Wooden Hearts

Man, this was so good. I was binging short indie horror games yesterday, and this one stuck with me the most. I LOVED the story and creativity of this game, and I really hope you do more with it in the future. I'd definitely pay for a longer version of this in a heartbeat. Thanks for a very memorable 15 minutes <3

I am SO glad people have been posting playthroughs in the comments! I attempted to stream this but had to stop because I'm a wimp and got too freaked out the first time the puppet comes after you, but I'm really really intrigued by the storyline and I want so badly to know how the whole thing wraps up. One thing I really loved was the environment design. Everything about that house was just left of what a real house would look like (furniture placement, the weirdly steep stairs, etc), and it all worked well to create a sense that Something Is Wrong. Very very cool!

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-Made a Video.

-The Game: 00:06 (The 1st Game)

played this game a few weeks ago and had my fun with it. wooden puppets are quite scary 

That. Was. AWESOME! Kept me on my toes, and the story behind it all was great! Thank you very much for that little gem :) Here's my playthrough (Polish language) Cheers!

Started out just another average horror short, but then the dolls. Holy hell, that was creepy. I kept expecting them to start moving, had me feeling more than a little nervous walking through them. Good job.

Nice horror

So I streamed this tonight, and it has some really good ideas in it. It's definitely rough, but there were a lot of really interesting moments.

Things I liked:

- The use of the blue light coming off the lantern as a way to mask some frankly bland textures and make the environment look eerie and interesting. I absolutely love creative solutions to budget/time constraints that also work in the favor of what you're trying to achieve.

- The lack of an ambient soundtrack, using the silence as a tool to make smaller sounds stand out.

- The concept of a man trapping the souls of children into wooden dolls is inherently creepy, I feel like this idea could be explored and expanded upon.

- The fact that you never actually see a doll move until the end. Yet you resisted the urge to do the SCP173/Slenderman/Weeping Angel thing where it only moves when you don't look at it. That idea is so overdone and I appreciate that it wasn't used here.

- The sequence at the end where you get grabbed and dragged to the table to be turned into doll, that was really well done. 

- I absolutely LOVED that you didn't have it play a really loud screeching sound at moments like the knife being thrown into the wall as an example (which was great btw). That kind of moment is creepy and startling enough without having to resort to a cheap loud screeching sound. 

Things I didn't like:

- I wasn't crazy about how on the nose the notes were, they spelled everything out way too blatantly. Some ambiguity can go a long way, you can give just enough to let the player put the pieces together without being like 'hey so here is word for word literally exactly what happened"

- The literal key hunt near the start where the key is pretty easy to miss. Key hunts are very overdone in horror games and I could have done without it. 

- Minor QA stuff like clipping, overlapping meshes/models/textures (the top of the railing on the stairs for example). 

- Some the proportions of the environments were kind of off. Like the rooms felt way too large, the stairs were very steep and wide, yet the hallways were narrow. It just didn't feel like the internal dimensions of an actual building and detracted a little from the atmosphere.

Overall I liked it and I think that you have a good eye for horror that could be honed further to make some really cool and interesting games. I hope you keep at it! 

Well done, the sounds creeped the hell out of me.

Enjoyed it immensely, had just the right about of scary

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The eerie sound of when that little DEMON GIRL is coming to get you really give me goosebumps. INSANELY GOOD SHORT HORROR GAME 

Hey there spectators and dev,

New and improved, Wooden Hearts 2.0 brings about a new sense of spine chilling gameplay.

I must say, this was an absolute joy and terror to play.  The beginning of the game makes it vastly different from its predecessor and provides a much needed atmosphere that I was hoping for in the first installment.

You scared the shit out out of me dev.  Thanks for showing all of us your work.

Have fun spectators . . . .

- L Squared

While not amazing, instead of going ahead and try to make your game groundbreaking by implementing advanced graphics or setting, story, etc., it's clear you did best on what you could do - everything feels super polished and show no signs of errors. Props to you for your efforts on this, looking forward to future works

I enjoyed playing the first version of the game, I enjoyed playing this one even more. Overall I liked the puzzles, the throwing knife jumpscare shit that made me jitter. The atmosphere was creepy and slightly eerie especially with the sound effects like the slamming doors, knocking and the soul breathing coming from the Puppets.

Rating : 4/5

This is a really good game! I like the sound and the jumpscares too. Great job for update this game to the point that it is good like this.

This was pretty cool. Lots to see but lots you couldn't see. After the knife throwing you never knew who was going to show up. Great sounds and atmosphere and all ran very smoothly. Atmosphere makes a good horror game and this has it. A very well done on this. Great work... :)

Amazing game dev had so much fun playing it :) i hope you enjoy my gameplay 

Thanks for your efforts Dev...Nice game and the puzzle were also good and I like the jumpscares + the ending was pretty good :D