A fun premise, the mood is also very nice. Very hard though, only ever managed to find one branch... Or maybe its just my luck :)

Seems to be completely luck based, like I'm walking in a random direction, and if I'm lucky I will find sticks. But I only got lucky one time, so not sure how to survive.

Fun little survival horror game, the atmosphere is certainly there, but it might be a little hard. Over the course of 3 retries I only managed to find 3 sticks. A little more variety in trees/backgrounds would also make it more interesting. I love the sprite for the player with these glimmery highlights, he really seems to be in a dark forest with only a torch to light him! Keep up the good work!

Cool concept, with a bit of polish, you could get a really nice effect. Try messing around with some post processing effects

Cool concept, but feels very unfinished. And, as others mentioned, it's very hard to find those sticks, my record is also only 3, with a couple of tries. With a little more work it can be a good old, scary horror game! :wink:

Fun concept! The game does not feel that polished. It is extremely hard to find even 1 branch. The game just needs to have some more work done to it to make it better. Keep getting better at making games!

I think the game has cool idea but it lacks some basic features like some additional options to guide you through the game. Right now its little bit random, you can walk in any direction without any clue if youre goiing to find branch.

Whoa, hard. Best I managed was two branches (in seven plays), then always my torch went out. But the mood is not bad, very creepy soundscape, so maybe.. with some more polish, and more wood or better directions how to find it... Good work! :thumbsup:

I got 6 branches, I am now the king of the woods.

Fun entry! Personally had a hard time being very good at it, though :'D

wow cool game! pretty hard though..

You created a nice mood with the limited view and the eerie soundscape, so you're off to a good start there! But it took me several games just to find one branch. There does not seem to be a way to find branches, so the game seems impossible to complete as it is, and without any strategy to it.

Has the foundation of a good horror game; nice tight view, creepy sounds. Didn't manage to find a single branch, so I'm not convinced this style of view works well for that (see Baldi's Basics for a good example of a branch gatherer that works because of the first-person view), but if you changed this to a monster-avoiding game (e.g. Slenderman, or some Blair Witch style thing) then this would probably work well, even with the failing torch mechanic.

The sprite sorting of the trees bugged me a bit. Easiest way to deal with that is either to get each tree's Z value to equal their Y value via a script (you'll need to move the camera back), or ask Unity to sort by Y instead. The first approach would probably be better for you as you're using some composite sprite for the main character by the look of it and you'd want all the components to have the same Z value (or offset by 0.01 depending on whether they're in front of other components.).

I like the games scary atmosphere, but it is really difficult to find any branches.

its difficult to find branches but god job

I managed to find two branches on my first try, then tried twice more and found zero more sticks. The music is a nice ambiance - I might recommend smoothing over the music looping though (you might try overlapping various audio clips that fade in/out smoothly to get the same effect with a higher level of variety and polish without too much more work). I wished there was something in the forest to be afraid of - it didn't seem inherently scary to me to be walking about a dark forest - you could even do this with treacherous terrain if you wanted something other than "there's monsters in here too."

Reminds me of "slenderman" and "Dont Starve" a little.
I ended up drawing a map because there were only...trees and occasional sticks for orientation. ...still I found...2. xD it's hard for all the wrong reasons ^^°

Hey, thanks for posting the game for my stream!

I like the atmosphere, the game gets a nice creepy vibe across. Actually finding the branches is really hard however, maybe a bit more different terrain would help so I can actually tell where I've already been!

Does the map loop in this one or is it actually that enormous?

@iak Thanks for the feedback!

The map is that big, but it will be much smaller in the post-jam version.