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Day 23. Quite addictive thanks also to the dramatic music. The blend of town building and tower defense works really well IMO. I'm just unsure how the Blacksmith works. Without upgrades it says +1 damage, but there's also a progress circle as if the upgrade to add +1 damage per 3 days was in action. And how does +1 damage for every 5 damage work? Does that mean every day it resets and then the shots get increasingly more damaging?

7:59 till the credits roll. I can see speedrunners try and go out of hiding early to get the slug to turn back and follow them for a couple meters before it loses line of sight and returns to its patrol to get a couple extra seconds free of slug monster. ;-)

This was one of the games where I pulled out notepad.exe and wrote down the order in which I would collect or use items. I suppose this is the way it was meant to be played, almost like a rouge-lite where instead of respawning with better gear, you respawn with better map knowledge. The first actions and items were easy to find. I only had a hard time finding the gas canister. To avoid having to search for items in the late game under pressure, I tried to identify all the items in all rooms early on (where they lack highlights) and it seemed the front pump room only contained an oxygen candle at first sight. (In fact I found the secret note before the jerrican. :p) This way I also missed the exhaust pipe, but it quickly dawned on me, that the Pipe Dream may not have been as empty as it seemed at first.

Overall I enjoyed the amount of playtime I got out of it thanks to having to figure out a sequence of actions that keeps oxygen and tilt in check. There may have also been a depth limit in place, but such a time limit would be more of a psychological factor, since you usually run out of O2 or don't reach the pump in time instead of getting depth crushed.

Speaking of pumps, there was a confusing effect where when the front was already lower and I tried to used the front pump, the tilt would be worsen. Other than that I encountered no issues!

P.S.: On my first attempt I took so much time with every room, afraid of reaching that point where the monster goes active, that the sub tilted before I even got to see the slug. ^^

Did enjoy it indeed! Now that I think of it, you could also consider making the new option "push B to walk" (inverted) so the button isn't entirely defunct.

With the GB screen being so small, I think it was ingenious to add that 3rd dimension for the final boss fight. It felt very natural and the telegraphing for the upcoming attack worked nicely. I also immediately liked the rock textures and the mob death animations were oddly satisfying. The plot twist was also great. It's what players crave. As deviantol pointed out, the "run" key feels like it wants to be held down for the entirety of the game which leads to finger fatigue.