Decaying Delicacy

Decaying Delicacy is a game created by Yai Gameworks, released on April 15th, 2021 to Itch.io, and April 29th, 2021 to Steam.

Description
Taken from the game's Steam description:

You can't read the form, but they want you to sign it. All you're really after is the one delicacy you crave, a hot-spanking Bar to dissolve in your mouth. It's gonna' take you places. But at least it's better than dying.

Collect keys to unlock gates to get those delicious delicacies while avoiding strange threats in a 2.5D arcade collection game, or at least that's the game some of the time. Read your diary, or don't. The game has several different endings based on your performance, and a number of alternative paths based on your choices and how you're doing.

This game is a psychedelic trip into a simple yet chaotic story of a girl who's too delicious for her own good.

FEATURES:


 * A psychedelic and colorfully strange 2.5D style.


 * A chaotic energy meshing with a collectathon arcade game.


 * A story that slowly opens up with branching pathways.


 * A strange horror feel, uncertainty of what might come next.


 * Several different endings to obtain.

"Poor girl, sweet thing. Licked like a lollipop. This world is going to consume her. She's just too tasty for her own good. Run, run for your life, you poor unfortunate girl! Wash in the colors, break through your walls! You're my favorite flavor, I'm gonna' catch you~"

Gameplay
Decaying Delicacy is a game where you play as unnamed protagonist. There are 3 achievable endings and 1 unimplemented ending as of now, the Choke Ending C, Bad Ending D, Normal Ending B and Good Ending A. These endings are triggered after the gameplay segments of Decaying Delicacy are played, the genre describing this game being collectothon due to the arcade like collecting through 9 levels called layers.

The Choke Ending C is achievable by getting caught by any chaser on layer 8 regardless of candies collected, The Bad Ending D is achievable by getting caught by the Impaled Diver on Layer 9 also regardless of any candies collected, The Normal Ending B is Achievable by beating layer 9 with 8 or less candies, and the Good Ending is obtained after getting 9 or more candies and beating layer 9 then finding the final candy on layer 10, if you are caught on layer 10 however, you will be send to the Normal Ending B and back to layer 9 when you retry as there are no save points after then.

There is currently a bug just before layer 9 that prevents entry of layer 9 for some.