As a Canadian gamer of a certain age, wow this really hit the spot. This is a text parser gamer with absolutely beautiful old-school 2d pixel art. You solve a very fun mystery and meet lots of great characters. Don't be intimidated by the old-school design - If you've never played one of these before there is a great tutorial. I'm a fan!

One of the best-written and best-programmed ... not-point&click, but puzzle/adventure games I've played in a very long time.

It does ~everything write. It gets retro right, including the art style and its use of colours on a per-screen basis. The text parser is ridiculously flexible, but also demands specifics from you enough to make you consider and not just blindly try (e.g. 'use' is not a valid word, be specific whether you mean rub, unlock, tie, etc). Tons and tons of missable elements, that all get referenced later. Including the ability to reflect in the ending and get comments about what you missed. A very sweet post-ending scene. A few nice variations of the actual ending. Lots of parts where you can feel clever as hell.

And what's more, the game also prevents dead ends by always offering you an out, but also actively prodding you at what (roughly) you could have done to find the "main" solution for this puzzle. And yet just for lulz, there's 7 (right now) ways to die that each give an achievement, and they're hilarious. :D

Love this game, highly recommended. Not had this much brain fodder in a long time. Yes it's EGA graphics. Yes it is text-parser based (ideally play with text inventory and click-to-move off!). But if you like retro, you'll love this!

Well done!