The pain

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.57
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.68
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.89
Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.98
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.61
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.50
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.67
It was a struggle this time. The game mechanics took me a lot longer to implement than I had expected and I had to scrap a lot of drawings until I was happy with the art style.
sketches.jpgThere are some glitches when rotating a device while drawing a path.
Enjoy the pain.

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Comments20

Quinn_Patrick20 Apr 2020, 23:21
A truly unique, challenging, and nauseating puzzler. I admire your commitment to body horror.
Endurion
Endurion23 Apr 2020, 14:37
Now that's something you don't see often :)

And it's a puzzle game even! Really nice, it would really benefit from nice sound effects. Scream in agony! ;)
Alexey Akulovich
Alexey Akulovich24 Apr 2020, 12:30
Wow. I cannot understand how does this relate to the theme, but it's very original. Not enough weird sounds to completely immerse :)
Rustywolf27 Apr 2020, 00:44
Wasnt expecting that. Excellent gameplay, creepy visuals. Very unqiue entry
meelo27 Apr 2020, 00:45
Wow, this was horrifying (in the best possible way). I liked the graphical style and the puzzles were of a nice difficulty - I made it to the end without feeling like the experience was too easy or too hard. One feature that I think would have been really nice would be if you could draw pieces of paths without connecting to either heart - sometimes I could reason about exactly how some sub-path had to go, and it would have been nice to record that. Nicely done.
Puzzlemaker27 Apr 2020, 00:58
Well done overall, if a bit, uh... well, it's a good game. With a little polish it could be truly horrifying.
Madbarron
Madbarron27 Apr 2020, 01:01
This is great! I am also so glad that there are no sound effects :) Clever puzzle idea and I think it fits the theme in a nice and unique way!

PS. I am currently stuck on:
0210
0012
0020
2230
n.feofentov
n.feofentov27 Apr 2020, 08:50
Cool game. It took me awhile to beat all the puzzles. Interesting setting choice too. Good job!
pfeyffer
pfeyfferauthor29 Apr 2020, 15:47
@madbarron Yeah, I always want to add sound effects to my games but I always run out of time. The puzzles are solvable. The last two are fiendishly difficult though.
marbles30 Apr 2020, 08:01
Awesome puzzle game. It would be more interesting if there was sound. And maybe it's just me but I didn't understand "Mouth needs to be connected on one side, noses two, and eyes three" at first so I was doing trial and errors in the first two levels until I realized what that instruction meant.
damdoshi
damdoshi30 Apr 2020, 18:20
Ow :p What a theme. It is really well made. Your puzzle concept is very good.
kfischer-okarin
kfischer-okarin2 May 2020, 05:13
Creepy visuals and simple but good puzzle idea. I don't see quite how pain and alive and hearts and blood connect to the theme but interesting game idea nonetheless.
cheesepencil
cheesepencil7 May 2020, 02:54
I didn't understand the instructions so I didn't get very far, but I found the art haunting (in a good way) and it looks like the premise and concept has potential. Some gooey sfx would really make the mood but I understand it's compo and compo is really, really hard.
Demandooda
Demandooda12 May 2020, 05:48
Creepy game, interesting and challenging puzzle, and polished and smooth mechanics. what more could I ask for? Well done!
jk5000
jk500012 May 2020, 11:43
An interesting and clever little puzzle game. Well done.
jk5000
jk500012 May 2020, 11:44
An interesting and clever little puzzle game. Well done.
M2tias12 May 2020, 13:58
Have you played The Witness? This feels like a horror version of one of those puzzles. Well made and the art is great. Good job!
Loig12 May 2020, 16:26
Nice puzzle game!
Fractal
Fractal12 May 2020, 16:49
Very interesting puzzles, and some of them surprisingly difficult given how simple the idea is. Well done!
good.enough
good.enough12 May 2020, 17:12
Great puzzle game sprouted from a twisted mind!

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