I would have recommended the game if it had been longer for the asking price. For 1.99, gamplay is about 5 minutes or less (I played about 40 minutes to find and report some bugs in the game). This could grow into something very unique. I'd actually recommend building on the game and seeing if you could get it bundled into a Dread X collection for larger reach to your audience. I will not ask for a refund of the game as I believe this game could have potential in the future.

a very extreme brief intercourse short retro 1980s text adventure experience

the unfortunate event of lacking fluid a-typical interpreter gave lacking inspiration

a brief 2 minute horror glimpse of ambient choice

find yourself Castle Adventure (1984) for a deeper and more LONG lasting play session

So I was interested in this game because I had played stories untold and absolutely loved that game. This game somewhat emulates it but does it very poorly. There are multiple quality of life features that are missing from this game along with the coding being broken.

I'm also frustrated as this game almost completely rips off Stories untold and basically uses the first chapter as the basis for the story. I find that very frustrating and with that the dev had some more creativity with their work and I wish that they had put in some more effort to update the game and make it into a more playable state.

I sadly cannot recommend this game and I really wish it was better because text adventure games can be so much fun.

Things that are missing that should have been added.
"Help" functionality
"quit game" functionality
correct orientation of the player when entering a room.
"skip text" functionality
"examine object" functionality

All of this would have been great for going a long way to build your world and have the player feel better about playing this game.

I cannot recommend this in its current state. You cannot get a list of usable commands by typing "help" or "list commands". Anyone who actually played these old games knows to do this to see what commands the game accepts. Without that, I could not progress beyond the room with the podium.

Also, there is no way to exit the Dear Nostalgia game. People may think that that is cute, but it is crap.

In its current state, your estimated game play time is 10 minutes, if you go back to the beginning to make sure you haven't missed anything obvious. I hope the devs will include the list of commands, so that we know the symantics of the commands they have offered us inside of that game-in-a-game.