It is a rainy night in the Spring of 2005. Lily is left home alone after her Papa put her to bed. She is awoken by a cry for help outside her window. It is coming from the well. Help Lily gather rope to go down the well and save the poor soul trapped down there.
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there's something about horror games made in rpg maker that just scratch this itch lol. I love seeing devs get creative with the engine and this game has great atmosphere and build up. I didn't get to 100% it before I saw the true ending and the game doesn't let you go back once you finish it, so I'll probably replay this at some point. I will add that I think the "reveal" of the game was somewhat...underwhelming? and this may be because I didn't 100% the game and wasn't able to see everything, so if I replay this again I might change my mind on that. but overall this game was really good and I'm excited to see what else the dev makes (side note--I checked the dev's website and lily's well apparently only took three months to make, two if you exclude a hiatus they took in october?? which is wicked fast and I'd love to be able to work at that speed lmao)
If you like Mad Father, you'll definitely love Lily's Well. Honestly for a free game, this is amazing. storytelling and visual wise alike!! So long as you don't mind repetitiveness of it, it's really enjoyable!!! PLUS ALL HER OUTFITS ARE SO CUTIE!!!
Achei a historia do jogo um pouco perturbadora e até um pouco entediante por ficar se repetindo diversas vezes. Mas no geral é um jogo bem legal.
Was very surprised this was free, the story has some great twists and Ice has a very unique artstyle.
This review contains spoilers
The review will contain full spoilers for the true ending of the game as well as mentions of child abuse/death and gore.
I was not expecting Lily's Well to be as amazing as it is. A free little MS-DOS horror game I can kill some time with? Sure, why the hell not?
The style is amateurish in a charming way, wearing its indie roots on its sleeve with art reminiscent of adolescent Deviantart pages and anime art scribbles in margins by bored teenagers. It adds to the experience a lot, giving the game a youthful energy. Which fits, since the player character is only 9, and childhood plays an important part in the story's themes.
The atmosphere is tense while not being overbearing, calling to mind oddly brutal games from the PC-98 and classic RPG maker horror. It really reminds me of what it actually felt like to wander around alone as a child, doing things you've been told not to and touching things you know you shouldn't. When the music stopped, my heart wanted to jump out of my chest. The gore, while generally sparse, is used to great effect, really hammering in how dire things are and the consequences for getting things wrong. They also serve to further your sympathy for Lily. Watching her body fall to pieces at the bottom of the well or cry for help with broke bones knowing it was by your hand makes me feel this strange sense of horror and sadness not many games really pull out of me.
There are a few flaws holding it back. Namely that while hunting for the endings can feel rewarding, it's extremely tedious to collect the rope over and over. A manual saving system would avoid this entirely, and you could still keep the overall attempts and endings in tact as well. It also had quite a few technical issues, between lag and a few crashes, it made it more difficult to play and stay immersed. This I'm willing to blame on my old potato of a laptop, but it's worth noting games like Faith and Dead Plate ran very smoothly.
With all of that out of the way, I'd like to touch on the games biggest strength, that being its story.
Lily's Well, more than anything, is about surviving abuse. Lily's father is willing to let her die over and over and over (in my playthough, 27 times) in sometimes extremely brutal ways or even by his own hands. And all to stop her from growing into a person he doesn't want her to be or from doing things he doesn't agree with. Learning things he doesn't want her to know, having the knowledge to escape him.
Yet, Lily persists. No matter how many times she dies, or how much it hurts, or how much it scares her. She wants to save the girl in the well, herself. And in the end, the way she does it is not by hurting or killing herself, but by calling for help. Reaching out to someone who knows how to keep her safe. The original Lily. The girl her father didn't want her to be, the one who survived. They embrace each other in front of the burning remains of their childhood home, and the home of every single one before them.
Lily heals her inner child, physically and emotionally, and breaks this endless cycle of torture. The young Lily sobs, she still loves her father, she even begged him with a gun to her head to love her back. But deep down she knows that the pain of mourning her abuser is better for her than forcing herself to continue to let him torment her.
Lily's Well is a chilling horror masterpiece about self love in its truest form, and I think everyone who needs a story like this deserves to play it.
I was not expecting Lily's Well to be as amazing as it is. A free little MS-DOS horror game I can kill some time with? Sure, why the hell not?
The style is amateurish in a charming way, wearing its indie roots on its sleeve with art reminiscent of adolescent Deviantart pages and anime art scribbles in margins by bored teenagers. It adds to the experience a lot, giving the game a youthful energy. Which fits, since the player character is only 9, and childhood plays an important part in the story's themes.
The atmosphere is tense while not being overbearing, calling to mind oddly brutal games from the PC-98 and classic RPG maker horror. It really reminds me of what it actually felt like to wander around alone as a child, doing things you've been told not to and touching things you know you shouldn't. When the music stopped, my heart wanted to jump out of my chest. The gore, while generally sparse, is used to great effect, really hammering in how dire things are and the consequences for getting things wrong. They also serve to further your sympathy for Lily. Watching her body fall to pieces at the bottom of the well or cry for help with broke bones knowing it was by your hand makes me feel this strange sense of horror and sadness not many games really pull out of me.
There are a few flaws holding it back. Namely that while hunting for the endings can feel rewarding, it's extremely tedious to collect the rope over and over. A manual saving system would avoid this entirely, and you could still keep the overall attempts and endings in tact as well. It also had quite a few technical issues, between lag and a few crashes, it made it more difficult to play and stay immersed. This I'm willing to blame on my old potato of a laptop, but it's worth noting games like Faith and Dead Plate ran very smoothly.
With all of that out of the way, I'd like to touch on the games biggest strength, that being its story.
Lily's Well, more than anything, is about surviving abuse. Lily's father is willing to let her die over and over and over (in my playthough, 27 times) in sometimes extremely brutal ways or even by his own hands. And all to stop her from growing into a person he doesn't want her to be or from doing things he doesn't agree with. Learning things he doesn't want her to know, having the knowledge to escape him.
Yet, Lily persists. No matter how many times she dies, or how much it hurts, or how much it scares her. She wants to save the girl in the well, herself. And in the end, the way she does it is not by hurting or killing herself, but by calling for help. Reaching out to someone who knows how to keep her safe. The original Lily. The girl her father didn't want her to be, the one who survived. They embrace each other in front of the burning remains of their childhood home, and the home of every single one before them.
Lily heals her inner child, physically and emotionally, and breaks this endless cycle of torture. The young Lily sobs, she still loves her father, she even begged him with a gun to her head to love her back. But deep down she knows that the pain of mourning her abuser is better for her than forcing herself to continue to let him torment her.
Lily's Well is a chilling horror masterpiece about self love in its truest form, and I think everyone who needs a story like this deserves to play it.
shock bait com uma historia muito fraca