Not Just This

I played just a few cases to showcase the game in a video. The ambiance and the character design was spot on. Good job!

I had a lot of fun with this game. I really love the art style, character designs are really cool and I think it's fun getting to name the suspects. I had a great time trying to figure out what voices to give each character. 

The cases were quite jarring, which definitely helped ground the theme of the game into an unsettling territory, the contrast between the names you'd give - often light-hearted and silly - and the details of the crimes - quite violent and serious - offered up such a bizarrely uncomfy atmosphere. 

A very enjoyable experience, well done dev :D

Decent little game. There were a bunch of cases where I felt like the death penalty was completely unwarranted even though I was fairly certain the defendant was guilty, and just let them go as a result. The topic of lethal executions has made me woozy before, but this was fine for me. The game does drag on a little, especially with how you're meant to manually name everyone that appears.

"haha im gonna give this one a silly name"
*Accused of violent murder and guilty*

very good

really fun! it was quite disturbing but the story was interesting, i only got 3 cases wrong! might download the game and play again

Before you comment read this: The outcomes are randomized for Guilt vs Innocence. If you go all the way back in the comments you can see where this was figured out. If you save before you load into a trial (The stage where you name someone) you can reload over and over to get different results based on the coin flip.

From anything I can tell there doesn't seem to be any difference between the responses based on which of the two options the RNG picked. If someone could check the trails after the first four and reply here it would be appreciated but frankly I got bored after going through the first four trials over and over again to try and brute force different responses to questions.

Super fun :-)

On another note, I don't know if anyone has already mentioned this, but being able to use the keyboard to type names/surnames would be great. I personally find it tedious not being able to do it that way.

How is every game you make a masterpiece?!?!

i loved this!! so fun & silly

Fun game :3 I like how some of the stuff we fill out in the beginning is the same stuff we ask the defendants... implying that it could very well be us in their situation.

making a trial game entirely random really defeats the point of any of it outside of you making characters and situations that slop streamers will be able to make an afternoons worth of content with before being forgotten again.

Honestly the bones of this are really good. It just seems like you should have a already decided who is and isnt guilty and then give actual clues to which one they are. There were even a few times during the trials were it felt very much like you were hinting at it, but going back through the whole thing a few times to check, it would appear the dialog is the same regardless of guild/innocence. Hell, even just having it randomly determined but also changing the lines for the accused to subtly change depending on their guilt/innocence would be a massive step up. Which you could realistically just copy paste massive parts of your code to accomplish with some fairly minimal smoothing of bugs after.

When the game flips a coin to determine innocence vs guilt, just have it pull up the correct next scene depending. Same as you do between all the different scenes to determine if the eyes are shown upon execution or not (Or just use whatever mechanism you have chosen to implement this feature to pull up subtly different dialog lines).

Who knows, perhaps this is actually the case for some of the later cases, frankly I only went back and replayed the first three until I got different results to see if the lines changed, and from anything I could tell there was no difference in them despite resetting for different outcomes.

This was soooo good! I feel like sometimes I really couldn't tell if they were innocent or guilty from the information given, or there was conflicting information. From a game point of view, I guess that could be frustrating but I honestly enjoyed it as the notion that in reality, sometimes we don't know. The justice system gets it wrong all the time and there are sometimes only things the victims and the accused will know and never reveal or be able to reveal. I loved playing it, it was really fun. Will totally play again to see all the death transformations.

A fascinatingly disturbing take on the "Papers, Please" subgenre.

Much of the surrealist experience shines through with an oppressive atmosphere and uncanny art style, reminding me of similar artists like MeatCanyon. It is very clear this project was far more about the creator just having fun with a concept than actually trying to deliver a super polished experience, shown by the beautifully shocking and mutated character portraits (pre or post execution). Music choices and heavy use of dark colors very much emphasized the bleak and depressive setting. For the most part, artists of all types should feel compelled to enjoy their own work first, rather than focus on mainly appealing to audiences. 

There were moments of tonal inconsistency in the out of place humor (characters saying "lmao" or saying chronically online buzzwords), and some of the cases felt far more like they were left up to chance (evidence and testimony would show they're innocent but they'd still end up secretly guilty). Customization was a nice flare, however RPG Maker's engine did hold the game's UI back from being more engaging to use, as having to type out names became tedious without a dedicated keyboard support option.

I think for a proof of concept project this has a strong potential to remain evergreen, though it depends on what comes of the creator's future choices.

𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒊𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒔𝒐𝒍𝒊𝒅 𝒈𝒂𝒎𝒆, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒐 𝒇𝒂𝒓 𝑰 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆𝒏’𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅 𝒂𝒏𝒚𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒊𝒏 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕. 𝑶𝒏𝒆 𝒇𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆 𝑰 𝒆𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒂𝒗𝒂𝒕𝒂𝒓 𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒔 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒂𝒗𝒆𝒔, 𝒊𝒕 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒉𝒆𝒍𝒑𝒔 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒖𝒊𝒔𝒉 𝒃𝒆𝒕𝒘𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒅𝒊𝒇𝒇𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒔𝒂𝒗𝒆𝒔. 𝑰 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕’𝒔 𝒂 𝒈𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒐𝒖𝒄𝒉. 𝑰 𝒅𝒊𝒅 𝒏𝒐𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒆 𝒂 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒐𝒑𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒎𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒃𝒆 𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒚 𝒏𝒆𝒄𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒂𝒓𝒚, 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒅𝒐 𝒂𝒅𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒊𝒎𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏. 𝑶𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒍𝒍, 𝑰 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒉𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒍𝒚 𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒅 𝒈𝒊𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒈𝒂𝒎𝒆 𝒂 𝒕𝒓𝒚 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇!

This was an interesting game to play in terms of what it is like for judges to examine the evidence and inquiry to determine the fate of a defendant. Although it was silly at times, this was a decent game to play.

hell yeah! other travel in nightmare ! but i like look all ...but .....i am succubus. lol  :P

Judging all the cases was pretty fun.

Some of these were also hilarious because of how ridiculous they were. 

My favorite was the one where the little girl was accused of murder.

I liked how her backstory had the involvement of Mr. Bob.

I have found a rule that whenever a defendant is found guilty, there will be eyes at the time of execution! This is a small detail, this game is done very well!

And yes: one of the avatars is supposed to be Alesa, and the rat avatar is supposed to be Tolo Ratoney. The other ones, I just drew random ideas, I had no idea of what I was doing

Forgot to mention: there are technically 2 endings depending on your performance as a judge (reputation, negligences, etc). But I don't think replaying the game to get the other ending is worth it. Also, it's highly unlikely that 2 playthroughs will be identical, since culpability for each accused is assigned at random.