Pretty fun and relaxing. Took a bit to understand everything but wasn't too bad. Art looks great and everything is distinct and recognizable. Cutting back the darkness and adjusting based off what gets revealed was fun. The game starts slow but can get pretty fast once you get a bunch of buildings running.

Chill town builder with a great idea of exploration! 

Nice game. Seems like a nice cohesive package. I like the mood ambience going on through the game, music gives it a feeling of being relaxing but also of sadness.

I managed to reach the day 197, with different RNG I could probably make it until the end.

One thing I could understand is the hunt ability. It seems like it's an ability of the forests, but I was only able to use it once to get food from the forest. After that, the only thing I could do with forests was to chop them.

Very relaxing game with intuitive controls and great sound design. It took me a couple of retries but I made it past 200 days!

I think the part when the dark comes back was a bit too long and repetitive, all I had to do was a cycle of pray and rebuild a house/farm. The main challenge for me was to remember what tiles to rebuild during the last 20 days.

Other than that I had a lot of fun, I could see this being expanded with more objectives, buildings and types of terrain generation.

very fun and relaxing gameplay.

love this

Awesome strategy game, making art in 64x64 is hard but you certainly made some cool stuff, this game could be a fun mobile game

I played it on my Steam Deck till the end plus a bit more on a new game, I enjoyed the opening text screens very much and the wind rustling in almost complete darkness as you start sets a great mood but I really had a tough time initially parsing and understanding what the hud elements meant and how to progress forwards. Once I got the gist of the game and its resource management down I enjoyed my stay in your game quite a lot.

All things considered it’s a really beautiful game graphically speaking and the audio as well as music are really atmospheric and match up with the gameplay exquisitely. However the gameplay itself felt a bit unintuitive for me personally and is perhaps limited by the nature of the jam. A short explanation of resources and such on the itch page might help a bit.

Awesome little resource management game! I really enjoyed trying to outpace the encroaching darkness. It really adds urgency to the decisions you have to make in a way I enjoyed! Great game!

This is amazing ^^ I drew the map down and played it a second time to try remove all the darkness before 200 days, I had a million churches but I couldn't do it ToT This game reminds me of Stop The Darkness, but in reverse, so this could have been like a sequel to it I guess :) really good game!

Amazing! I've said that about a few but I haven't played any of them as long as I have this one. The ending was painful. Great job!

An interesting idea and implementation, I'm just stuck in this game. It's especially cool to find combinations of buildings and develop faster through them. The darkness perfectly gives a limitation that forces you to plan better.

That's awesome. Very sweet gameplay, nice music and mood. Played with great pleasure.

Really cool city builder! I guess it's kind of the point but I found it a bit dark, haha, rather eye-strainy. Otherwise everything is very clean and clear and the curve is learn as you go which I like a lot. And the context sfx were a neat touch.

Good job!

Absolutely gorgeous! I didn't play for all too long, but from what I've gathered there's a lot you've managed to pack into this jam!

The game did feel quiet slow for me at points, I was just waiting for resources to generate. But everything else, from the sounds to the music to the art, were so so good!

Great work!

Amazing little game Darenn!

The light system is great, though it is sometimes hard to distinguish between a normal dark tile and a tile that was reclaimed by the dark.

I really appreciated your sound design, the music is great and the fact that you hear different sounds depending on the tile you are highlighting is great attention to detail! 😁

I build so many churches! But alas, I lost at day ~190 😅

Just amazing 5/5. I loved every second of the game. Even though I lost on day 190... sad. Now I am starting again. This game taught me that I need god. Amazing work! btw, how did you do the animation for the screen before you click "Run Game" ? 

Game was awesome. My favorite so far. The mood is perfect and I'm a sucker for these kind of games. How did you implement the fog of war?

Honestly a really pleasant game. Receiving the initial goal at the start piques curiosity really well. Some of the buildings are a bit obscure but by the end of the game I knew how everything worked through experimentation. There's lots of wiggle room, but it gets really tense near the end.

Loved the exploration and building aspect of the game. Really relaxing music and sound effects, congrats for the game, you really nailed it!