THE WELL IS NOT EMPTY

This game was a great experience I had fun hosting a discord watch to my friends as well and getting jump scared a few times definitely worth the buy and I would play it again!

No joke maybe the scariest horror game I’ve ever played… the sound design is spot on and the design is perfect for it, one of the best horror indie games I’ve played If you want to see for yourself cop it for sure or suss my play through on YouTube Shoutout to the developers 🫱🏻‍🫲🏿

Excellent, short horror game to give your evening to. Strong sound and visual design builds a haunting atmosphere. The linear progression is pretty predictable "go here to get this to open that door to go here to get this" loop, but it at a roughly two hour runtime doesn't outstay its welcome. The gameplay is a collection of setpieces, each getting more insane and legitimately terrifying to the end, where it goes completely off the rails in a good way. I died probably a dozen times in ways varying from "I am extremely stupid" to "I am extremely bad." I am yet unsure if I want to go back and collect the final achievements, not because doing so would be tedious, but because the game seriously does not get any less terrifying on a second attempt. I did not run into any game-breaking bugs in my playthrough, but there were a few visual and audio quirks here and there, such as an area's soundtrack continuing after you die and overlapping with the save room music, some hallucinatory enemies sort of glitching out during a particularly heart-palpitating level, and tutorial messages that reappear over and over (which might be an intentional result of playtesting but I found rather annoying). I would be remiss not to mention THE WELL IS NOT EMPTY seems to be heavily inspired by Lost In Vivo in visual and audio design as well as a few gameplay ideas. I will vouch for TWINE in that while it doesn't completely shake the shadow of Vivo off, it does set itself apart by bringing a lot of new ideas to the table. I look forward to future work from tweakEra, which hopefully will put on display more new burgeoning ideas.