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Pretty fun game! Was confused for a while about some of the sewer walls not being walls before learning the water mechanic, and regarding the third level, I wished there was a brief moment where you can't stick right as you start launching.. Still finished it though!

It admittedly probably was a bit difficult to be just the second level, but you can use a couple mortars (at the very beginning, without follow-through so you don't fall down), or use the Sniper which can punch through a couple walls. 

I don't know what your planned abilities are or how you want the game to be played, so I'd need more information to be able to help with that.

After the first stage I recruited two allies, which happened to be a rapier girl and a healer, and I just invested into the former. As I played I eventually chose +2 Allies twice more, and didn't get any Shield guys.. So I had my first rapier girl with three Defense upgrades, one HP upgrade, and one Attack upgrade before I realized that 5 upgrades was the max. 6 Attack was enough to one-shot most enemies, 3 Def (and 9 HP) was enough to not get killed in a round since no matter how many enemies there are, only two attacks can be made.. But there also was a lot of strategic use of the bushes, often staying right behind bushes so enemies have few or no avenues of approach, and sometimes I'd dart out, kill the two nearest enemies, then move back to safety.

From what I played, I don't think any enemies had ranged attacks? And maybe it was just that stage that I played ~4 times that had a lot of terrain in your favour? So maybe there are a number of factors which could make the game more strategic even without modifying the action system. 

Interesting story.. I don't think I finished the game though.. ?..

I appreciate what you've done (it's impressive for a short one week thing!) and enjoyed using the bushes strategically, but personally I'm concerned about the shared action pool. I pretty much just had my rapier girl (with a mainly Defense-oriented build) solo stages, occasionally being given +temp HP if there was nothing in sword range. (I played like ~10 stages, stopping when it seemed like I had done the same stage about four times.)

I've played several TRPGs, and in my opinion, a unit that can give another one an additional turn is always a very powerful ability. Now that's essentially the default action any unit can take here. And if we were to compare to Chess, if each player could make two moves in a row, I think moving the same piece twice (especially the Queen) will very often make more sense than moving two different pieces, or at least after the first couple opening turns. 

Maybe I could be wrong and it's possible that something else made the game feel easy to me (like possibly the rapier girl or defense being OP, or possibly just me having experience in strategy games), or maybe things will change once each character has more abilities, but yeah, I'm concerned that the best way to play might to be to put all your eggs in one basket. 

Still, I like what you're going for!

Oh no, now gamebreaking bugs won't be fixed because of the strangers that had sacrificed their lives for the greater good! Such cruel stranger dangers.

What an eventful night. I also had Theo be my MVP, being sent out 15 times.

Fine take on the game/genre!

Beautiful visuals and reasonably catchy gameplay (pun half-intended) though I think you have to return to the surface and descend too frequently. Also some, uh, interesting fish names you've chosen. 

A bit hectic during the boss fight, but felt nice to play and looked great! Having the mouse pan around a bit on the main menu and ending was rather neat. 

So glad to be back home after that... The speed and physics made it difficult, but I guess that's the main intent. 

Thanks! Yeeah, I don't know anything about music.. great to hear you enjoyed the rest though!

Cute and innovative! Turning up ambience makes you faster? I've been playing games wrong all this time!..

Interesting premise! I enjoyed the first set of puzzles but then got stuck after the "For caring enough to try." line... 

Neat and fun idea! Last stage felt like a bit too much trial and error, but great concept!

Thanks, glad you enjoyed it! I also loved games like Worms and Scorched Earth back in the day.