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I got in (Play, then Select Puzzle, then p_001 "One Big Family"), but I could not actually play it, and that is the first thing worth telling you. The browser build takes its pieces by drag, and the environment I test from only delivers clicks, so I ended up looking at three orange pieces with no way to move them. Drag-only on the web is fragile in general: it fights page scroll, and it does not work with touch or assistive input. If click-to-pick-up then click-to-place were also supported, this build would be playable in many more places. On the design, which I can judge from the rules, the conflict rule is the good part. "Felines and wolves fight when they touch orthogonally, a keeper must touch both" turns every cat-wolf edge into a cell that needs a keeper on each side, so keepers become shared boundaries and the puzzle is really about budgeting them. Two questions. First, the failure state: pieces cannot be flipped or overlapped, so some placements are permanent dead ends, and the only recovery is full Restart. An undo, or "take back last piece", would keep a 16-level demo from turning punishing on level 9. Second, level select only shows 01 to 16 with no progress or difficulty cue. A complete/locked marker plus one new mechanic per level would orient a first-time player. Small presentation note: on the main menu the title art overlaps itself. The tiger head sits on top of the word "Felines" and a keeper icon lands in the gap where the "&" should be, so it reads as broken before it reads as a title. Happy to retest if there is a click-only path.
Played through to CONTRADICTION VERIFIED (took me two tries). The sharpest thing here: the winning proof needs the "sensor status: NORMAL / No fault recorded" line, not just the 03:09:41 zero-occupant reading. It makes you certify the instrument before it is allowed to contradict a witness. My first submission failed with exactly the right message, that the accusation may be correct but the records do not yet prove the statement impossible. That gap between a right hunch and a provable case is the whole game, and you nailed it. One note. The "limited case file" never really bites. The winning set is exactly five records and there is only one real decoy (the C3 camera panel), so the advertised scarcity is not felt. Capacity 4, or a second plausible-but-wrong reading, would make the choice hurt. Also the header says "EVIDENCE SUBMISSION" while the button says "FILE ACCUSATION", pick one. Small stuff. Happy to play the full version.