You're the Drudge Now, Dog!
This is meant to be terrible and impossible to figure without the walkthrough. You were warned. Also there are senseless instadeaths and no UNDO.
Thus, I included the debug binary, so you can quickly see the way through with TEST ALL. And a walkthrough, if (and I don't blame you) it's too much to stomach.
Content warning for abusive narrator and some profanity.
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I can't figure out how to leave my apartment. :(
It might be better that way. I meant this game to be really, really bad for the bad game jam. Then I felt guilty publishing it. TEST ALL with the ulx file is probably a better option, to see how and why it is bad without wasting too much time.
I guess one of the points of it being so hard was, you needed mind-reading to do it, so it's in the walkthrough.
The idea is that you need to examine the bed, the fridge and the couch 6 times, but you need to do them in A-B-C, A-C-B, B-C-A, B-A-C and C-A-B and C-B-A order.
Now it's out of my system I'd like to go back to writing stuff that might actually be good.
Dear god. Lol. OK, I kind of like this as some sort of existential hell project. But there's no way in (said) hell that I'd have known how to solve in that particular order. I mean. Is that pattern some sort of gaming button pattern thing that true game nerds would get? Who would get this???
Again, the humor of it all is kind of sending me, as a fan of absurdist work (and well, your other games), but clearly, this seems like it was very heady/experimental, beyond the average person's understanding. Which is fine, I'm just going to politely side step and await the next project. ;)
brutal
Thanks ... hope you didn't spend too long on it.
BTW, reading your comments, I was led to a recreation of Jon Bois's Myst/Barry Bonds mockup. I didn't know it existed so I was glad to play through it.
i spent what felt like a good amount of time trying to beat it on my own before i noticed you had a walkthrough (love a game that has a text walkthrough) and i started following it, only to at some point scroll all the way down and be met dumbfounded by that last line
also yea love that piece
Haha. Ouch. I intended it to be bad, but I didn't expect anyone outside the immediate community to look into it.
I don't know if you're on intfiction.org or aware of ParserComp? But if you're not aware of ParserComp, they can use all the votes they can get. I didn't enter this year, but I'm voting in it. I've already played a few legitimately good games, and maybe you'll find one you enjoy, too. I hope so -- you've earned it after YTDND!
https://itch.io/jam/parsercomp-2025/entries