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Screeching... glad to hear you're working on fixing that.

Play again doesn't let you play again. Takes you back to the front where the Ad. is supposed to play and never lets you click play. Have to reload the page to replay.

No clue as to what to do in the game at all. I've found items. No clue what their use is. On multiple plays I've found different items in different places. Mouse keeps disappearing... I suppose the wait for each room to load is supposed to be part of the ambiance but it's really annoying.

Basically there is no instruction at all or indication as to what you're supposed to be doing. I've explored every part of the house, clicked on everything, collected items that were there in one play and then not collected them as they weren't there in the next, and been killed many times by the spirit for which there is no indication as to how to fight.

I'd love to play this when it's finished... but right now it's in a unplayable state.

A quick suggestion to help your ratings

Change annoying screech noise between every freaking movement with just a heartbeat echoey noise going: thump thump, thump thump. Just as scary and off-putting, infinitely less annoying.

Don't kill people with no reason or add a reaction thing so we can at least survive it with quick reflexes or something.

Sounds

I loved the game, it was well done and scary. But the noise did kill my ears, as others had said. Besides that, great job. ^^

Agree with everyone else

The sound killed it for me. The loud buzzing during each transition was very off-putting. There wasn't much clue what to do or where to go. I guess you follow the bloody hand-prints? I wandered around, finally grabbed some scissors, then got killed. No rhyme or reason other than "I took to long". Too long to do what? Free the spirits? How am I supposed to do that? I don't know. There's not enough clues lying around. I decided not to replay it.

The interface, while very artistic, was hard to determine what to click on. The cursor would disappear, then suddenly reappear, then turn into stencil arrows if I positioned them for a second or two over a door way. Sometimes some handprints would come up, but only if I scoured the screen. It was just difficult to figure out what to do, where to go, and what to interact with. The movement on the stills made it feel limiting rather than freeing. IE: I didn't feel like I was looking around a room, I felt like I was having my head held very still, and someone was just letting me move it ever so slightly in 5 degree arcs. I felt like I was wearing a neck brace.

I guess this sounds like I'm really bagging on you, but I feel it's constructive criticism. There's a good game in here some where, but most folks won't see if if they're instantly put off by the sound and interface, then later by lack of clues.

Good but horrible.

Okay, first let's start with the good things.
1. The ambience (not audio) was VERY well done, giving you a real feel for what you're seeing by making the darker the room, the darker the outter edges of the screen (til at some points it became black.)
2. The feel when 'figments' passed across the screen was definitely a plus since it was done well enough to where 'once you saw it and focused it disappeared' (as the trigger to make it disappear was the mouse.)
3. Even the intro of walking to the house gave you a feel for the horror that was in store, only making the horror of the house itself that much more palpable.

Now... The downsides.
1. The sound was horribly screechy and unbearable.
2. The mouse disappeared and reappeared often.
3. The inventory was placed in an awkward position for scrolling over (top of the screen would have been much better.)
4. You are left with a sense of curiousness going in but don't know what you're doing really.
5. The handprints were so repetitive that they weren't creepy or anything. Unless they're meant to be there for some specific purpose, I don't see why they have to be so common (though they might be signs that that room is 'safe'.)
6. The sound that made the beginning horrid is a constant throughout the entire game being used in the place of every sound that could be used.
7. Since the situation isn't entirely understood, you're more likely to die a few times before you figure out what you're supposed to do.

Overall, the game has a few really high points, but alot of low points as well. I'm sorry, but until the problems are fixxed this is where it will sit. 3/10