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🌄 Sal — “Zoomorphism” now out on itch.io @kinglessworld.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Results are in! The people love Zoomorphism; please share and check it out if you have the time to spare. ദ്ദി◝ ⩊ ◜.ᐟ

Comment by Itch.io user NearlyNotQuite:

The world that has been built here is incredible, every single word was perfectly placed to give a sense of the oppressive nature of a crowd mentality. The struggle against what seemed inevitable, what I'm being told now is a bad ending, even if it was essentially how I would have reacted to the situation.
The feeling was similar to my own experiences as a young adult trying to fit in, I don't know if that was
intentional, but I think everyone should play this at least once.

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Oh dear, where to even begin... first of all i'm not someone who plays visual novels (in fact, this is the first one i've gone through ever), so given my inexperience i was absolutely caught off-guard by how this story made me feel.
The silence that followed my finishing the game felt so jarring bes it legitimately felt like i just got spat out of a mental whirlwind, and truth be told, my heart is still racing from the anxiety and it's been a few minutes since i finished it. All the imagery is also still stuck in my head and that writing paired with the sound design really made for a very immersive experience ! There were definitely times i had to adjust the volume purely because i was genuinely feeling overwhelmed by the music (while i was focusing on reading), and i can't tell y'all how many times i scrunched my face in disgust at some of descriptions, so y'all are definitely achieving the desired effect with them :D
Incredibly stellar art and presentation too, i specifically like how strongly i felt towards the characters just from seeing their designs at first glance, some feel like they were designed to seem more familiar or "friendlier" , while others instantly made
me feel on edge just because they looked so
"otherwordly", and i don't know if i'm reading too much into all this but in any case... Wow !!!
I also totally agree with that other commenter who said something appreciative about how this game's scare factor explores a bit beyond the prototypical ideas most people have of what "scary" is, especially in games, and while i didn't know what to expect going in i had some idea of what to expect when it came to something "scary", so this definitely influenced my being so 'caught off-guard'!
Massive props to the team behind this very unsettling and yet oddly relatable game ! I felt simultaneously creeped out and seen LOL and i'm excited to see more so i'll definitely stay tuned for whatever else the team's cooking up next :D

This game was so cool! The teal-pink dithered aesthetic is beautiful, and stunning illustrations - so much personality, backgrounds felt kind of somber and melancholic, scratched my brain just right. limited palettes can be tricky I think because there's a risk of sprites disappearing into the backgrounds, I liked the presentation here a lot. &I feel like it was a great pair to the fever-dreamlike tone of the writing. was beautiful in the literary way too, I enjoyed reading many of the descriptions (like
'feathers fletch from foiled sheaths'). and I LOVE
Sol's design, I wish I had an extroverted friend like them lo1!
one interesting thing that really stood out to me was just how unrelentingly *rich* the worldly descriptions were and how MC's lived experience is so tightly (and fearfully, maybe desperately) embodied in their physical sensory experience because they're afraid to lose themselves. and that this is despite a deep-seated yearning for authentic connection with others and searching for it, and not finding it, and not knowing what it is or what it should feel like, even in a huge crowd full of sticky lovers and warm bodies that are waving something they claim is shaped like it - or even performing what they think it should be shaped like (thinking ab the mask motifs)
- in MC's face. I think a lot of people would resonate with the themes of alienation and belonging here, and how much MC struggles to connect to both themselves and others, how they cling to the safety of what is familiar and yet ultimately unfulfilling because the devil they know looks better than the devil they don't.
also. when I first saw good ole mr tower I was like
'oh hell no Imao GO BACK GO BACK' and tried the other options hoping for different cards, LOL, but then I was like 'damn that's a perfect choice tho', same with the others. hell yeah!
loved this. storm of talent, really unique game. 10/10
would get overstimmied at the sad apocalyptic queer rave again

