Play game
CADMIUM RED's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Audio | #18 | 4.516 | 4.516 |
| Artwork | #25 | 4.774 | 4.774 |
| Enjoyment | #26 | 4.452 | 4.452 |
| Narrative | #27 | 4.419 | 4.419 |
| Creativity | #365 | 4.258 | 4.258 |
Ranked from 31 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does your game fit the theme?
The player is stuck in a time loop and has to figure out the way out. Also the game's story and ending. But thats spoilers so I wont put it here.
(Optional) Please credit all assets you've used
Card pack by DANI MACCARI
Kenney's funature pack
Kenney's food pack
Kenney's vfx textures
(Optional) What would you like to be called if GMTK features your game?
Arcy and Yollie
Leave a comment
Log in with itch.io to leave a comment.
Comments
Your average rank is #4 in GMTK 2025! Congrats!
Here is the link with all the rankings:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pcYEGvaHF3y30mMEWwywmkRd2FCpo-u3_ZFpPFSo...
I felt bad that there is no average score, because some teams aimed for all categories, not just one. So I just scrapped the results page and made a table. I agree with "Mark" that "Overall" is questionable, but I still think "average" is a valuable score, so I decided to share it.
Really great looking game, and the puzzles are a lot of fun too. Sadly the game runs at like 10FPS even with a high end rig and I can't interact with UI elements on my main display.
Huh, interesting, some people get really low fps while it runs super smoothly on others, could you tell us your specs?
Resolution: 2560x1440
DE: Plasma 6.4.4
CPU: 13th Gen Intel i9-13900H (20) @ 5.200GHz
GPU: Intel Raptor Lake-P [Iris Xe Graphics]
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Max-Q / Mobile
Memory: 3942MiB / 31717MiB
Okay, i got a ton of different numbers, but I got no clue how to arrange them... The art polish and style is insane, also the quality of everything is top notch, deserves a win in both art and sound. With the puzzle design, it feels like I just have to do a lot of trial and error rather than deduction (maybe im just dumb). If I was to make puzzles, i'd make sure the first one is easy to get so that there's at least some progress to be made, cuz being stuck with 20 numbers and no idea of how to apply them was challenging my patience. I will give it one more try later on, as the game deserves it.
Small spoilers below
The first puzzle is just a 3 digit keypad, and there's only one thing with 3 consecutive digits in the first room. After you get into the second room a lot more clues appear about what to do with the numbers (also even more clues as the game progresses)
The thing is, you can keep typing numbers into the keypad, they just move left out of view. Therefore, I assumed I gotta combine the numbers from everywhere in one long code and input that into the keypad. Also, there are letters on the keypad that completely threw me off track. I guess I was overthinking it, having too many clues around, trying to make sense of all of them at once, haha. Thanks for the tip I'll play it some more.
Such a great amount of polish and what a style! Congrats for this incredible entry
Damn, this is so cool. I’m shocked you could pull off this level of art direction and music and vibe and everything in 96 hours. Amazing job!
I really really like this game, it's just so well done, how did you guys did this in 4 days, the co-ordination must be crazy. From the atmosphere to game feel, everything is perfect. The clues are spread out really well, I've managed to crack all the five puzzles but cannot for the life of me figure out the final order of the input, maybe when I am more awake I will try again XD. Amazing game, peak.
Make sure you keep an eye (and ear) out for any weird things around the office (especially the starting room!)
I did replay it with my friend and actually found the final solution, turn out I was missing something, which is required to unlock the final sequence. A little prompt for interact (like for dropping the plates would have helped a bit)
( SPOILERS IN THIS REVIEW )
Another quality game here from y'all.
Let it be the quality of the puzzles themselves, to the visuals, audio etc. Props to Prox as well.
My only issue was that I didn't think the keypad itself was supposed to be part of the overall sequence. Everything else was hinted at pretty well.
Wow thats a cool Game dude you have done good work on this game
Either I'm a vampire or this mirror is broken
it's in the secret lore that the player is a vampire
I absolutely loved this one! The vibes and atmosphere are very mysterious, and I loved the concept of the game. Probably one of my favourite games of this jam!
this is the only game that ive actually given a five-star rating in all categories
if you're reading the comments then you should go play it first :D
SPOILERS
--------------------------------------
i spent so much time thinking the gambling part came fourth because of the 'go forth' clue, but i'm glad the game just decided im too stupid and gave me the answer eventually anyway 😭Killer vibes, loved the aesthetic and the music was such a jam - it would've been easy to spin this a more horror direction but I'm glad you went with the frantic funky beat instead. I solved all the puzzles and got all the symbols lit up but couldn't figure out how to end it. Great job!
Thanks for playing! The game didn't end because theres a final puzzle you've yet to find or solve.
Yeah, I figured as much but could not work out what the puzzle actually was that I was meant to be solving. You guys did a great job of evoking the escape room style, and I like being stumped on a puzzle but it’s never quite as satisfying when I’m stumped on whether or not there’s a puzzle to solve haha. If I had to guess,
Possible Spoilers
do I need to solve the puzzles in order, from left to right?But don’t let that detract from the fact that I really liked this game overall.
how do you do that dropdown spoiler thing? Lol, that’s not the solution but you’re on the right track! If you wanna give it another try, keep an eye out for any weird things / weird sounds in the office!
It's actually a massive pain in the but and took me a while to figure out haha. You gotta enable markdown inputs in your itch settings, then use the details tag like so:
<details>
<summary>Visible text goes here</summary>
Put your spoiler text in here
</details>
I will definitely come back and give it another shot later, but there was already so many weird things and sounds happening in the office that were hints for the puzzles I'd already solved so it was hard to tell what was pertinent information.
The person peering through the window was especially creepy haha
Amazing visuals and sounds!
Genuinely fantastic! The only thing that frustrated me was a little bit of over-hinting. I had just figured out how to do all the puzzles, and was excited to go back over the hints to figure out the order, so I looped, woke up, and... the correct order was on the board. Mildly disappointing, but it was still fun trying to get everything done in time. Great tuning on the loop timer, not too long, not too short.
Stylistically wonderful, and seemingly entirely functional! I don't think I encountered any major technical issues. Great Job
-GH
It's really hard to balance this sort of stuff, ideally we should've probably put a dialogue option to ask the player if they want the solution
Cool loop escape room game. Love the way it looks, very inviting and intriguing.
Great Job!
Super fun game! All the puzzles are well designed, the hints for solutions are integrated really well into the surroundings. I wasn't a big fan of the final "sequence" puzzle (mostly because of the betting hint, i felt like "the way" should be referring to something else, but its not a big deal since every other puzzle in the game has been awesome).
The visual style is impeccable, though my PC was struggling to run the game at a consistent framerate. The voice acting, the background music, and the sound design is all really really good! And even though the ending twist was kind of obvious from the start, it's still an okay timeloop story. One of the best games this jam (that i've seen so far), Great job!
Oh, also, it'd be nice if there was a way to manually restart, instead of having to wait out the timer.
Thanks for the feedback and thanks for playing!
This game is amazing! The only frustrating bit for me was for the life of me don't understand what to do with the mirror (solved the rest)
Hint: Look at it veerrrryyyy closely. The solution is more obvious than whatever you're thinking
EDIT: got it
is it correct that it doesn't end? They all highlight and nothing happens
Keep playing! Theres a final puzzle, make sure you talk to the phone guy regularly and keep an eye out for anything weird!
PEEEEEAAAAKKKKK this game is so fuckin good
What an incredible game ! This feels like a real escape room
Very well made, i liked the visuals and how game rewinds like a movie when you fail. Best game i've played so far