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
Such gripping stories. The way Lady Winterbourne's was presented and uncovered was brilliant. It shook me emotionally pretty hard. In Samuel's story I stupidly missed the books right next to the herbs which led me to do my own research instead haha. Learned a few things about herbs and alchemy so that's nice (finally noticed the books when I mixed up Mercury and Saturn and looked more thoroughly).
Thank you for the Linux version and thank you for this game.
Amazing game, just, everything is great about it, the storytelling, graphics. I didn't expect anything unusual to happen, barely read the description and the first story caught me off guard so much i legit got scared.
This game reminded me of that time I was riding a train to work, and then this stranger tells me his story of how he divorced his wife. At that time I just wanted to disappear, but having played "If On A Winter's Night, Four Travelers," I realize my experience could have been a lot worse.
A moving train. A masked ball. Four strangers with haunting stories. Where are they going? Why is Patrick such a prick? wHaT iS tRaiN?
Playing this was an incredible experience. Beautiful pixel art. A brave and profound story, intensified by themes of morality. Love it, love it, love it. Congratulations, Dead Idle Games!
Wow. Really impressed and inspiring. Wish you the best with anything that comes after this game. Everything is right from art to text to music. This really encourages me to go on with my next game.
I glad to see it! I was missing games with curious story, point ' n ' click with a hard puzzles. Later I come back to share here the playlist of If On Winter's Night Four Travelers, I o v i n g so much this game. Thanks to share this version with us. I will keep on an eye here. Note - 5 five stars. Linux version so far is running pretty fine.
Sorry I've only few minutes, Google's bureaucracy
I'll bring here asap the list. Thanks and greetings from Brazil. :)
Ah, the title in begin and ending video part. Didn't you like that? Uploading more parts right now. I really appreciating this one, I barely awaiting to finish upload to keep going to know what physician story and how that stories gathering to uncover why they invited to that costume party and what common perspective about them join the main story. ;) It's really fascinating I loving your game Laura Hunt and Dead Idle Games. Did you realize the title colours is that where all beginning, at the train's windows? ;)
No, not at the ending and beginning; I meant that the title appears suddenly in the middle of some specific events, and I was just wondering why this was.
Oh, I cut off some delay in my gameplay. hahahaha Where and when I get me lost or I had been waste many times to fetch something or noted to stripe some parallel to puzzle. hehehehe I thought: "Geez is to late to solve these combinations. I just have 15 minutes time at video. I am not monetized I thought it is because the Google doesn't send my code phone to expand my time :/ , they just ignore my asks to increase my video time over 15 minutes, so I need to cut off some delays, sorry. I cut a lot things in Dr.Samuel, I need translate the books and traced a parallel between both. I loving this game. It remember to me "Dawn Fall" and "The Last Door", but your game is much more hard. I uploading chapter 3(Dr.Samuel's chapter I meant). I eager to bring here the complete list. I will continues. Laura Haunt did you think about to send this game to CJU an english youtube producer. I love that guy, this one would help a lot, he is fancy in comments and et coetera. I show here his channel, I would love watch there, If I had a fluent pronounce in english I will record with voice and comments. But brazilians doesn't like my contents, Indie games content sad dozen. :/ CJU to think about to share, I recommend his good taste and good comment. Here, I hope you like him as well : https://www.youtube.com/CjuGames
Only things that are a little off is the movement speed (Or at least let players use WASD) and cutscenes are a little slow, and what you're supposed to do next can be a bit hard to figure out.
Beautiful game! <3 <3 <3 I really liked it so far! But I just ran into a problem in the second story - I left my room and walked into the direction of the stairs. Now I cannot go back into the direction of the maiden's chamber (my character walked out of the screen)
Oh my, that's so weird! Have you tried walking back towards the stairs? Hopefully if you walk back in that direction, make sure you take a few steps past the first statue, and then go back normally, you will probably be able to reset the camera.
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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!
This is one of the funnest games I've ever played
wow the artstyle of the game reminds me of the last door game nicework
and the story is just mind blowing
Such gripping stories. The way Lady Winterbourne's was presented and uncovered was brilliant. It shook me emotionally pretty hard. In Samuel's story I stupidly missed the books right next to the herbs which led me to do my own research instead haha. Learned a few things about herbs and alchemy so that's nice (finally noticed the books when I mixed up Mercury and Saturn and looked more thoroughly).
