle", it didn't work, but at seemingly another unmentioned stage of it, "Struggle" would work in the same way as squirm. Inconsistency is the name of this game. This, of course, only happens after you get him to appear.
I tried "Call out into woods.", "Run into woods" , "Progress into woods" "Venture into woods" and literally nothing worked. I tried about 20 other things and nothing had any affect. This does not feel good to play when everything you try just doesn't work. I only managed to progress to Salem by just putting "Wait". I know the game is early, but what's available is near impossible to access by anyone with my seemingly lacking mindset for how to fenagle these games. I can't feel entirely at blame when the way forward is still seemingly picky, such as the very, very precise wording for resisting.
Another key example being how "Resist" on its own does nothing, but "Squirm" does. The player has almost no autonomy over their actions, and instead of fighting Salem, are fighting this game's limitations...of which there are currently far, far too many.
At this point, I had just wanted to see what would happen later, but I couldn't get him to even swallow me. I tried "Wait", spammed "Squirm", and tried every variation I could think of for "Give up". Nothing worked, nothing happened. 50 "Squirm"s later and nothing changed. I did what my character couldn't and gave up on the game, because it's near impossible to find any of the content.
I look forward to seeing this game come along, but it needs a lot of TLC right now.