No joke, this is one of the best games I've ever played, I love every single aspect of it (except the terminal XP) I HIGHLY recommend it to anyone who is considering it,I'd also highly recommend that you go in completely blind for the greatest experience. I really hope there can be some kind of sequel in the future.
I Loved the game! This is one of the only games thats had me in tears! I almost never play a game straight through but I did with this one. I loved it I related so much to so many different aspects of it. Even being ftm i could fully relate to how she was feeling.
Saw this recommended on the bundle, and have loved it so far! Encountered a bug that's stopping me from progressing, though.
MINOR SPOILERS:
I get to the part where Jenni(?) says "It's not like anyone's going to stop you, right?" and get a (1) notification from John, but when I open that log, it's empty. D: Excited to finish it though, hopefully I can get it to work!
I loved this so much! It really did remind me of early internet days and exploring yourself as a teen. I'm NB and I remember feeling that same sort of "wait, you can do that?" that Alex experiences. Her interactions with her father were also eerily familiar, and just. Amazing work. <3
just want to chime in and say that this game really resonated with me and helped make me feel unafraid about being myself, i will always hold this game to the highest regard, it's a must-play, and honestly it's one of my favourite works of trans art in general. victoria deserves all the roses she can get. <3
thank you so much for this game <3 i wish i could more eloquently put into words how well this captures the feelings of being young and trans and trying to figure yourself out. this game is one of those things that is going to stick with me for a very long time.
I also wanted to say, that I enjoyed it a lot more than I thought and even though I'm too young to know the Internet from 20 years ago, I still enjoyed every aspect of the Game. A bit annoying was figuring out the passwords. But yeah, thanks for making this AMAZING game, it really touched my heart.
okok so i finished the game after puzzling my way through the terminal commands (i'm... less computer literate than i thought i was, lmao) and i'm here to share some thoughts!
so first and foremost: i am SO impressed with this game. alex is such a real, heartwarming character, and as a trans man myself i relate to her experiences of discovering herself. seeing creative projects that talk about the trans experience fills my heart, and this game nearly made me cry.
something laguna said--"people who aren't like us straight-up just don't think about that shit"--is in sentiment identical to the tumblr post that made me realize i was trans (something like "cis people don't wonder if they're trans) so seeing that in-game felt really true & real.
and [SPOILERS] my most favorite part of SLH was the "is here for you" messages on the last day. that was really what nearly brought me to tears. it just filled me with so much happiness.
thank you for making this game! it means so much to me. thank you.
There are some other things I forgot to mention yesterday (and couldn't edit my post in time due to my computer breaking), so I thought I'd make an addendum post. I find it almost surreal how much this game lines up with my real-life experiences. If it weren't for the fact that he's divorced, John would've been a 1:1 direct parallel to my own real-life father, in ways I needn't explain. It made the scenes he forced poor Alex to talk to him and him alone (as well as his crazy obsessions with her) hit pretty close to home for me, which likely seriously heightened how much this game sucker-punched me in the feels. ^^; Even when he wasn't actually talking to her, seeing his bright red eye perpetually spying on Alex while she's having fun felt rather unnerving.
[Spoilers ahead!]
Even other situations in the game felt so trippy in how much it parallels to my situation - him forcing a blocker onto Alex's computer (mirroring my own father installing a similar blocker of his own on mine), Alex using the computer's Terminal utilizing the programming tricks Laguna taught her earlier on (mirroring my closest friend, skillful programmer that they are, helping me utilize Windows Terminal tricks to bypass my own father's blocker), and losing several friendships in one fell swoop due to poor wording choices from Alex due to the stress she had over the situation (mirroring me doing the exact same thing in 2017). Besides the aforementioned divorce thing, and how not all of Alex's friends map 1:1 to my own history, the only irony is that certain names of certain characters do not entirely match my life - were you to swap them in just the right way, I'd seriously feel like you had been spying on my life since the day I was born and decided to make a game about my life to try and reach out to me Matrix-style, or you were like my future self or some shit XD
This game will always hold a special place in my heart because of how deeply relatable it is for me. I'd be lying if I said I didn't feel my mind telling me I should ironically tell my dad to play this game simply so he could experience how it's like to be in my shoes when he yells at me, but deep inside I know that he'd either just entirely miss the point of the game or why I'd ask him to play it in first place, or just get mad at me for having played a "queer game" and quickly connect the dots as for my secretive gender identity. Sigh, ah well, sorry for rambling, I just kinda wanted to get this off of my chest ever since I finished the game. Regardless, thank you for having made this, Victoria - sincerely. I loved this game.
