Just finished playing this game and was most impressed by its strange beauty and intriguing story. Almost feel like re-reading Calvino's If On A Winter's Night A Traveler.
This game is a small masterpiece. The fact that it's here available for free is unbelievable to me.
Every once in a while, I play a game that makes me think, "This is more than entertainment - it's literature." This is one of those games. The art, the attention to detail, the way each story sets up the next, the use of game mechanics to drive different points home - every part of this game was brilliant. I don't think I've played a single game from this site which has made me ask so many questions about what was happening, and feel like those same questions were also about life, suffering, and what it means to be alone at the mercy of a cruel world.
I streamed it for some friends, and they loved it, too, even though they couldn't hear the music terribly well. The one friend who always falls asleep at 11 at night (whether he wants to or not) also managed to stay up to see the finale - which is mostly because I couldn't find a save feature. Very worth it.
This is a wonderful story-based point-and-click adventure game!
I was really amazed by the exceptional artwork and music and the dark and sorrowful atmosphere of the last two stories!
Most of the puzzles are pretty straight-forward.
The walking speed was rather slow, maybe a user-option for speeding it up would be a useful addition.
There was no voice acting but this would have required extremely good actors, so no voice acting was probably a good thing for the particular game. Besides, the overall atmosphere has made the playing experience quite immersive.
Congratulations on your work and I hope to see more from you in the future!
I hate to already ask if there's a walkthrough somewhere, but I can't get Lady Winterbourne out of her room or to do anything. I've clicked on everything I can find and don't know what I'm missing.
Yes, there are several walkthroughs on YouTube already, with and without commentary. If you can't find your way I can let you know what you need to do, but I'd rather not spoil it here where everybody can see it!
i'm very curious about this game, looks fantastic, but sadly i can't get it to start. After the loading it says that there's a scripting error in line 60, "room15.asc". Any idea on how i can fix this?
Hi! This error indicates that the game audio has not been initialized for some reason. To fix it, try the following:
- First, try whitelisting the game folder and/or executable in your antivirus software if you haven't done so yet. Some programs like Avast or Windows Defender will sometimes interfere with the game startup and cause the audio to not initialize.
- If this doesn't work, run winsetup.exe, click on "Advanced" on the lower-right corner, and in the "Digital Sound" drop-down, change the audio device to "Default WaveOut Device" (this one seems to work for most people), "Default DirectSound Device", or "DirectSound (Hardware mixer)".
Thank you so much for this narrative gem. I could not leave my comptuer until the very end of the game. Great lightings, great narrative rythm, i had a very great time. Congratulations.
this is awesome, still playing through it though. Love the atmosphere and the transition effects in the mansion as well, and the way the narrative unfolds.
This is legitimately one of my favorite experiences I've ever played off of Itchio. So simple yet so macabre. It covers so many intense topics, but does so with weight and understanding. The art is breathtaking, so is the music. Does this game have flaws? I CAN'T FIND ANY!
Is there a way to support you? Playing this game for FREE feels wrong.
Hey! We really enjoyed watching your playthrough on Youtube and it made us so happy that you liked it so much :D You'll be able to support us financially when the DLC we're preparing comes out, but that's still a few months away. Until then, the best support you can give us is to simply recommend the game and spread the word. Thanks for everything!
Hey again! I'm pretty sure I left a comment on one of your playthrough videos, but I can't see it now so maybe I just dreamt the whole thing? Anyway, just wanted to point out that you wrote our name as Dead "Isle" Games but the correct name is actually Dead Idle Games, so I would appreciate it if you could fix that :) Thanks!
Yeah it was really weird. I saw it, but it like, wouldn't show? It was very odd. But yeah I definitely goofed because I misread. I'll try to adjust it for sure. So sorry that I am a forehead x
This game is just wonderful, one of the best games I've ever played. Playing it reminded me of the awe I felt when I was younger and played some amazing pixel-art games that I never forgot. Just like with those, this story will stay with me for a very long time. I'll be looking out for any DLCs and I will support any new game you people will make! Also, thank you for including a content warning <3
This feels like one half of a game. Maybe a third. There's all this misery, and nothing was done with it. At the end it feels like the characters say "Well, those were some screwed up stories. Anyways..."
The artwork is quite nice, and the scenario for the framing story seems intriguing. But it feels incomplete, and frustrating. It feels like it's just episode one, or a proof-of-concept demo. If it is, then I hope you eventually set up a fundraiser or something to get the rest of this game made, and good luck with it.
There's all this misery, and nothing was done with it.
