Interesting game! After a while I was kind of hooked since everything can happen so fast lol. I think this setting could work great for mobile since it's got lots of unlockables and achievements, consider it if you haven't already! It was fun!

I unlocked everything and got pretty far into the dungeon before getting orced. The start of the game was hectic and there was a lot to process and little time. After lamp oil upgrades the time wasn't a factor but now it was food. It took me a few runs to learn what each item was but some were still unclear. I think you should start lamp time at a minute and have the upgrades increase it by a little less like 10 seconds. I actually enjoy the upgrade system and it works nicely apart from slight balance issues. For the information thing, I think it would be nice if it required two clicks to do anything, but on the first click it tells you what the item/action is and the second click confirms it, similar to escaping but in a way to present information to the player. Overall cool and fastpaced adventure game that has some neat mechanics inlaid in its gameplay loop. What do you plan on adding next?

Hello Welded Bones, I played your game on Sunday. I took my time learning it and unlocked all upgrades in about 40 minutes.

I played on a keyboard with arrow keys and Z and X, which work, but are not in your controls image, so I thought I would mention the I guess engine default keys still work.

I don't know if it was intentional, or the build I downloaded was with a save, but I started the game with many artifacts ready for polishing. It filled up coloured board, except for one slot, which I was not able to find throughout my gameplay.

The "how to play" section of the menu didn't do anything, but I think your tutorial was enough. I just thought there would be more.

I found 2 relics, but I don't think there is anywhere you can see them.

My level was in single digits, and I could kill enemies in double digits, but sometimes there was an orc of that same level that could kill me. The "Sacrifice" button was getting rid of enemies, but I did not see my health going down.

It's relatively simple game, with a solid game loop, so I found myself quickly doing one run after another.

. please don't put anything next to the game folder in the zip (Credits.txt)
. sexy menu work, sounds reminded me of GTA SA, probably because I don't usually play JRPGs, which might be closer
. Q/W instead of Q/E for tab switching is odd, but minor
. nice tutorial intro, would have skipped if it was the whole wall of text instantly
. text might be too slow by default
. the dungeon diving is pretty exciting even without understanding it directly, the images and sounds feel like solid intuitive feedback at first impressions
. I can appreciate the value that time pressure adds, but without the knowledge of what happened, I feel punished for trying to read the text, which seems to be against the point of having the text in the first place, at the same time I don't know how you'd go about fixing that without removing the thril
. gem polishing button mashing feels funny after getting read some morals about this not being a gacha
. I'm unclear as to what the lore explanation for running out of time is
. also was confusing about low health between runs, thought that I'd start the new run with low health, not that I know how health works atm
. feels like I'm navigating a 2D dungeon, but not seein it
. extremely responsive
. all feels good, but I can't seem to predict what's going to happen at all, which makes it hard to plan, not sure if that's a downside or an upside 
. aggy monke is a nice touch
. I see, the timer is my lantern light, that makes more sense now
. dance music started, not sure what caused it

This is the kind of game I like to find, both fresh and familiar at the same time, all wrapped up in a smooth experience.  I think you're onto something with the quick-fire event system, makes we want to prototype something similar. Definitely gonna make it.

Thanks for suggesting your game! Here's the recording of the stream I did:

Fun gameplay loop.

- I disliked the slow UI with the slow jumping cursor. Going from Adventurer to Options takes waaay too long. Maybe I'm missing some UI interaction here.

got most of the stuff by level 6 seems like if you just hang around the top floors of the dungeon you can farm materials risk free I might be misunderstanding though. very fun game it definitely has an addictive gameplay loop.

I played until there were no more upgrades to get

Even though it's not really my type of game, I still had fun collecting stuff. Pretty good!