Omg I'm so glad you like the game(s)(?) LOL Thank you so much for playing and for leaving a comment!! PLEASE DON'T BECOME TOO OBSESSED THO I DON'T WANT TO BE IMPEDING ON YOUR LIFE LAKDJFALKSDJF
Honestly the whole story behind this game is kind of up in the air, up for interpretation, up for whatever you want it to be at this point. I originally came up with the story as something that would be completely separate and just a fun little thing to work on for Spooktober after Arc 4 and be rather sillay, but as I was working on it, it ended up fitting in a way that half made sense as something that could have actually inexplicably happened so I ended up leaning into it a lot harder than I expected to???
So whether you want to consider it completely and entirely canonical is up to you. I would say that if I were to try to fit it in somewhere it wouldn't be after Arc 4, since after Arc 4, well, things are a Bit Different, as you know, since you've played up through it kdfjalsdk My entire idea surrounding the loops is that there are a heck of a lot more than just the main 4 you see, particularly since there's all those game over deaths that would also restart things, etc. So in the end, there's no telling how many times they've actually looped. And so this game would be,,, somewhere in there, if treated as completely canonical. Though definitely towards the far end after quite a few have already passed. I will say there will be a few small cheeky references to this game in Arc 5, but nothing that would definitely say one way or another 100%.
SO............ I guess perhaps that didn't completely answer your question. Well, maybe? Like, I would say it's at least semi-canonical. In my heart, it is entirely canonical, but I also know there might be some things that don't quite 100% fit. So for that reason I say semi LOL
OK THIS ANSWER IS JUST GETTING REALLY RAMBLY NOW. Thank you again for playing tho!!! I'm really happy that you like the games!! 🥰💕