[SPOILERS BELOW]
Tragedy is a legitimate genre, is it not? And the last part gives some redemption, does it not? And each character is given a full arc, are they not?
Feeling frustrated or depressed is one way to react to a sad story, but there's another. Despite our evolutionary desire to tie a bow on everything, it can be beneficial to our well-being to accept that sadness is a fundamental part of the human condition. This is because well-being can be defined as how closely reality meets our expections.
Or, if we want to find a moral to these stories, it is perhaps not to allow ourselves to become so emotionally attached to something that it can undermine our very being. Logically, neither failing to gain something we expected to gain, nor losing something we didn't expect to lose, should leave us worse off than we were before we obtained the desire to have these things in the first place. Therefore, the suffering comes from an immaturity of the soul, or more scientifically, undisciplined thoughts, rather than an external source.
Unexpected, atmospheric, breathtaking, gloomy, mastered. A pure gem of gaming that would have surely not stolen your money... if it wasn't totally free. <3
Hi, do you think it'd be possible to make it so that the dialog is activated by the click of the mouse? Maybe I'd like to stream this but as the game is English only it'd be hard to translate correctly on the fly.
Hi, that is not possible, but if you press Esc during the game you'll bring up the Pause/Options menu, where you can adjust the dialogue text speed and make it slower by moving the slider to the left. Moving it just 3-4 notches should be more than enough to give you time to translate everything, and if not, you can always make it even slower (and of course, once you're done reading/translating a line, you can skip to the next one by clicking the mouse.)
What a beautiful game! It really touched me. The characters are so well written and I just love the artwork. What is the name of the song that plays in the opioid induced bright world?
Thank you! That is a piano adaptation of Dvorak's Serenade for Strings Op. 22 - II. Menuetto, by a musican called Gerluz. You also have the whole list of non-original music pieces right here in this page and also in the pdf that comes with the game in case you want to track them down! :)
Astounding. Gorgeous to look at, perfect level of creep to understanding, just tricky enough puzzle-wise, some truly heart-aching revelations. Just wall to wall great stuff!
I just want to note that I ran into a small bug; in The Slow Vanishing. In the very first instance of the hallway, if one looks at the statue of Mnemosyne first the camera tweens back to the area with the doors for no apparent reason. This isn't game breaking; you can walk back to that area and then return to the hallway, but figured you might like to know! What a labour of love <3
Hey, thanks so much for reporting! I managed to reproduce this bug and it seems to be caused by an edge case in which, if you don't cross completely from one side to another and manage to remain standing right on the trigger region that switches the camera from right to left and viceversa, *and* you look at any statue for the first time, the engine thinks that you're trying to go back to the corridor you came from and tweens the camera back accordingly.
I think I have managed to patch it up, but it's 3:30 AM here, so I'll test again in the morning to be sure, and upload a new build if everything looks ok. Really appreciate the heads up!
I just finished this after deciding it looked interesting enough to download.
I think it was absolutely brilliant. I can see why some might compare it to the last door but the animation and graphics are a whole level up from that, in fact it has some of my fav animation i've seen in a game like this for years.
Wonderful stuff, I hope very much you choose to make more :)
Gorgeous, simply exquisite! Loved how different each story felt in terms of presentation and how we gradually sank deeper and deeper into some truly creepy (and fleshy) stuff! Winterbourne's section with its masterful use of shadow and color, her gradually fading away (literally), and how the various objects in the mansion shift in description as the days of drug-addled fantasy take their hold is especially MAGNIFICENT - that part alone makes this whole adventure worth the price of admission... And it's FREE??? WHAT??? NO
In any case, this was amazing and I look forward to seeing more from you - whether it's more set in this world you've created, or maybe in other, perhaps even stranger adventures to come!
Thank you so much! It's always such a pleasure when someone really pays attention to the little details like the changing descriptions. Makes all the work put into it truly worth it :)
thank you so much for making this game! i can't wait for the digital artbook & ost package release plan, also it's very impressive how much attention this game has gotten in less than a week after the release (hopefully getting in more positive reviews)! congratulations, i wish all the best!
Thank you too for giving it a spin! The attention it's gotten has been mindblowing and, honestly, completely unexpected, haha. I hope that when we release the DLC it will get the same attention :) Cheers!