i loved this! it was really well done. looking forward to the updates, i can tell a lot of love was put into this.
i love the idea of it not exactly being Scary: tm:, but instead playing with the element of anxiety and overstimulation for its inducement of fear. super unique!
the colours were so tasty too, and they work well for the setting. the dithering was also a fun way to do backgrounds. i loved that it shifted every few seconds too, it's subtle, but it adds so much!
tarot is so fun to explore, especially in a setting like this. i loved the way the readings were described. spot on and well-informed. and of course, haunting! great choice of cards for this.
it's great when things are otherworldly but not to the point of it seeming outlandish to apply the meaning to real life. zoomorphism has a very special feeling of bordering on reality and supernatural topics. it's the kind of feeling i get when i go on a ghost tour. but aside from that, it's about the themes of displacement and change that really stick out to me... it raises such interesting food for thought. the sense of belonging should be something one discovers on their own. the sense of self, is something only you can decide for yourself. being forced to change will backfire. but sometimes change still happens whether we want it to or not (due to disasters/accidents/etc). change isn't always good. and sometimes it means that the things we love will be left behind and buried in the past.
the writing nails the handling of change and what it means (both the good and bad aspect, with a leaning towards the bad/forced). it doesn't feel forced upon the reader either.
anyway. 10/10 superb work everyone! thank you for sharing this with the world. it took me about 15 minutes to read, which isn't bad at all and i feel that update you've spoken of will hit the sweet spot, so to speak.

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🌄 Sal — “Zoomorphism” now out on itch.io @kinglessworld.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Wouldn’t it be nice to let go of your current self? The full version of Zoomorphism, developed for Spooktober VN Jam 2026, is now live for free on PC, Mac, and in-browser. 🔗 ⬇️

two figures cast in green on a harsh pink background. one of their upper bodies is twisting into different animalistic faces and bones.

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🌄 Sal — “Zoomorphism” now out on itch.io @kinglessworld.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Really damning day for the government, showing their cruelty and their cowardice all at once.

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Downing Street has rejected David Lammy's assessment that Israel has broken international law by blocking aid to Gaza, in a rare public censure for the foreign secretary. Later, in an interview today with Bloomberg, Lammy said that he "could have been clearer" when speaking to MPs, suggesting he should not have said Israel was definitely in breach of international law because that was a matter for a court to decide.

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🌄 Sal — “Zoomorphism” now out on itch.io @kinglessworld.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

look at my bunnygirls bro we’re not getting through this

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🌄 Sal — “Zoomorphism” now out on itch.io @kinglessworld.bsky.social · 17/10/2024

[ i always hated you. and regretted it, too. why did i write the story of someone like you with my own hands? ] a collection of han sooyoungs #myart #art #orv #omniscientreadersviewpoint #hsy #전독시

A digital illustration of Han Sooyoung from Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint slouched down, holding a quill. She is wearing a long white coat and looking at the viewer. Behind her in a pinker shade of purple are the impressions of dragon horns and a tail. She is surrounded by shocking lines and stars. The piece is bordered twice with thick purple-pink lines.

A digital painting of Han Sooyoung from ORV smoking. She is wearing a white jacket and a black shirt with her first few buttons undone. Around her are frames, paintings, featuring other 'versions' of her from the novel.

A digital painting of Han Sooyoung from Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint teaching a class. The piece is very purple toned.

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🌄 Sal — “Zoomorphism” now out on itch.io @kinglessworld.bsky.social · 17/10/2024

good morning or.. good evening more properly, right? i hope that the day has been kind to you!! <33 you’ve been on my mind lately, here’s an offering of the beast (he’s hibernating)

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🌄 Sal — “Zoomorphism” now out on itch.io @kinglessworld.bsky.social · 17/10/2024

[ Are you looking for a place to belong, or are you just a fickle child who doesn’t know what she wants? ] #XenobladeChronicles2 #ゼノブレイド2 #Nia

A half-body portrait of Nia XBC2 in her Blade form. She’s holding up a shard of glass that shows a shadowed reflection of her Driver form’s face in such a way as to make the two images intersect.

On her left, a cat. On her right, a fox or jackal.

Quote from Malos: So, you finally gave up your little human act. ‘Human’ is writ in red, the rest in white.

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