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Fantastic atmosphere. Solid gameplay loop that added to the effect and made it a better experience than a walking sim with horror elements. You can tell a lot of passion went into making this!

My only complaint is that I wish the game made more attempts to actively scare the player. The atmosphere built tension and made exploring the maze-like map a game of wondering when the tension would break. Would've been cool to break it with some scare events.

Still, 10/10 atmospheric experience, and I would absolutely play a story game that felt like this. :)

The premise of the game was good, and the jumpscares at the beginning were well placed. After a while, though, I kinda realized that it was only jumpscares... and that desensitized me to those jumpscares some.

Would've liked to see more things that make the player feel uneasy or cause tension to build up. Maybe some unexpected or confusing sounds or sights. Building tension makes the jumpscares so much more effective. :)

This was fantastic. Loved the ambience and the build up, and the dialogue was well written and pulled the player in. Thoroughly enjoyed this!

Really enjoyed the overall feel of the game. Expected cheap scares and that wasn't the case at all. Had a lot of fun, thanks!

Simple and compelling idea with some goofy stuff thrown in. Would've been nice to have more checkpoints. Had fun with this one, thanks!

Thanks for trying out the game! Will take another look at movement to balance more. :)

Impressive that you only made this game in a day! Jumpscare placement was pretty good. Would've been fun to see more horror elements, but I know time constraints played a big part in that. Was fun to check out, thanks!

Using the floaty jump to bounce through the levels was fun, haha. The music was great and the level backgrounds were pretty nice! The collisions on pickups seemed a bit finnicky, and I did notice that you can stand on coins instead of collecting them. All in all, a cool platformer that was easy to get into. Thanks for sharing the game! :)

Really fun experience and great production quality!

I did feel like it was too easy to kite him at a lot of the main parts, so I enjoyed the situations where the player was trapped a lot more. Also, Mike recovers from the action sequence really quickly, which can lead to some repetition if you're right by a door and trying to get past him to get through it.

Also, I had to play the game on Low quality because the lag was intense at some parts. Even on Low, some areas would be 40-50 FPS tops, and turning the camera at all would lead to some rough blurring and lagging. I have a RTX 2070 Super and 32GB RAM, so guessing the game needs some optimization.

Despite those things, was a good thrilling game and enjoyed, thanks! :)

Ambience was good and the new mechanic with the lantern was cool! Should be a fun game to check out in full soon. :)

The main character definitely needs a sprint (even a limited one) or a faster walking speed, though. Went from immersed to somewhat frustrated after getting to the locked front door and realizing that it would take me 50 years of walking slowly to get to whatever the next objective was, haha.

Loved the unique premise and the fact that the story left so many questions unanswered. Crazy that you made this in 72 hours, too, well done!

You've got a good start here. Nice use of ProBuilder too. Keep building onto it! :)

Intense and very unique. Wasn't expecting this at all. Nicely done, good stuff!

Interesting game. It might've been cool to see it tell a sparse story along the way with the decorations, or to have it increase the tension a bit occasionally to keep the player on edge. Thanks for sharing the vision, and interested to see what you do with the idea!

This was an interesting take on a liminal game. I expected the pace to maybe take away from the effect, but I was still following with interest to see where the game would take me next. Had fun with this. Thanks for the experience! :)

Loved the original premise for this, and the game looks and feels really clean to play. Not sure how well the Backrooms fits as scenery, but had fun playing this one. Feels like there's a lot of room to continue with an original and deep story here, too. Looking forward to seeing more!

Great ambience and enjoyed seeing some familiar horror approaches in this one. Jumpscares ranged from good to somewhat cheap, but honestly didn't take away from the experience. Had a lot of fun with this one, thanks!

Game has good personality and I like the premise. Objectives and pacing felt good, too.

My only complaints are with the intro cutscene. The bell is annoyingly louder than the rest of the game. Also, you have to rewatch it every time you die with no option to skip it.

As a bit of feedback, I did notice that the antagonist doesn't aggro you if your flashlight is off. It should probably still aggro if you're within a couple meters of it regardless. I was able to complete the Library maze while frequently standing in front of or near him because my flashlight was off, which kinda took away from the experience.

Had fun playing this one, thanks for making! :)

Had a lot of fun with this! Nailed the retro feel. Thanks for making :)

This was awesome! Very straightforward and enjoyable. Absolutely nailed the retro feels. Can't wait to see the updates that are coming!

Edit: btw, what did you use for the voices in the game? 

