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I absolutely love this game. Saw Manly's playthrough of it a year ago and decided to play it myself, and what better day to do so approaching Halloween.

Alice is a great character, considering the fact that the player only witnesses her last few days of her life it puts a lot of perspective entirely through environmental storytelling and her own comments. Doing so you get a sense what type of person she is without any backstory. I wonder if she always was like this before the well's(?) or the other evil influence that washed over her.

The sound design - it really does well to accompany each day's activity and atmosphere with fitting musical track, becoming worse and worse as days go on. 

The artstyle - probably my favorite part about the game. I absolutely adore your artstyle, it somehow blends the cute expressions along with horrifying ones.

The story itself, despite being such a small and secluded location there's so many questions regarding what events transpired here and I really wish the game was a bit longer. Part of me wanted to save Alice by managing to repair the car somehow haha.

Also I'm proud to say that I found the easter egg! When you said that it's "It's extremely hard to find" I thought I wouldn't be able to find it, but alas I was able to. And reading your own thoughts there I do understand where your frustrations can come from when players don't interact with object despite it being the entirety of the game. Well, at least in my case you don't have to worry about that because I inspected everything in the game twice if not more, I don't think I missed a single thing.

There were however a few things I was let down by and that's the inability to interact with apples and other objects, like the shovel/oil etc. I think it would be awesome to add a few monologues if you decide to eat the various kinds of apples or use the shovel for something, and so on. 

But overall this game is definitely one of my favorite horror short games out there. And it has always been in my mind ever since I saw it.

Wow, thank you so much for taking the time to leave such a detailed and encouraging comment, that means a lot to me! I’m glad you like most of the elements-especially the artstyle, I used to draw comics before I started making games so it’s really close to my heart! As far as the story length, I was making this game for a game jam and one of the rules was it had to be around 20 minutes. But I think that’s a great idea, and maybe some day I’ll add an update for a potential good ending! (Another highly requested feature is letting the players explore upstairs.)

And great job!!! I’m really impressed that you found the secret on your own, that takes so much dedication! When I built it into the game I was wondering if anyone would even be able to find it at all <XD And good idea on the items too, I should add that! Maybe the bad apples can poison you or something…

I’m honored that it’s one of your favorite horror games, and so happy Manly was able to introduce you to it! I loved his playthrough videos so much. Once again, huge thanks for your kind comment, I loved hearing your detailed thoughts and you gave me some good ideas!

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You're very much welcome! Thank you too for taking time out of your day to respond to every comment here, including my own, it's very heartwarming.

I see! I didn't know it was part of the game jam, that would make a lot of sense with time constraints. 

And if you do add a potential good ending, dare I suggest that it would be better to make a "remake" of sorts, instead of updating this game? With more interactions/dialogue options and upstairs location and the multiple endings themselves. 

Haha, obviously that's just a bold suggestion knowing how much work that would take. That being said I'd love to see any expansion someday! So I'll wait patiently whether it comes to life or not.

Thank you, well to be honest it just took some keen observation from myself and the willingness to interact with everything available (as intended).

Regarding the apples, yeah I was surprised they're non interactable and just an item in your inventory, so I do hope you add this feature someday! No pressure though.

Thank you too for responding and making the game! I'm glad I was able to inspire you in some way! I really do have a lot to say about the game.

Great idea, a remake would be awesome! I’ll give it some consideration. And thanks again, I appreciate the attention to detail that went into your playthrough! I make games because I want to share these stories so it means a lot when people care about the world enough to look at everything. And haha yeah, time to make the apples a bigger threat XD It’s funny in a game that otherwise has no deaths that the apples of all things could hurt the player but like… it’ll be totally worth it! (Maybe I should add more hazards too.)

You’re very welcome, it was my pleasure reading through your thoughtful comments! Feel free to message me on Twitter or join my discord if you want; I’d love to have you!