I love the atmosphere this builds. I was unsettled and filled with dread the whole time. The contrast between the surreal, disembodied experience of being in a dream and the physicality and visceral feeling of the body horror really did it for me. It's the flesh invading the mind, a reminder that it, too, is subjugated to the body. But it's also so much more than that. It escapes interpretation. It's a dream, after all.
I like the dry ending and how it denies you closure -- it's sudden and anticlimactic, and in that way, manages to make me feel like I just woke up from an uncanny dream that my mind can't quite make sense of. The visuals and audio are also really on point and make this a great experience.
(Copying my review here because I did not understand how reviews work and thought it'd show up as a comment. Tragic.)
Thank you so much! I've always had a preference for being unsettled rather than being scared, don't get me wrong I think games that scare you are also great, but I think I've woken up from dreams feeling unsettled more times than being scared.
I toyed around with both endings restarting the game, one ending restarting and one closing, but I preferred the abrupt waking up feeling of the game closing on both.
I'm glad you enjoyed it.