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I'm high af which usually makes me more sensitive to that kind of thing, and this was just... disappointing. round metal things and some big crystal towers in the middle, all wiped out and unviewable through a static filter.

Yeah, I had the same issue with No Delivery, the dev gave me the exact instructions but it didn't work for the bundle version there either

Game made me extremely uncomfortable, well done.

It's a well written, gripping narrative game, it took me about 90 minutes to complete. No bugs to speak of, the gameplay is pretty linear and it's hard to get lost as long as you read and pay attention to all the notes.

Trigger warning: Several mentions of self-harm, murder, brainwashing, and one reference to pedophilia.

There are no jumpscares, the spooky elements are entirely environmental and situational.

Yes, there was. The hint is in Lilian's trailer.

I don't think steam keys work with bundle games, unfortunately they only seem to work with individually bought games.

yeah... that seems kind of self explanatory lol, winrar has been one of the first things I install on a new PC for the last 15 years

First - the audio mix is not very good. The wave crashing loop in the first playable segment is awful, there's a weird sound that keeps repeating every 10 seconds or so, and the loop ends before you get to the building, then there's about a half second of blank space before the track restarts. There are also a lot of segments where I had to turn my headphones down because it got unbearably loud.

Second, only about half the game includes actual gameplay. The intro cutscene is achingly long for no reason, and the first part of it just drags because there's no sensation of movement or anything for about 2-3 minutes. And then once you get into the game, after you do a few playable segments, it just basically goes back to slideshow and there's no discernable theme or anything connecting the segments.

Third, in a few sections - most notably the temple-esque section where you have to press buttons to open doors - the corners of walls aren't put together well, and you keep getting flashes of the outer lightbox, with a few that you can even look through  to see outside the level.

The reveal at the end was interesting, and most of the individual segments were vaguely pleasing, but as a whole, what it feels like to me is a museum made entirely out of parts scavenged at a storage auction - no story is told, there's no central theme, it just feels like a bunch of individually made vignettes that were taped together after the fact.

Late  here, but I agree, I get drawing it out for dramatic effect but that cutscene is like 15 minutes long

Not really a game, it's just a short story over a single pixel art image. No interactivity other than advancing the text.

It's fine, but it's maybe 5 minutes worth of content. 10 if you read slow ig. 

It also seems strange that you spend the whole thing talking about how you can have any body you want and then end it by pointlessly gendering an artificial intelligence? I don't like that.

Unfortunately, doors are so broken I got stuck. Got to the long hallway, walked down, opened the keypad door, hopped down. I got to the dark area and got the "Open Door" prompt but nothing happened when I tried to open it.

All doors are kinda buggy, they'll open but not close properly. And then if they do close, you kind of have to try and open them a few times, and it takes like 3 seconds to trigger when it does work.

Unfortunately, Elon changed Twitter so you have to have an account to view posts now. You might want to just copy and paste the comments here.

Yeah, unfortunately it doesn't seem to allow it for the bundle version. Oh well. I'll just buy a copy and if you end up getting it sorted with Itch I'll just give the other copy to a friend : )

Is the Steam key only available if we purchased it directly? I got it in the Racial Justice bundle and don't have the Request Key button available.

if not it's fine, I'm down to rebuy it

wdym? It didn't take my name from my computer anywhere in the game

If you havent got there yet, the ending very clearly sets up for a Chapter 2.

There is literally a backrooms level in the game. The Backrooms doesn't have to be about some entity, that was something that was added later. The original Backrooms was just a concept of empty rooms outside the bounds of normal reality.

You need to download the update. This was fixed in the build yesterday.
Also, try looking at the other threads before making a thread about something that's already had a dozen threads made on it and is also in the stickied post at the top.

Hey Andrew, did you remove both panels or just the one? I don't think the second one softlocks you but it is still there just like the softlock one was. I'm working so I don't have a chance to check

yeah it wasn't scary, he was a friend who just wanted a hug

i can get why you'd be scared at first but he never hurts you

I was sad that he didn't get more screen time he was my buddy

tfw it's 2023 and you're still using gay as an insult

uh yeah thats the point... whatever he was talking to on the phone wasn't the real police

skill issue

But no seriously that sounds like an issue with your keyboard or keybinds. I had an old keyboard where if you had three keys pressed in some programs it wouldn't let you press any more. I'd suggest updating the driver for that particular keyboard and rebooting your machine, but it definitely isnt a graphics problem

He's working on keys. Steam decided this to limit the number of keys they let devs give out to 5000 per game max, unless they approve it, so he's probably working with them on that.

uh you know the lazy river was already procedurally generated right? He even has a video up of how it works

The backrooms segment was already in the beta, and the "free" elevator as well as the theatre was not procedurally generated. So basically you're just saying that you didn't like the minigolf course. 

The beta was never scary. This is pretty much exactly what I expected from the full game - unsettling ambience and some lovely liminal environments to explore. I just wish there was more of it.

I'm sure he will ask for it, but it's up to Valve whether they will or not. It's out of his hands. 

You do get it. You get a DRM free copy here.

Steam literally just changed their policies on keys 5 days ago, he had no way of knowing they'd do that.

He appears in the pools in set locations. There is one at the bottom of the pool, he flickers in the middle of the room with the underwater walkway, he "chases" you during the locker section, and you can see him after you climb the statue in the mall bit if you go look back into the hallway before you leave.

Valve recently limited the amount of keys they will give any developer to 5000 base keys provided, literally 5 days ago. Developers can request more, but it's up to Valve if they want to provide them.

Issues with the full build:

The junction boxes in the pool room have been removed, but you forgot to remove the triggers for the minigame. If you go to where they were and use the prompt, it softlocks you by locking the door permanently.

The windows in the same room with the junction box are... weird, you can see part of a mirrored surface and then a black box showing something on the other side

There are a lot of areas where light leaks around the corners of walls and underneath them.

Vsync does not work at all.

There are some tickets (under the bench in the theatre, and down at the bottom of the slide room that I noticed) that you cannot pick up.

It's hard to find 60 tickets in the main area, the spawn rate could definitely be upped. 

Honestly it's relaxing for me, and not being alone was nice, means you have a buddy to hang out with : ) I'm sure the shadow man is very nice once you get to know him

why scared? there's nothing scary about it, you explore some neat environments and make a new friend who gives good hug

Okay, so I'm surprised no one mentioned this.

I got stuck in pink world because the note says "The Father was messing with one of the chandeliers".

The item you have to interact with is a candelabra, not a chandelier. Chandeliers are the hanging light fixtures on ceilings. I thought it might be the candelabras, but after trying each one and it not working, I spent ten minutes looking for a chandelier before looking up a youtube video and realizing I must have just misclicked.

Also, in Yellow World, if you jump over the cart in the corn maze, you get softlocked.

This is probably a bit late, but the link you posted to Evil Potato's dice tool is broken

The true horror of this game is how bad it controls

Interesting, but insanely buggy. There are invisible walls everywhere, and if you jump into them you begin rising into the sky. You can bunnyhop up any terrain at all. And you can also head to the edge of the map and just hop off with nothing stopping you at all (you can also find the edge of the water, which stops at the end of the shore.

At this time, this just kind of feels like an abandoned tech demo.