Took a little bit to figure out the rune system but I liked the use of it! It's impressive how much depth there is to it as well, could totally see it being expanded if the spells relied on each other a little less. The boss fight was also a pretty fun challenge, ducking in and out of the way made for a nice dynamic!

very good take on the theme!

Good graphics, cool mechanics and uses the theme well. Good job!

The rune collecting and mix+match mechanic is awesome; I really like it. I enjoyed the duality and how they contributed to the puzzle aspects. The only nit I have is that sometime when selecting a rune, it would double-select, making combat a bit more challenging :D

Great entry! I could see this developed further into a full-feature title. Excellent work!

I think the theme in the game works well… a nice light v. dark motif. I really do like the idea of collecting runes and mixing them for different effects. Makes for the potential of some really fun puzzle solving!

That said, I felt there was too much focus on the rune magic and less on the dungeon crawler aspect. That is not to say there was anything wrong with the mechanics in the game at all, but with the runes focusing on light v. dark and the idea that Sol and Lun are these different gods, both of their respective mazes felt identical. Additionally (and this may have just been something I missed), other than looking for the statue within the maze, there seemed to be little else to warrant exploration within either maze.

In regards to the rune magic itself… I did like the idea a great deal and it would be a very cool mechanic in a dungeon crawler over all, but I kept getting tripped up with needing son or moon runes to be activated before using any of their spells… especially when I need to use the sun or moon runes in the act of casting the spells in the first place. Additionally, while the harmony spell is a cool concept, it felt strange that I couldn’t use it directly outside of the central chamber. That said, it would have been strange if I could just constantly spam Harmony within the sun or moon mazes too. Over all, it’s existence (while I get why it’s there) somehow comes off as out of place. Perhaps the Harmony spell should be the only rune for bringing up the mini map (as that feels like a pretty neutral effect) and it can still exist to mix with the other runes. Also, when returning to the central chamber, I feel the player should be automatically brought back into harmony.

I think the ideas in this game have some really solid potential! Also… kinda disappointed I missed the boss battle due to the bug near the end of my play through. That boss really did look cool!

Here a link to me playing your game on my stream :D

Really loved the spell-combination mechanic - I always love stuff like that, so it was my favorite. It was great playing a more puzzle/exploration focused game too. The use of the theme is really compelling and a really strong entry! Great work!

I accomplished a task the necromancer was never able to accomplish.

I like that there's a possibility to fight one of the gods even if I have not tried. You've got quite some content there, the spellbook is furnished with a lot of combinations at the end.

I am happy you chose instant movement, the game plays very smooth. Combining runes is cool, and putting mechanics like an automap behind such a thing always increase both the cool factor of a game and its atmosphere.

The puzzles are fun, combined with the extra pressure or not busting going forward is generally not trivial.

Very cool game, congratulations.

Amazing atmosphere, loved it. As others stated, a lot of text to read and it repeats itself.

Great submission!

There was a lot of text to read. It kept on coming as well. Just when we thought it had stopped, there was more text and we couldn't move forward. Then there was more text. 😉

We had some difficulty with the controls. Our muscle memory is baked into Q/E being rotate and A/D being strafe. It may not affect everyone but it made it slightly frustrating to move around for us.

We loved the runes and combining them to cast spells though. This tied in really nicely to the duality theme too. Good job there.

The font choices were nice and the map spell was a great idea. We quit the game accidentally by going to the options menu to change the volume though.

We played for 12 minutes but we were unable to not trigger the pressure plated to get out of the room with the dark portal, even though we were floating in mid-air. Was this a bug or did we miss something? During that time we didn't encounter any enemies so we couldn't judge the combat system. Given the short attention span of game jam reviewers we'd suggest less text and more getting into the meat and potatoes of the game earlier on. This is advice we should listen to ourselves sometimes too!

Well done for producing an on-theme game with such interesting spell mechanics. We'd love to see how you progress with this post jam.

This is VERY well done. I've been watching you develop it on stream and was looking forward to playing it. A true puzzle crawler. Thoroughly enjoyed it, though I did not finish it in one sitting, but will do so.

I haven't finished it, but I'm considering doing so later, this is pretty good. This feels like one of the more balanced entries I've played so far with a fair amount of difficulty.

I quite like your spell language system, and tying it to the meters. It's a very creative and immersive interaction method!

The sound design is very coherent and put together as well. It very much helped the game atmosphere.

I'm not quite sure why but the movement feels disorienting compared to some of the other entries I've tried, and it's not an issue with the instant movement.

I feel like it has something to do with the turning (I doubt the camera isn't centered... But for instance on the statues if I turn with A/D I would expect to be facing the walls? But it appears to wrap me "around" the statue, which confuses me since under the grid limitations I don't believe it makes sense to be able to be behind the statue?)

Since I personally found it very easy to get disoriented I had to rely on the minimap spells a lot, and kind of wished they operated on a real timer or more than one "action" worth of time.

I find it refreshing that "game-over" seems to be just kicking you back to a starting point sort of like a souls-like. Although unfortunately since it is a bit annoying to retravel back after every "death" it's a bit hard for me to consume in one session since it took me a little bit to properly figure out how to play. Having a spell to make a checkpoint or something could be nice and hopefully not break the balance.