The Trapdoor - FULL RELEASE

[MrBehemoth]

Thanks for letting me know. In the final version (1.2) it is impossible to go downstairs without Boney, meaning that you won't be attacked by grunts until you've got a grasp of the sanity mechanic. When you make use of Boney, you rarely see a grunt.

There are lots of momentos, it's just that the first one doesn't appear until you've explored a bit and figured out that you need to feed the Thing Upstairs. After all, Burke wakes up with no memory - he wouldn't know what to do. After that, there are very thorough momentos with step by step instructions and they branch when the story branches slightly near the end.

I do know what you mean about the rooms being bare. I wanted to go for two very large maps, so had to limit the very detailed areas.

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Here's the main lesson I've learnt from releasing this mod:

It's not like other CSs. People are surprised by that. Players who perservere and get through the initial stages tend to really enjoy it, get how the sanity system works and give good feedback. But many people don't get past the WTF?! stage.

So I guess if I do anything like this again I need to have more hand holding at the start and introduce the concept of Boney and the sanity system as a given, rather than letting people figure it out for themselves, because that doesn't always work.

But hey, it was an experiment!