I’m not really a shooter guy, despite one of my biggest hopes for the jam being that someone would make a wheel-based shooter. This game has friction, and its flavor is of a bygone era of boomer-shooter cruft. It’s unrelenting and brutal – this is a shooter where you will take damage. It reminds me a lot of DOOM II in terms of both its casual rage and its sprawling levels.
The multi-tiered lava level is incredibly well put-together. The ending level’s atmosphere was so powerful that I was reminded of the Burnt Ivory King arena in Dark Souls II. It’s honestly messed up that you tricked me into enjoying a shooter, and I walked away thinking “yeah the Oblivion Wheel thing was cool or whatever but holy shit, the level design.”
Really fabulous game, wild effort for a week. I think if you spent some time polishing this (or just making another shooter and polishing that) you could make something really incredible.