Had a good time playing this. And I didn't mention Kevin Costner once! Probably should've. That would've seemed relevant.

I really loved the style of this. The graphics are great, especially the sunset model. The music is incredible - the sound design overall is fantastic.  It had the right amount of story. The crafting system seemed to make sense as well. That said, however, I didn't quite find it as much fun to play. The timers felt too short, and the UI a bit too fiddly, to really bother with crafting or trying to use the weapons properly.   All too quickly you would die, and it became easier to just luck into any needed food/water as opposed to grinding materials.

There was too much time spent in darkness, which never allowed any sense of location when diving down, and made it even harder to see the effect of the weapons.

This game is incredible for the time put in! I like me some Terraria so the game was mostly up my street. The visuals, lighting and sound were especially good.

Only real thoughts I got are it's pretty easy to get lost in the labyrinthine abyss, plus it's occasionally tricky to tell what you can break and what you can't at a glance. 

The traps didn't feel too useful, felt like I could get away with just using throwing spears.

Likewise, as food heals you (which I like, btw) it does make Bandages feel a bit redundant. Especially with how plentiful food is in the sea. 

I feel like mouse-wheel should change the active slot on the hotbar. Just something I've some to expect from games like this, heh. 

Perhaps consider adding a button like in Terraria where pressing it consumes anything edible in your inventory? So a button for using any healing item you have, a button for using any food item you have and a button for drinking any fluids you have. Play a tone to let ou know that the attempt failed because you dont have any items for that task or something. This would free up the hotbar for weaponry. 

Quite enjoyable!  The way the sounds became muted underwater and the darkness when you got to the depths helped create a really lonely, foreboding atmosphere.  Even without the pressing need for air, I still felt uneasy exploring for secrets and the like.

I appreciated how your stuff would pop out of you when you died, letting you collect it again if you could get to it - and the plentiful resources near the start to make sure you're not left helpless - but I ran into some issues with my dropped loot's collision:

It's hard to make out in the dark, but I died in a narrow spot to a bunch of leeches/eels and had so much stuff that it lagged like crazy and pushed my body out to the left of the room's walls.  And then respawning got me this:

Slightly beneath the island.  I was able to starve to death and properly appear on the island, but the game was so bogged-down by my old inventory still stuck in that little cave that I couldn't even fight off the first kind of vicious fish without dying.  After a few failed attempts to get back down there, I had to give up.

I'll still have to give this a more proper play again before I can rate it, but I liked what I was able to play.  If you plan on developing this more, I'd suggest adding x10 versions of your inventory pickups so it won't spawn so many distinct items when you die.

I expected, going into this, to hate it because this isn't really my genre, the Terraria-likes, or whatever you want to call them. Buuuut, this game is very awesome. Great job. I love the atmosphere, the music is cool and the way it fades the deeper you go. Sick effect. That's a classic effect for a reason. Solid story, just enough to keep it interesting and motivate the player without it bogging anything down. 

I wish the hotkey setup was a little better. I think you did a good job giving the player enough food and water without that aspect of the game feeling frustrating (Thank you for the urine bottles, lol. That was a colorful bit of flavor as well!) However, in the mid-late game my hotbar setup was knife, throwing spears, explosive spears, fish meat. So every time I had to drink water I had to set water to my hotbar, unpause, drink the water, re-pause, and then click meat, explosive spear, spear, knife in that order. Oof. I think a click-n-drag setup could work, but, especially with consumables, it would be cool if you could just eat them FROM the menu. Like, left click is add to hotbar, right click is consume. Just a thought. 

Small thing, but maybe you could call out negatives stat effects in the inventory differently? Like, maybe the human meat can have red text for "-5 Thirst" instead of the normal white text? I was chomping this stuff down for a bit without realizing i was making it harder for myself. Especially early game where water is a little scarcer. 

I would love tooltips in the crafting menu. Even if it's just tooltips for items you can currently craft (to preserve the mystery or whatever). I'm a big wimp so I was scared to waste resources seeing what stuff did. 

Lastly, this might just be me but I kept trying to press Esc to exit the item menus which paused the game and did not, in fact, exit the menus. 

Great job overall! Impressive for a jam game, for sure.