(This game was originally made for Global Game Jam 2020, theme: Repair)

Enjoy your job as a handyworker in this seemingly calm, charming, short game.

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Controls:

  • WASD / Left Stick - Move
  • Spacebar / Gamepad A - Pickup/Repair
  • Z / Gamepad B - Drop/Cancel
  • (a mouse is required to navigate the main menus)

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Not suitable for those who are easily disturbed. Headphones recommended.

StatusReleased
PlatformsWindows, HTML5
Rating
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(86 total ratings)
AuthorAbyssal Instinct
Made withFL Studio, Unity, Aseprite
TagsCasual, Creepy, Cute, Horror, Pixel Art, Short, Top-Down
Average sessionA few minutes
LanguagesEnglish
InputsKeyboard, Mouse, Gamepad (any)
LinksGlobal Game Jam page

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pretty good... wish there was a racoon in it though... sighhhhh

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i forgot this was a horror game 

that was certainly a surprise

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Bro went into this thinking it was a horror game then got tricked into thinking it was in the wrong genre from the first 2 missions 

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Very cute art style, lovely little concep- OH GOD

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alright Imma need yall to know

I found this game on some random aggregator game site, because I teach ESL online for a friend of a friend of mine's family in Myanmar, because the kids have been out of school because of the pandemic/coup for more than a year. We play a lot of games to keep their daily English lessons fun, including lots of silly flash type games 

Yesterday my lesson was about tool vocab, so we played this game for a bit to practice using the words wrench, hammer and screwdriver. One of them, an 11 year old girl, is terrified of 'ghoshs' (bc she can't pronounce ghosts in English), and when she was streaming this game with me over zoom she joked it sounded like a 'ghosh game music' halfway through level 3.... I didn't play all the way till the end before picking the game for class, because it seemed pretty benign 

oops lol

played through till job 4 today though, great work guys, truly had me fooled. love it 

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my poor little heart

Oh nooo ^^' Thank you for playing! :D

don't get me wrong I had a lot of fun. but I did not expect that XD I am not a person who plays many horror games so I was defiantly spooked as I did not read any comments so I went in thinking it was a cute little repair game XD Boy was I wrong. great job

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oh man i was like what heck is that... my poor heart lol

Hope you heart is fine now hehe Thank you for playing! :D

its doing good xD 

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Oh my god i wasn't prepared. My heart was beating fast while i gripped my screwdriver in my hand as i ran from slender mans ripped cousin. 

Everybody run from slender man's cousin! Thank you for playing! :D

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nice relaxing game especialy at job 4 when it adds new mechanics love the cute style

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Thank you for playing! :D

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job 4 and i am out
nope nope nopeity nope

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Love it when game take's a turn!!!

Thank you for playinggg! :D And a what a handsome vtuber :D

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wow I thought the game was peaceful but the second i saw that thing I was shocked and just looked at it wow amazing

But it was peaceful! Hehe Thank you for playing!

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wow so scarry

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Awesome game and concept. I love the idea of taking something seemingly mundane (such as being a cute handy worker game), and turning it into a horror. Lovely art style and audio. Lots of surprises and brilliantly addictive. Throughly enjoyed this one!

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Enjoyable plythrough there! You have almost predicted everything haha. Thanks for playing! :D

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I didnt know this was a scary game until i saw that long thing and then i read the descripton and i see this Not suitable for those who are easily disturbed. and then i find out this is really a horror game and i thought nothing of it ;-; well ill keep playing

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it was a great for my sub milestone video!!

JAJAJ me diverti un monton. 

I didnt bother to read the description at first which said "Not suitable for those who are easily disturbed". Then found out this game is innocent look in front then sudden twist to dark scary.Love this kind of game. 

wait it does? oh... well ill continue playing then lol

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I know it kinda beats the point, but i wish there was a tag specifically for games that look something then twist into something else.

Can anyone recommend me another game like this?

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MILD SPOILERS FOR ALL OF THESE






  • Kitty kart 64
  • Miss inconspicuous maid cleaning co
  • room before the dark
  • berrywitched
  • veronicca's to do
  • hermit home designer
  • parsnip
  • pink
  • doki doki literature club
  • Baldi's basics (ikr)
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This was a 3 years ago comment but I'm still so happy you replied me. Thank you mate.

I used to play this game when it first came out and then I lost it and forgot the title. I re-found it last week. The computer image comes up, the screen goes dark, and the game never loads. I've tried many times on different days. Is this a problem on my end? Does anybody know how to fix this?

...the tags. I have to check the tags.

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im stuck on lvl 4

Its Kindah creepy

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What's the deal with the red dude

I'm new here and didn't realized I didn't read the tags so you got me really spooked!!! Good job!

This was so much fun!

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Good job!

 I still liked the game anyway, despite the demons. Great game. Me and the demons had a jolly good time playing it. It felt like Doki Doki Literature Club, as how it started out all cute-like, then it turned pretty dark. Great work!

When you be playing at two am in the dark and then in real life your door opens by itself and you realize the demons from the other horror games you played thirty minutes ago have followed you into real life.

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Why do so many games have to mentally scar me?

had a hell of a good time playing your game, many thanks!

heres a video i made playing it!

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does the game end at job 4? cause idk what to do when it says to run. like where do I run? really good game

I know this is a little late, but the game ends after completing job 4. In the top left it tells you what to repair. You basically have to do the jobs really fast. The monster doesn't move extremely quickly, so it's not too hard if you know where to go. Hope this helps!

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Super enjoyable game! From the friendly visuals down to the suspenseful gameplay, I really had fun with this one. I hope you get a chance to check out my gameplay :)

ah such a nice twist!! i loved it!! <3

What a good game ! The last level was so stressful when we have to repair the last thing. Very good !

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i almost got a hert attack... now this was unexpected

I got to play with nuts and tiny boxes. Worth every moment.

oh my god this was amazing and horrible.

Thanks! :D

I opened it cause it looked cute, while repairing the closet, i saw it and closed everything :) but i still liked it  

RIIGGGHHHHHTTTT??? The thing killed me, on the 4th job, the only reason I continued playing was because my little sister was watching.

Hahaha thank you for playing! The pressure from the little sister was so cute!

I love you and hate you all at the same time... man this was really well put together. Any plans to take it further?

Thank you for playing! Right now, we have no plans in taking it further as we decided that it has a good ending already and members are pre-occupied with work stuff ^^' But thanks for taking interest!

I won't ever make it to the ending 

Very well done... I really thought this was going to be a very basic game... You guys really did surprise me. Great job at being very original.

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