Here it goes. I appreciated so much your game. I keep an eye on your works. The endings is wicked! Awesome at all sense. Congratulations to you Laura Hunt and to your partner Thomas Mörhing, you both be my guess and comments free will there. You both I read and hear if videos are good or bad, the game choices are good or bad, and I shall accepting your suggest. I have only single ask more to do. Might I left in "Best video to new viewrs" one of yours? This is my list. Apologize me about my humble videos doesn't worth of your art craft. Because this game is a small masterpiece, congratulations. And you, Laura Hunt, nice to meet you as a developer and a cool and sweet person that you've been shown. It all was a pleasure, since playing your game as well talking to you. Thank you so much.
Game is awesome! For some reason I cannot get past interacting with the table clock, when it says "what time should I set" the game freezes, cant esc or any keys. Reproduced 3x
Hi, the game is not frozen; it is waiting for you to input the correct time. Use your numerical keyboard or the normal number key row to enter it and you will see it displayed above the player character's head.
so this is how it happened, when the prompt popped up its yellow lines so i didnt even see it at first, and then I typed '3' a bunch of times and since 3 is not a 00:00 time value in the hour slot , I got no prompt at all saying that, so if you type 3-9 and don't see the lines, you have no idea, maybe throw an error prompt on there, or change the yellow lines to red, thanks for the quick response games seriously great
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Just finished playing this game and was most impressed by its strange beauty and intriguing story. Almost feel like re-reading Calvino's If On A Winter's Night A Traveler.
Brilliant. Thanks for the ride.
Brilliant use of transition animation effects in chapters 2 & 3, excellent storytelling, terrific choice of music and sounds.
9/10
(+1 point if you can add walk speed slider in DLC) ;)
I felt guilty playing this for free. Exceptional work on both story and art. Congratulations.
This game is a small masterpiece. The fact that it's here available for free is unbelievable to me.
Every once in a while, I play a game that makes me think, "This is more than entertainment - it's literature." This is one of those games. The art, the attention to detail, the way each story sets up the next, the use of game mechanics to drive different points home - every part of this game was brilliant. I don't think I've played a single game from this site which has made me ask so many questions about what was happening, and feel like those same questions were also about life, suffering, and what it means to be alone at the mercy of a cruel world.
I streamed it for some friends, and they loved it, too, even though they couldn't hear the music terribly well. The one friend who always falls asleep at 11 at night (whether he wants to or not) also managed to stay up to see the finale - which is mostly because I couldn't find a save feature. Very worth it.
Thank you for making this and sharing it.
This is a wonderful story-based point-and-click adventure game!
I was really amazed by the exceptional artwork and music and the dark and sorrowful atmosphere of the last two stories!
Most of the puzzles are pretty straight-forward.
The walking speed was rather slow, maybe a user-option for speeding it up would be a useful addition.
There was no voice acting but this would have required extremely good actors, so no voice acting was probably a good thing for the particular game. Besides, the overall atmosphere has made the playing experience quite immersive.
Congratulations on your work and I hope to see more from you in the future!
This was absolutely excellent! Best gaming experience I've had in a long time, thank you.
I hate to already ask if there's a walkthrough somewhere, but I can't get Lady Winterbourne out of her room or to do anything. I've clicked on everything I can find and don't know what I'm missing.
Yes, there are several walkthroughs on YouTube already, with and without commentary. If you can't find your way I can let you know what you need to do, but I'd rather not spoil it here where everybody can see it!
Yes that helped! I couldn't detect something against a background, the video helped. Thank you!
es un juegasooooooo
i'm very curious about this game, looks fantastic, but sadly i can't get it to start. After the loading it says that there's a scripting error in line 60, "room15.asc". Any idea on how i can fix this?
Hi! This error indicates that the game audio has not been initialized for some reason. To fix it, try the following:
- First, try whitelisting the game folder and/or executable in your antivirus software if you haven't done so yet. Some programs like Avast or Windows Defender will sometimes interfere with the game startup and cause the audio to not initialize.
- If this doesn't work, run winsetup.exe, click on "Advanced" on the lower-right corner, and in the "Digital Sound" drop-down, change the audio device to "Default WaveOut Device" (this one seems to work for most people), "Default DirectSound Device", or "DirectSound (Hardware mixer)".
Let me know if this works for you!
Nothing of that was necessary, it was only an error in the installation. I just unistalled and reinstalled and everything works fine. Thanks!
Very happy to hear, and thanks for letting me know!
Thank you so much for this narrative gem. I could not leave my comptuer until the very end of the game. Great lightings, great narrative rythm, i had a very great time. Congratulations.
this is awesome, still playing through it though. Love the atmosphere and the transition effects in the mansion as well, and the way the narrative unfolds.
