Time is Solid Here

this is such an amazing game! i found the puzzles very fitting for each person and the art very pleasing. you, creator of this game, made me happy - and definitely many more - with this game :]

i hope the making of your next project goes well for you <3

have a very nice day

I'm honestly having a hard time coming up with words to describe how beautifully macabre this game was. The storytelling is amazing and the art style is so unique. I love how each of the painting's environments hinted to the story of the character in said painting. By far my favorite game I've played here on this site.

is the song at the title screen a twisted version of "Love Story" by Taylor Swift? cause I'm totally hearing that.

After playing through the entire game, I realised that Charon was this guy who was supposed to guide souls to the afterlife or something of that sort. I completely forgot about 7 Days (another indie game) which used the same name for the person who 'leads' us.

Other than that, it was really a wild experience. Spoilers from here, but that lady is such a poor soul, I still feel bad for her due to this vengeful man who wants to play with her memory--who she loves oh so much it doesn't make sense until you're her. I guess I felt that sunken cost thing for a moment, but honestly? She deserved to hear the truth. All of them do, because when you're honest, you're actually respecting them instead of lying to them and trap them in that world of fairytales. Second guy was really a sad one, and third...I actually am struggling with the idea a bit? Why is there two forms of him (one being the spider and another the fetus-like baby)? I thought it was gonna be a case of an unborn fetus dying due to mother dying or something and cared for the mother oh so much only to find out he was a soldier. I would've expected a dying man, but that really confused me. Was it a kid because he's naive at heart and trusts propaganda ("he's our enemy so we should brutally torture him!") too much? And was the spider because of his (nonsexual) sadistic desires?

Really thought provoking anyway. Thanks for releasing this masterpiece out there and hell, making it free as well.

did the doll say "tack själv"?
I mean, I understand that it means thank you, but why specifically Swedish?

spoiler

the first painting felt easy but affirming since i recently had been in a similar situation and i dont see gaslighting really represented. the second painting felt a little bit more like a dream but i also suddenly felt unsure what to say to the boy. should i be honest? it felt weird but i was affirmed earlier to state the hard truth which is a freeing affect to someone in that situation still. but i still felt okay, not to overly spooked by the game. the third painting was starting out creepy and i tried to prepare myself for a jumpscare warning but i didnt get the key in the beginning until i did and i started being scared. then the monster was there and i managed it well etcetera etcetera, entering the fleshy room whichs music always seems to get a little louder, so i prepare for another jumpscare.

 i get to the embryo guy and at first my reaction was oh no, it is some sort of a prolife messaging, jesus. well it wasnt and the embryo is this soldier guy. that thing started talking about how he doesnt really ever got to move on and alot of people tried. he is kind of a rude guy. and suddenly he describes that he murdered people. describing the pyramid still makes me shiver the timbers. after telling me about his murders he tells me its my choice if i want to make him move on. i kind of want to let him die but yeah, im there, slipping into letting him move on anyways, feeling very conflicted but i knew the game wouldnt proceed probably. i got out of the room and i feel dreadful. i see a pyramid in the flesh rooms walking floor and i feel like it was on purpose but like in a dream, i cant tell for sure. then the monster comes back and says this thing moved on. i exit the place and charon basically hits me in the face metaphorically, when i explains to me the monster he talked about is the guy. the sheer lonely imagery of the baby man made me empathize with a monster. it made me feel sick, as if it was supposed to play with my emotions and also make a player move on from whoever it can be that harms them and makes them stay in the limbo of are they good or are they not. answering a question i didnt know i was asking. 

that still makes me feel a weird thing inside right now as im typing it. charon tells me to go to the last painting and i get to move on. 

conclusion:

at the start i expected something else, before the domestic abuse warning popped up. i dont see verbal abuse being a topic alot in games and i like it when people bring awareness to it. 

no matter how hard i tried to analyze this and be level headed it made me emotional, from painting to painting. i always felt an never experienced before awe from the design of the game. i cant put it into a box, like a suda51 game. a game i feel is about morality and a state of depersonalization. 

 i would have liked to say that im happy you didnt implement overly cruel gore elements (yeah yeah to each their own but personally i like thriller more and think overly crude gre is tasteless) but you still managed to make me really emotional and spooked, without usage of standard horror tropes. congrats, sincerely. if this ever becomes a whole game, i would love to buy it. it was so rich and thought through (sounds very cliche but its really true. i also love the name algebra falcon. kind of fits the theme and overall art style you got going on. i really appreciated to have played this on an emotional level though because i also had to learn that theres nothing sweeter than the truth sometimes...

my theory to the game is that its like the afterlife like in greek mythology and charon alluded to the styx. but i do think its supposed to be its own thing. i like that basically its a situation set up very well to cater people that have experienced maladaptive daydreaming and dissociaton of some sort. its lovecraftian and i do like me some weird shit. another theory of mine is the ai like art is kind of a commentary of how shitty ai makes artists feel ha. also maybe some painters died in the third painting because they are the same as the murderer. but sure i am not because i won by killing him. in the beginning the music has a slow gazey feel and i wonder if that was purposeful. also the music didnt try to make you scared like in a horror game, but rather just draw you into it. every painting had a use for the player to move on themselves. it seemed to be about accepting an abusive person real character, since it was a reacuring theme. thats why im also not sure if its actually supposed to have anything to do with death at all. sometimes when youre in a relationship where you betray yourself to stay with them, it feels exactly like this game, like a long exhausting, disorienting and draining walk. it only ends when you accept you dont need to reach the destiny

well this was long. but feel like i wanna give back to creators who make such good games for no money at all. i think this should be a installation in a famous museum somewhere and it has probably altered my subconscious already.

thanks

BRO, I literally cannot solve the FIRST PUZZLE.

I can't save my game...I've tried every key but the game Just. Won't. Save. How do I save the game? Playing browser version.

I'm on the third painting and I'm wondering do I wanna bother like I just woke up but like the monster or whatever is there just being silly fr.

When I enter the 3rd painting, the one with the generator this is what I see. There is a white glow around the door you enter and around the door where you exit and everything else is black. I thought this was part of the game and managed to go inside the generator room and turn the emergency lights on while everything is black, did this 3 or 4 times as I mysteriously kept dying as something attacked me in the dark while I tried to remember which way to go. I decided to watch someone else play and to my surprise, their room looks like an actual room. I am playing in the Brave browser, will you be fixing this bug or should I play it differently?

what the fuck man this shit won't load what the actual fuck why won't this load what is wrong with this shit fucking bitchass fucking game how are people playing this it does not load

What are the secrets?

unfortunately saving didn't work in the browser. controls were too fast when on the run, so i died. didn't want to go through it all again. but it was fun until here.