I  have played this game longer than probably any other non-puzzle game jam game. I like the game loop a lot, the crafting mysteries combined with the survival combined with the card game elements and the tick-based stuff has a lot of mechanic interplay and you did a good job (with caveats) balancing it. I think the big gameplay eureka moment for me was to not immediately collect some timed stuff. It's genuinely a lot of fun without being a boring crafting game, and where the stakes and progression feel pretty good. The story definitely has enough hooks where you want to see the end, and oh lord did I try.

I don't mind the card art, I think it works fine and you portray things pretty well on them. I think you would only need minor adjustments to the UI color theme to really sell it a bit better.

I encountered a few game breaking bugs. Playthrough 1 I tried to craft a second axe, and it broke the hunger timer and removed all my locations. Playthrough 2, (and I might just be bad at code review), I got all three titles (I'm pretty sure I just needed one) but was unable to pass the altar check, it just gave me the prompt that awards you food, even when any title is placed in any slot.

There were a few other gameplay oddities/cheese. One is that you can stall the timer of any card by placing it in your activity slot. Allowing you to juggle a timed card indefinitely. Items temporarily disappear from your activity slot when you collect from your bank and re-appear when you click something (I think someone mentioned this earlier). You can put almost any item in a second location spot (e.g. beach/forest) and deploy the mission successfully, even though most items don't affect the mission.

And then my personal list of grievances which you can ignore if you feel like lol. I don't mind the front of the game being as unforgiving as it is but it can telegraph that the game might be wayy more timing intensive than it is. I know earlier in my playthrough I didn't enjoy being time-locked by 'madness' whilst testing things against the altar. When rolling for endings with your signal fire, the 'empty sea' roll is a complete troll lol.

anyways great release, I enjoyed it a lot, clearly ( I will probably at some point go and get the second end).

It's actually very engaging to play once you get the hang of it, but I still got stuck shortly after getting Th'schin, I would've liked to see what happened next tbh. The art is obviously not the best but i really like the originality and, in a way, it's simplicity. Overall I really liked it!

vanilla html/js, you have my respect

the game itself is pretty interesting, the fast forward option is really nice

Nice game. At first i didnt understand what to do. and I also found it very slow. But then I found the speed up button. I tried many times but most of the time I got ill.. HAHA. 

Liked the concept. But, i was missing sounds and others graphical elements. However  its a jam. Best of luck.. 

It was pretty fun once I got a hang of things, but the beginning parts are really brutal when you're sitting around not knowing what works. The game loop is really addictive. You've definitely got something here, I think it just needs a bit of extra polish.

really interesting game, I think it has potential, but I'd love for there to be more to do while the timers run, but great job!

Been playing for quite a long time and couldn't figure out how to escape. But other than that, the fact that I kept playing for so long means it's a pretty good game!

Things I liked:

• Simple mechanics, simple gameplay, engaging nonetheless. I really like simple games that do a lot with what they got. You got a simple mechanic of mixing up stuff and seeing what it gets and managed to get good gameplay loop, that's pretty admirable!
• Letting the player explore and not giving too many tips went really well with this system. Exploration is something I really like in games and I think you got it right.
• Even without traditional graphics and sounds you got it working. I think it feels a lot like some table top game, which is neat!

Things that could be improved:

• Presentation as a whole is lacking, but I'm sure you know it. Even though I praised the tabletop feel, I think more could have been done to enhance it.
• Everytime I collected something with a card on the use/craft slots, they would disappear. I had to put another card for them to reappear for some reason.
• Some mechanical nitpicks: the way hunger would just pick a food item and rearrange your inventory during crafting (samething with the various expiring cards) was messing up my recipe a lot, together with the fact that you couldn't rearrange items on the slots + you would always remove them all together made for a very messy experience trying to craft stuff. Also not letting us pick which food the hunger would take was a bit sad too, automatically going for the best food everytime instead of the closest one to expire was an odd choice. Lots of minor stuff that aren't really that important to be honest but they they add up and are easy to fix in case you want to develop the game further.

Got both endings. Reminds me of the shipwreck gamemode of doodlegod. I had a blast playing it. Took me a while to figure out that you can explore multiple areas at once. Great game!

The play model really grabs you once you get the hang of it! And I was really invested in the story. 

I agree with others that this game has real potential. The mechanics and storyline work really well!

A strong submission. Great work!

Nice game!

I got overwhelmed eventually by illness but had fun the whole time playing it.

Hi, the game is really fun and keeps you engaged all the time, as a comment already pointed it out, at the beginning it is a little bit confusing, but then it get very clear and interesting. Some sound effects would help a lot in my opinion.

Very great game, it just need a little bit of polishing and that's all!

Good work and good luck with it! <3333

This game has a lot of potential! Maybe in the future if you keep developing you could add some sound effects and perhaps a voice to the main character. A lot of the time it felt like I was reading a book, which is cool because I don't play games like this one very often. Even though it needs a little bit of polish it is a great project and overall a very good game developed in such a short amount of time!

Great job!

I really liked the gameplay, to be honest I was playing a lot, but I couldn't escape haha, very good

Was a little confusing to start with, but once it starts opening up and there's different card and combinations, it's really great :)

Nice job!

I love genre-mixing stuff like this. I feel like the default hunger could be a little bit longer (I ended up going into the console and changing it to 120 seconds to feel like i had a chance to finish the game) and the fact that you can do multiple actions at once definitely slipped by me the first few playthroughs so some tutorialisation for that would be appreciated (or at least mentioning that on the tips on the itch page). Really, really cool game overall tho, great job.

I died from 7 sicknesses, I thought I could cheese the game but no even if you don't collect the cards if you have a specific amount of illness cards it will end the game, so no you can't cheese the game, really fun though to see what you can do, and it makes you picture what's happening in your head, really good game to play and the writing was well done!