What Happened Here?

Cool hot girl sitting on a chess board? Count me in! This is a hauntingly beautiful, short-form horror experience that blends a classic "locked-in" premise with striking 2-bit retro-inspired visuals. Playing as Elly, you return home to find your life (and your roommates) inexplicably altered, setting the stage for a cathartic mystery that rewards deep exploration and sharp puzzle-solving. The soundtrack captures the unsettling tension of the shifting mansion. Although, the story is kind of predictive and obvious, but with six distinct endings (3 main, 3 bad) and hidden secrets, your choices truly matter in uncovering the full truth, and you don't get bored. The puzzles and mini-games are fun and clever (there is even a chess puzzle, hence the cover is the hot girl sitting on a chess board). There was just 1 bug, where I castled King-Rook and accidentally exit the puzzle room, which bugged the game for me, and I couldn't castle again., I had to reload the previous save. And why does it ask me if I want to move a piece by 8-9? A chess piece can't move more than 7, because the board is 8x8.

To start with the stuff that I did like, this game has a great color palette for its fantastic visuals, dialogues aren't dragged and do move the story forward while also building upon its characters. There are some visual bugs I encountered while playing but nothing game breaking. It was indeed a interesting choice to have the background sprites a different pixel size than the player model personally I have mixed feeling about it. There a huge amount of 4 wall breaking for a 40 minute game, I would simply lie if I said that it didn't disturb my immersion. But do I recommend it? kinda. The story overall isn't something too engaging to say at least but man the art is so great.