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Fun and wholesome game, and fits the theme beautifully. Playing through casually (day 41 finish because I didn't know the game ended after the 5th goal and got greedy with extra credit lol), I spent the first third of the game struggling under the weight of obstacles, but eventually got my stress permanently under control with a Self Care Day card with cost brought down to nearly nothing.

It did come as a bit of a surprise that it wasn't even an option to keep playing endless-mode style, but I guess the implied game flow of "you will get overwhelmed sooner or later" goes against the message the game's trying to send. (Even if Glass Half Full + Extra Credit makes that implication false.)

Curious.

When you uncover the gnome, it teleports to a random unrevealed empty tile if one exists. Otherwise, you kill it and it drops 9 gold.

Effectively, the gnome represents a 9 gold bonus for revealing every empty tile in the dungeon.

Everything about this game is incredible... except for the epileptic hazard in the first two seconds as the game loads.

Suggested achievement: Coerce a Puppet in the guise of a Slayer to kill his Puppetmaster.

Ah, the old Pony Island gambit.

I believe it is possible to win Impossible difficulty with 100% consistency if you really know what you're doing. I wonder, though, if it's possible to beat Impossible without ever dropping below 0 influence (the first time that happens you're given +50 influence as a "second chance")...

I'm actually really impressed. You managed to cram these nice-looking graphics and sound effects, a score tracker that shows your score into exponential notation with tons of digits, scoring mechanics that cleverly hide the fact that such insane scores are even possible, and a biting satire of the Catholic Church – one that largely tells its story through gameplay, no less! – all in 13 kilobytes?! 0_0

The Catholic Church is the butt of the joke here.

Well played

Each time you place a tile, your little figure guy draws the longest path he can from his current location to the new tile, so as to maximize the points you get from his journey. Normally, when drawing his path, the figure can never step on the same tile more than once per path. However, with "Home", yellow "Indulgence" tiles can be stepped on more than once.

If you have more than one "Indulgence" tile next to each other, "Home" allows your figure to walk back and forth between them to rack up a bunch of points!

This unfortunately seems to have been lost to time. I cannot for the life of me find any way to actually play the SWF, browser or no browser. Shame