I've never played a visual novel type game before and I think I've peaked with the first one! I love love LOVE the interface and the whole premise is so clever. It took me back to the early days of the public internet and how sacred the communities were. I got so involved with each characters and my heart genuinely froze whenever I saw a message from John. The ending made me bawl like a baby. Such a wonderful gem of a game :)
This was beautifully painful. Thank you so much for making it. I'm not quite able to put my love of this game into words, but just know that it is a lot.
I don't think I'll ever be able to properly put into words what this game means to me. I was just checking out what games there were in the bundle I had just bought when I saw this game, and immediately noticed "trans girl" in the description. To no one's surprise, as any trans egg thirsty for trans content would, I installed the game as fast as I (and my computer) could manage.
And here I am, a few hours later, still gaping, laughing, crying, and feeling another thousand or so emotions I can't even name. Just about everything about this game - the visuals, the music, the writing, the way it completely and shamelessly got under my skin and abused it to the fullest potential leaves me in awe. Seeing Alex's journey of self-discovery in striking parallel to my own was both heartwarming and painful. Seeing the game's mechanics and my expectations of them blow up in my face to really put me into the mindset of a parental abuse victim was heartbreaking but extremely real. This game reminded me that I have a really long way to go until I can completely affirm that I'm living my best life and that I'm happy, but that, in the end...
I'll figure it out.
I could never thank you enough for this experience.
This is an amazing game. The story is interesting, emotional and a huge trans mood. The gameplay's really fun, it's nice being able to just explore the various apps and forums.
I played this for an hour and enjoyed every second! The main character reminds me a lot of how I used to be lol. But when I tried to quit and then continue playing later it started me from the beginning of the game? is there no save system?
I really did just sit in my room and cry for four hours! This was so cute and sweet,,, This game hit me harder than any other game I've ever played. Thank you for such a wonderful game!
such a wonderful game and experience, even as someone who was born 2 years after this game takes place, i still related to alex immensely,,, that feeling of ease and safety when you're talking with your friends and doing girly things is all too familiar.
also i have to say the music in this game is also spectacular and enhances the experience even more, it's amazing!! i'm going to be thinking about this game for a very long time, thank you <3
Oh, wow. I'd been meaning to play this game for a while, and finally got it through the bundle and...... wow. I'm transmasculine, and the game takes place like a month before I was born, but the way it hits on so many of my specific experiences is incredible. The game is so immersive and I truly felt every moment as if it were happening to me. The warm, happy moments, but also the fear. John's presence is just so effectively terrifying - the way his eye is boring into you as you go about your business... I couldn't let my guard down; every day I felt like I was just waiting for the moment he would come online and everything would fall apart the second you feel at ease (the fact that some of the dialogue was so, so painfully familiar to me certainly helped make it scarier). Anyway I'm gushing but I can't get over how effective and beautiful this game is. I just finished a few minutes ago and I was sobbing - scared tears and happy tears. I'm so glad I finally played this game, I'm so glad it exists. <3
I got this game and it was a joy to play! I couldn't put it down, I loved reading Alex's journey and self discovery. On a side note, does anyone know where to get the walpapers? I'd like to use them for my actual computer!
Oh gosh, this game was such an emotional wild ride! I got sucked-punched a lot in the darkest moments of the game, but the ending was so sweet~ I actually felt a tinge of sadness when it ended; I had formed a close bond with Alexandra and her friends, and it kinda hurt to see it all coming to an end, though :c
Still, I wholeheartedly recommend this game to anyone who's capable of withstanding the emotional sucker-punches or who is otherwise willing to go through it <3
I'm 32, and the thing that really struck me about this game was - I knew people just like Andy, just like Jenni and Laguna, just like prplsqrl, just like Sam. Some people who would offer unconditional support despite never having met me, and some people I knew in real life who would never understand who I was. This game reminds me of being a young gender confused nerd spending my time on the webtv anime chatroom, making friends with strangers online who I felt closer to than my own family. The kind of intimate detachment of AIM chats allowed for some of the most formative conversations of my life to happen in that setting. It would be really hard to explain it to someone who never experienced that internet, but this game captures the feelings I had in that time perfectly. It would be misleading to say the internet used to be better, because it still had a lot of terrible stuff on it, but it used to feel smaller, weirder, and more personal.
