Retrace

Just streamed my first playthrough of this game and have had a lot of fun!

My only complaint is there are times where dialogue can feel a bit misplaced, to avoid any spoilers- I notice it most with a certain character in white. This may just be due to the nature of a game where you could be coming at events from any order, though. And that aside- I really enjoy the retrace mechanic! It makes this game one where completionists will be rewarded by virtue of the games design.

The art for this game is absolutely wonderful, all of the talk sprites and the animation put behind some of them is really eye-catching. The digitally painted style is wonderful for them! And the pixel sprites help each character stand out too :)

I haven't completed the game as of writing, but it's definitely piqued my interest~!

Is there a guide for this? I'm having trouble finding "joy" in the first puzzle

I can see why so many people have recommended this game, as it's very interesting and ambitious, but I'm having a lot of trouble with the flags and save states. I'm very regularly picking up items I've already picked up after I've used them, I can't seem to properly trigger new events or clear progress when switching to new books, and a lot of weird triggers keep coming up like getting dialogue for being alone in Mia's book after going back down with Mia.

I really enjoyed it! Quick question, what are the achievements in the bottom row? One for all the special deaths, but what about the others? I could have sworn I had the first one at some point, but my latest save shows none of the final row lit up.

Incidentally, if I've beaten the game, do I lose progress by starting from the beginning? Right now "continue" only takes me to the final area, so I can't get the named deaths anymore.

Gah! after I let it sit for so long and I'm so glad I finally picked this up! 

I love the big and small things about this game; like how every item has it's own quirky little description (even they change too depending on what route you're on ie: sunflowers) I'm a really big fan of the ENDs system -- having access to information from another timeline might just save a life or two.

I read some threads on the teams twitter and oh boy was I swept of my feet ; The scrapped princess chair puzzle was really clever! But I think the one in the game works wayyy better in the end. There were other great ideas that didn't get into the game, but I hope they show up in any future puzzle games you write!

I really love the characters they all have their own problems that I'm sooo eager to explore; it's like it's own mystery in itself! In another comment you said there may be some future projects with them -- safe to say I'll be sticking around <3

This is quite ambitious! There were definitely moments where I couldn't figure out what to do, or tell whether something was meant to have happened or not, but I was engaged throughout and I bet this was a really interesting project to put together.

Heyy!! Um, so theres something where I don't know what to do. I have three gems lit on the blue pedestal, two on the red, yellow and green one and three windows (the one where Claire has a hand on Freyas arm and you see Freyas Side profile, the one with Owen crying and the one where Lucas and Freya are holding onto each other). I was in the main room with Owen after I solved the Wolf puzzle but every door was locked and I couldn't go anywhere. I legitimately don't know how to trigger other endings, is there something im missing? 

Claire ending gem doesn’t light up for me, I can’t use the center pillar to finish the game. :( also the “achieved” page only has Mia’s ending as achieved. Don’t know if that’s related.

Hi there! I started playing your game and I love it! I'm a bit stuck on how to get the Miowen and Claire end, though could you possibly help with that? When I try to follow the guide for Claires thats on steam I found it gives me the hopeless end, and with miowen using the same guide I can't find the key. Sorry for the inconvenience in me asking this! 

I've already played this game a lot of time and i just want to tell you how amazing this games.

I wanna more of this character and i want to see them more in your future project.

thank you for making this game especially the LGBTQ+ queer character, bc i love it so much.

i kinda want to buy this on Steam now since i want to play the game more and the ost too.  TvT

btw thanks for posting this game on itch since it's better rather than Steam for me lol.

The game is interesting to play, but I think I have gotten a bug somewhere in the middle of it, considering that I got chapel scene out of nowhere (didn't know  what it was cause that was my first time seeing it).

Now I cannot get Mia&Owen end, Lucas is alive, and I always get "unprepared".

Pity, I wanted to play until the end too =(

I finally, finally finished this game!  

