i have to agree with the previous comments that this game was awesome!! Keep on working at what you are doing cause you are making some good stuff:) 

At this point I don't know what to do. As one of the judges, I want to say this was the best games submitted. BUT, I also want to write a very thick book on game design AND THEN BEAT YOU ABOUT THE NECK AND SHOULDERS WITH IT!

You have a lot of exploration elements in your level design which you increase nicely as you go further in, BUT you have not just one timer, but TWO!  You have a timer on lighting and then you stack another timer for air. I HATE timers in any game. I even hate timers that just tell me how long it took me to finish,  even if it means nothing, because just the fact that it is there puts pressure on. YOU put two timers into a game where I'm expected to take my time exploring and even finding hidden secrets. Time I spend exploring takes away from time I have left to finish the game. 

IF and I do mean IF, buddy! Grrr. If I put you down as one of my top five, expect a nice bit where I talk about things I liked AND THEN A SCATHING RANT ON YOUR F'ING TIMERS. ...And maybe a lesson on how to remove them, but still have a nice mechanic, but only if I'm in a good mood.

Also, can you actually win? I gave up trying to out smart the boulder.

It's an incredibly sprawling game! Really interesting theme, loved the environment though it's absolutely huge! Took me ages to get through it. The free-look mechanic really helped with far quicker navigation though, this was an ace addition.

Sad there were no checkpoints. I was doing really well, collected so many bags (18 or so) and around 23 gold, but when picking up the totem (presumably near the end), I had no idea where to go other than straight - plummeting to my death. Was pretty devastated to find I had to start from the beginning as I wanted to see it through.

Huge variety of things to pick up, and kiting the enemies made for good combat, along with the slider that allowed you to land critical hits, while juggling between the cooldowns of different weapons.

Really interesting premise and a lot of stuff at play here! Good job! Wish I knew what happened at the end!

Very impressive game. I enjoyed it. I had some issues with bugs that I see some other people had but I still really enjoyed my time and think that you guys did a great job.

Stacked my flares together, don't know how to lit one after the first one ran out. Proceed to throw all my flares into the darkness never to be retrieved again.

The game feels really polished. Although the PgUp/PgDown to go up and down is a little bit hard for me since I do not have the PgUp/PgDown as their own buttons but merged into the arrow keys which I also need to press my Fn key for them to work.

Great entry! I did encounter some issues however which then also stopped me from playing through the game unfortunately.

First bug I encountered was by loading during having cooldown on my spear. The Cooldown will then get stuck, even in the loaded game. Once you restart the game, it fixes the bug.

The more severe issue was invisible walls. If I load the game I get invisible walls which I cannot pass anymore. There is this huge underwater room with the key at the top. You enter the room by jumping into a tile in the center of the room and going down. and then forward. However that was not possible anymore after reloading. I then replayed the game to the same point and it worked again. I saved, but died at a point later, reloaded, and now had a different invisible wall I couldnt pass. So basically load/save wasn't possible for me as it broke the game.

Very solid submission, you have so many components of a complete game, that it feels like a complete game. I enjoyed playing it, though combat felt a bit slow and a bit unresponsive.

Very good tutorial and level design, it looks like it was really thoroughly planned.

Great atmosphere. Smooth movement. 

I had some trouble lighting the flares, until I figured out you have to un-stack them.

Solid submission, great job!

"Game completed - Congratulations"

This was amazing.

I think the save system does not work properly, the tiles where you left dead enemies are now stuck. When I realised that I just saved at points where I could not go back and it worked.

I did not use the dynamite, where you supposed to use it for the boulder stack, at first?

It took me a while, it took me some time to find the first underwater key, the maze I mapped with pen and paper and it's actually not that big so it went fast but then the last sequence I truggled with, in part because I did not want to save and get stuck so I kept restarted the entire sequence and got smashed by the boulder a couple of times before finding the right solution to the boulder problem.

The game looks and sounds great. More important since you dealt with 6 directions, it controls great (for some reason pgup and pgdown did not work, but right click is perfect).

Combat works, I was doubtful at first but after you get the knife it does not waste your time. You can step dance if you want to but don't have too and I think it's fine this way.

However the best part of the game is obviously not the combat. The dungeon is excellent, it's just traditional dungeon mechanics put into a 6 direction maze, and it works great.

You've got an involved inventory system and resource management is good too.

The game is quite big, and I loved every sequence. Congratulations.

