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Really charming and engaging presentation. The longer sections were also really nicely poetic. Good old lorem ipsum...

Thank you so much for reading and vibing with it! I knew instantly that a little retro swimsuit would be perfect for her... And that part definitely came from a very real place, it can be hard to know how much of our wants genuinely come from within and how much is what seems "right" or "correct" to do. It's all very confusing..!

Thank you so much for playing, I'm also touched that you found it visually impressive!!

This was such a fascinating little game. The art and its colour palette has so much personality (with very emotive sprite work, too), and I really liked the flavour given by the little quotes bookending each chapter. A lovely, twisted little nightmare.

Yes, that totally makes sense! I thought a lot about how robots might communicate differently about these things than we do - at least that they may be able to be clearer about what does and doesn't gratify them as they encounter it, with an honesty that I truly envy. Writing the scenes with the jewellery box was when I started to understand why I made this game, I think. Thank you so much for playing!

This was such a precious, heartbreaking little story. The imagery is incredibly vivid, and a couple moments were quite tearjerking to me. I loved the woodcarving scenes, the lonely ambience inside the hospital, and I feel like it ended in the perfect place too. Sofiya's internal conflict over her choices is quite real and goes in the opposite direction to many stories of this type IMO, and Sonya's turmoil over comforting the loved ones of the deceased patients (and whether or not the things she says are things she can truly believe in) got at me too. The game's assertion of mourning as the final symbol of love, something that Sonya *desires* to do for Sofiya one day, was also very powerful. Thank you for making this!

Thank you so much Katherine!! A whole essay down here for me... I'm happy the game is understood. It is quite personal, but I want Pola and Tetra to find freedom as much as I want myself (and others) to find freedom.

Really lovely UI on this one. This was a lot of fun and I enjoyed achieving each ending - you get the feeling that the protagonist really enjoys the cat-and-mouse game itself, more so than winning or losing...

This was fun! Your art style is incredibly beautiful.

I played this one a little while ago after my partner recommended it, I'm happy to see it again in this showcase. Back then I think I had a hunch as to where the story was going, but the ending hasn't left my mind since. It's a really brilliant, hurtful kind of work.

This was very interesting! Your usage of formatting here is very fun - I like your juxtaposition of the hometown as a place that isn't really home, and Twin Peaks as a comforting place home to many familiar faces, that also contains purgatory...

lovely short little game, lovely little weird creature. bug seems to find herself in so many situations. this game felt so lively and had so many great quotes. good stuff

This was crazy. A+. I felt very manipulated. Thank u

Talented, brilliant, amazing, showstopping

i wanna die 👍 thank you good

Some absolutely incredible jokes in this one, thank you... incredibly fleshed out roleplaying... maidgender pretty good... and wow intrusive thoughts sure are like that. 

I'm glad I read the devlog also, your thoughts about pervert art and worries about how you're perceived as an artist resonated too. It's so easy to want to compromise in favour of working on safer projects but what you wrote was very inspiring..!! If I could make a game as indulgent and special as this one is someday, I'd be very happy...

This was really sick, I loved it... Loved the extremely gross foley sounds, loved the rambling sadistic fantasies, loved the weird cuckolding and kind of despicably complicit nature of the protagonist... loved that you placed the credits where you did. What an incredibly fun game

Very cute! Thanks for teaching me how to play Picross!

I can't beat the boss... I have to get good enough at this game to beat the boss...

"Dodge the Ls or you'll take one" game of the year

Really pretty game! I like how trying to move out-of-bounds (the area at the top of the level) damages you instead of just blocking you off full stop, it feels like a pretty natural way to enforce those constraints.

Oh dear, I didn't quite realise how insulting the "Nobody started hitting on you" line could sound when I was adding the text in... Thanks for playing!!

Hahaha, I love the chaos of this game. Like many people below me have said, it definitely fits the theme. It looks like you put a lot of thought into the effects of each item, but I wonder if there's a way to make it clearer at a glance as to which ones are good or bad? I think that's the main part I struggled with when I first played. I hope you do add those future updates, I'm interested in where this game could go!

Cheers! You're completely right, if I had had more time to work things out (or rather managed mine better) I would've loved to include special events depending on where you choose to visit. It gets a little repetitive for sure... Thanks so much for the detailed feedback!

Thank you! Sometimes that's how it goes...

This is a really great game! I was a little daunted at first by the premise, but you've clearly put a lot of thought into designing the levels and they do a great job of walking you through how the central mechanics work. It's awesome stuff!

Short, sweet and entertaining! I guess the way gravity changes is a little jarring (though totally in line with the game jam theme), perhaps some kind of audio/visual cue to indicate it's about to happen could be good? :o

That happened to me too when I played, it seems like pressing the D button triggers the credits? So as long as you don't press that, you can advance in the game, but I'm still not entirely sure how to move :(

Thank you so much, I'm glad you found it fun! :)

Ah yeah, I would've loved to add a bit more strategy to the gameplay, that's the main thing I'm critical of myself! Thank you for appreciating it anyway!!

I'd love to play a longer version of this sometime, I hope you can keep working on it!! :)

I'll be sure to!

I feel like this game might have benefited from a way to advance through text quicker? It gets a little slow if you're not very good at the game like me and keep dying. That said, the dialogue is extremely entertaining. Great job!

This one was a bit tough for me to play, I might recommend giving the player just a little more time before the boulder starts moving at the beginning of the game? Besides that, this is a neat idea and the little extra trophies are a cool touch!!

I love the style of this game! Really interesting concept too, super cool stuff

I found the controls kind of difficult to get the hang of (it seemed like I couldn't get the 'actions' to work without pressing down on the arrow keys as well as WASD?), but your game looks lovely and the central mechanic is really interesting!

Did you not press the 'Play' button underneath the list of controls before you started trying to move? Because that's the mistake I made!

The art and polish on this is amazing! I'm shocked that you could make a game like this in such a short amount of time! You guys did an excellent job

This was cute, I really like the little sprites in this game! I like how on some of the levels you can actually just try and herd the tanuki together and wait for the chicks to wander into the baskets themselves

This game was pretty fun, the gameplay is solid and I loved all the little rooms! I think the only thing I'd suggest would maybe be like a statistic on the game over screen to show you how long you managed to keep the ship in tact, I think that could add to the replay value a little!