This is an interesting, but very flawed game. The atmosphere, mood, and unsettling items are all good, and even the general gameplay loop is kind of addictive. But it suffers greatly from it being super unclear what you're supposed to do. If you just do what probably makes the most sense to do (just eating whatever you can get from the machine to stay above 0% hunger and thirst, or saving up a large amount of coins to hopefully get a special item) you'll likely just get stuck with nothing happening, until you eventually starve to death. What it seems you're actually supposed to do is focus on only eating certain types of food and drink, without eating any food/beverages outside that category, because that will set back your progress.

Even knowing this though, it's still way too had to actually make progress. I just played this game for over two hours, and even though I went in knowing something of how the game worked already, I still wasn't able to actually get any ending. The first time I tried drinking only liquids, then the second time I tried only eating bugs and rotten food. But in both runs, I eventually had to eat or drink things outside the category, or things that I wasn't sure were in the same category or not. As a result, nothing seemed to happen other that my character slowly wasting away. And each time I died, it was with multiple pages of items in my possession, that I was reluctant to eat or drink because they were not what I was focusing on. It's still not clear to me if eating food/drink of a different kind completely resets your points towards a different kind, or if you just lose some. Either way, at the end it was just taking far too long for anything to happen, with my last run being about an hour and a half.

I did try for one more quick run after that, hoping to try just eating apple seeds. Unfortunately, that time the game bugged out. When I returned to the alley after continuing after death, it put me in tutorial mode again. This had happened before once and was fine, but this time it happened again the time I went to the alley after that, except it was stuck on the part where it wanted me to eat the food I had purchased. But I had no food, and it wouldn't let me click on the vending machine to buy any, even after leaving and coming back, and quitting and continuing. I had to eventually give up with over a thousand yen in my possession.

I have a few other issues too. For one thing, there is a slur graffitied on the wall behind where your character begs, which is odd. I don't know if it's there for "realism" or as some kind of statement, but since this game's writing seems to have been somewhat awkwardly translated from another language, I kind of suspect the devs got graffiti graphic from somewhere and just couldn't read what it said. Whatever the reason, it's quite distracting once noticed, and feels out of place for the N word to be written out in English in an otherwise largely Japanese setting. The other issue is with the music in the begging section: it is unbelievably repetitive. Again, maybe it's meant to  have some meaning, about how mind-numbing and repetitive this girl's everyday life is. If so, I must say it's far too effective, as it gets unbearably grating after a short time. Even a slightly longer music loop would be better.

Still, even with many flaws, there's something very compelling about this game. I hope it improves from here.

On Android I am bit confused what the function of the numpad

From what I can see it for codes I think but there no enter button stopper or ender.

Like you type the sentence or number code and hit enter but it keeps going. You could practically put the whole bee movie script in there.

Why did save scumming get patched? Can you please allow the same loophole where the game saves when you press back to street and only then, let the count of specific transformation routes remain and eaten food gets put back into the inventory when the player quits before a save. Thank you.

I think there's a bug with the bowser verison of the game. In the tutorial, its telling me to press on the coin slot, but clicking on it does nothing, and I just die because I can't progress with the tutorial due to not being able to click on the coin slot at all. In addition, clicking on anything on the UI screen once I get to the "click on the coin slot" still does nothing, softlocking me on the spot. I don't know what else to say on it, but I can't continue the game when it softlocks on just the tutorial and the game keeps ticking down the fuel and water bars when I can't do anything on the softlocked screen.

I really like this game! The art I great and I really like these SCP inspired games.

Weird bug I've encountered in browser version--> the screen will turn black and unresponsive, requiring me to reload the page. Not sure if anyone else has had this problem.

Tip: Look at the number on the machine after you receive an item; some of them have a specific guaranteed drop number 

This game was something else...

I begged for coins

I mutated 

I survived

Maybe

I think some status changes to the transformations would be interesting. It would help convey something is changing about her and add more weirdness.