This game gives me this sense of bittersweet nostalgia for lost youth. I definitely don't want to BE the person I was in the past, but I miss certain things about them and that time. The uncertainty of looking to the future with a sense of mingled dread and longing. A lot of nebulous, nameless longing, that came in intense waves, that seems very specific to the experience of a young gender nonconforming person. I still feel that way sometimes, but it's never as intense as when you're young. Being extremely uncertain that you belong as an inhabitant of the world.
it taps into the reason why Sailor Moon was so appealing to someone like me when I was young. It's a fantasy of being a normal girl who gets swept into a life of fantastic, beautiful, dramatic adventure. The personalities and everyday flaws of the scouts made it seem like any normal girl could become one. But really, the fantasy that made me obsess over Sailor Moon when I was young was simpler - the fantasy of being a normal young girl, not trapped in a weird body I didn't necessarily want, not trapped under the weight of the traits expected of me as a boy. expected of me both by others and myself, which is what makes it doubly hard. the voice in your own mind telling you you're doing it wrong.
I want to like this game. I love Alex and her struggles! Her dynamics with the other characters are interesting! But the terminal mechanic is frustrating beyond all belief. I got trapped in day three with no way to progress. Imagine rage-quitting at a visual novel! I didn't expect that going into the game. Maybe I'll try the game again, but I sincerely doubt it.
Laguna's instructions were confusing but I tried to type the command as I saw it, but the terminal didn't recognize it. I don't know what the issue was. I made sure all the capitalization and punctuation were ccorrect but it still said it wasn't a valid command. I tried to look up a tutorial or a walkthrough, but the one I found was less than helpful. The person stumbled in the same spot as me but never said what they did to fix it, so I fruitlessly kept trying on my own.
I'm having the exact same issue :( I typed "Is" exactly as Laguna said and it says "Invalid Directory. Application Not Found in This User's Directory."
I got much further than I initially expected (the first problem resolved itself; I forgot the period before a command line), but I have another, related, issue with the terminal. I'm having a hard time figuring out the admin password. The above command is registering as an error. I also searched the 'other' folder, but the cryptic message didn't help me out much. Now that I've passed the learning curve, I actually find the terminal mechanic to be extremely clever, fun, and (mostly) intuitive. I'm just bad at cryptic puzzles which is dampening my progress.
I am stuck here as well, and it is most certainly user error in my case. I am loving this game so much and really would like to finish. Hints would be mucho appreciated.
Hi, I’m sorry, is this the proper way to do that? I’m sorry, I’m new to Itch.io. Anyway I was enjoying the games’ atmosphere quite a lot and then noticed that... nothing happened... I can open IM, browse forums, get adorable kittys on my screen but nothing seemingly story-driven. I then went to see a walkthrough where the player was quite rapidly flooded with messages from Samuel, who’s silent to me. :( Did I miss something obvious? (running linux if by any chance, but everything seems to be running fine so)
Great! It's a bug that used to be pretty common in older Unity games. I wonder if it's strictly a Unity bug though, in which case I guess providing a build with a newer version of Unity may fix it?
I'm getting this error message when I try to open it on my Macbook Air (Catalina OS): "Secret Little Haven" cannot be opened because the developer cannot be verified. MacOS cannot verify that this app is free from malware."
Oh hey! So what you have to do is go to System Preferences, then go to Security & Privacy, and then go to "General". It should say "____ software can't be verified to not have malware", so you click on the "Run anyway" button and the game should launch ✨
Every time you have an issue with software, go to Security & Privacy to grant it permission to launch.
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an OUTSTANDING story and INCREDIBLE experience!!!!!!! what a great way to spend a good few hours!! :D
Wonderful game. Thank you so much.
I stayed up till 12:31 and played this in one sitting.I would put this with games like Oneshot and Celeste in how highly I would recommend them.
No joke, this is one of the best games I've ever played, I love every single aspect of it (except the terminal XP) I HIGHLY recommend it to anyone who is considering it,I'd also highly recommend that you go in completely blind for the greatest experience. I really hope there can be some kind of sequel in the future.
I Loved the game! This is one of the only games thats had me in tears! I almost never play a game straight through but I did with this one. I loved it I related so much to so many different aspects of it. Even being ftm i could fully relate to how she was feeling.
This game is beautiful and amazing, i loved this experience.
Saw this recommended on the bundle, and have loved it so far! Encountered a bug that's stopping me from progressing, though.