Enjoyed the atmosphere and how it felt less linear at times. Only complaint is that it never felt like I was really in danger, so might help to have checkpoints and something that can kill/reset you. Fun experience, thanks for making the game! :)

Good scary game! Enjoyed the progression in this and how it mixed things up to feel less short. Jumpscares were used sparingly and well-placed. The ending felt a little dry in a case where the game could've continued to make us wonder, but overall a good game.

Enjoyed the story progression in this one. Might be good to have the screen shaking loud noise change the layout of the area it's triggered in so it has some purpose; e.g., the garage having boxes thrown around. Some of the sounds felt like they had no purpose, too, and might've benefitted from having something visual to focus on -- like a creepy picture, or a shadow figure that moves away and disappears or something. Had fun playing this though. :)

Really enjoyed this! Graphics were nostalgic, ambience and gameplay loop were great. Definitely gonna give this another play when it has a higher difficulty. :)

Just grabbed the core set and tried it out today with my son! Love the mechanics of the game from what we've seen from that set. We did change up our game rules a bit after the first few matches to maybe tailor it better to 2 player games:

1. We cut the draw pile to 3/4 of the anomalies, both scenarios, and half the characters -- chosen at random from the card pool. Otherwise, 2 player games last a long time and the deck out endgame condition almost never happens. Those numbers changed from a lighter stack, and we found that this amount makes 2 player games last the perfect length of time... Not too short, and well-paced with the civilian pile. Oh, and civilian pile was unchanged.

2. Uncontained anomalies stack horizontally (in the order they're added) in the Uncontained zone and only the last/top anomaly's effects can occur, but you can Contain any anomalies in the zone normally. This added some strategy to when you'd leave anomalies Uncontained, and also seemed to cut down on some of the wild Uncontained zone combos that could just shut another player down. Also made turns go faster because you only needed to check the top Uncontained for effects.

3. We initially banned The Hanged King's Tragedy and Hard-to-Destroy Reptile after they each killed a player 2-3 turns into a game. It was too easy to combo them with your own civilian loss or civilian stealing cards to effectively take 2+ civilians from the other player every turn, which effectively left them drawing 2 civilians (for draw + action) and losing them right back until they inevitably lost the game. We tried out a higher starting civilian count and max civilian count (from 5 / 9 to 7 / 11) and upping the number of Public cards drawn during the Action step from 1 to 2, and that definitely helped a lot. Actually had an active combo where a player was losing 2 civilians per turn and was able to draw out of it because of this.

3a. We're revisiting banning Hard-To-Destroy Reptile after it sank another game unexpectedly. Also considering a possible errata to the card along the lines of: "This anomaly cannot be Contained by paying the normal civilian cost. ( > ) If Uncontained, Discard 1 civilian. You may discard an additional civilian and a character card from your hand to Contain this anomaly. ( / ) When neutralized, return this to the Draw pile." This errata seeks to preserve the hot potato nature of the card while making it less likely to just abruptly destroy a player, and keeps neutralizing from sticking a player with a permanently uncontained card if they ran out of character cards.

(Edited my comment based on another play session the day after.)

(Edited again based on a few more play sessions later in the week.)

We loved playing the game, though! Definitely looking forward to getting some more matches in and trying out some expansion cards. :)

Whoa, that's an odd issue there, haha. It does launch in windowed widescreen, but that's obviously larger than 640x480. :P

Thanks for all the great feedback! Yeah, the antagonist sometimes has a habit of hanging out in one area for too long. AI gonna AI. lol

Love a good deckbuilding card game! Great choice for a game jam :)

Oh, that's cool! Kinda like the Crazyhouse chess variant but with a point system, dig it. :) If you decide to build the idea after the jam, best of luck!

Game assets look great and the intro dialogue adds some personality. The parkour section felt unclear and difficult, but I get where it was going. Enjoyed checking out your submission :)

Long-time chess fan, so didn't mind trying this one out at all. :) It's impressive that you made a chess game in the span of the game jam, given the complexity of the game to begin with. You mentioned your original idea on the game page... What was the idea?

Like the use of the theme! Good platformer that's easy to pick up. :) The pacing could use a bit of adjustment, since the first hurdle is a fairly large one. I reached it on my 2nd run and, because of the upgrades required to pass it, I had to farm for at least 3 more runs to the same death point. 

Cute platformer! Loved finding the NPCs and running through their dialogue. Really gave the game some personality. :)

Good simple concept for a game jam and easy to get into! Had fun grabbing brains :)

Yay, thank you! Yeah, I was pretty happy with my idea for the theme. Kinda making me want to jump into another jam again soon, though... might be addicted. :P

You're too kind. Thank you! :D

Thank you!