Thank you for the Linux version and thank you for this game.
Oh wow, that's amazing, ahaha! Now *that* is dedication! Thank you for giving us a chance and for persevering against all odds 😀
Amazing game, just, everything is great about it, the storytelling, graphics. I didn't expect anything unusual to happen, barely read the description and the first story caught me off guard so much i legit got scared.
Thank you for this game!
Thank you for playing it and for taking the time to comment! :)
This game reminded me of that time I was riding a train to work, and then this stranger tells me his story of how he divorced his wife. At that time I just wanted to disappear, but having played "If On A Winter's Night, Four Travelers," I realize my experience could have been a lot worse.
A moving train. A masked ball. Four strangers with haunting stories. Where are they going? Why is Patrick such a prick? wHaT iS tRaiN?
Playing this was an incredible experience. Beautiful pixel art. A brave and profound story, intensified by themes of morality. Love it, love it, love it. Congratulations, Dead Idle Games!
Well, you have a new fan then!
OMG, salut for your work. Amazing Arts and code for a project with such small team. May I ask how much time you spend on that?
Almost two years!
Wow. Really impressed and inspiring. Wish you the best with anything that comes after this game. Everything is right from art to text to music. This really encourages me to go on with my next game.
I glad to see it! I was missing games with curious story, point ' n ' click with a hard puzzles. Later I come back to share here the playlist of If On Winter's Night Four Travelers, I o v i n g so much this game. Thanks to share this version with us. I will keep on an eye here. Note - 5 five stars. Linux version so far is running pretty fine.
Sorry I've only few minutes, Google's bureaucracy
I'll bring here asap the list. Thanks and greetings from Brazil. :)
Hey, thanks. What is it with the overlays at certain points, though?
Ah, the title in begin and ending video part. Didn't you like that? Uploading more parts right now. I really appreciating this one, I barely awaiting to finish upload to keep going to know what physician story and how that stories gathering to uncover why they invited to that costume party and what common perspective about them join the main story. ;) It's really fascinating I loving your game Laura Hunt and Dead Idle Games. Did you realize the title colours is that where all beginning, at the train's windows? ;)
No, not at the ending and beginning; I meant that the title appears suddenly in the middle of some specific events, and I was just wondering why this was.
Oh, I cut off some delay in my gameplay. hahahaha Where and when I get me lost or I had been waste many times to fetch something or noted to stripe some parallel to puzzle. hehehehe I thought: "Geez is to late to solve these combinations. I just have 15 minutes time at video. I am not monetized I thought it is because the Google doesn't send my code phone to expand my time :/ , they just ignore my asks to increase my video time over 15 minutes, so I need to cut off some delays, sorry. I cut a lot things in Dr.Samuel, I need translate the books and traced a parallel between both. I loving this game. It remember to me "Dawn Fall" and "The Last Door", but your game is much more hard. I uploading chapter 3(Dr.Samuel's chapter I meant). I eager to bring here the complete list. I will continues. Laura Haunt did you think about to send this game to CJU an english youtube producer. I love that guy, this one would help a lot, he is fancy in comments and et coetera. I show here his channel, I would love watch there, If I had a fluent pronounce in english I will record with voice and comments. But brazilians doesn't like my contents, Indie games content sad dozen. :/ CJU to think about to share, I recommend his good taste and good comment. Here, I hope you like him as well : https://www.youtube.com/CjuGames
Beautiful game! Really loved the themes in this game and the complex writing and design around it. My favorite game of 2021 - I'm calling it early.
Wow, thank you so much :)
Only things that are a little off is the movement speed (Or at least let players use WASD) and cutscenes are a little slow, and what you're supposed to do next can be a bit hard to figure out.
Beautiful game! <3 <3 <3 I really liked it so far!
But I just ran into a problem in the second story - I left my room and walked into the direction of the stairs. Now I cannot go back into the direction of the maiden's chamber (my character walked out of the screen)
Oh my, that's so weird! Have you tried walking back towards the stairs? Hopefully if you walk back in that direction, make sure you take a few steps past the first statue, and then go back normally, you will probably be able to reset the camera.