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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Style | #16 | 4.717 | 4.717 |
| Overall | #161 | 4.120 | 4.120 |
| Enjoyment | #355 | 3.873 | 3.873 |
| Creativity | #1033 | 3.771 | 3.771 |
Ranked from 205 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does your game fit the theme?
Our game explores deep sea gigantism and how deep sea marine life is at a bigger scale than that closer to the water surface. This theme is reinforced in the visuals of the game with the depth meter on the side.
Development Time
96 hours
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I loved it.
We love to hear it! Thanks for playing!
I've had this game on my radar for a while, and really wanted to play/rate it, and I'm so glad I got to before the jam ended. This game is incredible, especially so for game jam standards. A full OST, beautiful visuals and likable characters, and a literal ocean worth of content to explore. Great job!
Thanks for stopping by before the rating window closed! The whole team put 110% into making this game so we’re super happy people like you are enjoying it so much!
The visuals and idea are amazing. With more fish entries this could possibly become a full fledged game :)
We can’t wait to start working on expanding what we have! It will have to wait though as we wrap up our current ongoing project but we’ll be sure to update the page with details as we go!
Subnaitica! Love this!
Thank you!
Very excellent game love it
glad to hear :D
This game is incredible! As others have said, it feels like it could be a full game. Aside from the bugs that are noted on the game page, everything I saw was really polished and I have no complaints. Excellent work!
Thank you so much for playing :D
Awesome game! Things are really polished, I loved the art, and it's fun to discover an assortment of fish and their dialogue.
I didn't realize there was a bug with the bobbit worm and was about to try to scan it for the third time before seeing it in the known bugs, I think it may be good to make that a bit more visible in the page. Trying to scan it was fun and the first time seeing it was definitely a little terrifying 😂
Also, I like the cat
We initially had the list outside a drop down menu but wanted to avoid spoilers. Given how late it is in the voting period it probably won’t help put too much anymore :( We’ll probably make sure our bugs are more clearly indicated for future releases though!
That definitely sounds like a tricky thing to balance, it definitely had more impact since I didn't expect it
This feels like a full game that you could buy! And that I would want to buy! Great job!
Thank you so much!! We've been considering expanding it since a bunch of people seemed to be interested. Thank you for playing and glad you had fun!
Good lord this is absolutely gorgeous
Thank you for the support!! :D
Great job! The polish is impressive for a four-day jam. The gameplay is solid as well; I would like to see more frequent upgrades and be able to track how much fish I am actively scanning are worth.
Overall, not many complaints though, phenomenal submission!
Thanks for playing! A better upgrade tree was in the works but unfortunately had to be cut due to the jams deadline. We found that a fully functional but simple set of upgrades was better than an unfinished, broken, and jumbled mess of additional abilities and stat changes. If we move into a full release I’m sure we’ll introduce a wider variety of modifications and improvements for the sub. The fish values were a problem to display on the programming end but I’m not qualified to speak on it myself unfortunately. Thank you for offering up your ideas and comments! It helps us know what to focus on moving forward.
lovely art!
Thank you! Our artists are extremely happy to hear all this positivity!
Absolutely beautiful art and music, love how many parallax layers you added to the background. The characters are so full of warmth too! I had a great time balancing risk and reward deciding when to descend further or return home. A small bit of feedback: the radar UI should blip red dots timed when the little rotating scan reaches them (okay, I have no idea if this is based in reality, but that's how everyone imagines radars work, right? haha)
Thanks so much for the game (:
The radar is something we can definitely fix for sure!! Thank you for playing our game!
A big game! Good art style and chilling atmosphere. Hope there will be an extended version in the future!
We are indeed hoping to expand on this game post-jam :) Thank you so much for the support!
Damn, scope of this game is absolutely crazy. The game is so big, chill original music, artstyle looks very nice, there is even voice acting. It's also really polished. Job well done guys.
Thanks so much for playing! :D
very great game, i really lost myself in this. all the the illustrations that are finished are incredible and the UI is class! really great job on that
only thing i have is that scans should not be stopped if another creature comes in the way.
For sure yeah. The scanning seems to be an issue of prioritizing the most recent fish that comes up during the scanning process when like you said it would be ideal to have scans not be interrupted. If and when we expand on the game we’ll be sure to fix this!
How this game is so polished! it didn't feel like a game jam entry at all! Amazing work!! 10/10
We may or may not have overworked ourselves. The polish is most likely from the time we had to run some quick playtests! The before and after for the play testing might've looked super similar but so many of our quality of life changes came out of getting some player opinions before submission!
Thank you for playing!
Very sweet game with a nice aesthetic! very simple yet incredibly captivating.
Thank you! We’re glad you enjoyed the game!
It doesn’t run on my pc
We’re sorry to hear that. What are your specs? We can see if the issue is possible to resolve without modifying the game files. Otherwise, we’ll add it as a benchmark for minimum performance onto our page.
If you haven’t already, you can try downloading the game to see if that helps.
I’m going to try to download it
Even with 8 people. How? How was something this polished done on time? A very strong game with or without jam restrictions.
We actually overscoped by quite a bit and ended up cutting a lot of content - but still pleasantly surprised that people found the game very polished! One of our biggest focuses for this year was polish, so we treated it as a 2 day jam and used the rest of the time to polish and panic fix things lol.
Thanks so much for the kind words, glad you enjoyed it!!
Treating it like a 2 day jam still resulted in 3 days of implementing features and mechanics (whats overscoping??😗). Fortunately art was done earlier than the programming so the artists could largely take a break. Next year we’ll try and have programming match the pace of the artists so that we can do bigger and better things without the same amount of crunch
insanely polished for 96 hours, goddamn! looks great, plays great, absolutely knocked it out of the park! also managed to do the theme in a way i haven't seen!
It's great to hear that you enjoyed our game. Hopefully there'll be many more just as good in the future eh? Thank you so much.