Saccharine Pale?

This game changed me I'm grateful that it exists

Go in blind, its a cool game. Evokes the childhood feeling of just learning to play video games. Surprises that feel unintended turn into skills you then use to progress. Its wild that billion dollar companies fail to capture this. I only wish there was [spoiler]an actual end. Feels abandoned, when really all its missing is some way to reach the credits. But oh well, the dev clearly understands what makes games fun, so I hope to see what they do next.[/spoiler]

game was abandoned developer was generous enough not to take down the store page, along with the "most common version" build- essentially a box collecting sim more than an actual game. its not coherent. the map is rough, and the game places too much confidence in the player exploiting the on-hit knockback mechanic to get around and explore i spent couple hours collecting crates and im fairly sure i found all of them except the one placed inside a cage in Forch dhor Opaslurescens. most of what i got from the crates were uh some cryptic items, fragments of vague messages, and references to consumables supposedly sold at an "apothecary" a location that doesnt exist in the game(its abandonware duh) the whole thing feels like a monologue. less a game, more a... loose sandbox? where dev threw in enigmatic ideas and half-formed concepts and then walked away

my friend made me play this but it was actually super interesting. the game is very confusing but i think that confusion adds to it's charm. the controls are kinda unresponsive at times but thats probably just on my end. very weird and surreal but i enjoyed it

Not doing it for me, but there's something to work with here.

Not sure if this counts as a game but there’s some cool movement