commonweal

It's a dark, cold, but beautiful world.
I spent some time with people I didn't know and didn't chat with. It was a very strange experience.
It was fun, meow~!

This game is seriously amazing! One thing that totally stands out is how it doesn't even have any dialogue, but somehow that just makes it even more immersive and special. I hope you are ok with this?

Firends

Noice

mfw it turns out the game is online (i think??)

silent friendship circles are the best

Brilliant game play, mysterious and atmospheric - definitely worth donating for too! Please make more!!

server error makes me very sadge :( 
should add active player tracker and ping and tps if possible ❤️

also let us jump into the funny pit of fire pretty please

dude its so cool that this is multiplayer, I realized it when I spammed left and right and they did it back

amazing experience i loved it

It's an instant, ephemeral Internet utopia that showcases simple game mechanics and the humanity of people working together to keep each other warm. Thank you for creating such a work！！

I think I got all the rocks and found the pyre.  It was okay, but I'd like it more if it was more challenging/longer.

This game has so so potential, at the moment it is truly something special. Please keep developing for it, and no matter what keep the atmosphere.

I'm actually floored at what this game has to offer. The other comment is right, this game has so much more than it seems and it's shocking and one thing threw me so off guard and shocked me so much that I only was able to find by sheer chance. Spoilers below.

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I launched the game a few hours ago and opened it again around 9-ish PM PST on 4/21/24 and then running into another player walking around and very clearly separate from me has to be one of the biggest surprises and most surreal experiences. There is a lot to be explored and a lot I have not seen but the fact that it's not actually a single player game shocked me after playing it alone for a few minutes before trying it out again due to seeing the comment below this about how the game is deceptive (and I did not read their spoilers). It's such an insane idea and I definitely have to try this with friends later, just seeing some tiny little guy do movement separate from me in a seemingly empty world of a demo by a developer that well know is mindboggling. I don't think most people will get that experience playing this game because of the sheer low chance that somebody else is playing at the same time, or the fact that if it blows up in popularity then everybody will know the gimmick already. But oh my god, was it fun to just aimlessly and silently explore an area with a tiny separate person from myself.

And of course, glad to see you making more games and projects as always, I've been a fan for years due to One Chance. This is really cool and I'm looking forwards to more and exploring it more myself as well.

Don't get me wrong, this is a simple demo but there is a deceptive amount of stuff going on with this little game that the devs haven't telegraphed at all. Half the fun was finding this stuff out, so I'm reluctant to say more.

SPOILERS(?) BELOW

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For a start it's fully a multiplayer game. I'm not sure if that is mentioned anywhere?? It took me a few minutes to find out I was sharing the game space with a handful of other players. There's extra mechanics around that which aren't explained but were fun to discover.

Honestly, wondering around the map with 3 other little guys who I couldn't communication with was surprisingly fun (shout out if your reading)

I don't want to be the "all indie games are about capitalism or depression" guy, but stumbling across the pyre with another player recontextualised the manual-labor game loop for me and was a bit of an epiphany. I don't know if there is an end screen but I wanted to stay listening to music with my mute friend forever instead of returning to lugging rocks, which is obviously the point.

If I was being extra pretentious, I'd say even the lack of available emoting/communication speaks to the inherent isolation and loneliness of a certain socio-economic system.