Love the game design, I just found out about the cool jam. The monochromatic filter gives it a beauty despite its feeling of dread.

I do find this to be very fun! I will try to complete it! Good work, and I hope to play more by you!

Hey man, I played your lovely crawler at last :)

• its lovely that you put a proper download for your OST in the game, not many people do that, I loved it :)
• great, atmospheric title screen, with one of the best CRT filters that I've seen.. Simple, efficient and sest the tone!
• definitely, the game has the best combination of field-of-view and retro graphics in this jam. Great job of reaching that level!
• I would loved more if you've put a nice retro cursor out there.. The game oozes retro vibes and that could be really cool.
• I would also loved it more if WASD + QE worked right away but its nitpicking :)
• my first combat with an enormous scorpion wasn't glorious; although, I tried solo, forgetting all these adventurers that were awaiting me in the next room :(
• however, the ending screen was also great and atmospheric!
• then assembled a rocking adventuring party, properly this time.. nice job and idea of setting such a camp, great music as well :)
• it seems that you put a lot of work on combat mechanics as well.. I loved all these actions and text and the fact that characters were gaining levels and attributes.
• I was victorious in a battle, only to die in the next battle two squares ahead.. Perhaps the encounter numbers need more fine tuning, especially after a difficult battle that you barely make it :)
• there was a lot of space mashing between the rounds.. perhaps automating some monsters attacks and show their outcome in the same page would be something to consider.

Overall, a pretty solid and complete dungeon crawler, you did everything right. I expect you to continue "Demon Lord"'s development as it has great potential!

I am really jealous of that crawling experience, one of the most genuine retro experiences in this jam. Well done!

One of the most beautiful games in the jam, but it feels like it lacks substance.

I pity my spacebar.

I love the aesthetics and simplicity of it all. Normally I don't fancy random encounters but I had fun with this one. I got all the way to the last boss but died horribly...

I hope you do a post-jam version of this with more content, mechanics and expand the tactical options for combat.

Great job :)

The visuals are excellent! The combat could really use some better choices to make it feel engaging. Otherwise, an auto-battler where the interesting choices are your party members could work too. I think with some tweaks to how you use your party and this could be really cool. 

Got lots of retro vibes from this one. Made me feel young again.

The visuals and sound are amazing, but I found the combat kinda hard and confusing.

Love the visuals!  I died in my very fist battle though before managing to add anyone to my party -_-.  On a second playthrough I noticed there was a room off to the side I missed the first time, and stepped on a teleporter and then it was too late...

Second run went better, though it seems I have no real choices to make in combat (just fight or flee), so it turned into just mashing space a bunch as only the outcome (live or die) seemed to matter...  This run, however, was ended abruptly by choosing the "exit" option from the party menu, which didn't exit the menu as I expected -_-.

Third run I managed to get all the way through, the entire set of runs took about an hour, with a 1-minute break to throw together a macro that'd send "space" key events over and over again until I told it to stop, which made the experience a bit more palatable.  I'd liked to have something more interesting to do in combat, although by the end there had been so much of it, it's probably best that it was relatively quick.

I love that the only healer I ever had in my party was... the Demon Lord.  He must not be such a bad guy after all.

Did I mention I love the visuals? =)  Only gripe there was that the UI was a slightly different color (and, I guess had some gradients on the borders?) than the otherwise super consistent look.  The duality swap was cool.

The visuals are incredible , it has a nice sense of progression, not too much grind necessary, and a fun plot twist for the second half of the game .

Combat are really simple and feel very repetitive after a while, especially near the end where you face 20+ enemies. My space bar was not happy.

Despite this I enjoyed my time with it.

Really visually well put together, and feels pretty polished. The combat and dungeon is simple, but it's a pretty well done simple.

Really visually well put together, and feels pretty polished. The combat and dungeon is simple, but it's a pretty well done simple.

Awsome graphics. You put it all together very well. All is fitting, tidy and atmospheric, great! I only whish there would be more complex fight system. Even targeting foes or acting characters separatly would be enough, i think simplicity is great in your project but would be great if the player can have a little more influence on the fight outcome.

The kind of dithering overlay over the world is really cool looking and the art is fantastic. The only issue I ran into was accidentally ending my run using the Exit button in the pause menu (I thought that it would exit the menu) and one time I didn't get to the adventurers camp before I got into a fight and immediately died in 1 hit haha

The progression is really fun as well, seeing all the stat increases is rewarding. I did lose the archer but I was able to find my way back to the bonfire and hire a new companion.

I played for quite a while, the farthest I got was dying to the the minotaur. I was wrecking everything else though.

Interesting entry! Well done!

That CRT effect during battles is spot in, freaking fantastic. I was transported to my childhood playing Wizardry, well done!

I really like the graphics, sound effects, and music. I wish the combat had a little bit more depth and maybe I just didn't get far enough but overall great for 7 days.

Graphics look great