LUNIUM

ok. so i just got into this type of game. like today.

i was bored beyond belief and used the pointless sites site to maybe try and relieve myself. i found a game by another author and found the interactive fiction competition by browsing her games. i just aimlessly looked through the site and found out this is a whole thing! it's so fun!!!

i looked through the winners for 2023 and found your game. i swear this has been the highlight of my week, just below another totally unrelated thing.

about the game, it's good. like very very good. i don't have a ton of other games to compare it to because, like i mentioned, i found out about this today, but man, the thought and time put into it just blew my mind.

i've already opened your new game up and i'm about to play it. i even made an account here to comment. this is a brand new world for me and i'm glad your game was one of the first i played.

i appreciated the artwork and the hints. i even opened a notepad and made my own scrapbook of hints and notes. i got really immersed into the story, the whole aesthetic is topnotch. love me some steampunk shenanigans.

anyway its 3am now and i'm going to watch the sun rise cause i'm not about to stop.

this was such a fun experience, i ended up writing notes on a post-it and it felt like i was adding to the detective's notebook. really good bait and switch too, i was fully on board trying to solve the mystery as it was presented until the very last second and then everything hit me at once. a new favorite for sure!

a lot of fun and a great challenge, nice twist at the end and I was able to play through the entire game without any hints. the only issue I had was that it did get repetitive having to re-light the match every time I needed to look back at the darker areas of the room, but I'd love to play more games like this from you!

I almost, ALMOST got through everything without using hints, I was feeling so proud of myself but there was one lock that made me use all hints available, I left it for last cause i thought I didn't have enough to figure it out, it was the only one where I used hints too, the clue was staring me right in the face the whole time, I'm so upset! But this game is amazing, I usually don't like escape rooms but the logic in this one actually made sense for me.

I'm often skeptical of escape rooms in text, because there's only so far clicking links will get you, but you've done an excellent job with combinations and fill-in-the-blank clues.  And most of all, the writing: the art as well, but the writing really evokes "Victorian-era detective".  Glad I played this!