MINOR SPOILERS:
I get to the part where Jenni(?) says "It's not like anyone's going to stop you, right?" and get a (1) notification from John, but when I open that log, it's empty. D: Excited to finish it though, hopefully I can get it to work!
A friend of mine recently got me this game in a bundle, I haven't finished it but... thank you. So much. This game is amazing.
from, a young trans girl
those scenes with the dad really just struck some fear deep within me that I don't think I've ever felt before it was crazy
anyway get this game especially if you're trans like me it's good
“LS”, not “IS” :P
I loved this so much! It really did remind me of early internet days and exploring yourself as a teen. I'm NB and I remember feeling that same sort of "wait, you can do that?" that Alex experiences. Her interactions with her father were also eerily familiar, and just. Amazing work. <3
Hey I found a bug, um when you click the chat option too many times it opens two chats and you cant finish the day until you finish both chats.
Otherwise the game is amazing I love it so much
just want to chime in and say that this game really resonated with me and helped make me feel unafraid about being myself, i will always hold this game to the highest regard, it's a must-play, and honestly it's one of my favourite works of trans art in general. victoria deserves all the roses she can get. <3
thank you so much for this game <3 i wish i could more eloquently put into words how well this captures the feelings of being young and trans and trying to figure yourself out. this game is one of those things that is going to stick with me for a very long time.
Thank you so much for this game! It really resonated with me!
I also wanted to say, that I enjoyed it a lot more than I thought and even though I'm too young to know the Internet from 20 years ago, I still enjoyed every aspect of the Game. A bit annoying was figuring out the passwords. But yeah, thanks for making this AMAZING game, it really touched my heart.
okok so i finished the game after puzzling my way through the terminal commands (i'm... less computer literate than i thought i was, lmao) and i'm here to share some thoughts!
so first and foremost: i am SO impressed with this game. alex is such a real, heartwarming character, and as a trans man myself i relate to her experiences of discovering herself. seeing creative projects that talk about the trans experience fills my heart, and this game nearly made me cry.
something laguna said--"people who aren't like us straight-up just don't think about that shit"--is in sentiment identical to the tumblr post that made me realize i was trans (something like "cis people don't wonder if they're trans) so seeing that in-game felt really true & real.
and [SPOILERS] my most favorite part of SLH was the "is here for you" messages on the last day. that was really what nearly brought me to tears. it just filled me with so much happiness.
thank you for making this game! it means so much to me. thank you.
There are some other things I forgot to mention yesterday (and couldn't edit my post in time due to my computer breaking), so I thought I'd make an addendum post. I find it almost surreal how much this game lines up with my real-life experiences. If it weren't for the fact that he's divorced, John would've been a 1:1 direct parallel to my own real-life father, in ways I needn't explain. It made the scenes he forced poor Alex to talk to him and him alone (as well as his crazy obsessions with her) hit pretty close to home for me, which likely seriously heightened how much this game sucker-punched me in the feels. ^^; Even when he wasn't actually talking to her, seeing his bright red eye perpetually spying on Alex while she's having fun felt rather unnerving.
[Spoilers ahead!]
Even other situations in the game felt so trippy in how much it parallels to my situation - him forcing a blocker onto Alex's computer (mirroring my own father installing a similar blocker of his own on mine), Alex using the computer's Terminal utilizing the programming tricks Laguna taught her earlier on (mirroring my closest friend, skillful programmer that they are, helping me utilize Windows Terminal tricks to bypass my own father's blocker), and losing several friendships in one fell swoop due to poor wording choices from Alex due to the stress she had over the situation (mirroring me doing the exact same thing in 2017). Besides the aforementioned divorce thing, and how not all of Alex's friends map 1:1 to my own history, the only irony is that certain names of certain characters do not entirely match my life - were you to swap them in just the right way, I'd seriously feel like you had been spying on my life since the day I was born and decided to make a game about my life to try and reach out to me Matrix-style, or you were like my future self or some shit XD
This game will always hold a special place in my heart because of how deeply relatable it is for me. I'd be lying if I said I didn't feel my mind telling me I should ironically tell my dad to play this game simply so he could experience how it's like to be in my shoes when he yells at me, but deep inside I know that he'd either just entirely miss the point of the game or why I'd ask him to play it in first place, or just get mad at me for having played a "queer game" and quickly connect the dots as for my secretive gender identity. Sigh, ah well, sorry for rambling, I just kinda wanted to get this off of my chest ever since I finished the game. Regardless, thank you for having made this, Victoria - sincerely. I loved this game.
