This game, like the Catto Boi series, isn't a good successor to Imscared. It takes the revolutionary and melancholic way Imscared paints society and depression, distorting it into a creepypasta cringefest with no depth other than flashes of its backstory.

if Imscared was the Sweet Sweetbacks Badass Song of ergodic gaming, Andys Apple Farm is the Super Fly and Foxy Brown of the genre, in that Imscared was complex in its use of technological glitches and melancholy, and Andys Apple Farm seems hackneyed, cynical and for the lack of a better word, cringe, placing AAF into the rigid stereotypes of a cute-turned scary free itch.io game made with no creativity or originality.

i'm sorry to have let you go
now my corridors are haunted
by the spectres of your personality
as i travel within the would be future
what could've been
and
what was

you became distant
we used to wander together
making our own distant worlds
but you became distant
you started to act weird
aggressive
you strangled all past versions
of yourself in favor for
a mutated form.

i had to.
i had to get rid of you
for you would've infected my life otherwise.

at what cost?

now it's cold.
now it's dark.
you in your many forms
torment me.
i will never be who i used to be.
i remain a shadow.
a spectre.
a hauntological being.

imscared.

short proper review:

loneliness as malware. mark fisher's writings on depression manifesting into game form. a damning representation of mental health after a breakup or capitalism mutating into cold and emotionless professionalism in the video game industry. i don't know which.

this is one of those games that outshines all games that it influenced tbh. the people who are trying to make some "creepy 4th wall break creepypasta spookines!!" type shit out of it really don't get the point of imscared.

am i the only one who thinks this is like cruelty squad but with all of its humor removed n placed within the context of a indie furry game about roman space wolves?

but ye, this actually moved me. the characters were fascinating and weren't onesided, the art was pretty gorgeous, and i can tell that the developers didn't set out to be some calarts grift.

wolven nick mullen: hey what about this amicus voice hey i'm anti-uplift amicus, i hate the khemians. also i'm a tail-raiser