Aside from some localization bugs and a few weirdness with mouse curson not getting hidden, it's a pretty solid demo with a scary as hell monster. Looking forward to it's development!
Good monster design and mechanics, really startled me when I turned the corner. The puzzle aspect was simple but just enough for a granny style game. Nice work!
It's like someone took Doodle God and SAW and put them in a blender, then pushed it through a hole. Great puzzle mechanics and atmosphere, I'd love to see how a full game would play out like it.
Simple enough to understand the basic mechanics regardless of language barriers, but I would love to read about all these ghosts and their various reports because the different forms they take are really interesting.
Really solid demo showcasing the mechanics, and most importantly the style of scares. The animations are solid and tense, really looking forward to this!
While I'm generally not a fan of Granny style games, I have to admit that the use of seeds for speedrunning, the overall layout of the map, and the monster's design are extremely well made. Great work!
Really nice work on the scares and mechanics and I'm glad I got all the endings, but there's a lot of what feels like "dead time" where nothing is happening in the environment (at least in my playthrough). Adding some dynamic effects like lights flickering, wind noises or leaves crunching could really amp up the tension.
Just a heads up, it looks like you accidentally uploaded the entire butler directory instead of just the game. There's nothing identifying in the batch file, but for simplicity you should point the PathToBuild to an folder that just contains the .zip file for the game.
It's simple but that's really nice in an anomaly hunting game because it makes changes more impactful. Great work and happy to see you keep updating it!
Didn't run into any bugs and the story is impactful, just gave me a whiplash getting the ending and smash cutting to the dad busting a move in the living room. It's a weird choice for what is supposed to be a dark and somber story.
I really have no idea how I was supposed to solve the rope puzzle, but it has promise. Just wish that getting caught wasn't a full reset of the game, a checkpoint after the trap door would do wonders.
Starting the demo off with a maze was a brave choice, but once I managed through it and got to the actual plot I was intrigued. Dreamlike horror can be abstract and interested, so best of luck with the full release!
Really solid little game with some good jumpscares that were only tarnished by the fact that it had to load the camera placement which kind of spoiled the surprise.
Great design on the monsters, they have an dreamlike feel to them while still being terrifying and the environment's changes on each sleep really works for both progression and playing with the player's memory of the area.
Short but really good tension throughout the game. I see some spots where it could be drawn out a bit more to give the player even more unease if you wanted to build upon this idea more.
I felt like the progression was oddly scattered, it's almost all trigger based but there didn't seem to be any real consistency. The scares were pretty good, but taking the players flashlight away at the end felt so unneeded, I'm glad on a replay I noticed it on the floor.
I really liked the progression, how it showed you the room layouts in light then plunged you into darkness. The flashlight could use a little tweaking, but the tension was great.
Atmosphere was great, very dread inducing without any payoff. For a demo though, it was very much more like a prototype with the random unfinished rooms. Looking forward to the full release!