This was so much fun to play! It was frustrating, but in a good way, trying to figure out how to get all of the endings. Just when I thought I'd have it figured out, it was something else! I even rage quit after being Unprepared a couple of times, couldn't figure out what I could possibly do differently to solve the game...  
  
It stayed on my mind until I came back a few days later, got the rest of the endings first try and COMPLETED IT! You KNOW you've made a good game when people HAVE to finish it to see what happens!  

The art was beautiful, the game and puzzles were the perfect difficulty - where they're simple enough to understand but need to be figured out properly. The music was really good, the dialogue was really well written, as were the characters. 

You've made an exceptional game here and it was very fun to play! <3 

So far I've really been enjoying the game! Unfortunately I think I may have run into a glitch...? Major spoilers ahead!

So I've managed to stumble my way through several ENDs at this point, including the three normal ones, Unprepared, Claire's,  Crying Wolf and several others whose names I can't recall. Blue pedestal has three gems lit and Red, Yellow, and Green pedestals all have two. I have four windows (Mia, Lucas, Clarie, and that one with Clarie holding onto Freya's arm) but I haven't been able to progress any further. 

For a while I thought I was just missing something in a third Lucas run because after Owen dies in the Library I found myself stuck in the Lobby and Parlor with all the doors locked or.... Closed from the other side. Sometimes Lucas will grab the Gore key but I'm not entirely sure what prompts it and even when he does all the doors remain locked. It feels like an END scenario but I can still move around and interact with things. Eventually I swallowed my pride and poked around online for a solution and found that apparently this might be the criteria for a Lumia END that isn't triggering? The guide I found lists endings in a different order than the way I completed them and now I'm stuck with Lucas and Mia and no way to continue, did I move on before I should have or something?

I honestly think I might just be missing something but the fact that NOTHING I try is budging made me wonder if something is going wrong behind the scenes.  If I'm missing something a hint would be greatly appreciated, though I hate to concede defeat like that  (-_-;)

ALSO!!! I found Retrace in the Bundle For Racial Justice and Equality and honestly it's so cool that you decided to include it there! 

Really interesting, thought-provoking game! Props for creating  well-developed, fascinating characters in a relatively short game. Loved the queer rep.

The ending leaves me wanting a little more, but in some ways that's just a mark of a good story. :)

Very enjoyable game! Likable characters, really great art and soundtrack. Pretty engaging plot, and solutions never felt like they were entirely out of reach. Maybe felt a little bit rushed towards the end, but honestly didn't bother me that much and I still really enjoyed this game! Absolutely worth playing, esp if you got it from the big bundle!

Seems promising, but I encountered a softlock right at the start of the game.  I started with Owen, and left the starting room without picking up the keyring from the table.  The door jams behind you and you can't get anywhere in the next room until you restart the game and take the keys.

Loved the art and the concept of the game!  I enjoyed how small things like leaving a note can change your route and how Freya changed over time!

If I had one piece of advice for further games it would be to maybe slow down the pacing a bit. I think this game would've been even better if scenes had taken a bit more time (and more detail) especially when you do your first run (but it might also have felt weird to me since it took Owen's hand first which wasn't a good route to start in my opinion). 

loving the game, but i've encountered some strange glitches...? after an owen scene with him banging on the door, i finished that END and went on to do something in mias but then i got stuck between her and a corpse in the cell so i went to the title and went back and it brought me into that scene again... except owen walked into a wall and then lucas followed him also into a wall. it's not super important (and very funny) but i thought i'd mention it!
https://imgur.com/a/vymizew

Extremely fun game, I'm still trying to work out all the endings- there is a glitch, spoilers ahead. I was on Mias beginning route, found Owen dead and put his body in the church, then when I went back to the crypt where it started, I was able to put a note through the jail cell and "save" owen despite the fact I had seen him dead. I hadn't moved through the void and was able to reach the teq party scene. I don't think that is how it is intended to be

 Hi! I almost cleared the game I think, but this error happends when i try to get the key in Mia's route (with her dead) after I have gotten most ends

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/474192600644059138/720360462977597560/unknown.png 

The game is SUPER COOL