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Very cool, atmospheric game, seems a little difficult but maybe i am just useless.

I like how the game is polished, and has this tense vibe. I think it just needs some tweaking in the difficulty.

I like the vibe of this game a lot. The darkness mechanic is really cool.

The music is so good and creates such a nice atmosphere! I really like the graphics too, the little walking animation is cute. The game was a little hard for me though haha :)

Loved the atmosphere in this game, really felt relaxing and stressful at the same time weirdly. :D Loved the music and idea! Was very sentimental.

The game felt very thematic. It could be better by explaining its mechanics more clearly. Though, the way some of the mechanics were taught was clever.

Really nice game, as said above the difficulty need a bit of tweaking otherwise it feels very polished and coherent. Maybe some mechanics need a bit more explanation to be understood completely at first too.
Nevertheless it's a great entry, well done

Nice game, the music create such an atmosphere. I'm not sure I've understood all mechanics, but it was fun to play.

The link with the depth is not obvious.
Atmosphere is weel supported by the music.

The atmosphere is really cool. Graphics, gameplay, and music are on point. I felt like there is one fire missing at the start of the game, just to better feel that mechanic.

Great entry, deserves high ratings for sure!

Thank you all so much for your feedback! I have to admit, I tweaked the difficulty (and I assume most of the time, the darkness is the culprit here) about 30 minutes before the jam ended in an attempt to make it a bit more prominent as I perceived it as a tad too forgiving. Might have pulled the lever a bit strongly there.. but I also kinda like the mechanic playing this important role.

If you want to finish the game, here are a few neat tricks:

• Use the reset stone at the start (above the table) to reroll the world to collect randomly spawned flowers to your right (do not use the reset stone more than 6 times or it'll punish you)

• Always make sure to have a bonfire to walk back to, then walk back whenever you get followed by enemies to both reduce darkness / heal and also to wait until the enemies are despawned. They won't spawn again without rerolling the world.

• Patience - I think the way the mechanics work, they'll punish rushing and reward patience.

• You need 10 Flowers

Good luck and thanks everyone for playing!

This is a very cool and unique game: I really liked the concept, and the darkness mechanic is very cool. It is hard, but I don't think too hard. Conceptually, I didn't really understand at first whether I was dead, or I was remembering my dead loved ones.

Awesome PICO-8 game, as it made me sad with just a few pixels and bleeps. Great job! Although I wasn't sure if I had to bring the flowers back to the stone or not.

Thank you! If you bring 10 flowers back to the grave (or more precisely, the flowers next to it) you'll trigger a positive end screen. :)

Very interesting game. It gets a bit repetitive after some time, I think having to collect fewer flowers would suffice.

It is cute that the levels are "shifted" by simply swapping around the placement of the various objects. I felt the in-game tutorial to bit a tiny bit confusing, but I understood what does what when I actually played through. (Except the "gross" worm (?) – is that there just for diversity and maybe misleading the player into thinking it is a campfire?) The mood was appropriate for the character's situation, but I am not sure it fit very well with the "Depth" theme.

I 'won' the game on my second try. I was unsure what options I had to deal with the enemies, and didn't understand why they'd sometimes spontaneously combust.

Despite this I really liked this sad little story. Great gloomy audio, and a creative take on the theme. The encroaching darkness mechanic was really well done and was my favourite feature of the game. Thank you for making this

A solid game! Very retro feel, including the fact that it's quite difficult despite the seemingly relaxed pace. The contracting field of view is a great mechanic and really adds to the tension: dare I go out there, or do I stay close to my comfortable fire? Ditto for the lack of combat: you just have to plan your movement so you can evade the enemies long enough. I didn't manage to win but I enjoyed it nonetheless.