Healthy- Because apple seeds are so abundant perhaps healthy should be the easiest form to lose, receiving more money possibly being a reasonable trade off. Big pay out but harder to maintain.

Unhealthy- You get a chance of reviving unhealthy food with every selection from the vending machine. Non unhealthy food fills less hunger as if it’s not as satisfying and simulates struggling to diet without starving yourself.

Parasite- Alien insects show up in your inventory, as if they’re drawn to you.

Anomalous- Randomly gaining or losing hunger and thirst. Coins can change to different amounts.

Liquid- More drinks spawn but get thirstier.

I think a button that would pause the game and give us her thoughts would be neat, especially if there could be corresponding images to go along with some of them. Like she could comment on her current transformation and various aspects about it or something about whatever she ate last.

Could include some small tidbits like checking herself out in a puddle or her reflection in the vending machine or just looking at her body herself and any issues that would come with being the way she is.

Examples:

Healthy- Waving to people passing her by and feeling confident about her toned arms and stomach. Some kind of astral projection into some greater cosmic awareness.

Unhealthy- Clutching her stomach from the queasiness of adjusting to a bad diet and realizing just how much more of her there is as she does so. Struggling to just get up and how tiresome it is to move being so heavy with so little energy and stamina.

Parasite- Checking out her maggots and mutations. Showing a nest she built at her final stage.

Anomalous- Adjusting to accepting strange as the new normal, the world around her seeming more foreign.

Liquid- Seeing just how much of the black liquid is pooling around her.

Likewise, there should be comments from passerby’s about your current condition but to maintain the surrealness and leaving the player wondering who’s still giving her money the people walking by could still retain their same scornful attitude, as if what’s happened to you is equally as repulsive, shameful and inconvenient as being homeless. The healthy route probably being the exception.

Healthy:

At worst, people walking by will resent you for “wasting” your looks when you could be making something of yourself, but mostly people might not even assume you’re homeless at all, receiving compliments when they do. By the time you assend to a higher plain of health the people around you see you as an idol, giving you offerings like your presence compels them to idolize her.

The girl comments about feeling good about how she looks and how she feels. Even when she’s hungry she doesn’t seem to feel like it’s enough that she feels sick. Her outlook on her situation is more optimistic as she seems to be doing pretty well all things considered. When she’s ascended she has grown beyond mortal material needs.

When she receives something healthy she’ll comment on how good it will feel to eat it while unhealthy food will make her wince a little, like she’s thinking about her figure. She’ll especially be weary of gross and unusual stuff.

Unhealthy:

When it comes to other people they react like she doesn’t need money to buy food, that she’s clearly been eating plenty as is and could stand to starve a little. Some regular dialogue suggests people recognize her from before as they pass by so they could say they’re disappointed the money they gave her went to just fattening herself up, like she took advantage of people’s good will, or if they don’t recognize her they assume this is what she already looked like and say some fatphobic stuff about her, like wasting her money on food was how she got to be homeless. Also because she gets so sweaty they can smell it which repulses them. When she’s turning into a blob the dialogue could stay the same, as if how she looks then is no different that just being overweight.

In terms of herself she could have a sort of defeatist optimism about it, almost like the healthy route but more so like she’s resigned to letting herself go to survive. She’s certainly well fed so that’s got to count for something. Kinda feeling she’s left not wanting for food… except she is, almost like she feels guilty for even suggesting someone in her state should complain about eating to survive, like it’s ungrateful. She’ll also comment on what it’s like in her body, that it feels weird feeling so big and heavy in such a short time . Once she’s huge in phase two she comments more about it in an absurdist light. That she’s ridiculously heavy and large and she practically has to lumber herself around to move. Once she’s turning into a blob at phase three, four and five she starts to stop thinking about much other that how much it can fill her up, eventually devolving to simple minded thinking about wanting more and never not feeling hungry.