I've never played a visual novel type game before and I think I've peaked with the first one! I love love LOVE the interface and the whole premise is so clever. It took me back to the early days of the public internet and how sacred the communities were. I got so involved with each characters and my heart genuinely froze whenever I saw a message from John. The ending made me bawl like a baby. Such a wonderful gem of a game :)
This was beautifully painful. Thank you so much for making it. I'm not quite able to put my love of this game into words, but just know that it is a lot.
I don't think I'll ever be able to properly put into words what this game means to me. I was just checking out what games there were in the bundle I had just bought when I saw this game, and immediately noticed "trans girl" in the description. To no one's surprise, as any trans egg thirsty for trans content would, I installed the game as fast as I (and my computer) could manage.
And here I am, a few hours later, still gaping, laughing, crying, and feeling another thousand or so emotions I can't even name. Just about everything about this game - the visuals, the music, the writing, the way it completely and shamelessly got under my skin and abused it to the fullest potential leaves me in awe. Seeing Alex's journey of self-discovery in striking parallel to my own was both heartwarming and painful. Seeing the game's mechanics and my expectations of them blow up in my face to really put me into the mindset of a parental abuse victim was heartbreaking but extremely real. This game reminded me that I have a really long way to go until I can completely affirm that I'm living my best life and that I'm happy, but that, in the end...
I'll figure it out.
I could never thank you enough for this experience.
This is an amazing game. The story is interesting, emotional and a huge trans mood. The gameplay's really fun, it's nice being able to just explore the various apps and forums.
I played this for an hour and enjoyed every second! The main character reminds me a lot of how I used to be lol. But when I tried to quit and then continue playing later it started me from the beginning of the game? is there no save system?
to my knowledge, the game only saves when you log out at the end of a day.
weird, thats what I did. I quit right after reaching the end of the first day. I guess ill try again later
I really did just sit in my room and cry for four hours! This was so cute and sweet,,, This game hit me harder than any other game I've ever played. Thank you for such a wonderful game!
I love this game with all my heart, to whoever reads this, please play it
such a wonderful game and experience, even as someone who was born 2 years after this game takes place, i still related to alex immensely,,, that feeling of ease and safety when you're talking with your friends and doing girly things is all too familiar.
also i have to say the music in this game is also spectacular and enhances the experience even more, it's amazing!! i'm going to be thinking about this game for a very long time, thank you <3
Oh, wow. I'd been meaning to play this game for a while, and finally got it through the bundle and...... wow. I'm transmasculine, and the game takes place like a month before I was born, but the way it hits on so many of my specific experiences is incredible. The game is so immersive and I truly felt every moment as if it were happening to me. The warm, happy moments, but also the fear. John's presence is just so effectively terrifying - the way his eye is boring into you as you go about your business... I couldn't let my guard down; every day I felt like I was just waiting for the moment he would come online and everything would fall apart the second you feel at ease (the fact that some of the dialogue was so, so painfully familiar to me certainly helped make it scarier). Anyway I'm gushing but I can't get over how effective and beautiful this game is. I just finished a few minutes ago and I was sobbing - scared tears and happy tears. I'm so glad I finally played this game, I'm so glad it exists. <3
As a trans girl, I found this game relatable and incredibly well written.
I really wanted to play this game, it sounds right up my alley, but it makes my screen go black and flash on and off :(
I got this game and it was a joy to play! I couldn't put it down, I loved reading Alex's journey and self discovery. On a side note, does anyone know where to get the walpapers? I'd like to use them for my actual computer!
Oh gosh, this game was such an emotional wild ride! I got sucked-punched a lot in the darkest moments of the game, but the ending was so sweet~ I actually felt a tinge of sadness when it ended; I had formed a close bond with Alexandra and her friends, and it kinda hurt to see it all coming to an end, though :c
Still, I wholeheartedly recommend this game to anyone who's capable of withstanding the emotional sucker-punches or who is otherwise willing to go through it <3
oh wow yeah
I'm 32, and the thing that really struck me about this game was - I knew people just like Andy, just like Jenni and Laguna, just like prplsqrl, just like Sam. Some people who would offer unconditional support despite never having met me, and some people I knew in real life who would never understand who I was. This game reminds me of being a young gender confused nerd spending my time on the webtv anime chatroom, making friends with strangers online who I felt closer to than my own family. The kind of intimate detachment of AIM chats allowed for some of the most formative conversations of my life to happen in that setting. It would be really hard to explain it to someone who never experienced that internet, but this game captures the feelings I had in that time perfectly. It would be misleading to say the internet used to be better, because it still had a lot of terrible stuff on it, but it used to feel smaller, weirder, and more personal.
