Hello! This is my first post after trying to find out how the site works 
I hope I chose the right tag, on tablet everything seems so confusing… But it’s about time that I join the forum site after years of reading all kinds of stories from this beautiful site and no one to share thoughts with. Lately one story captivated me that I just have to ask what others have experienced, since there aren’t any discussions of paths or anything like that at the moment… so might as well start with this one 
As the title says, it’s about one of the newer games from Hosted games! This post will be probably filled with spoilers, so please go experience it on your own first (if you care about spoilers and/or want a fresh experience first). With that out of the way…
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My first impression was great! It’s one of those stories where the way the author wrote it (grammar, expressions, descriptions of surroundings,…) instantly resonates with you and you can keep reading it. On my first playthrough I even felt dread and fear as the story progressed and even spared quick glances at my door and window 
But after trying out some of the endings, the athmosphere… kinda fizzled out? For context I chose being a gardener and got my sarcasm and recklessnes up to 70, the rational to 65 and tried to get the friendship of the others as high as possible (but without romantic options).
One thing that I noticed is that the sanity keeps going down and it only can go up just in the beginning, when you have to choose who to have your room closest with, (I chose Luna because she said she had a view on the garden and well… seemed fitting for a gardener too ), and she comforts you from the nightmare. Or… strangely when you choose to rest on the bed in one of the randomised events when you choose to investigate instead of sleeping (sorry Julia!) That’s about all I could find and in the end it all goes back to 40% in the next chapters, but strangely never enough to go to 0% before the last chapter? Is that possible/ have you found out an extra ending for when that occurs? Also certain events where the character is described as to have been damaged (spider bite, falling, hitting head, dashing straight at a wall, jumping in thorn filled bushes, hitting the strange rose metal bar) never actually decrease health? Only the painting at the beginning did. Please do comment if that is purpouseful
So… where did the “fizzle out of the atmosphere” kick in? When I read that damned ending “so well… after going to different psychologists you still had trauma from the events at the mansion and for the first time in months you slept well, oh wait no, you still exhausted. Welp I guess cope with it.” four times already! They come in some slight variations, but that’s about all the endings I got. Even in the earliest chapter when you choose to go into the forest deeper, that damn ending pops up! And it doesn’t even make sense, since you basically died, no? Or at the very least spirited away. Yet it doesn’t mention any of your friends worried asking where you got, or any mention of your friends at all OR even a mention of you not wanting to think about the forest (if your character really survived that)? And any option of you leaving the house, gets you basically the same answer either you sleeping for the first time in months and feeling exhausted alone or you sleeping for the first time in months and a text from a friend pops up saying “yo, same here. Anyways, bye”.
And on this note, the one different ending that I DID get, basically never mentions your friends either? I’m talking about the ending where in the last chapter after rescuing your friends you want to stay behind in the mansion. And the (probably the woman from the diary) faceless monster thing turns you into a painting á la Harry Potter style. So huh??? If the paintings seem to have been real people, why did they look at me maliciously??? Bi-h you should be grateful that we were trying to solve the mystery Also on that note there is no mention of your friends either?? Not a single regret of leaving me behind? Not a single attempt at burning the damn mansion down after me never coming back?? And it seems that it doesn’t even matter how high or low your friendship seems to be, they always react the same.
Be real. Is the gardener too dumb to actually solve anything? I always wondered why his creativity is just at 10% when the job actually gets pretty creative and artistic tending to the plants, etc. Anyways, that’s beside the point. I tried to get 2 stats to the highest, since that seems to be the strategy on most games to get through the success checks. Getting the fitness and perception to 80%, but I never really got the impression of them doing anything? All the time when I tried to move away or get through the surreal power I thought fitness would do anything against (maybe standing for willpower too), I basically failed (or well, became controlled by those forces). It really should be standard to explain what all of the stats mean in the context of the game, bc it can get really confusing especially when you don’t have access to the code and see what checks are being tested…
That’s about all the playtrhough I got. Please do share your experience too! Do you agree with some points? Do you see differently? What kinds of endings do there exist too? What archievements are there? I only got fifteen out of twenty-six possible archievments those being:
- Chapter1,2,3,4 survivor
- Letter from a dead guy, home sweet castle
- Hungry eyes, what a beech!, Who’s driving? On the radio
- Curiosity killed the cat
- Maybe next time ?
- Bye for now
- Just in time
- One of them now
Now, after my rant you might think I hate the story but it was pretty enjoyable at the beginning! And while the horror kinda faded and I got increasingly frustrated that they won’t do certain actions as expected, it’s just me getting passionate about a new favourite of mine [/details]
I really respect all the authors putting their stories as interactive games and thank you deeply for sharing them with us! 
As I understand it’s pretty niche and that not many people are aware of.
For me personally as the years went by, I increasingly lost the time to actually go through every path and finding out every little secret, as it takes a lot of energy to get through the stories, so that’s why I opened this account to try to find out all of the paths and archievements together with ya’all, as some of you might have the same problem too 
I also can’t sadly access the code to see all paths, as I read from my phone and the hosted games/choice of games apps and if the game doesn’t include a discord, I may never find out all the paths. (Which is not a critique to say to make less paths for one time readers! Not at all! The paths and little conversations that differ based on your choices IS what makes such a interactive book ).
Anyways thank you for reading and feel free to share any thoughts!
Hope you enjoy the game!
