I completed the game by chance, after two entire turns around the last square area what seemed like another kobold blocked my way so I killed it and it turns out it was actually the Balor. It took me 4 retries I think, which feels fine, although loading spots could probably be checkpoints.

I didn't like the small steps especially since movement, if not slow, won't go as fast as you want either. I'm not sure how I feel about possessing body, withstanding damage that way is fun but just leaving the body every two steps to see what's going on then getting back into it feels like a weird mechanics, maybe the darkness thing is just not really for my taste, that's fine. I tried to fight a bit at first then did not see the point, which is not a problem in a horror game anyway. The dungeon is good enough, it's weird and scary both visually and mechanically, navigating in the middle of these giant dark knight is cool. Inventory looks somewhat cool and having some verticality is always a plus.

Thanks for sharing.

Neat mechanic, and very nice atmosphere. However, the controls were killing me, lol. The levels are way too big for single press movement, in my opinion. I wouldn't mind seeing continuous movement. I managed to reach the area with the ramps and found 2 keys, but at this point I could start feeling my finger disagreeing with me playing this game so I stopped :(

Using ctrl is not wise for a browser game, due to the shortcut potential. I once had ctrl as crouch in a FPS jam game, and didn't realize that ctrl+w is bad news until right before the deadline :D so I recommend not using ctrl in the future for webGL games. Alt and esc are also problematic, the rest should be fine I think.

Another thing I found tedious is the unskippable scrolling text, which then has to disappear before you are able to continue, making it twice as bad lol. But that's something I personally dislike. It might fit the aesthetic but if this were a dialogue heavy game I would've quit way sooner.

So yeah, with some tweaks this could be a neat little atmospheric game! I really liked the mood it set and the body-as-a-resource mechanic has potential.

I like the athmosphere of the game, its very fitting for the theme. Feels quite frightening to roam through the after-world.

I was a bit confused at start, until I found out I am supposed to walk through walls. Well makes sense I guess, since you are a spirit in the afterlife, haha. The music is nice too and underlines the moot well. The step-size is a bit too small, I have to press w constantly like its one one of these hit-the-key games. :P I had no problems with the monsters, they are quit dumb and you can walk around them often. The game felt a bit like Doom at times, finding keycards keys to progress further in the 3D-world. :D

Overall a pretty nice game. :)

The elevation in this game felt great for a crawler, I wish the engine I came up with supported ramps.

The art and music melded together to make a rich and engaging atmosphere and I melted into the game. Great work!

I did find the game play a little difficult and required a few tries to make it through.

I truly enjoyed this entry thanks for sharing with us!

I also liked the aesthetic. The world had a really good feeling to it. I was especially happy to learn I could go up ramps, I love elevation in games.

Inhabiting bodies is cool and I really like that you injected flavor text into the scenes at progress points. It really adds to the feeling of the world. Also solid 5 stars on audio, it really helped set the mood for me!

I think you might have "Generate MipMaps" turned on for the textures, some of their detail seems to abruptly stop at a certain distance which is what I've seen happens when you're point sampling from a blurry mip map.

I totally dig the lofi horror aesthetic you’ve got going. Good stuff!

I feel the user interface made it unnecessarily difficult to get from starting the game and attacking with the sword. I died three times before I figured out all the steps - getting a body, getting the sword, going to the inventory and equipping it, and using ‘control’ to attack. Auto-equipping on pickup when you don’t have a weapon would probably saved me two of those deaths.

Controls/ Gameplay

Movement is very easy, although the attack key being the control key is a bit cumbersome. It also caused me to close the tab that the game was on due to it being a browser game. This caused me to stop playing the game after the third time it happened.

The idea of some walls being traversable is also quite an interesting idea.

Not being able to skip the dialogue is rather annoying when you’ve already seen it.

The AI can be a little confusing as it is a little difficult to work out where they are going.

There is a massive spike in terms of damage required to kill the lesser demons over the kobolds which was rather annoying.

Graphics

The graphics are very reminiscent of the 16 bit era and is clearly stylized this way.

The enemies are a little difficult to differentiate, but I only saw 2 enemies.

The sword attack animation is almost non existant. It really needs to swing more in my opinion.

Music

The music is very atmospheric and does a good job of setting up the atmosphere, although another track or two to mix things up would've been nice as the track does drone on after a little while.

Sound Effects

The sound effects, while generic, do fit the 16 bit graphics style.

Story

An interesting premise. Who doesn’t enjoy a good escape hell story?

Theme

The idea of possessing bodies is certainly an interesting take on the theme of the game jam

User Interface

The main menu works although being a web game, the return to desktop and quit buttons don’t really have much point.

Additional Notes

None

This game is great, I love the possession mechanic! I was able to detect the hidden wall by the seams, not sure if that was intentional.