Good job! Will come and play it more thoroughly, trying to get through a basic test run and at least give it a try! Trying to get to everyone I can!

This is a very fun entry! I really liked being able to switch attacks and passives with the bosses, and it's implemented really well here as I can tell which of the boss' attacks correlate to which cards.

The presentation is phenomenal with a very unique style and incredible music. 

I think the only place where the game really suffers is readability -- normally, intense graphics that clutter up the screen can be fine as the player gets used to them, but there are a few extra places wherein this issue becomes a bit more apparent. Rather than only having to look at myself and the boss, I also need to keep my eye on the cards so that I can pick them up and place them on the screen. Because my eyes are constantly darting around, I lose the boss and have to find it within the thinking time, and then prepare to dodge any attacks it's throwing at me, then look at my cards again to see what I have, all while dodging the boss' attacks...

It is, admittedly, a lot to keep track of lol. I think some easy ways to fix this issue are to maybe place the cards above the player as well for easy reach, and/or have a hotkey system so that the player only has to glance at the cards once to find out which position they're in, then hit a number to cast it and place it using the mouse.

Overall, though -- absolutely incredible job!! This readability issue is honestly the only possible issue I could see with this game, it is otherwise an amazing entry and I am blown away that you made this in only a month!!!

The visual are nice, I really like the lighting, animation of the cards and the attacks. The boss are really cool, there are so many different bosses and each of them have a second phase which different attacks. The music are nice too, basically everthing makes sense.

The gameplay are cool, the card based attacks are really interesting, tho there is a bug where if you selected a path and spamming space, the level will not start and keep adding more, and you will get something like this:

Maybe your code is something like when the path button is pressed it add one to the level number, and then you didn't disable the button when it playing the pressed animation so it can be pressed again mid animation and run the code again and restart the animation? Also im not sure if it is also related to this or Im just didn't realized it before but the boss can jumped out of the platform after that. 

But still, really cool game!

This was my highest score after a few attempts lol



Great little game lol.

The overall presentation is cool. Both in terms of audio and visuals. Love the overall feeling of atmosphere that was packed into every level

The boss designs were also cool. Let it be their sprites ( which looked amazing ) or their actual attacks which had a nice mix of bullet hell, AOE attacks and melee attacks ( However, I have more to say when it comes to these attacks )

The starting upgrades were cool and I'm sure would definitely add to the replayability of the game. I personally just went with the first one though lol.

The music is amazing oof. I agree with some of the other comments below. Please allow us to download it lol.

I think some of the weapons need some re-working though. The area that your melee  covers seems to be too small, so I honestly just never used the sword slashes and blasts. Even the lunging sword slash wasn't really too useful either because the area covered isn't much. Only " flash " and " toss " were actually useful. 

Along with that, some of the boss's attacks seem kinda cheap and unbalanced sometimes. The game's readability in general suffers because of the amount of particle effects and things just happening in general on the screen. It's especially prevalent in the case of the grave digger with the bullets just not visible sometimes. The butcher's melee attack is also way too big imo.

Trying to fight the hairbeast also makes it apparent that you really shouldn't have a hard limit on the amount of dodges you can do. Especially with how fast some of the bosses are in comparison to you.

I'm also not really a fan of how you can get stuck on some objects in the environment. If I had to make a suggestion here, it would be that these could get destroyed by the player or the boss over time ? Because some of my deaths came because I was trying to dodge the boss's attacks, had no where else to go because the rest of the arena was covered by the boss's attacks and then got stuck in-between some of the props present. Or you could maybe have these props be outside of the playable arena.

All of that said, this was an awesome entry overall.

I really liked the visual, I'm not usually a fan of this kind of thing, but I still liked it. I would also like to note the excellent boss fights and cool combat system.

What an extremely polished game! The art and music are amazing, I loved it. It's incredibly complete, the creeds and the roguelike style changing who you face each run adds a ton of variability. This truly feels like it could be a commercial game, amazing job!

I love the combination of the real time elements and card game mechanics. It leads to some very frantic moments (in a good way). Despite some of the attacks just being variations on other attacks, all the bosses still managed to feel very unique. The exchange mechanic, art, and sounds were all solid as well. I’ve only really played around with obsession and covetousness a bit, but so far the deck building aspect feels pretty good.

I took a while to start playing because I was enjoying the music too much. Please add the soundtrack for download.

Awesome game, I love the cards mechanics and the visual, I think using the card using the shortcut (1,2,3,4) will be better for the action, it's easy to be overwhelmed by many attacks and still drag the cards while dodging the attacks, I think the difficulty is great, just reduce the number of attacks when the boss is low.

Very fun and visually striking game, everything felt like it came together to create a really fun experience. I unfortunitally could not beat many of the bosses but the way that that game shakes up each run allowed me to see a great more number of bosses than I originally would have. Congrats on the game :)

Wowwww, this felt like a professional release, so much polish and smooth gameplay. Great art and music. I found it really difficult (only ever managed to beat 1 boss before getting clobbered in the next round), but in a good "boss fight" way that felt like a proper challenge (nothing felt fiddly -- every death was my fault). Although maybe ramping the challenge over time might make it a bit easier for noobs like me :P

Dragging cards from the bottom is a super cool idea, having to quickly look back and forth to see what you have vs where the boss is on screen is a very unique experience that isn't something I've ever seen before. It injects a sense of urgency into your traditional deckbuilder. Very very fun, I'll be following you guys to see what else you come up with because this is *awesome*.

Amazing game! The bosses are all really well designed and the rogue like aspect added a lot of replayability. I was also surprised by how many bosses you managed to add and the music fits the game very nicely. I don't think I can even think of anything negative to about the game, it was well polished and I didn't find any bugs. Good Job :

I really love the vibe you created with the different path choices at the start. It's definitely a fun gameplay loop and has a lot of potential for a full game.

The art is consistent throughout the game. Yes, I like the attack card idea, it's interesting. Fun!

I'd also like to invite you to play my game if you're interested.

Sooooo juicy well done game with nice gameplay and amazing art-style

Loved your game and I have rated it as well you can view and rate my game as well

https://itch.io/jam/boss-rush-jam-2024/rate/2513945

This game has an absurd amount of depth to it, and I love all of the different modifiers and areas. Too bad I suck at it lol

Good game! The real-time card mechanics are novel. I also like all of the decisions/loadout choices in the beginning. The presentation overall is great. Took me a bit to figure out you had to click and hold the card to aim. A quick tutorial could remedy this.