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Currently Playing: The Keyper

What Is It? Indie adventure game about a weird ass apartment building. You're the titular "keyper". You need to find all the keys. Also, it's weird.

Gameplay Overview: It is primarily an exploration focused adventure game. Weird. There are a couple of puzzles here, but most of the game is trying to figure out how all the various tunnels and secret paths connect to each other so you can grab all the keys. Weird. Story heavy. Did I mention weird.

Here's The Game Page! https://play.date/games/the-keyper/

Here's Some Pictures!
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Thoughts:
-The Keyper is next on my list. Sounds like a mystery game from the page description so why not.
-There is a treasure within these walls, my uncle used to say. Ooh interesting way to start a game.
-I spent many summers with him in the Winchester 21 building, where he worked as a janitor less interesting way to continue a game, but sure.
-He passed away last month. In his will, he expressed his desire for me to inherit his position. Yeah uh thanks Uncle Mark but I think Im going to keep my job as a systems analyst. Thanks for the janitor job though.
-There is treasure in these walls, he said at the end. And I believe it has found me. The treasure? Death, apparently.
-Well, in terms of story set up this one is at least doing better than the last couple of adventure games I played.
-Ah fuck me the music in this game is atrocious again.
-Im not a huge game music person, and I tend to mostly just ignore it. But the Playdate is drilling its importance into my head here and I will never take it for granted again.
-Visuals arent terrible, but the characters are just little squiggles. Again, possible system limitation but Ive seen some sprites with personality here and it sort of depends on the style you want to use.
-There is a menu in this game, where I can check my inventory and also check both my flat keys and other keys. Looks like Im going to be collecting keys as the keyper.
-Person at the front door hands over the front door key. I forget their name but Im sure Ill run into them later.
-Feels like my uncle shouldve given me the front door key, but whatever.
-Theres a dog blocking my path outside, but I can also go to another building where someone will sell me hints. Nah man. Keep your secrets.
-I find a note from my uncle. Before he died he scattered his keys all around the building. Seems like a bad idea and Im hoping all the keys you threw on the floor werent picked up by like six different people that committed six different home invasions.
-He says hell be waiting for me on the top floor. Uh did no one come and bury this guy?
-Theres the trash room key on the floor here, then someone in the hallway just straight up gives me the key to their flat. I AM THE KEYMASTER.
-Person outside is complaining they havent been able to find their key since they threw out their trash. Gee I wonder where it could be.
-Yeah I find the key in there. It apparently isnt enough keys yet though, because when I go up the stairs I find ERIK. Erik is a jerk and wont let me up to the upper floor until I have more keys. Okay maybe this guy is the actual Keymaster.
-There are four doors I can eventually open on this floor. One of them has the door moving back and forth and yeah! keeps appearing behind it. Someone fucking in 1D, guys.
-The guy in 1A also gives me the heart key when I talk to him. I dont want to know what this opens.
-Raymond slipped around the building like a cat. Once I followed him to the trash room, and when I went in he was gone. There were cracks in that rooms so Im guessing Raymond managed to slip in there somehow, A Link Between Worlds style.
-I find a note in 1C. Dear Jan, Dont be sad! You know perfectly well that this is not goodbye, we caretakers never leave the building completely. Yeah because apparently they let your body rot on the roof.
-My nephew will soon replace me as housekeeper, and I need you to help him. Receive him properly, ok? Wtf does that mean, uncle? Receive me how? RECEIVE ME HOW?
-So the heart key opens up the crack in the wall in the trash room and leads me to the tunnels. -Theres a copper coin here I could use to buy hints (I WONT) and a note from my uncle telling me each key tells a story if I look at it. Oh and hes waiting for me at the top still. Sorry, zombie uncle, I got keys to find first.
-Some random guy is in the tunnels because his boss told him to explore them, but he got lost. Uh youre like two screens away from the exit. Just keep walking.