This is a really cool concept!
The only time I've seen something similar to this is UnMetal, a Metal Gear Solid spoof game framed as a shaggy dog story. where you could pick responses to alter the gameplay of a section.  Often unwittingly.

I only got the good ending where I buy an equal boat and die happy.  I tried one more time, and might have tried again, but I knackered my wrist digging for treasure.  And pulled my back,  That was probably bad ergonomics on my part.

Cool entry!

This was genuinely one of my favourite games from this jam. After watching it on Captain Coders stream I knew I had to play it!

First of all the art style is amazing and feels like it came right out of the classics!

The dungeon layouts are interesting, and I especially like the mansion with the hedge maze!

The one kinda sore spot I found was the pirate island level, while I LOVE the look and feel of it (I forget if I said it on stream but it felt like if Monkey Island was rendered in Dungeon Master or something), it was very confusing trying to find the treasure and I ended up dying to Captain Carrion.

Aside from that, I really don't have any complaints, this was an amazing entry, and while I would enjoy a full-length version of it, I really appreciate how short and sweet you kept it. Better to have some game that's all good, than a lot of game that's boring!

Oustanding work!

Nice to have the option to move a little bit around to choose between different quests. Great work with graphics and game well crafted. The only disadvantage I found was maybe the slowness in the camera movement when pressing the keyboard buttons. So good!

Great style, I really like how old stylied the game looks. The idea and quest difficulty was very good, it is a fun idea that adds a lot to the feel of the gameplay, I would really like to see it be expanded on. The mirror portals were also good to use, and were a fun way to escape from enemies. 

The combat is a bit too basic , it would be nice for that to be expanded on with some skills or other effects to make it more fun. Beside combat the rest of the game was great, very good work on it and it was fun to play.

I love the art and your implementation for it. Looks totally legit old school.

Game idea was interesting as well, I found myself bargaining with the collectors essentially setting the difficulty for the quest. I wasn’t able to find the treasure on the island though, looks like I’ve missed something in the description, but nonetheless I managed to gather the funds needed for the new ship and sail away.

I’ve also loved the second level, the way you can teleport with the mirrors to get away from enemies were brilliant.

Surely a great entry! Would love to see more of that.

One of the best entries this year.

I was looking forward to this and you delivered.

The idea and implementation and art style are great!

Spend over an hour on this one and do not regret a single minute. Got away with 7500 Pound. While I found the secret entry to the mansion and got 5k there but then I failed to get around the captain and failed to lure the devils(?) away (1250 each) in the mirror section.

Certainly exceeds my expectations for a crawler made in 9 days!

Well done! 

Any chance that you are you expanding on this one?

I like the story around this one! I included it in my compilation video series of all of the games from the Dungeon Crawler Jam.

Nice and interesting gameplay in this one!

Picking what happened and the level generating a level from that and then executing it is such a great idea.

Well Done!

Just lovely!  The graphics, especially all of the enemies are really impressive and just gorgeous.  The "classic" perspective takes a little getting used to and turns it into a bit of a puzzle to figure out exactly where enemies are standing :D.  I only found 2 secret doors, but, I really like that the map highlights the walls that I've bumped into, so very satisfying.  Took me a while (like, until the final level I played, which was the pirate island) to figure out _exactly_ what the aggro range of the enemies were (I figured it'd be either a diamond or a square pattern, neither of which was quite right, didn't expect the circleish pattern :).  I managed to beat all levels on hard mode, and really enjoyed doing it, though I probably spent nearly 2 hours on it, with drawing a map by hand for one of the levels =).

Loved this game!  Being able to layout the level and choose the difficulty while telling a story was incredible design. The game worked smoothly and was easy to follow and play. Great work!

I adore everything about this game. Perfect length. Perfect controls. Perfect interface. Perfect! Perfect! Perfect!

If you would like to rewatch my playthrough, you can find it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Q-icuLI6K8&t=6670s

Wonderful game and good concept! The effort is really there and the aesthetics nailed the classic feel really well.

