Anthology of the Killer

this game is interesting and fun

this game brought me so much joy so many times while i played it, like eureka style recognition of something blah blah i haven't smiled so much all year. you are the people's hero for only charging $6 but i wish there was a button i could press whenever i had $6 and don't really need it desperately, so i could give you $6 for every time this game made me really really really happy while i was playing it... i bought a copy for my friend so that's a start

I love the bonus rooms

History is a drinky bird, continually murdering the water

This is such an instant classic of a comedy horror series (for me at least). It's packed full of references and funny characters, with writing that is both accessible and thought provoking.

It's the "playing Anthology of the Killer" thing. All the young people love it.

Everything is so absurd, and it all works together beautifully. The world building is so well done to where even a world where such bizarre and extreme things can happen still feels like it all makes sense. Besides a couple of areas where I got lost due to poor lighting (combined with janky pathing, pathing in low-lit areas is usually quite intuitive) or camera weirdness, both of which happened extremely rarely, everything flowed together seamlessly. I think that the Anthology really is a masterpiece, no exaggeration...I will be thinking about this game for a very long time.

Simply a fantastic game. BB & the other characters are engaging, the soundtrack is fantastic, the world building is immense and I love the dream-like atmosphere. It reminds me of my own dreams that I've had. 

It's a 10/10 game in my eyes & it gets my full recommendation for anyone looking at the reviews, it is absolutely worth your time & 6 quid.

I am definitely going to replay this at some point.

been following since the gamejolt days and finally got a chance to finish the whole thing. incredible, one of a kind work. surely the greatest anthology-type game of the century

As always amazing series. Just wanted to post though: Are you familiar with René Girard's Violence and the Sacred? I recently read a few sections of it where he argues that sacrifice exists because humans inherently want to kill each other. To suppress that urge, society hence regulates violence to sacrificial victims, for whom there is no family or clan retaliation for their deaths. This therefore allows humans to fulfill their violent urges without causing society at large to collapse via an endless process of revenge. Anyway, something about that argument just struck me as something one of your antagonists would say while BB was tied to a table. 

On a completely related note, I made BB look like Misty.

As another Linux user (Pop!_OS) I can report that everything works fine except the video of the RPG Maker version in the Bonus Tunnels, which doesn't play in-game (I can still play in a regular media player).

Been having a lot of trouble getting the 64bit version to work on Linux (the Linux build runs but music and textures don't load), but I finally got it to work on Kubuntu 24.04 using WINE on the 32bit windows version!

Steps:

1. Get a working WINE set up :) I used Lutris for this, running WINE 9.0.
2. Download and unpack the 32bit windows version.
3. Configure WINE's DXVK to 2.1 to fix the DirectX 11 error that appears. Set the start up working directory as the unpacked directory from step 2.
4. Run the executable under WINE 9.0.

Extremely good game. Fantastic. Maybe the world's first ever real-time visual novel web comic horror anthology zine, and probably the best one.

I'm curious if BB's head is supposed to look kind of like a bird, or if that's just a happy accident. Like, if you take her bow as a beak, then ignore her facial features other than her eye, there's very much some Falco (Star Fox) type bird energy going on.

Masterpiece.

Since I couldn't find somewhere else to report bugs, I couldn't seem to get the bonus rooms to work on Fedora 39 Linux, it would lag to a crawl as soon as I entered. Additionally, some overlayed images, like the script fragments in Eyes of the Killer, did not upscale to 4k resolution, remaining at their likely native resolution. This was also on Fedora 39(did not test if they scaled on Windows).

looks really good

i wish i could buy it though

(yes, I know about the free original versions but I'm not playing those. i want to experience it through this collection cuz it's the superior version)

No but really, these are maybe my new favourite series of horror anything ever. Perfect artistic vision and I loved everything about them. So funny and beautiful and disturbing and inspiring.

Now that's some immersive theatre

What an incredible series. I'm blown away by the beauty of every single set and the slow increase in ambition from episode to episode. Inspiring and propelling for my own practice. Thank you so much!!!

As a long time thecatamites fan, I  can say this is easily one of their best, if not THE best set of games they've made. Avoid swimbofication, commercialism, and Death(tm) in this surreal masterwork. Now give up your money before you get murdered for it.

This series has quickly become a favorite of mine. Thank you! Really hope to see more from this world and characters.

Ihope Tammmy gets her dreams to come true and the economy 2 becomes real.

Some of my favoutrite interactive works I've ever played, thank you for making them.

absolutely fantastic games. love how each entry outdoes the last in it's own way; always bringing some moment that prompts a quiet 'oh, no way,' even after i thought we were at the top.

you're so goddamn funny. Tammy's here. 

Absolutely stunning. Been savoring these over the last few months, just played the epic finale today. Been enjoying your games for a decade plus so it's really awesome to see so much of your style synthesized into such a dense hilarious vision. (ZZ's the best)

Consistently has been one of my favorite pieces of horror-comedy art over the last few years, I deeply admire everything about Anthology and what it has to say about the horror genre. I'm so happy to see it complete and excited to see what thecatamites does next!!! 

Stephie sent me

As someone who played space funeral back in 2014 and has been a fan of your work ever since, you've really made something special here, I've never played anything that feels quite like this series and I don't think I ever will!

Eternally grateful for the inspiration your games provided me with over the years, and I eagerly look forward to whatever it is you do next.

Thank you.

Warning: may spark desire to create own virtual horror lands in the easily influenced

this is truly the new wave, digging the included zine too

<3

I don't know where else to put this, but I've made a fan discord for AOTK, if others wanna join and discuss the series :) https://discord.gg/cNeaKuHhAV