Things lost
Karen goes to the forest, to find something important she lost...
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Tiny game I made in one day because was bored🖤
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1 ending
Controls
Arrow buttons to move
Shift to run
Enter to interact\progress dialog
X to open menu\cancel
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Links to other "GANA" series games:
Pieces
brief-history-of-how-sowa-forgot-all-the-history
Better play in order:
1. Things lost
2. Pieces
3. Unholy Lights
4. Fragile Sun
5. Brief history of how Sowa forgot all the history
Download
Install instructions
In order to play the game using Android, an emulator is needed. Maldives Player is recommended.
Download the WebForAndroid version, then download Maldives Player on your Android phone, and open it.
You have two options to import the game:
1. You click on the "Add A Game" button where you have to locate the folder where the game's HTML file is located.
2. Or you can click on "Unpack a Game" in which you locate the game's ZIP file and let the program extract it for you.
With that, you have the game imported and added to the list of games available.
Comments
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Congratulations you helped Karen find her lost sense of reality is brutal, poor Karen 😭. I read your lore of it in the comments and I'm so excited to continue with the series. Great job!
thank youuu🐺
The ending made me sad. 😟
I love these games btw. Absolutely love playing games like these and the story is very good! <3
Don't read if you haven't played yet
The wolf killing sheep really made me realize the meaning behind this game. Our character can't accept the reality of death. That's why when we walk through we think we are helping but we are only causing more pain. The ending when we find everyone dead, I think we had something to do with that. We are like the wolf. We act like we are going to do something we aren't. We Lied.
thank you , that means a lot really💓.
By "these games" you mean all my games or just games like this one?😅
ohh, sorry, i didnt notice the 2nd part of message at first😥
i really appreciate you gave it a thought and noticed the metaphor🖤
the story of Karen will be explained more in the final game of the series(there are currently 6 of them). But
spoilers
you're right that she can't accept reality - and talking animals(and a tree) are her "protection" from it. Only if you ignore them, you can see the truth. All her family was killed and she succumbed to "fugue state" - forgot everything, found a house with nice people who took her in(it's the house we see at the start of the game). House she goes to everyday is her own. Btw the tree she burns is actually an old homeless man - she noticed him talking to himself in his sleep about how hard his life is... So she decided to "help" him...😧
the fate of that family Karen now lives with depends on wether she accepts reality or not - if no, then something bad will happen with them too.
I hope you wil play other games of the series, and i'm already working on the final part!😋
I mean I especially like your games <3
I love the story line and the graphics, a lot of times on this website don't have complete story lines or have over all just unentertaining stories. I really admire the effort that goes into your games! I also was really happy to see you took the time to read and reply to my commit which most creators don't do ❤
Keep up the good work! 🍃
omg😭 that's so great to know🥺 now i have even more motivation to make more games💪🏻
I look forward to your future games! You have my support 🥰
"Are you happy now?" NO I wish Karen's sense of reality stayed lost 😭
sometimes you need to face the truth😟
(thanks for playing!🖤)
Playthrough by Creepicatfish 🖤
ooh, this was really intriguing!!
(SPOILERS)
i really liked how the story was told! in this and beckoning (the other game from you i've played) there's a really cool sense of not knowing where the plot's going until it's too late haha. i loved walking throught the forest helping all the animals, made me feel like i was in a fairytale. and when i left the house and looked at the consequences of helping them my stomach DROPPED with dread. such a cool moment! and the story is really helped by the fact the game's so short and you can't save; it really gave me a sense of "you have to try again" instead of just "you have to load a previous file", if that makes sense. it was really neat!
the way to win was really cool too, i loved how instead of having to figure out what combination of things to do or something like that, you just have to ignore everything lol. it was unique, and fit the story really well with the "finding your sense of reality" angle! took me a few tries to figure it out but it was so satisfying. and while the true ending is a bit confusing, i'm guessing it'll be explained in the other games of the series so it's not a problem (and if it doesn't that's fine, it's still a neat ending!).
i had a few issues with some events; some scripted waits let you move around and it made me get stuck without being able to move the first time i reached the true ending. and in the house, the places where the random objects appear don't let you go through them even if the objects aren't there. but that's about it, i had no real problems with anything else.
(also i didn't know where to put this but i LOVE the cat and wolf drawings, they're so cute-)
overall this was a really intriguing and well made game! and i was left feeling super interested in checking out the rest of the series! :D
thank you for playing and giving such a detailed review!
i'll check for those bugs you mentioned.
the places where Karen can't move are places wehre bodies lie, she just can't see them until she finds her sense of reality. It's not a bug:>
yes, the ending is ambigous, bc i didnt really think it through - i made the game in 2 days because i was bored lol. And also i'm more interested in other people's interpretation and always give them some room for thinking out by themselves.
i'm surprised you liked the "art"😮. I just drew it on a paper with a pencil, then took a photo and edited a little - when i made this game i didnt have a tablet yet. Also is the wolf cute? I always thought he's creepy😅
this story will be explained in future games of the series - i plan to make 4 more:)
ohhh, well if the ending is supposed to be ambiguous then i'm gonna give my own interpretation of it! >:D
i think karen in the past, for whatever reason, murdered those three people in the house we see at the end. since then, to try to detach herself from that event her sense of reality started fading, making her hallucinate the talking animals and replacements of the bodies (maybe she was already going insane before that and that's the reason she murdered those people, in which case this event only amplified her detachment). and she spiralled for so long that she forgot what was it that made her be like this in the first place, causing her to feel like something was missing and sending her on the quest to find that house.
it's probably not the most original interpretation ever haha, but it'll be fun to find out what really happened when i play the other games :>
(and yes the wolf is really cute, sorry lol-)
that is actually quite close to what really happened:) Her hallucinations served as protection from reality, so she can see the truth only if she ignores them. But there is much more to that... You will know... If you're planning to play other games😉
hey, i saw this was part of a series and it looks really interesting. what's the order the three games should be played in?
these 3 games can be played in any order🖤 But now i'm working on a spin-off for "Pieces", that one should be played after "Pieces". I hope to finish it by the beginning of September(it's for Beregon's Horror Jam). Glad you're interested😁
oh i see, thank you! :D