Challenging game! I included it in my Love Jam compilation video series, if you’d like to take a look. :)
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Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
Graphics | #6 | 3.881 | 4.000 |
Sound | #10 | 3.214 | 3.313 |
Overall | #10 | 3.289 | 3.391 |
Mood | #11 | 3.456 | 3.563 |
Gameplay | #27 | 2.607 | 2.688 |
Ranked from 16 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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Charming, voice acting is solid, sets a good mood with humorous overtones to a dirty job. Gameplay was confusing at first, though your tutorial helped clear it up.
Oh god, I love and hate this game, all at once.
First the bad: holy shit, I have no idea how to "rub at a low frequency"
The good: Absolutely everything else. The progression, the voice overs, the interface, the book, the graphics, I love it. What a great job, absolutely addicting. I ended up taking 40 minutes to finish the game! Great job!
The voice acting hit me like a sack of bricks, it was amazing. Really impressive given the timeframe. You really nailed the aesthetic you were going for, it felt like a weird mix between janitor and grungy cop.
I feel like the poop cleaning was a little too far on the side of frustrating and not quite satisfying enough. The steps that needed speed were fine, but hitting the right frequency when cleaning slowly was a little painful. Maybe a more robust feedback system would help with that, on top of the sparkles you've currently got
Great job.
Thank you so much! I agree. I totally knew it was going to be really hard to understand and I really squeezed in that little feedback I managed to get in, but I guess I should have concentrated on that more instead of all the other stuff around it, though that was more fun and it seems like other people appreciate it as well :D Thank you for the nice comment!
Absolutely hilarious (well, as hilarious as poop can be) set up. Sadly, no matter how many substances I put up and how much I scrubbed with different things, the green sludge/poop was not coming off! So I didn't make it very far. Nothing seemed to happen. ;(
Awesome voice acting and sound work though.
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