When it comes to plenty of unhealthy food, soda especially, she seems to treasure it like a delicacy and that she’s looking forward to trying it. So perhaps the first and second phase is your typical situation where someone is addicted to junk food, finding it hard to not have another or to choose something else. Her responses to food will basically be like trying to diet, she knows it’s better for her but she’s still thinking about how water doesn’t hit quite as herd as soda, or that she’s craving something more sugary when eating non sugary food. When it comes to moldy stuff, like she says about the moldy bread, it’s starting to become appetizing though she knows that’s kinda a bad thing, which could be carried over to the other non unhealthy foods like bugs. And again, the later three she’s becoming an eating machine that doesn’t care about taste or what it is. She just needs more.

Parasitic: 

People treat her like a leper during stage one and comment on the maggots. They’re basically glad she’s on the streets away from them and don’t want to get close to her and catch what she has. When she mutates she’s treated like an insect, wondering when pest control will take care of this thing already.

She feels sick and is miserable, mortified by the maggots in her, then once she’s huge mutates she’s aware she’s losing her humanity as voices in her head, parasites infesting her thoughts, are swaying her judgement. Then once she’s a full insect she thinks of it as having finally metamorphosed, as if her human form was a chrysalis.

In terms of food the more parasites she eats the more she’s compelled to eat more, thinking of benefiting a colony inside her and implying there’s some vague final goal to achieve (becoming a hive mother) which brings her despair. The voices will disway her from eating anything else as it will not benefit the colony.

Anomalous: 

For the first stage she realizes all these strange foreign things she’s been eating really are some kind of dimensional mix up, pondering if they came from somewhere where they’re normal or are just some kind of logic error in reality being churned out. As the stages progress she starts to talk oddly and think in ways that seem alien to us, like her mind is conforming to what would be normal in that foods dimension of origin.

People respond to it like she’s a freak but their words start to make less sense, eventually turning to gibberish, like she can’t understand their language anymore.

When she reacts to the anomalous food she starts to enjoy it more, and think about it like it makes sense dialogue about stuff that’s normal starts seeming alien to her, like that’s they’re the questionable thing.

Liquid:

Feeling bloated but continuously more and more thirsty. Not much I know what to add.

Just a heads up that the volume options don't properly save when you press save and close in the main menu on the current web version.

Hey hey, I'm a complete beginner regarding my skills on unpacking games, however I'm really interested in doing so. I've been trying to unpack this game for quite a while now, but I haven't had any luck so far. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Someone's gotta take one for the team and get all endings, and post pictures of all the stages and such. I don't have the patience to do it myself and I rly like this game's art style 

I just looked normal and healthy for like two hours.

Man can we get a happy ending were she becomes a D class personel, but atleast they give her free meals while studying her...

love the game but it is missing a few things, this is just some constructive criticism and a few suggestions

What the game is missing is a long-term goal, sure surviving is a short-term goal but there is really nothing to work to after the mechanics are figured out and the game play is mastered, there are the transformations to find, but they are difficult to discover naturally, and I had to look in the comments to see how it works. Maybe add a cryptic hint about eating too much of the same type of food. There is also discovering every food item, but that feels like more of an extra thing that someone would do after they have completed the game and not a goal for someone to complete

There need to be endings. Starving and getting arrested are game overs but they aren't phrased as endings, I think it would be better if they were endings 1 and 2 out of however many endings there are, and an ending for each transformation too. Going back to my first point, a good ending (and a long-term goal) could be saving up enough money for something that drastically improves the main characters situation, I don't know what this would be yet and it might require expanding on the lore but I think the game would improve with it.

I don't know how I would fix this game play wise, but the whole game is slow to progress, I have spent a few hours playing and I have only gotten two transformations fully. Maybe add some different game-play for the money gaining part.

This last thing is more of something that I would find funny, but I noticed that after purchasing some items (I don't know if it works on all of them) a number flashes on the screen of the vending machine, and inputting that number of yen allows you to get the same item again, I think that putting in 69 yen and 420 yen should get special food items, but this is more of a humorous suggestion than a serious one.

That's everything I have to say

Edit: it just occurred to me that another good feature would be if the gallery shows more info about the food, like how much you need to pay for it or a short description.