Lots of stuff going on here!  I like the aesthetic and the somber mood of it.  I enjoyed reading the intro, and felt that the game is much more complex than I would have expected, which is nice!  It has some UI issues/bugs that I'm sure could easily be resolved after the Jam, the only thing I took issue with was now low the field of view was, it was hard to navigate doe to this.  Otherwise very well made so far.

Before rating or commenting on the game, I think using a simple zip file is a better approach than having an installer...

Good atmosphere, lots of working systems, oppressive surroundings. Combat was a bit slow for my liking, but objectively, it worked well. Good thing I read some comments here and found out there's a minimap, otherwise I would've been helplessly lost, haha. Once I put that up, everything became 100x better and I could work my way to the end. But I have to admit that I fled from most combats, only choosing to engage groups of 1-2 enemies, for brevity sake.

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The awful field of view gives a wrong first impression of a game which is actually quite cool. I also got one case of crash in the beginning, but then it did not happen anymore and I managed to complete the game although I had to flee from 3 encounters at the very end, not sure if it's a 100% chance flee or if I just got lucky. Inventory UI is not perfect (I think it's the inability to directly equip a piece of equipment and it would automatically replace the previous one which feels a bit weird) but it's fine in the context.

I wonder if you can use the Cure skill outside combat.

The choices between different levels is interesting although in practice I did not check if it makes any difference. Either way the dungeons are fun to explore, with different layouts, chests and looking for the way to activate the next lift.

The gameplay aspects of the game are pretty good. FOV aside movement is instant and then good. The character system is cool and I greatly enjoyed the fights in this one, it controls pretty well and as fast as you click, it's well balanced and finding better equipment and some rare healing consumables was satisfying, you're constantly near the edge of death, the game is very tense and all the more fun for that.

Overall this was a cool entry, thanks for sharing.

You managed to get lots of underlying systems in place here, and they serve the game well. Movement feels good, combat is nice, leveling/equipment adds depth, etc. One note I will add is that healing items and food seem to be either not available as regular loot or very rare, because I was just opening chest after chest of largely useless equipment. The environment textures really just need to be set to not use linear filtering, I think.

The minimap is incredibly helpful - nothing like knowing where you're going! The opening seeds of the story seem interesting as well.

Full playthrough here:

Interesting game. Movement is ok, but the short sight makes it a bit hard to navigate. I just run from all combat occasions, cause I could not do any damage. Had an error occur after going to the top level in the elevator which crashed the game.

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FATAL ERROR in
action number 1
of Create Event
for object enemy_formless_obj:
Variable enemy_formless_obj.skills_list(100123, -2147483648) not set before reading it.
at gml_Object_enemy_formless_obj_Create_0
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stack frame is
gml_Object_enemy_formless_obj_Create_0 (line -1)
called from - gml_Script_choose_random_enemies_stress_scr (line -1) - <unknown source line>
gml_Object_combat_cont_Create_0
called from - gml_Script_group_cont_create_combat_scr (line -1) - <unknown source line>
gml_Object_group_cont_Step_0

I see you’ve managed to get a lot of systems working which is impressive, equipment, turn-based combat with skills and many stats, multiple targets, traps/hazards, minimap, etc. Plus some story bits. Certainly more than I did, so well done there.

The difficulty seems plausibly well-tuned. I died early but I can see getting a lot further by running from large groups of enemies and only levelling on smaller ones.

The first impression in play is a low FoV and some muddy upscaled textures directly blocking your whole sight when facing a wall, which is something I would try to address in the future. I noticed can also move two steps at the same time / diagonally by pressing the keys together, not sure if that’s a problem but it feels a bit too floaty for my liking.

The combat button confirmations are a bit unintuitive/tedious to click through.