Ok love the styling and very good gameplay!
This is legitimately one of my favorite experiences I've ever played off of Itchio. So simple yet so macabre. It covers so many intense topics, but does so with weight and understanding. The art is breathtaking, so is the music. Does this game have flaws? I CAN'T FIND ANY!
Is there a way to support you? Playing this game for FREE feels wrong.
Hey! We really enjoyed watching your playthrough on Youtube and it made us so happy that you liked it so much :D You'll be able to support us financially when the DLC we're preparing comes out, but that's still a few months away. Until then, the best support you can give us is to simply recommend the game and spread the word. Thanks for everything!
DLC? I'M IN!
To manage expectations, the DLC is a digital artbook & OST. Not more game, afaik.
Hey again! I'm pretty sure I left a comment on one of your playthrough videos, but I can't see it now so maybe I just dreamt the whole thing? Anyway, just wanted to point out that you wrote our name as Dead "Isle" Games but the correct name is actually Dead Idle Games, so I would appreciate it if you could fix that :) Thanks!
Yeah it was really weird. I saw it, but it like, wouldn't show? It was very odd. But yeah I definitely goofed because I misread. I'll try to adjust it for sure. So sorry that I am a forehead x
Oh dear, then I'm not (completely) crazy; I *did* leave that comment, hahah! Thank you so much for fixing it! 😀
It's adjusted! I changed all the titles and left a comment to clarify that as well! So sorry again.
This game is just wonderful, one of the best games I've ever played. Playing it reminded me of the awe I felt when I was younger and played some amazing pixel-art games that I never forgot. Just like with those, this story will stay with me for a very long time. I'll be looking out for any DLCs and I will support any new game you people will make! Also, thank you for including a content warning <3
This feels like one half of a game. Maybe a third. There's all this misery, and nothing was done with it. At the end it feels like the characters say "Well, those were some screwed up stories. Anyways..."
The artwork is quite nice, and the scenario for the framing story seems intriguing. But it feels incomplete, and frustrating. It feels like it's just episode one, or a proof-of-concept demo. If it is, then I hope you eventually set up a fundraiser or something to get the rest of this game made, and good luck with it.
There's all this misery, and nothing was done with it.
[SPOILERS BELOW]
Tragedy is a legitimate genre, is it not?
And the last part gives some redemption, does it not?
And each character is given a full arc, are they not?
Feeling frustrated or depressed is one way to react to a sad story, but there's another. Despite our evolutionary desire to tie a bow on everything, it can be beneficial to our well-being to accept that sadness is a fundamental part of the human condition. This is because well-being can be defined as how closely reality meets our expections.
Or, if we want to find a moral to these stories, it is perhaps not to allow ourselves to become so emotionally attached to something that it can undermine our very being. Logically, neither failing to gain something we expected to gain, nor losing something we didn't expect to lose, should leave us worse off than we were before we obtained the desire to have these things in the first place. Therefore, the suffering comes from an immaturity of the soul, or more scientifically, undisciplined thoughts, rather than an external source.
This Game is spectacular, I love it.
WOW! Just... WOW! This is absolutely fantastic! Thank you so much for putting it together and sharing it!
This is such a beautiful game in every aspect, what a wonderful atmosphere it sets, i only lament that the first story seems so short in comparison.
Spectacular <3
Unexpected, atmospheric, breathtaking, gloomy, mastered. A pure gem of gaming that would have surely not stolen your money... if it wasn't totally free. <3
Hi, do you think it'd be possible to make it so that the dialog is activated by the click of the mouse? Maybe I'd like to stream this but as the game is English only it'd be hard to translate correctly on the fly.
Cheers!
Hi, that is not possible, but if you press Esc during the game you'll bring up the Pause/Options menu, where you can adjust the dialogue text speed and make it slower by moving the slider to the left. Moving it just 3-4 notches should be more than enough to give you time to translate everything, and if not, you can always make it even slower (and of course, once you're done reading/translating a line, you can skip to the next one by clicking the mouse.)
Oh ok, i'll try that. Thanks.
What a beautiful game! It really touched me. The characters are so well written and I just love the artwork. What is the name of the song that plays in the opioid induced bright world?
Thank you! That is a piano adaptation of Dvorak's Serenade for Strings Op. 22 - II. Menuetto, by a musican called Gerluz. You also have the whole list of non-original music pieces right here in this page and also in the pdf that comes with the game in case you want to track them down! :)
Thank you I found it! I will definitely do that!
This looks incredible and I'm very excited to check it out.
