THE BLACK IRIS

gorgeous: audio and visual and narrative and writing. superb in all ways

very cool game, awesome visuals and really cool design, always had me guessing on what was about to happen

I enjoyed this game so much! I highly recommend playing it! 

T.B.I. is...different. Hard to categorise besides a trip into cosmic horror and dread. The visuals are a mixture of retro with weird, nightmare inducing strokes of mastery. Absolutely recommended for lovers of indie games and runs perfectly well on Steam Deck as you can see by pressing the link below:

Este juego estaba super bueno y mega trippy! me encantaron los colores!

This game was super good and mega trippy I loved the colors!

I really loved the unusual vibe this horror gives. The playtime is just right, the descriptions are very good, and the storyline is QUITE simple, so there's no confusion at all, even if you skip some parts. 

The camera felt weird for me and at first was hard to get used to, and that's probably the only imperfection for me

loved the storytelling!! the player movement style lent itself super well to the spooky changes in mechanics or camera view. I was both scared and excited to interact with things by the end. also the title screens were such a cool mood-setting touch that also helped me orient a bit. perhaps my only regret is playing this right before bed.... .. .

excellent art and sound direction, really fun to play through. Definitely scratches that itch of ambient scifi "what is the universe?!" horror. Great job!!

really good game

That's kinda good game. With solid references and inspirations of science-fiction works and classical horror games like sillent hill. All mixed with this neon-glitchy colors gives the game an unique aura

I know that you say it can be completed in 20-30 minutes, but please consider adding a save/load feature. Plenty of people for various reasons play games in smaller chunks than that. If you won't do that, you should at least have the game warn you when you go to quit that your progress will not be saved at all and you will have to start over from the very beginning.

I really enjoyed the first ten minutes of this, I'm going to enjoy them a lot less the second time if I get back around to it at all.

After playing this game, late at night, I could still literally hear that drone minutes later and it had me shooting nervous glances at the staircase door. Yours is one of those games that makes this undefinable, directionless dread stay with a person well after the PC is off, and that is the highest horror praise I know how to give. Thank you for this game.

Nice one, enjoyed it

Played this a year ago, played it again when I saw it in the Ukraine Bundle, did a reupload cause its so good ! Thanks again 

Full Playthrough No Commentary 

Nice Game I enjoyed playing it.

Hey guys! Lady gamer here, this one was a great game, I got a little stuck, but the spooky was undeniable! A jumpscare or two would have really pulled this together, but it's still great! Check out my let's play!

amazing game but I totally missed the "H*numberfornotspoiling* thing. what was I supposed to do ? Btw, is there a second ending ? 

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I seriously hope to see more from you. This game creeped me the hell out, plus I absolutely love PS1 style horror. It's a bit slow paced but it's intended to be a slow burning game. Loved it 💜

very cool ! i loved it.

Great work!

The majority of the donations made from The Black Iris have now been donated. There are still some trickling in, so I will make another donation in a few weeks. I am overwhelmed by the generousity of the itch community, it has been so far beyond my expections. I tweeted some receipts etc. as evidence of the payments over here https://twitter.com/arboreta_games/status/1373699827259822084?s=20

Thanks again,

Jamie