Simple, but so effective! Absolutely love it. Very easy to get into and the atmosphere kicks in immediately. Absolutely phenomenal job!
EDIT:
I found your game on the featured page of NEWGROUNDS. I'm very new here, always heard of this place but never actually logged in here. I didn't find any way to reply to your comment, so I just edited my review. ^^"
That offers one explanation as to where you new players keep coming from that doesn't involve nefarious, scheming deer.
I'll make another mall update as we made it to 11 thousand players, thank you for playing snuffief1lm.
And I'm quite happy to hear that you liked it.
how did you find out about this game? (thank you for answering)
Scary... too scary
What is scary to me is that I keep getting new players after leaving the frontpage!
Where are you all coming from? Is this a scheme from a deer?
Thank you for playing! I'm glad you liked it.
Hmm, it's a decent game with some intrigue on how it evolves, but I found it to be very drab and boring for the most part, unfortunately.
I found the graphics in particular to be the cause of most of my issues: the crosshair was very difficult to see (consider changing color and thickening the lines), the action was very difficult to parse as there was barely any feedback, sounds or animations to make events like attacks apparent, along with incredibly tiny health/cooldown bars that are difficult to see. In general, menus and various other aspects were just incredibly muted and lifeless (to be fair, some of the mutedness adds to the somber atmosphere, but I feel it is overkill).
I did like that the game had some cool input timing events for recovering health and shooting, and I did like how the story surprisingly evolved with the cool monster transformation, but for the most part the game felt very slow and plodding. A solid attempt though!
Edit: To celebrate 10,000 views, I've fed the crosshairs some baby back rat ribs!
Yes, I can see what would make you feel that way. There are very few goals early on, and most of the novelty comes from the new animals you face off against every other night.
For the sequel I plan to ensure the issues with the readability of the user interface are tackled right from the start, and improving the readability of actions is also in my radar.
It's good to hear that there were parts that you did like, I will look forward to seeing if you like the planned changes.
I really enjoyed this game! It took me 5 retries and 1 reset to complete it! It has a nice balance of horror, action and money. I will be waiting for the sequel!
I'm glad to hear you liked it. I hope you'll enjoy the sequel just as much (It's in the works)
Graphics are pixel art with a Halloween twist. It take a minute to get used to the critical attack style. The biggest issue I had was with the small screen size. It should really be much larger.
If you think that 1.5 has a small screen size, you would had ended cross-eyed if you had played any of the previous versions.