#screamortality

[plasterbrain]

HIKEBACK

HIKEBACK is a short and sweet meta visual novel loosely based on that Aesop fable, "The Scorpion and the Frog." It's a snackable SCREAMORTALITY jam entry with a fully custom GUI and a rad-as-fuck music track. I'd recommend it if you're into games like The Room Syndrome that deal with multiple playthroughs as a plot point.

The dev has written a walkthrough for the endings as well as an extremely thorough content warning list, in case you're someone who seeks out horror games while dancing around specific horror-related triggers. Live your best life.

Some other notes:

There's no rollback for most of the game because it's story mechanic. When you can roll back, it's triggered by pressing the rollback text on screen -- not the scroll wheel!

As of 4/18/21, an error screen shows up the first time you try to use the skip function (tab key), but you can press ignore and it’ll work just fine!

(You can check out all my mini freeware reviews on my tumblr with #underthebed.)