You had me at "Rescue cats."  Visual style is cool, although I think the scan-lines on the main viewport was a bit much (doing something like just duplicating every other line and dimmed by half, like you seem to do on most of the interface itself, would probably give a similar feel but not be quite so hard on the eyes).  The UI and framing around the viewport looks stellar.  Monsters are great too.

I didn't like that rotating counted as a turn, more than once I tried to turn to face an enemy, but strafed into the square instead (stupid game I played before this one with backwards turn/strafe controls confusing my brain!), and then I got attacked, and then got attacked twice more as I turned to face them, instead of getting the first attack in as I'd planned and thought I instructed my character to do ^_^.  Having no queuing of movement nor being able to hold down a button to keep moving made navigating the dungeon a bit of a chore.   I would have liked a little more choices in combat, there didn't seem to be anything I could do to increase my longevity, no healing or anything, so whether or not I survived just game down to luck of how many times I missed between now and my next level up :(.  I got down to 2hp before my last level up, so, luckily, didn't die, but it was close!

I would have appreciated a compass somewhere instead of having to look at "moved north".  The fact that the map just showed a general overview was really nice, made me feel like I had to keep track of where I was exploring, but still got a general sense of where I was.

The verticality was great, those rooms really had a nice sense of place and were fun to explore (and recognize, as I learned my way around).

There's a bug/issue where if the game is not in focus it's still capturing my mouse, so if I alt-tab to another program, my mouse is locked to a tiny corner of my screen ^_^.  Overall, cool entry, glad I rescued all of the cats!

Right off the bat I have to say I love the name, very Lovecraftian.

Visually I love it, the old school green monocrhomatic aesthetic is beautiful. Looks crunchy, but clear and readable. I also like the enemy and environment art, gives off a very foreboding mood.

The sound was also much better than I expected for a game with this aesthetic.

The control scheme is straight forward and feels good, though sometimes I wish I had continuous movement. I found in other entries I haven't been crazy about using forward movement to interact/attack but I didn't mind it here.

The progression mechanics while simple also worked well. Though I wish there was some way to heal other than levelling up. If the player is unlucky enough to run into a Gug without near full health, the run can be over pretty quick.

I'm not sure if I'm a fan of turning being counted as a move, I lost a fair bit of health just trying to find the first enemy I encountered.

I also wish there was proper fullscreen support, but I can understand that being out of scope.

I should mention I did reach the win screen, though accidentally as the exit didn't seem to stand out as anything special. I don't know if there's a different win screen when you find all cats, but I'm happy I managed to reach an ending at least.

It's no Star Explorers, but I really liked it. Great work!

Its a bit different game for sure. Finding cats was a strange objective, but I guess it could have been crystals or idols or whatever. The mechanics of gathering swords and shields to power up the character is a nice and easy way of progressing. But it felt a bit like the player got overpowered. I never had any clue on where I was going in the dungeon, I just wandered around aimlessly trying to reach new areas until I got out. The soundscape is super nice and it works with this kind of graphics. Super nice retro feel over it. Would have liked the controls to be a bit more snappy, but they worked. Nice work!

Oh wow! That was fantastic. Phenomenal work for just 3 days!

I thought the art direction was distinctive, making your game stand out. I enjoyed the exploration a lot. Well done!

I've escape from the vaults of zinn, scored 518. Also scored 1406 next but died to a Gug this time.

The game is very fun. It looks great, the font is the perfect one and I'm specially fond of the sound effects, the hit one, the upgrade finding one, the different monster death ones, the meow, ..., all feel super appropriate. I love the atmosphere they create. It controls pretty well, movement feels good and bumping into enemies in turn-based mode is my kind of things.  The minimal minimap is pretty appropriate so that you look at the view and not at the minimap, I really like it. Verticality sure is great per usual too, it allows a fairly compact dungeon with multiple connexions between areas and this dungeon is really like that, I like it. A small game with some randomness and a score at the end is very appropriate for a game jam as it feels like a complete game without having to be a huge game. Upgrades and level-ups are cool and finally the difficulty seems pretty adequate, which is a huge plus to me. Oh and there're big cats too.

This is a great entry, thanks for sharing (I need to play Islands of the Caliph at some point).

This was AWESOME! Simplicity works very well for you here, both mechanically and in the visual style. I can't say anything that anyone else hasn't already said here. (Especially with the fact this is a jam game, damn! You've done really well!!)

What a wonderful entry, all the more so its 3-day production timeline.

I found everything clear and easy to understand, and the game's simplicity is very much a strength in my opinion. Visually, the game is really appealing and i'd love to know what's happening under the hood to make it look the way it does. Mechanically I have no complaints, yes it's simple, but I sort of prefer it for nice and quick jam games.

I have very little in the way of critique. Of course I would want more, but I keep telling myself '3 days' and I'm enamoured. I wasn't keen on the mouse being locked to the window, however I can see you're aware of that and I could have freed it with escape. I can also see that you've commented previously on improving the movement, so I won't rehash that.

All in all, this is really fantastic, I would like to see what you can do in 9 days if you can do this in 3. Thank you.

Beautiful and unique submission!

It did take me a minute to get oriented without a compass for some reason. Also, the mechanics could have done with some more depth, but that is probably just the result of being part of a jam, ours definitely suffered from this as well. Overall though, really cool, keep up the good work!

Right from get go - I LOVE how crisp and detailed everything looks. It so hard to make monochrome work, in my opinion, but you nailed it so well. Its great.

I saved 8 cats only first time though (but managed to escape first attempt 1409 points). Second attempt I found all cats (7 this time), but haven't found exit and died after unfortunate Gug encounter bringing me a bit too low. Dungeons looks like at least partly random generated? Replayability with scores - nice!

Would like to have something like health potions to heal after Gugs! Maybe some shop to spend gold in future?

(Also, if I may... can you make so your engine is a little bit less messy? I mean folder specifically... maybe make subfolder with all resourses (maybe even pack them?), so they are not laying there all open? Its not a totally big deal, but it may be awkward for future more mass user.)

Thanks for that entry, had loads of fun collecting cats! Meow! :)

Hey,

cool game. I like how polished it is with a nice amount of content for three days work. Level Ups, Power Ups, Combat, Cats, Treasure Chests. Nice. Movement is smooth and esp the sounds are quite nice, as you got feedback on everything happening. The idea for the style is really cool, but I do not like the execution with the flickering very much. I think I would have liked a higher rendering resolution more, so that it looks lowres but doesnt have the pixel jumps. Normally the current style works also ok, but with the monochromatic green, its to wild for me. :D

Meow!

I like it, I do find it a little too random but it's not that much of an issue, I'm indeed a fan of XCOM games but the kind of mash and see if you can don't really match my taste, randomness apart, the game is great looking, sound is awsome and overall presentation is just "Genuine", very awsome!

I never knew I could enjoy a mono-green palette as much as I did with this entry. Great job on the art and atmosphere. The mini-map was barebones but didn't reveal everything, I assume this was design choice but it encouraged me to make sure I explored every square before moving through another door. Combat was basic and the story was limited during gameplay but it all fit together. I accidentally finished but I think I should have known the big staircase was the end looking back.