The Clinic by Cyborg Studio

An EMDR psychotherapy simulator. Delve into your trauma history to learn more about the past. Tap left and right in rapid succession to process traumatic flashbacks. (Will work with a keyboard for accessibility reasons, but you'll get the full experience if you look and click left and right with a mouse.)
Fair warning that this is a (psychological) horror game, with some images that might be disturbing or alarming. Apologies to Shakespeare and any poets in the audience for the content.
| Link | http://cidney.itch.io/the-clinic |
| Link | https://codeberg.org/cidney/the-clinic |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/48/the-clinic |
Ratings
| Overall | 706th | 3.071⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 852th | 2.405⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 342th | 3.405⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 428th | 3.619⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 557th | 3.238⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 133th | 3.762⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 140th | 3.81⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 12🗳️ | 5🗨️ |
Note: Not sure if it's my computer, but in the first half of the game, the text disappears when clicked (though I had done so to make all the text appear at once instead of waiting). This is fixed in the latter half of the game.
Nice work!
Music: tremendous!
Theme: great!
Left and right click mechanic: I kinda hate it. Not sure why, it just didn't seem like it added anything for me.
That's my only complaint though - other than that an even _longer_ traipse through Shakespearean psyche flashbacks would be nice! Great work!
On small improvement I could see would be to give a bit of time after a player succeeds the tapping just to see the pictures and feedback the them that they "won", as opposed to immediatly going into the dialogue, which is similar to the fail state.
Otherwise, nice work :)
In term of gameplay however I found it a bit weak and I was also a bit disappointed that the images were the same each round. So let's go deeper ;)