A neat concept and an fun tension between growing and shrinking! Definitely gets you in the one more round mentality! Great job :)
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Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
Overall | #386 | 3.947 | 3.947 |
Creativity | #390 | 4.068 | 4.068 |
Style | #540 | 4.136 | 4.136 |
Enjoyment | #789 | 3.636 | 3.636 |
Ranked from 44 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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Your bacteria swarm scales in size, which impacts the difficulty of the game, as the immune system reacts to the danger.
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Nice art style! Way more easier once you figure out you don't have to avoid everything! xD
Fantastic art style! The game is really fun too, although it's a bit hard even in easy mode. Can't imagine how hard it'll be in hard mode xD
Hi, you queued this on my stream and I didn't get around to playing it, sorry! But amazing game! This is a really interesting concept I like it a lot. Very well made with great art and sounds! I was slightly able to just spam increase my swarm to get past everything but all in all still super fun! Well done
Even if you play it on easy, it's hard, and I didn't even try hard :D the game feels really well polished and the art is amazing! Amazing job!
god this game is hard even on easy! It's an interesting challenging to keep adapting your size to avoid threats or try and tank through some obstacle
I wished the camera was a bit faster, tho. As you keep dying and repeting the pacing became more frustrating.
Oh this is fun.
Easy mode was already pretty hard for me but it's a cool game! I love that I can increase and decrease my number with scroll. The immune system is also an interesting concept. It definitely has that "let's do one more time" kick. Nicely done!
Loved the game mechanics, the graphics can be improved later, and overall game is great!
Great concept! Found myself using the scroll wheel a lot to add more cells but there are probably other better strategies.
This is so well made, especially the art but every aspect feels really good! Very happy to see another germ based game too!
I really loved the game, really fun to play. Even in easy mode it was difficult for me :d
Nice game
VOD https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2231041483
I have to say, this was on the upper echelon of the more unique games I played this jam. I can't quite say I've seen anything like it and it is satisfying to boot. There isn't much in terms of gameplay loop as it is just two levels with some randomness attached, but the concept lends itself to a lot of ideas to iterate upon it, and that really is the beauty of having such a weirdly unique concept that has nothing to compare against.
The only real piece of feedback I can come up with is that it took me a bit to figure out what some enemies do, especially the one that slows down lead to some unfortunate losses, but nothing that can't be ironed out easily.
Nice game ! I find it difficult even in easy mode X) may be I'm just not very good at it. I like the idea of growing our own bacteria army.
It felt cool to essentially attack by multiplying yourself! Instead of trying to minimize losses, you have to defeat the immune system with overwhelming force. It was kind of difficult at first, but I ultimately beat the hard mode level by just constantly swiping my scroll wheel up (which honestly felt really cool) and keeping my mouse in the center of the screen. Even when the screen kept panning away from the bacteria, I could keep multiplying them, and they would eventually catch up with the camera. I could see this being a really unique sort of on-rails, on-the-fly RTS with some balancing to the scaling effect. Maybe there's a resource that dictates how many more bacteria you can create... Maybe to further add to the risk versus reward, you need to consume blood cells to refill it.
This mechanic is absolutely GENIUS! Instantly creates a risk/reward loop and need to develop a strategy. On top of that, every interaction is super satisfying thanks to the fantastic sound effects combined with cute reactive art. Nicely done!!
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