This game gives me this sense of bittersweet nostalgia for lost youth. I definitely don't want to BE the person I was in the past, but I miss certain things about them and that time. The uncertainty of looking to the future with a sense of mingled dread and longing. A lot of nebulous, nameless longing, that came in intense waves, that seems very specific to the experience of a young gender nonconforming person. I still feel that way sometimes, but it's never as intense as when you're young. Being extremely uncertain that you belong as an inhabitant of the world.
it taps into the reason why Sailor Moon was so appealing to someone like me when I was young. It's a fantasy of being a normal girl who gets swept into a life of fantastic, beautiful, dramatic adventure. The personalities and everyday flaws of the scouts made it seem like any normal girl could become one. But really, the fantasy that made me obsess over Sailor Moon when I was young was simpler - the fantasy of being a normal young girl, not trapped in a weird body I didn't necessarily want, not trapped under the weight of the traits expected of me as a boy. expected of me both by others and myself, which is what makes it doubly hard. the voice in your own mind telling you you're doing it wrong.
Thanks for making this game.
I want to like this game. I love Alex and her struggles! Her dynamics with the other characters are interesting! But the terminal mechanic is frustrating beyond all belief. I got trapped in day three with no way to progress. Imagine rage-quitting at a visual novel! I didn't expect that going into the game. Maybe I'll try the game again, but I sincerely doubt it.
What about it did you get stuck on?
Laguna's instructions were confusing but I tried to type the command as I saw it, but the terminal didn't recognize it. I don't know what the issue was. I made sure all the capitalization and punctuation were ccorrect but it still said it wasn't a valid command. I tried to look up a tutorial or a walkthrough, but the one I found was less than helpful. The person stumbled in the same spot as me but never said what they did to fix it, so I fruitlessly kept trying on my own.
Could you take a screenshot of what you tried to enter? It's likely just a syntax issue with the entered text.
I'm having the exact same issue :( I typed "Is" exactly as Laguna said and it says "Invalid Directory. Application Not Found in This User's Directory."
Oh, it’s ls, with an L, not an I!
to open txt files, you would need to do ./John/Documents/work/proposal.txt
also, you may have missed something in REMINDER.txt
hi, i've never related to a game so much in my life. thank you for making something that's helping me so much.
Can you take a screenshot of the terminal commands you are trying to enter?
I am stuck here as well, and it is most certainly user error in my case. I am loving this game so much and really would like to finish. Hints would be mucho appreciated.
Oh that would be fantastic!
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I was able to locate the document REMINDER.txt on John's machine, but a bit lost on how to open it/what to do with it.
Same! Hopefully someone can get us both unstuck T_T
Thanks anyway for this game! \o/
oh no, I’m sorry - the Linux build can have trouble for some users for whatever reason >~<
What distro are you running?
Oh no! And it must be a nightmare to debug !!
I’m running Ubuntu 20.04 with proprietary nVidia. I might try Wine/Proton to launch the .exe, what do you think?
Try running the game with the `LANG` environment variable set to `C`, e.g.:
LANG=C ./"Secret Little Haven.x86_64"
It works! Thanks a bunch. Now to this gem!
Great! It's a bug that used to be pretty common in older Unity games. I wonder if it's strictly a Unity bug though, in which case I guess providing a build with a newer version of Unity may fix it?
If it's not a bug in Unity but in the game itself, it may be this: https://steamcommunity.com/app/283040/discussions/1/558751813141626592/#c5587518...
I'm getting this error message when I try to open it on my Macbook Air (Catalina OS): "Secret Little Haven" cannot be opened because the developer cannot be verified. MacOS cannot verify that this app is free from malware."
Oh hey! So what you have to do is go to System Preferences, then go to Security & Privacy, and then go to "General". It should say "____ software can't be verified to not have malware", so you click on the "Run anyway" button and the game should launch ✨
It doesn't appear, so I googled it and learned Catalina will not run 32 bit programs. I will have to try to open it on an older computer. Bummer.
oh gosh, I'm sorry about that
I hope you are able to play this game