WASTE EATER

Wow.

I have nothing else to say.

Your storytelling is the best I've had the pleasure of enjoying in months. The ability to evoke such strong emotions with so little text is a rare gift. Don't stop creating man. 

this made me cry. your storytelling is incredible

This fucked me up *hard*, I'm really glad I got to play this. I just. Gods this hits hard, and the pacing is spot on, the art is exactly what it needs to be... I'm already recommending it to my friends, it's just. So good. Wow.

Would love an option to use the keyboard instead of clicking to progress- I have my workarounds, sure, but it would help make this more accessible to folks who don't. Thank you for your hard work <3

i download games from itch pretty often but have never considered really using my account until i came across this one. i just had to comment about how much i enjoyed this. everything about this is just remarkable. the art, the pacing, the story, its just all extremely well done and i think i could seriously come back to this and play it a couple times over. you captured the human condition and the challenge to find hope from nothing very well. i really hope that you continue to push on and create more things like this because it truly was enjoyable. best of luck to you, and all others here. keep fighting.

ive played it three times. ive cried three times. we find hope even in the direst of situations, that is what makes us human. we persevere even when we are lost, wandering through scorched earth, alone and starving, carrying the demons of our past. we are human not because we look it, we are human because we fight like hell every single day to make it to the next. we watch the sun set so that we can see it rise again, we sleep for the promise of tomorrow and we wake up with the hope of today.

The art style caught my eye in the Queer Games Bundle, and I must say it compliments the game very well. As someone who talks to themself sometimes, the monologue was oddly comforting in a sort of melancholic way, and even with little words I became very attached to this guy and their world. I'm a sucker for ambience too... absolutely in love with this.

Thank you for your game and this wonderful experience!

(+ I ended up playing this game on stream, I hope that's okay! Planning to make some fanart as well if that's good too. ♡)

Thank you for this game. Bitter but wearily, stubbornly hopeful is exactly the tone I needed today.

"but there's no gentle way to eat a friend"....oof. wow. this left me feeling so many things, i don't even know where to start. it's so visceral,but also hopeful? but only in a way that i feel like you can't access unless you know you're near the end of your rope. thank you so much for sharing this with the world - i felt so inspired while i was playing it! i came up with a few different ideas, but is it ok if i add music to it for my portfolio?

"nothing is ever done alone. all we have is each other. fight like hell." why am i crying over a game about talking to a bird? i loved this. thank you for making it. i gasped at the ending. keep doing and making wonderful things :)

this was so beautiful. to be the last of something mostly forgotten or unknown so that other people can live safely and well — heartbreaking. thanks for making this <3

Absolutely fantastic. Completely heartbreaking. Tragically hopeful. 

I haven't cried from a game in a good long while. Something about making a world so others could garden, do art, and cook... Just hits hard. Very wonderful, came from the TikTok as well, so happy to have stumbled upon it. 

This is one of the few times I think I could describe something as painfully hopeful. It completely captures the feeling of fighting tooth and nail for something, getting it, and having nothing left to fight for.

I absolutely loved and adored this. Came from the tiktok <3

Hey Cain, this was great!

I was not expecting this kind of story - and I really enjoyed reading your post-mortem as well.

Also, thank you for the shoutout to Breathe <3

I just found you from your grindr game, and I am so glad I did. This was utterly captivating. The concept, the atmosphere; every piece of dialogue said so much with so little. Thank you for making this, and thank you for sharing it.

GOD, THE POIGNANCY... It's so thick, I love it. I love this little story, I love its funny little moments, and I especially love its more hard-hitting moments. Just, a lot of feelings!! A LOT OF REGRETFUL, MISERABLE, ANGUISHED FEELINGS, alongside the idea that, that's not everything. The idea that this, in particular, really sucks. It sucks to suck. It, really sucks to suck, doesn't it.

And all of the writing alongside the visuals and audio... IT ALL FITS TOGETHER TO MAKE A REALLY POWERFUL LITTLE STORY. Huge, huge fan of the pauses, personally... I'm, addicted to stuff like that. It's so good. I love it.

THANK YOU FOR MAKING THIS!!!

I really enjoyed this game so I wanted to personally invite you to the queer games bundle 2023.

https://itch.io/jam/qgb23

I would consider it an honor if you would join.

i wasn't sure if the game froze, was waiting for me to do something or if that was it. but I really liked it anyway

Bautiful and haunting. I love you, Waste Eater.

I wouldn't call this a game, more of a short low-interaction visual story, and a very good one at that: art style, dialogues, characterisation, the whole process of worldbuilding that can be made out by the events, everything was captivating.

Well done!

Where do I sign up? Get me out of here.

I was already imagining cryo and then a post-organic-body brain/cyborg that maybe volunteers for space/underwater/arctic life/science in all sorts of bodies.I was thinking about bioreactors (and similar) too.

Great writing. Loved the twist at the end. Possible sequel maybe?

A beautiful existential game. Full of wonders and melancholic hope for the future.