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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Innovation | #592 | 2.821 | 2.821 |
| Audio | #712 | 2.679 | 2.679 |
| Fun | #767 | 2.643 | 2.643 |
| Theme | #789 | 2.607 | 2.607 |
| Overall | #793 | 2.661 | 2.661 |
| Game Design | #829 | 2.571 | 2.571 |
| Graphics | #845 | 2.643 | 2.643 |
Ranked from 28 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does your game fit the theme?
You are silently gathering a rat army, unbeknown to the humans above. Once united, your rule comes swiftly.
Did you write all the code and made all the assets from scratch?
We made all the code and all the assets are free to use without attribution.
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"I played The Destiny of Darkness and really enjoyed it! The game has a great vibe, and I appreciate the hard work that went into making it. Keep up the amazing work!"
"Great concept! Adding more visual cues when traveling between stations would help show the progression. Overall, it’s a solid game with a lot of potential. Awesome work!"
Pretty cool concept for a game, would have like a bit more indication of traveling between stations becuase it look like nothing has changed but overall solid game, great work!
Brooklyn destroyed my hopes and dreams.
Really neat and funky game. NY City rat with a switch knife is 100% what I need in my life right now hahaha. Also the voice acting was dope!
After getting pizza on the tracks, I wasn't able to jump out. Maybe I missed something somewhere. Fun idea. I didn't really like the way the camera moved. It was disorienting. Cool music, but could also use some more animations.
Great artwork! At some point, I was using the swiss army knife and couldn't tell if it was hitting the rat enemy? Cool concept and chill music.
Thanks! We should definitely fiddle with Unreal's combat system to see if there's useful attack indicators.
I wasn't able to find the phone, not sure if I missed it or something. I liked the voice acting!
I'm not sure why you decided to use AI art for this. I think any hand drawn image would have worked better than the incoherent collage you had in the introduction.
Thanks for sharing with my stream! Here's the VOD of your game: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2256101019?t=01h47m04s. Unfortunately, it seems a significant part of your game was muted by Twitch. Sorry about that!
Thanks for playing! We thought using AI art would save time but it probably took just as long to generate as it would have been to draw something haha. The title screen was handmade though!
I thought this was kind of fun actually. However even after I collected some food, I tried to press a key indicated for the inventory and nothing happened, and I could not damage the boss by clicking any mouse button or by pressing any key.
It's possible I got a one off bug, or was supposed to do something else, it's possible I might try the game again. I like the assets used for the subway 3D environment, the controls seemed to work for the most part and felt smooth. I like that it was possible to get back up by jumping on the boxes after falling down, something about that felt pretty satisfying.
Hmm, our weapons system could use some testing. We were going to have multiple weapon types but had to prioritize other aspects. Thanks for playing!
interesting idea, with more time I think it can be very engaging game. For sure some info about which station you are currently on as when traveling to other station there is no real visual feedback
The voice acting is really cool to have and the artwork is stunning. Good job!
cool game, nice graphics! remy was a nice cameo lol
Simply stunning! The gameplay is engaging, the design is beautiful, and every moment feels crafted with care.
Thanks, we definitely tried prioritizing gameplay!
unfortunately i can not play this game on my Mac, would have loved to if i read about the voice acting and stuff, but gave it a rating based on cover art and other’s comments
Still learning how to port to other platforms, maybe by the next jam we'll have it worked out lol
that’s fine, maybe look into building for webGL also, thats even better for game jams i think, no need to download anything, can play right in the browser :)
Nice graphics and amazing to have full voice acting in a jam game. Good Job.
Was quite the rush to compile all the voice lines right at the end 😅
I think the game is really cute! The voice acting and concept behind it are very fun as well.
I definitely hit a point where I had no idea what to do pretty fast. I beat the first rat, talked to Remy, and found two slices of pizza. After that, I tried using the teleporters, but every time I did, it played a whoosh sound effect and I stayed in the same location.
Great work!
Thanks! We used the same map to save some time but each whoosh was a new destination. We'll eventually add some transition to make it more apparent.
Enjoyed playing the game it was clear a lot of effort was put into it. The artwork was really funny! Voice acting was incredible too.
Really funny game, great job!
Fun game! Definitely a lot of work has been put into this. I wish there was some more feedback for when you travel. But other than that this game was a blast!
Thanks! We'll have to add popup text for the destinations.
Love the fact that you did the voice acting . It was a bit challeging to know what I must do but it's a nice crazy game. I had fun :)
Quest indicators were on our list but we ran out of time 😭