This was incredible and I urge everyone to check it out!
Amazing experience, thank you!
Dose anybody know where the bathroom is that the character says he need to look at? I'm stuck in the room
in the bedroom, the entrance to the bathroom is to the right of the drawer with socks
Thank you
incredible work. GG !
This game its just amazing!!!!!!
This game was such an amazing experience, I love the art, and the stories it told! Thank you so much for making this.
It's a crime that this game is free. This was amazing. Thank you.
Astounding. Gorgeous to look at, perfect level of creep to understanding, just tricky enough puzzle-wise, some truly heart-aching revelations. Just wall to wall great stuff!
I just want to note that I ran into a small bug; in The Slow Vanishing. In the very first instance of the hallway, if one looks at the statue of Mnemosyne first the camera tweens back to the area with the doors for no apparent reason. This isn't game breaking; you can walk back to that area and then return to the hallway, but figured you might like to know! What a labour of love <3
Hey, thanks so much for reporting! I managed to reproduce this bug and it seems to be caused by an edge case in which, if you don't cross completely from one side to another and manage to remain standing right on the trigger region that switches the camera from right to left and viceversa, *and* you look at any statue for the first time, the engine thinks that you're trying to go back to the corridor you came from and tweens the camera back accordingly.
I think I have managed to patch it up, but it's 3:30 AM here, so I'll test again in the morning to be sure, and upload a new build if everything looks ok. Really appreciate the heads up!
ok, files updated. This should fix the issue!
Happy to have helped; thanks again for a really great experience :D
Just amazing! I love the story
I just finished this after deciding it looked interesting enough to download.
I think it was absolutely brilliant. I can see why some might compare it to the last door but the animation and graphics are a whole level up from that, in fact it has some of my fav animation i've seen in a game like this for years.
Wonderful stuff, I hope very much you choose to make more :)
Gorgeous, simply exquisite! Loved how different each story felt in terms of presentation and how we gradually sank deeper and deeper into some truly creepy (and fleshy) stuff! Winterbourne's section with its masterful use of shadow and color, her gradually fading away (literally), and how the various objects in the mansion shift in description as the days of drug-addled fantasy take their hold is especially MAGNIFICENT - that part alone makes this whole adventure worth the price of admission... And it's FREE??? WHAT??? NO
In any case, this was amazing and I look forward to seeing more from you - whether it's more set in this world you've created, or maybe in other, perhaps even stranger adventures to come!
Thank you so much! It's always such a pleasure when someone really pays attention to the little details like the changing descriptions. Makes all the work put into it truly worth it :)
Stunningly beautiful game, every element is gorgeous. Amazing job!
This looks amazeballs!
thank you so much for making this game! i can't wait for the digital artbook & ost package release plan, also it's very impressive how much attention this game has gotten in less than a week after the release (hopefully getting in more positive reviews)! congratulations, i wish all the best!
Thank you too for giving it a spin! The attention it's gotten has been mindblowing and, honestly, completely unexpected, haha. I hope that when we release the DLC it will get the same attention :) Cheers!
Here it goes. I appreciated so much your game. I keep an eye on your works. The endings is wicked! Awesome at all sense. Congratulations to you Laura Hunt and to your partner Thomas Mörhing, you both be my guess and comments free will there. You both I read and hear if videos are good or bad, the game choices are good or bad, and I shall accepting your suggest. I have only single ask more to do. Might I left in "Best video to new viewrs" one of yours? This is my list. Apologize me about my humble videos doesn't worth of your art craft. Because this game is a small masterpiece, congratulations. And you, Laura Hunt, nice to meet you as a developer and a cool and sweet person that you've been shown. It all was a pleasure, since playing your game as well talking to you. Thank you so much.
The list
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMu5KZxXogCppuaXK0RiJZqo-KnO9zi6r
Game is awesome! For some reason I cannot get past interacting with the table clock, when it says "what time should I set" the game freezes, cant esc or any keys. Reproduced 3x
Hi, the game is not frozen; it is waiting for you to input the correct time. Use your numerical keyboard or the normal number key row to enter it and you will see it displayed above the player character's head.
so this is how it happened, when the prompt popped up its yellow lines so i didnt even see it at first, and then I typed '3' a bunch of times and since 3 is not a 00:00 time value in the hour slot , I got no prompt at all saying that, so if you type 3-9 and don't see the lines, you have no idea, maybe throw an error prompt on there, or change the yellow lines to red, thanks for the quick response games seriously great
Very great game, atmospheric and filled with emotions!