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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Overall fun and playability | #101 | 2.647 | 2.647 |
Ranked from 17 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Theme incorporation
The game has plenty of Cosmic Horror in it. The two endings particularly so.
You can watch me play the whole game through (17 minutes) on easy mode and complete the evil ending: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9z_oy1dsgAg (Spoilers). It's not too difficult. Just search the tents, load the gun with bullets, take medicine and use the mini map to navigate around until you have searched all the graves for the 3 relics and the book.
Alternative good ending: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paHt-IeUKOo (Spoilers).
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The graphics and atmosphere and the looks here were awesome. Wish the combat was on par with the rest of the game and that it was better balanced towards allowing us to complete the game in a timely manner. But I must say that the game was quite addictive and I restarted quite a few times, getting further and further in every time until I managed to complete it!
I have destroyed de Vermis Myseriis, delayed the inevitable and saved the world (for now), in Easy mode so far. I'll switch to other games for now but will see if I can beat the game in Normal mode as well.
The game is fun. The background sound and visuals fit well together and the sound effects are good and snappy. I like the instant movement, the view is good enough and the gun which kills any enemy in one hit including out of straight line is very satisfying, and the difficulty in both modes seems appropriate.
This is a cool entry, thanks for sharing.
The music was good, and the art style was interesting ... but I could not figure out what "square" I was on in the grid, so movement was very difficult. I got killed by a spike trap on the first run, and an enemy on the second run (on easy).
Check out my play through, the game is actually quite easy on easy mode:
Very challenging even on easy. I found avoiding the enemies to be the best strategy but I wasn’t able to find all 3 relics. I think I found 2.
You can find my play through here: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2115206073?t=00h20m32s
Difficult to play. Trying to avoid the enemies I still did not find the three objects. Anytime I engaged in a fight I ended up dead even with a weapon equipped. The scenery is very nice though and sound makes it engaging nevertheless. Pretty nice!
Check out my play through, the game is actually quite easy on easy mode:
This was pretty difficult to the play. The graphics were unique, in a good way. But between the text flooding the screen, the 'short' steps, confusing orientation/perspective and me just bumping into enemies and dying after a while I didnt really know what I was supposed to be doing. I reread the instructions, figured out how to equip the gun/weapons and ran around for a while. I never found anything to progress beyond the forest area.
It has a lot of potential but I think a few things need to be cleaned up to be to take it to the next level.
Check out my play through, the game is actually quite easy on easy mode:
Interessting artstyle and interpretation of a crawler. However navigation let alone orientation was difficult due to the presentation.
A solid entry none the less.
Nice job! great presentation and atmosphere! the general look with the low res graphics made it really stand out
Wow, that was kinda creepy, you really made the most of the low res graphics. But I have to say, that it is very hard to grasp, where I was going. Felt very different to most other jam entries so far, which is not a bad thing.
Played it and beaten the game only on Easy :')
The presentation is awsome and really cool, the ambience is crazy good and I loved it, but turning feels really jarring and for me 40% of the difficulty lies on just trying to understand how to go through the forest, with 60% being the managing items and enemies, also I feel like the setup of it all really is naturally very hard, the placement of tombs is really random and there is no telling were they could which makes the game really tedius and less enjoyable, overall I liked it and it's really polished but I dropped trying to get the alternative ending after 4-5 retries in easy mode ahah, maybe I'm just bad I don't know