I was a bit scared that it's keyboard only the the controls are really simple and work perfectly without a mouse.

The SFX that's in the game is good. Only thing I was missing is some soundtrack, although it doesn't take away from the good gameplay.

As usual, this is such a fantastic entry!

I told you that the flashback is one of my favorite tropes in tabletop games. It lets the players set expectations and difficulty before jumping into a one-off adventure. You’ve captured that here beautifully.

Since you can set the constraints, each level can be replayed differently, encouraging us to keep playing it without relying on the usual replayability suspects (I’m looking at you, RNG).

The graphics are fantastic, the overall aesthetic is polished, and everything feels cohesive.

The only suggestion I’d have would be to allow for “narrator interference” during a level. What I mean is, it would be neat if you get stuck, or are losing a fight, being able to say use the Power of Narration(tm) to be able to have Reginald say “That’s how you’d think it would go down, but actually brought my trusty lockpicking kit and the lock posed no problem,” or “It was a that moment that my trusty manservant showed up, despite my having gone at this alone”.

Anyway, great concept, full of charm. I love it.

I did it in the end.

I love that the optimal stealth gameplay is an alternative to implemented, traditional party-based crawler gameplay, it's infinitely more cool (and a more cool implementation of the matching theme) than if that latter part wasn't implemented, and the first runs playing this way before looking for the optimal way are fun too.

The visuals are awesome, a ton better than in your games from previous years which already looked pretty good, that's impressive.

the game plays as fast as you press the buttons, the plot is cool, the idea of choosing difficulty for rewards is a great implementation of the themes.

Overall a great game.

Short but sweet. Too short in fact. I would like it to be hours longer. The graphics and general feel hits hard and takes me back to the glory days. Visually and technically everything is spot on (and then some). Really cool way to tie in story telling and dungeon difficulties. Love the concept! The fact that it's also 100% keyboard controlled is a plus in my book. Fantastic job once again :)

I did find find two bugs but they were of little importance. Player can strafe through some stones, and if you try to load a game if you haven't saved before then it just goes to a black screen and dies.

What can I say, another awesome entry this year. Incredible art, awesome player choice to influence the story you are telling (playing), movement is on point and it feels like a crawler straight out of the early Might and Magic era. The mechanic reminds me of the entry from last year in a way, which is fine as it is different enough and you get to make some neat choices that impact the story you are retelling. There's really nothing to complain about except the difficulty for the "more money" scenarios but that goes along with the push your luck mechanic. I wanted to find the mask!

Great job, awesome entry!

Gameplay here, begins at the 1h 6m mark

What a neat way to frame the story!!! Really fun to build your own experience in a way and gamble on how far you'll be able to go with your BS. GORGEOUS Spritework.  Whole thing comes together beautifully. Chef's kiss

A delightful experience! Dave really knows his storytelling stuff and just like last year this game creates a unique atmosphere. This one is quite humorous and I really enjoyed the presentation. Combat was tight and fine, movement was solid, graphics charming and very retro.

One of my favorites so far!

I think the setup, the general structure, is brilliant. It does remind me a bit of the books from last year but also very different. The graphics was really neat and I laughed when that guard did its jump animation. Very good one indeed.

The game does require you to focus up, and understanding what you are doing when building the story. But it also was quite forgiving. But for people with sometimes lacking attention, it would have been really good with a quest system or summary or such that allowed me to remember what I had committed to.

I think though, what mostly was lacking for me was the goal or a larger economy tied to how I did with the treasures. But that is probably not feasible within the jam scope. Now the final sum quite like a high-score which didn’t fit the game that well.

A bit could have been helped with having different outcomes depending on the amount and made it clear (without telling exactly what the others were) how well you did. Maybe the game did that, but it wasn’t obvious. Also a bit from not knowing what was a good amount or a bad one. Perhaps we could have seen a listing from a harbor newspaper with different boats and their costs, something like that, before starting.

Anyways very cool entry!