I really dig this game's aesthetics. It's very cohesive between gameplay, visuals, and sound - great work!

-The atmospheric sfx really helped with mood, combined with the reduced color scheme

-the map and UI were very clean and readable

-gameplay loop of going in the sub and exploring on foot is interesting and fun. I really enjoy the concept of having a vehicle to enter/exit

Fun entry! The gameplay was a little slow, but I understand the intention behind it. It was an enjoyable experience!!

Okay... Let's see this...
Art is very nice, simple, but still looks great. I also really like the submarine idea, it's a really creative way to make a game about exploring underwater.

But man, that was really draining, I'm so sorry :,3
The movement is fine, really, I don't mind it being slow, and I'm glad you had the courage to commit to it, but really, if you're gonna go for slow gameplay, the level design needs to support it. The map is just MASSIVE, when I pressed esc for the first time and saw that yellow dot aaaaaallll the way up to the opposite side of where I was I was legit filled with pure DREAD of having to walk that entire ginormous path. And the fact I knew it was gonna be just a single upgrade and that I would still have to backtrack AGAIN to be able to open stuff right where I already was made matters even worse. Combat is also just non-existant, none of the enemies poses any threat and killing them with the submarine just doesn't feel satisfying at all, wich made me feel like I was just traversing huge chunks of emptiness the entire time.

I also really missed some music here, or at the very least some ambience sounds to be constantly playing on the background instead of every once in a blue moon, because silence really just demotivates me entirely. (I gueeesss silence is more atmospheric?? Idk man, to be really sincere, atmospheric games are just not my thing, like, at all).

Also, the game's resolution simply didn't fit well on my screen, so I couldn't see the lower half of the HUD, and by consequence I also couldn't read any of the dialogues properly


I only played until I got the mines upgrade, and I admit I was already going to stop there, I was already not willing to go any further than that point, but then the upgrade aparently just bugged and didn't work, so that was just the excuse I needed to get out for once. No clue if I was doing anything wrong, the mines just didn't want to come out, wheter I was inside the submarine or not, but oh well.

I'm sorry man, I really really tried to have fun here, but I couldn't think on anything to do for that honestly, I just didn't really wanted to mess around here, so I just got kinda... bored.

But hey, this is still a very impressive entry nonetheless, I admire how you managed to pull out a map this big and filled with good looking visual props in a single month, and as I said, I have huge respects for you diving fully head on on your vision for the game, even if I not enjoyed it at the end. And it's also a complete package, wich already deserves praise by itself.

Absolutely incredible game! The slow movement could be annoying at at times but it does wonders for the atmosphere and I honestly wouldn't change it by too much. What I would add is checkpoints - I quit after my first death because I was very far along the path to the final upgrade and being sent all the way back to the start was extremely demotivating. Atmosphere is definitely the game's strong suit, everything feels nice and creepy and even though the game wasn't all that difficult I still felt constantly vulnerable thanks to the slow movement. Overall, good job!

I got very Master Blaster vibes from this game, so that was cool - a very good use of the Grow and Shrink theme. The atmosphere was great too, the black and white and only occasional sound effect gave the whole world a very unsettling vibe, and the intro did a good job of setting the treacherousness of the trench up.

Some things I struggled with

1. The speed and pace of play. I get that you're underwater and the speed of movement did a really good job of selling that atmosphere, but it just took forever to do anything or get anywhere, especially if you died and had to start over. I would have enjoyed a better balance between realism and speed.

2. Once you get the submarine, it's kind of hard to know what exactly the little guy is used for. I sent him outside the submarine to get some fish sometimes, but his gameplay didn't feel super differentiated aside from not having a weapon, and I would usually just sprint to the fish and then hit escape to go back to the sub. Giving him his own particular niche aside from being able to fit through one-tile gaps would help with this.

I admittedly didn't get super far in the time that I played (by the fourth time I died, I didn't have it in me to navigate through the cave system again), so I don't have a lot more feedback. I think if you were trying to sell a very oppressive, alien atmosphere that makes you feel super vulnerable, then you definitely succeeded at that. 

Very creative application of the Grow and Shrink theme through the submarine/astronaut switch mechanic!

The game has an excellent 1-bit(?) aesthetic, and I appreciate the minimap, though like previous commenters have said the incredibly slow movement makes traversing the large map very tedious. If the player and submarine were twice as fast it would've been awesome.

But great game otherwise!!!

I tried to play it and really want to like it but the movement and jump are really slow. It seems the maps are well designed and I really like the art and aesthetic. I think I can potentially enjoy playing this, it would be nice to play if the character had a faster movement speed.

Nice. The atmosphere worked well, and the sfx felt coherent. I also really enjoyed the opening cutscene. 

The movement felt quite slow to me and having a soundtrack to listen to might have made it feel less monotonous. 

Nice job!

Atmosphere was quite good, I especially liked the SFX.

I liked the art. Its simple but atmospheric. I would have liked more in the way of general looping ambience to properly set the mood of being underwater. The movement and the jump felt really slow. The loop back to the start when getting the part was nicely done.

Nice entry.