Secrets Of Sundown

The story for this is soooo interesting. Excited to see the next episode. Had some interesting bug encounters I talk about at the end of this video. 

Game has potential, but it's riddled with soft locking bugs that require a checkpoint restart. Also, when interacting with Robert after he fixed my car, I was met with this dialogue, what the hell is this? "Emporium of Vrykolas"? This was a major bug, as even restarting at a checkpoint did not remove it from the screen, and it's really killing my motivation to continue. I also highly recommend learning some optimization, as 6.3gb for what this game actually contained is a bit on the wild side

I had such high expectations when going into this game. From the screenshots and the title screen it looked really promising. But MY GOD it was such a let down. And an unfortunate one at that. I love the idea and story behind it but it could've been executed so much better. The whole game was riddled with bugs. Yes they were minor ones but they still broke what little immersion had for the game. Another thing is that its just really clunky. I was stuck on the first bit for like 10 minutes because I didn't know how to put down those damned boxes. And even before that I had to restart the game because it decided to soft lock. I really hope for the second game you make it actually playable because the story is really nice and I'm interested into what will happen next but the gameplay was just terrible

Secrets of Sundown is an intriguing and eerie game with tremendous potential, but it falls short due to several bugs and glitches that disrupt the experience. While the controls feel a bit clunky at times, the developer has done an impressive job creating a detailed car mechanic system, especially for an indie game.

I sincerely hope to see updates in the future, as with some additional polish and refinement, this game could truly shine. Please consider this feedback as constructive advice and an invitation to explore areas of improvement—many of which I discuss in my video.

Despite its flaws, I had a lot of fun playing Secrets of Sundown and am excited to see more from the developer in the future. Keep up the great work!

But...

I encountered a few soft lock bugs that eventually prevented me progressing further in the game. This seemed to happen in the supermarket on two occasions when I would speak to NPCs and the dialogue channel would freeze me in place. The only thing I could do was to boot out of the game itself and start again. I did this twice on my playthrough, but didn't have the energy to try for a third time. Would love to see this episode through to the end, but would also like to talk to NPCs without the risk of being frozen.

A few other notes:

- Bringing the boxes into the house, the living room would be considered downstairs, no? There was some trial and error with throwing boxes into the rooms. Perhaps have 'ghost placeholders' for players to know where they are placing the boxes. Maybe one for each room, or just generally having them in one place and highlighting to the player. The room upstairs for me seemed like a spare room, not the main living room.

- I loved the interaction with the NPCs - they all gave a little morsel of what was going on in the town. Would have liked to see more of their characters before heading off to the supermarket. Perhaps a few more interactions with the friend that brought us to to this place to immerse us into the flow of things.

- Surely there's going to be a love interest side quest with Suzie?

Otherwise, a great job - will look forward to playing this again and getting to end once the supermarket issues are fixed!

It's hard to believe that such a cool and interactive game was made by a solo dev. Though the elements of horror, stalking, and occult were super present, I had equal fun just doing my tasks- talking to all the neighbors, crashing my car into everyone else's, my boy hit a backflip, grocery shopping for my lasagna...It all felt cool and fun and very well made. There were a couple times where bugs had me reset the sequence, but I'd say this game is well worth it and I hope you continue to develop it. 

I play your game (and a couple others) and leave more in depth feedback in my video below. You can also vote for your game on my channels community page to advance in my bracket for Best Indie Horror of January. I'll be 3D printing a scene or monster from the winners game and sending it to the game dev!

I will be playing this live tonight 1/18 around 530-6 PM EST.

Does your game have translation to Portuguese? If not, I'm interested to help.

So far this is a pretty solid series! I did encounter numerous bugs while playing this but overall, loving the story so far, and besides the bugs, this was a treat to play, love the visuals. Made a video on it.

Nice this was ok game not bad at all but when I first play through I check in store the bathroom the game went to black screen I couldn't move and load the save the second play through was I finish the shopping list and went to the car but the shopping list didn't disappear, so there some that need to be fixing but also the game was good anyway well done keep it up!