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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Theme | #77 | 3.705 | 3.705 |
| Overall | #113 | 3.351 | 3.351 |
| Graphics | #137 | 3.723 | 3.723 |
| Innovation | #138 | 3.259 | 3.259 |
| Audio | #178 | 3.250 | 3.250 |
| Game Design | #199 | 3.286 | 3.286 |
| Fun | #351 | 2.884 | 2.884 |
Ranked from 112 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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Great graphics and audio, and interesting concept!
My only issue is that the game is sometimes unclear on it's rules.
For example, sensing a lie does a "negative" sound effect, and accepting their quest leads you to a dark character that turns your screen black. It took me a while to realize that my HP got reduced. I didn't really understand the connection between the dark character and my HP going down o_O
Also I wasn't sure when lying is successful or not. Sometimes when I lie it works and sometimes when I lie it doesn't work. I might have missed something but I didn't get it xD
Other than that, the game is great. Good work!
Lying in early stages of the game is purely random, further successful lying is dependent on lie skill and trust of NPC.
Sensing lie if NPC said the truth will turn into sad tune, accepting a lie mission leads to the black npc and loss in health as you got scammed...
Hope these helps...
Really fun and interesting Game! It is also beautifully designed.(:
Cool concept and well made! The graphics and music are great.
The game is well done, nice retro graphics and retro music. The main mechanic is interesting at the beginning but after some time it's too like the same series of actions ending up not reading anymore. Theme has central role and it must have been a huuuuge amount of work for a one week jam!
Nice game, liked the end
Cool concept and nice graphics!
can't wait to play the full version ^^
I actually laughed out loud when I offended someone by accusing them of lying:). Great job on the humor here! Awesome game! https://itch.io/jam/cgj/rate/476728
This game is so full of content. I can say that it was hard work for u course to make this game genre in game jams is suicidal.
Really cute art work! The quest options are a bit repetitive though, but this concept is really cool! I like the music as well, very retro-styled :D
Ok so, the graphics are really good and the map is pretty big for a jam game.
Also there are different quests but I didn't understand why I had to tell lies all aroud. I mean, at some point is like farming XP, it's not about lying it's about doing the same 3 thigs over and over to get your bar full and get the treasure.
You tell the player at the start of the game the they have to learn how to lie but I didn't feel like that's the case at all. If you gave me multiple dialogue options I'd have felt that I was learning something but like this I was just farming.
And the guy in front of the cave didn't feel like my final boss but like some bystander.
Also I didn't understand what happened if I figured out that the person I was talking to was lying. It gave me the same sound and feedback all the times and it didn't help me progress in the story.
The main idea is interesting but it needs to maybe have less features but very clear and satisfying.
The music theme was nice but maybe too short for the game itself.
Thankyou for the feedback. The guard is quite acceptable cause if you pass the guard you understand the real final boss is me the game developer... The farming is something I am quite unsure, as you lie many times like anything will improve, the dialogues for learning the user player lying may be far difficult for me to implement, I'll look forward learning how can I implement that mechanic...
Thanks again for the feedback...
I'll work on a tutorial part for better understanding of the game...
It was not clear at the beginning what should I do. I brought the same package again and again to the same guy, variated when do I press "Lie" or "Truth" but sometimes nothing changed. I see that the level bar above the NPC getting lower, and in the end he won't talk to me again, but my Lie Bar doesn't move at all sometimes. The black screen wasn't clear either (until I read the comments). I could not get to the ending unfortunately :(
I love the artstyle and the music, it fits well in this world.
If you polish the tutorial part, I think it could be a really good game after all, well done! :)
I think I should add a tutorial bit in the game... Will work on it. Thanks for playing the game
my review:
The game has a very nice artstyle, I just love pixelart!
the music is also damngood.
it fits the theme well so good gob!
now. I was really confused at the beginning, you tell the player what the goal is, but then he is just in this world and finish. The minimap isnt helping me because it shows the same you already see. I Think you set the playerspeed a little bit too slow in my oppinion. And I didnt understand those black people on the map and also when i pressed Space squares appiered on the screen? What do they actually do?
But it would be a very good game with those upgrades I think
keep up the great work!
if you havent seen my game yet then get pls a look at it, not sure if already did
The minimap is a result of my over ambition... I imagined map to have location of NPCs to follow, and all sorts of things just couldn't complete it in time.
The black npc appears when you accept a scam quest, (basically you get scammed and loose a heart) many suggested to type it up for better understanding, I updated that...
The space bar is something new that I am hearing, I'll look at it surely...
Thanks for pointing out these things from my game really appreciate it :)
sure :D
While grindy, an interesting and explorable game. Props on such an ambitious game for only 7 days. For sure some fun mechanics to explore here.
I finished the game, I really enjoyed it, I liked the graphics and the map, and how it shows you where you have to go. But at the same time I'm not sure I completely understood the mechanic of the game. To finish it I just repeated the same lie over and over to make my lie bar grow. Just work on the design of the lie mechanic and you'll have a great game!
Hey this was a lot of fun, at least in concept. After a while the game gets a bit repetitive and grindy but I think that if expanded upon, the game could be quite fun, and you could maybe have some real side quests to get your lying levels up. The ending was a bit predictable but I liked how the Accept and Sense lying UI was just faded out so you kind of had to look around there to see it.
The art is very nice, but maybe you could make the map feel more like a village cause it kinda just looks like roads with houses here and there.
The music (even though after a few loops it got repetitive) was also quite nice: simple repeated motiff that isn't too annoying to the ears and relaxes.
Im not too sure what the health was for at the top left but maybe that's when you deplete a villager trust bar?
Anyways, nicely made entry, even though you could have maybe found ways to make it a tad less repetitive. Good job!
Thanks, can surely work in the world as an entity... The health was for if you accept scam missions, you follow up to a person who beats you and reduces your health by one (everything I just mentioned happens in imagination when in actual a black screen appears and disappears...) Thanks for playing!
Currently I am working on new quests thankyou :)
Huh I got that black screen appearing and disappearing and killing me on my first run, but I hadn't accepted any mission.
I really liked the ending in the game! The game did get a little repetitive though.
Which ending are we talking about in here... You my friend are the first to reach till ending that I know of
The repetitive is true and I am working on it, I started a thread just for that, if you have any more ideas on quests I would really appreciate of you could contribute your ideas here
The one where you win and get the treasure and you see through the developers lies about you not getting it. It was really hard to see the "Sence Lying" button. And then you are in water and you press the button again. And then you cross the river on the left side. That ending.
Played it for a while, was really fun. (I liked the soundtrack a lot). I like the fact that you managed to build a large world which had missions in it.