Oh this was awesome! Probably my favorite I've tried from the jam to be honest. I notoriously don't startle easily, but you got me.
The aesthetic was pleasant, with the VHS scanlines(if that's the proper term), and the strange stapled-on faces are eerie and cool. Sound design was excellent-- especially in the beginning outside. Approaching the party with cars rolling by with functional doppler effect set a good atmosphere. I will say the doppler effect seemed a little easy to trigger indoors; it seemed I was able to pitch the music up or down by sprinting towards or away from where it was playing.
The dialog can come off a little corny, but I felt it really fit with the setting of trying to awkwardly reconnect with people you sort-of know.
I don't know how deep you intended to get with the narrative here, but it really reminded me of the experience of graduating highschool and seeing people I somewhat knew change greatly over a couple years, then disappear out of state or somewhere. Which also dovetailed well with the guy coming back from the snack run a little different, and people disappearing from the party. Just my two cents there.
That final guy at the end: I didn't get a lot of time to take him in before things popped off, but something gave me a weird vibe immediately when I saw him, like his legs seemed backwards and he was standing strange. Don't know if that was intentional, but it did a good job setting me up to get caught off-guard.
Also, saying you don't remember someone and that it's because "they have total stranger vibes" was very funny; I could see that actually entering my lexicon.