What do I need to do in this game ?

[Dam]

I just downloaded the demo. I encountered a giant hand trying to grab me, I walked back, the hand missed me and stopped moving. So I tried to reach it and i got killed (i guess).
Since then, I walk around and nothing happens anymore. Sometime there is a bell that rings, but that's it.
What is the purpose of this game ? Do I need to interact with something ? What do I need to do ? I feel a bit lost.

Thanks for you help :)

[HYPERED1]

When you start the game the first time you walk through the pub everything is normal then after that there will things out of place (objects have moved, changed colour or sometimes something like the giant hand will appear) when you notice something that's different you need to turn back and leave through the door you usually enter from. This will register a spotted anomaly.
Each time to successfully complete a loop a bell is added to the wall up to ten - once you've reached ten you've completed the first part of the game.

[Dam]

Oh ok I get it ! Thank you very much :)

[Acrylic_Pixel]

Originally posted by Dam:

Oh ok I get it ! Thank you very much :)

There are instructions just below the portrait when you start the game which explains how the game is played.

[Ramen Llama]

Originally posted by Acrylic_Pixel:

Originally posted by Dam:

Oh ok I get it ! Thank you very much :)

There are instructions just below the portrait when you start the game which explains how the game is played.

As a first time player of an "anomaly game", those instructions didn't really make it clear to me what the goal actually is, but after some time it clicked. I bought the game and hopped in blind but got a bit confused. The ceiling squashed down on me as I was leaving the loop and I just got stuck there lol. Had to reset bc nothing happened. Two bells so far.

[Acrylic_Pixel]

Thanks. We will look into that.

[Oscar the Ham Bandit]

Originally posted by Ramen Llama:

Originally posted by Acrylic_Pixel:

There are instructions just below the portrait when you start the game which explains how the game is played.

As a first time player of an "anomaly game", those instructions didn't really make it clear to me what the goal actually is, but after some time it clicked. I bought the game and hopped in blind but got a bit confused. The ceiling squashed down on me as I was leaving the loop and I just got stuck there lol. Had to reset bc nothing happened. Two bells so far.

Just ran into this same bummer on my 9th bell... ceiling falling, I was able to get back into the lavatory hall, but it came down the rest of the way, I 'clipped' through it, then was stuck in a tiny section of hallway I couldn't leave. Restarting was the only way to fix it.

[Acrylic_Pixel]

I've just fixed the ceiling issue on the latest update 2.1.7

[jastic]

Originally posted by Acrylic_Pixel:

I've just fixed the ceiling issue on the latest update 2.1.7

Had the same problem, had to exit game, I was a bit quicker in sprinting the next time it happened. Have finished by exiting through the main door and apart from that problem the game performance was perfect with no problems at all.

[Acrylic_Pixel]

Originally posted by jastic:

Originally posted by Acrylic_Pixel:

I've just fixed the ceiling issue on the latest update 2.1.7

Had the same problem, had to exit game, I was a bit quicker in sprinting the next time it happened. Have finished by exiting through the main door and apart from that problem the game performance was perfect with no problems at all.

What version are you on?

[jastic]

Originally posted by Acrylic_Pixel:

Originally posted by jastic:

Had the same problem, had to exit game, I was a bit quicker in sprinting the next time it happened. Have finished by exiting through the main door and apart from that problem the game performance was perfect with no problems at all.

What version are you on?

Version 2.1.7,, just to add, that time when my character was trapped beneath the ceiling was some weeks ago.

[Dam]

Originally posted by Acrylic_Pixel:

Originally posted by Dam:

Oh ok I get it ! Thank you very much :)

There are instructions just below the portrait when you start the game which explains how the game is played.

I finally found the time to play the demo with my SO (who has a MUCH better sense of observation than I) knowing now how it works thanks to the responses above, and we had a good time :)

As @Oscar the Ham Bandit said, the principle of the "anomaly game" (although very simple) didn't clicked the first time.

[Fijut]

you get stuck in a boring loop pretty early on because it implies if anything is different you go back the way you came...

so the bell appearing on the wall ringing is something different - so you go back and restart the loop.

Somehow I got it to 2 bells - so that is another change, surely I have to go back the way I came? Or you ignore this and go through?

very misleading....

[Hamakei]

Originally posted by Fijut:

you get stuck in a boring loop pretty early on because it implies if anything is different you go back the way you came...

so the bell appearing on the wall ringing is something different - so you go back and restart the loop.

Somehow I got it to 2 bells - so that is another change, surely I have to go back the way I came? Or you ignore this and go through?

very misleading....

The corridor is not considered part of the area you have to observe. It's typical in these games that the linking corridor is a "safe space" and is used to keep track of how far you've progressed - floor number, carriage number, bell count in this case.