Another fun Diablo-inspired hack-n-slash by ELV! This game gets a lot of things right, such as the straightforward level design, simple story, and action-packed gameplay. The visceral critical hits, complete with voice clips, give them the much-needed impact they deserve. The destructible objects in the levels were also a nice touch that leads into a yet-to-be-implemented crafting system.

There are some odd design choices that were no doubt also results of the Diablo heritage and some issues with the writing that hold the game back from reaching its full potential. For example, this is a melee character with only 2 directions to face, so why make the character turn in the direction of the mouse cursor? It adds an extra step that feels janky. Also, equipping helmets and armors with the right click was easy enough, but trying to get the right sword in the desired hand was always a touchy experience that took some trial-and-error to get right (and sometimes resulted in me accidentally dropping or selling a sword). I think some of the inputs could be consolidated and some interactions could be changed, such as using the same key to attack and interact with characters (make it context-aware), and use attacks to free captive allies from cages instead of pressing the "talk" key. The fewer buttons the player has to remember, the better.

As for the writing, I may not expect much depth from a game like this, but there were so many typos and grammar errors that it bothered me throughout my playthrough. It was never so bad that I couldn't understand what was going on, but present enough to be constantly annoying.

There also seems to be a bug with the talking mechanic: if I leave the castle while a character is talking, I can't attack on the next battlefield.

Overall, this game is a fun experience; it just has a few things to polish before it truly shines.

Fun and addicting game! Mowing down enemies is quite satisfying, and using specials to deal huge AOE damage is great. Also cool to pick up so much gear and get super strong. Controls were a bit overwhelming at first, but after a stage or two they sunk in I think, and I'm very bad at using keyboards for games. A few suggestions in case of future jams:

-Some features, like the materials gathering (wood, mining stuff) seems to have no use at all. I wasted a lot of time slicing trees and rocks, but with no actual point to it. In this case, less is more. Not having the cuttable trees would improve the gameplay.

-Similarly, gear builds up super fast. I kept a lot and was careful about what I threw away because I was anticipating selling it. But there was no shop anywhere.  Something as simple as a potion exchange in the fortress would have given me a chance to unload my gear.

-There were suggested levels for the stages, but I didn't see any visible levels. Was this not a feature added yet? If so, those level prompts could have been removed.

-I was expecting a longer game due to the visible stages later on, so I rushed some parts. Taking those out would have provided a better idea of game length.

So basically, if there were a few things removed from the game, it would have been perfect for the jam.

Insanely good game ELV, everything was on point!

I played now all games of this jam and I can tell you, there is no other game in this jam like this. First I had a problem to get the game started, because I didn't know I need to press 'F' to continue with the dialog. It would be great if I could swap items.  I died on a creep and the creep died with me, that was a little bit disappointing. But all in all great submission.

Fun game with a lot of content.  Started off easy enough but after a few levels I had to start thinking more strategically. The combat was really satisfying and I liked the loot system. One of the swords I got had an icon for armour, which confused me a bit.  Overall I had really good time playing this, good job!

My pc Keep's deleting the download as high risk =/ Really suck's to, was looking forword to trying this game