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Thanks for playing it! Yeah the head bobbing is not great, you can turn it off in the menu to make it less nausiating. I've never played powerwash actually but i think i was inspired by it's mechanics subconciously

I was trying to open the first door somehow for minutes before accidentally walking through it for example, that was not obvious at all. I had no idea what the 3 different attack buttons were or what to choose when attacking. And it took some time to understand what the health potions were as well.

Those were my biggest pain points. I think if you had more feedback for the player for actions and what things are, it would be a lot more enjoyable!

Thanks for playing! Yeah i added the gif exactly because of that at the last minute. My playtester didn't try to pick the alien up so that definitely felt lackluster. I hope everything else was pretty clear!

Thanks for trying it out! You can disable head bobbing in the menu, that makes movement a bit easier i think.

very interesting mechanics, quite confusing but enjoyable once you get used to it. The stanley parable meta voicing doesnt really work here i feel like, it felt very disconnected from the actual game. But still, it's pretty polished and fun to play.

I was able to run it through proton on linux without any issues!

The game is very jank, I love the art style, but everything else is confusing and not intuitive sadly. I really looked forward to this game after seeing the videos in the discord. Please do a more polished version of this as i think it has lots of potential.

This feels like an actual game not just a tech demo like most games in the jam. Very solid mechanics, love the controls, the turn based combat system feels like a good foundation that needs more depth than just hit and get hit. For example sometimes i can "dodge" hits if the enemy moves out of the way after a hit, that feels satisfying even if its not a core combat mechanic. You should definitely polish this a bit, the content is already there to publish this.

Also big thanks for the great, non intrusive tutorial.

Great job! :)

Controls are very chunky, would love if i could hold down a direction and strafing, combat is not that interesting, everything is static, but the art style saves a lot of the game.I would definitely play a more fluid dungeon crawler with this style.

It spins up my gpu to 100% for no reason, couldn't try it out because of that. Maybe add vsync to avoid creating space heaters, lol

I was very lost through my playthrough and i had to try out the different elements to find out whats effective, not sure that was intended. The combat was very creative and fun, and i loved the aestethics!

Great submission, this has lot's of potential!

Some changes that i would love to see:

- make the energy system obvious, it took 3 tries for me to understand why things weren't working

- quick button for turning buildings on and off (or even a customizable preset that will switch buildings for you in the battle phase)

- unit variety and an indicator that will show where the enemies will come from (this is a personal preference)

- bug: if you restart you lose the upgrade button?

I can definitely see this game sell well on steam for a couple bucks after some polishing and more content!

Good job :)

P.S.: Were you inspired at all by 9 kings?

Oh wow, thank you for the suggestions and for trying out the game! :)

I have already partially implemented multiplayer (that's why there is an iroh library in the zip), but i didn't have that in mind during development, so it would take significant efforts to do that sadly.

I'll keep in mind your observations if i continue the game tho!

Thank you so much for trying it out! :)

Yeah the game definitely needs more polishing, thanks for the suggestions. And sorry about your ear :P

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