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Not Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 1.6 hrs on record
Posted: 24 Sep, 2023 @ 3:00pm
Updated: 25 Sep, 2023 @ 6:50am

Disclaimer: This is purely honesty, there is no sugarcoating, I will review all the upcoming chapters as well, even though as of now I have refunded the game.

Chapter 1 - Not recommended

Style: Staggeringly clear and fitting graphics, the animations are stellar, the game has a soul to it, the character models are carefully made with every detail mattering. (See: Fail Day 1 shovel task multiple times)

Sound: Staggeringly fitting for the game.

Characters: Their decisions from their own perspectives are often questionable (See: You are immediately trusted by B____s, Frog).
I appreciate S_____.

Controls: Fine, but could make Mouse1 and Mouse2 both remappable.

Secrets: (See: The light secret has no practical indication, we are used to all sorts of lights in horror games), I advise to not make practically impossible to achieve secrets such as hidden walls which is of course also known as bugging outside of bounds to a secret area.
Secrets are mostly totally fine in this Chapter, for harder to spot secrets make references or clues in either dialogues or documents.

Duration: 1.5 to 2.5 hours is not enough, it lacks value, recommended game time is 3 to 4 hours for half the collectibles (+30 to 60 minutes for all), not 2 hours for all of them, as I refunded partially for this reason.
There is not much padding which makes this game feel like a speed-run, like I'm supposed to do some things for longer and stay in some areas for longer, but there is nothing else, not much exploration at all.
The entire chapter feels like an intro sequence, feels like a progression rush to play as there is rapid progression (player leaves area 1, enters area 2, leaves area 2 within 15 minutes never to return).

Pricing: 7$ is a steep price for a game with no real substance other than it being an introduction to something else you'll also have to pay for, separately.
Game value does not match the price, recommended at 4$.
Extrapolating from this, the recommended DLC price is also 4$ per for a total of 20$ or 18.49$ in a bundle.

Other feedback: Give more padding, give tremendously more exploration, potential is very high, don't let it go to waste and irrelevance, replayability does not really exist as there is nothing left to replay and nothing worth replaying for the sake of fun.
You cannot make this chapter better, you can only lower the price for it to be better value.
There is just not enough content and I would rather refund this game than to wait for a new chapter to drop that I'll also have to pay for, for it to maybe be the same as the first one: Lacking
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