Letters from the War

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I want to make it clear that I am grateful for every piece of anti-war media, especially in these troubled times. And the game does have a clear intent going for it, which is nice. So here's some constructive feedback from a former professional game dev: [olist] [*] [b]Feedback for the day:[/b] The game does tell me if I did good or not, but it's a simple binary yes/no feedback. It doesn't tell me what I did wrong, thus making it hard to improve my performance. Was I right to censor only parts of a sentence or do I need to censor complete sentences? One step ahead would be to tell me what I missed or shouldn't have censored. Even better would be to precision up the feedback without giving up the solution. [*] [b]Feedback for the overall situation:[/b] So far I've found two endings: [spoiler]Being fired at some point[/spoiler] and [spoiler]the ending where the country is overrun by the enemy[/spoiler]. Which seems to just directly go into the credits. The GAMEPLAY section of the store page hints at a third option, and I would have liked to have some guidance on how to get there. Maybe a civil unrest counter or something like that, just to understand how I'm doing. Maybe something like "There's a [low/medium/high] chance of unrest" at the beginning of every day, or besides the letters, or something like that, if you think that a flat-out gauge would be immersion breaking. The game makes it overall hard to understand what impact my decisions have and relate cause and effect of said actions. [*] [b]Unskippable cutscenes/titles:[/b] As you probably unavoidably do multiple play-throughs trying different combinations, you'll end up with too much time in unskippable titles, which is quickly annoying. Some way to skip those and directly get to the action would be nice. [*] [b]Repeat days:[/b] Having to repeat the whole game up to the day you failed quickly gets cumbersome. An option to repeat the last day before getting fired would have been nice. [/olist] [b]Spoiler containing a way to cheese the game:[/b] [spoiler]You can just censor everything. Not sure if this was an intentional design decision or not.[/spoiler] So, tl;dr: More feedback, less time-consuming stuff that doesn't add to the gameplay experience. Again, thank you, developers, for putting this game out there. We need more anti-war voices, now more than ever. I'm looking forward to your next title. Keep it up.