Hey, I played your game :)

• Its great to see someone that submitted his game like ~20 minutes before the deadline :) I thought I was late when I submitted mine like 2h before the deadline :)
• lovely title screen and background music.. I love when some love and work is put on introductory title screen :)
• superbly detailed walls and graphics! Loved the character subtle bobbing and movement, very professional looking and feel!
• great first puzzle, pulling the wooden box.. very classical puzzle, loved it.
• superb sound effects.. Nothing better than listening your steps and the dungeon sounds :)
• commercial-level tutorial with these scattered notes
• chests, barrels, climbing up and down to other parts of levels, so classical I want to cry :)
• water level as well? omg

Overall, you really need to make a commercial game out of it :) A 5/5 game, so not looking as a 7-day jam entry :) Definitely on my radar for the future, please continue on this :)

Thank you for bringing this to my attention in the discord chat. I would have missed it out otherwise. I really liked the unusual scenario for the game. It reminded me a bit of "The Forest", which has similar "cave-diving" levels. Claustrophobic underwater mazes with survival elements is a cool mix and makes for a great creepy athmosphere. :)

I too had problem in the first underwater passage, but reading the comments helped me with the movement controls. I also died on the first stone trap later on. Didn't save until then, haha. Should have made a warning there, had to start from the beginning again. Apart from that it was pretty smooth sailing though. Dungeon gets more creepy the later you are in the game. :D Also lol@ the final trap at the end.

There are also a lot of cool mechanics in the game, like the pushing crates around or destroying barrels, the rock traps, etc. You managed to do a lot of stuff there and it adds some great depth.

I enjoyed it thoroughly. :)

Nice game, very atmospheric and beautiful to see

The gameplay works, I did had fun exploring these carverns.
The only little flaws were :

- No sound to inform the oxygen tank is about to get empty as the HUD hides while in free-look which is always kept on while exploring the deep blue, especially at the end with the big submerged grotto in which we have to explore each bit of it to find the next way to go

- I did accidentaly dropped a coin while trying to grab it and could not ever after grab it again, though maybe it was just bad luck and fell where the raycast could not reach it

- Autosaves so dying would not make us start all over again

- Informing us about using the freelook button to dive (unless I missed the instruction?)

Anyway, for the rest it's all fine, the gears offered is generous, we can manage to find our way without much extra help and the enemies offer a challenge but a well balanced one

A strong entry with a strong gameplay and visual

Instead of mentioning everything I love about this game I'll list the things I would like to see changed or improved.

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Welp. How can I knock a game that put my ugly mug on a collectible? :)

Great job!

I only managed to get to the under-water bit.  Not sure if I was doing something wrong, but it seemed like I wasn't descending at the second drop-off.

But as far as I got it looked, sounded and played great.  Very smooth interface.

I wasn't a fan of how many movement inputs it saved.  For me, just remembering the next potential movement is ideal.  Any more than that and I tend to over-shoot.

The flare stacking and respawning was a little annoying, but I assume that's not finished.

EDIT:  I got it.  I actually really like the free-look mode and the way it snaps to the closest grid view when you let go.

very atmospheric game i like it!

This is great! Great graphics, great environment design, authentic dungeon-crawler "feel" to puzzles and gameplay.

Great job! :)

Hey! I decided to check out your entry and I have to say I'm pretty impressed!

here are some things I liked 

• I very much enjoyed the moving crates around puzzle!
• I liked being able to look around freely
• enjoyed the graphics
• Liked the feeling of discovering chests and looting them, made me feel like I achieved something 
• Game definitely has an initial "creepy" and unnerving vibe in beginning which I liked

Here are some things I think can be improved on

• enemy dying animation takes a bit too long to occur, making me think its still alive and going to attack me even if its health is below 0
• I felt like the narrative could have used a bit more work, instead of just having the player get dropped into a cave, maybe he's a cave explorer? or maybe he survived some sort of shipwreck and has to explore underwater caverns to survive
• needs some sort of sound in order to alert when you're about to run out of oxygen, perhaps like a drowning sound or whatever, because I didn't even notice I was losing HP rapidly after my oxygen tank ran out

Other than that a solid entry!!

I ran into a bug in the High Fall area that prevented me from continuing - it was once I had dropped the second crate that there was an invisible wall blocking my progress here: 

I suspect that this was due to me saving and loading in that room earlier (I was facing out from the alcove in the switch after having dropped one crate when I did so).

No final thoughts yet - I'm planning on restarting from the beginning to see if it'll work for me if I don't save there, but I'm very impressed so far.

The visuals and systems feel very professional; I wouldn't be surprised to see these in a published game.

Unfortunately I drowned in the first underwater section, because I couldn't figure out how to ascend or descend; it's pretty tough to have a time limit when trying to figure out new controls without a tutorial! I absolutely get that it feels much nicer to be able to navigate the ladders above water with the ordinary direction buttons, but it might still have been best to force the player to learn the up and down controls then, rather than only requiring them when drowning? Also, I'm not sure whether you were able to implement saves/continue points (there is a "load game" in the main menu, at least?); if you were then I think one before the first drowning section would have been a very good idea (or even before the first combat; ideally you don't ever want players to be replaying the early sections of the game that have no challenges).

Still, a very solid entry overall (and of course as I've mentioned I'm a huge fan of the verticality), so great work!

The art/graphics in this entry are superb. I loved the the underwater aspect and want more!

The only real disappointment for me was a lack of music and sound effects.

Incredible work. I hope you release a post game jam version <3