Parental Instinct by Fatsheep
Parental Instinct, a horror game about keeping your infant child safe from a Monster that has recently awoken in the woods outside your house!
In this game you struggle to secure your house by closing all doors and windows and turning on every light, all while keeping your baby from crying and avoiding the Monster!
Controls and tips: -WASD to move
-SHIFT to run
-E to interact
-FOLLOW THE OBJECTIVE in the top left corner
-Close windows and turn on lights once the Monster is awoken to keep it away
-To get the Monster to stop chasing you, close doors behind you and turn on lights in the rooms you enter
-The Baby will cry and scream if it's hungry or feels unsafe, the screaming attracts the Monster, make the crying stop to drive the Monster away!
-To feed the baby, go to the kitchen and pick up a bottle and give it to the baby
-To keep the baby safe, make sure it's room is lit and closed (including the window)
Known issues:
-Web version sometimes has weird lighting, possible that monster AI is also slightly different
-Windows version crashes sometimes, not sure what causes it, but it's relatively rare
-Mouse sensitivity is a bit high
-Timer rounds to nearest minute instead of up
Changelog: 1.1 - fixed an audiobug (hopefully)
HIGHLY RECOMMEND THAT YOU DOWNLOAD THE GAME FOR BETTER PERFORMANCE Web version is slightly jank/performs worse, and is only there since i don't have mac/linux builds
Ratings
| Overall | 165th | 3.837⭐ | 45🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 393th | 3.452⭐ | 44🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 532th | 3.286⭐ | 44🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 364th | 3.837⭐ | 45🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 385th | 3.643⭐ | 44🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 116th | 3.78⭐ | 43🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 13th | 4.381⭐ | 44🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 48🗳️ | 52🗨️ |
You should probably play and rate other games and get some karma, your game is really worth it, but you gotta make some effort
"If the power goes out Interact with the fuse box in the basement"
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Hard pass.
Kudos for creating such an unnerving experience in 48 hours and having a working web version as well.
There was one time a lightswitch flipped right as I was standing next to it, though. That took away from the sense that the monster was doing it.
Played on stream: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/601008121
And the basement part of the game was added as an additional spooky part that forced you out of your established comfort zone in the house, turns out it was too scary for some!
@thebreakfast Glad you enjoyed the creeps the game gave you. Thank you for playing, and a Slenderman comparison is high praise for sure! And the reason the baby might be a bit unsettling is because it's just a fatter scaled down version of the monster model haha.
@phoenix-fireflower Thanks for enjoying it! It was a tight fit within the 48 hours for sure, last couple of features were added hastily in the last 10 minutes even!
@randomnine Thanks, i did my best with the baby impression as i only had myself while recording lol. Glad the tense atmosphere came through successfully. And yeah the light switches do turn off randomly as i wanted things to be a bit harder and giving the sense that the monster is at more than one place at a time.
If you want to know the timestamp of when your game was played you can see it in this spreadsheet:
https://tinyurl.com/yau8hjzn
And then look in my latest videos and find your game being play (after the current stream ends)
https://www.twitch.tv/ursagames/videos
I love the Music when he chases you . and when enters the home.
it would be more fun if he entered from different places.
first time I encountered the monster he didn't see me so I just looked at him with his dump walk lol
the baby creeped me out more haaha
nice one man. GJ!
Scary as heck. Also I envy your accordion skills, I can barely play spoons so extra points for that.
But some how the creepiest thing is the baby, and his cries :D
Nice job.