The Curse We Made

Cozy little puzzle game with a good narrative thread throughout. Don't expect anything too challenging though.

Great fun. Interesting puzzles.

A lovely game with a very pleasing art style, both pretty and spooky, with gentle puzzles and a heartfelt story. My only complaint is that it was too short :) Good value for money though, and very impressive for the debut game for what looks like a lone developer, I'd like to see more from her!

This is a puzzle game with a dark twist. All of the puzzles make sense when you pay attention to the surroundings and the music is so lovely. It feels both peaceful and eerie at once, a wonderful experience.

Well done and congrats on your first game! I thoroughly enjoyed the game beginning to end!

I really enjoyed this game and wish it were longer. I am looking forward to the next one. Puzzles, art, story and music were all great. Thanks for the entertainment.

The Curse We Made is a perfect example of "bitter-sweet", being a gentle game with soft music and cartoon-style background ghosts, skulls, etc, but with a story underpinned by quiet sadness and regret. Each location (inn, bakery, church etc) in a cursed town contains a number of puzzles, and the thoughts of the owner about the tragedy that befell them all and their part in it. The game is really about bringing the colours of understanding and acceptance about what happened to each of the monochrome locations, rather than breaking the curse or changing the past. There are a range of puzzles - reassembling torn notes or objects, sorting things into a particular order, finding hidden objects, filling letters into a crossword grid etc, copying musical sequences - but none are particularly difficult, and there is always at least one clue nearby (or the puzzle's mechanics prevent errors e.g. not allowing the wrong label or letter to be placed). The comically cynical cat which meets you at each location tells you how many puzzles there are. Completing a set of puzzles leads to an achievement and also to a piece of the final puzzle. I really enjoyed the style and story of this game. It was short but I was happy with the value for money - and the pleasure - that it gave. My congratulations and thanks to the developer. My only suggestion concerns the letters written by the shop owners etc at each location - these were quite small on screen to read (at least for my aged eyes!), and I would have appreciated them being zoomed if clicked on.