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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Style | #1035 | 3.857 | 3.857 |
| Overall | #2191 | 3.265 | 3.265 |
| Enjoyment | #2882 | 2.898 | 2.898 |
| Creativity | #3321 | 3.041 | 3.041 |
Ranked from 49 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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Build or Die was created to specifically target "scale" as an ever-expanding city builder full of small funky creatures such as blobs and slimes.
Development Time
96 hours
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love this cute game so much,wish for more content to play ,spent lot of time this game : )
This is super super cute! I really like the game mechanic and concept, I wish there was a way to get some points faster as it seemed to be quite slow from how far I got - not necessarily like a clicker element, but something more rapid than random enemy spawning times.. food for thought, I really liked playing it though!
Cute game, I like how blobby all the slimes were! Could definitely do with a bit of balancing though, the early game is very slow, and there was one point in the late game where suddenly all my soldier slimes (2 barracks worth build up over many many waves) all died suddenly. Fun though, great job!
the only thing that frustrated me was enemies' collider but overall it was fun to play in terms of tower defence game, good entry :)
Charming game with a great art style! As others have commented, I feel like the early game could be adjusted to be a little quicker or perhaps the buildings could be cheaper and then gradually scale in cost with the more buildings you have or the number of waves you survived. Good entry and interpretation of the theme!
i really like the idea of a city builder where you have to balance progressing your town and defending yourself at the same time! though, i do think the beginning is a bit too slow-moving. maybe there could be more workers, or a way to get more workers early on? still its a very cute little game!
Nice to see another city building game! Hard to start this one though....
Nice game, and it's very cute! The only problem is that it seems to be a bit hard for starters, and is quite boring at the beginning. Perhaps making a level 1 Town Hall having more Gathering units could improve this?
The artstyle is very polished! It makes the characters seem a lot more alive and present.. Great game, I had fun!
Yes yes yes. This is great! Way better if you download it than play in browser (using Brave on windows). Color scheme is perfect, super cute game. Now to go binge it..
I love this art style, it's so pretty! The blobs are adorable, especially the gatherers with their tiny bags :)
I'd agree with other commentors that it's a bit of a slow start - I had around five or six farms placed as close as possible to the town hall before I was able to get my first town hall upgrade - but once it gets going this is really intense!
Loved that the blobs would complain if you pick them up, lovely touch :)
Nice entry, loved the art style! In my opinion, things could happen a bit faster, but I liked it anyway :)
I like the art style. Very cute game ! <3
Very good job, I enjoyed playing it ^^
Nice art and cool concept! On side a note, I thought the game took a little bit too long for things to "actually start happening" - the game becomes much cooler when you have a bunch of stuff (maybe it's part of the genre, but those are my 2 cents). Overall, good job on the great game!
I LOVE simple city builders, and this one is really cute and fun :) I would love if the costs of stuff was less, but I kept playing because I liked it!
Pretty neat concept, a merging of tower defense, city building and idle games, though I feel the execution could be a bit better. Namely, instead of having waves come on a timer, for an idle game I'd say it'd be better if you could choose to start the wave whenever, but the enemies in it got stronger with time, so you can wait and farm resources or keep em weak while putting your town in danger. Just a suggestion though, really cool game regardless!
That’s an amazing review, thank you very much for your suggestion! We definitely didn’t spend enough time on actually designing the game. We had a rough idea of what we wanted it to look like, but as the jam progressed we realized we’d have to cut back on scope and objectives to make for the slow development speed. Your suggestion is definitely appreciated and could be a step in the right direction for our game!
Love the colour palette (although the text was hard to read sometimes). Not sure if I was doing something wrong but it felt like it was taking a very long time to get my area built up, and seeing that some things cost 100's of currency felt like an unachievable goal. Really fun concept and aesthetic though.
Thanks for the review! You’re right that we should have allocated more time for balancing the game, but you know how it is with these tight jam deadlines :D
Really relaxing to play. I enjoyed playing it !
Banger music headbanged all the way through the game. Also really like the art.
Great game design, good art and music. but I do think the early stage of the game I have a little bit faster paste, but everything else are decent.
Ps: I really like the responds when you click the character.