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This demo was really fun! I liked the contrast between Julian wanting the player to make their own choices and Cheri wanting to set things up so that they'll keep coming back. I spent the demo playthrough suspicious of both of them, but if there's one person I trust, it's that perfectly innocent vending machine that definitely isn't eating people.

I love that the game lets every character be a dysfunctional mess, they are all so miserable!

This was a great game to play, I plan to do so in future and I will look out for the final release! My only issue I had during playing was that I would find it harder to come up with the problem to overcome for the first scene in each act compared to the rest of the scenes due to it being more of an environment set up than an obvious conflict (though this forced me to be more creative which led to some fun results).

I loved how the player is not able to choose their character's upbringing as it immediately makes it clear that you aren't the main character in this world, just a child trying to survive in it, and there is plenty of freedom in the choices the player can make regarding how they interpret the challenge cards. I'd absolutely recommend this game to anyone even slightly curious about it, and I cannot wait to play again and ruin another fictional squire's life.