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Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
Gameplay - How fun is it to play? | #7 | 4.051 | 4.051 |
Graphics - Is the game aesthetically pleasing? | #67 | 3.692 | 3.692 |
Completeness - Is it an unfinished tech-demo, prototype or a complete game? | #71 | 3.487 | 3.487 |
Overall | #73 | 3.297 | 3.297 |
Audio - Does the game have nice sfx and music? | #92 | 3.205 | 3.205 |
Theme - How well does it incorporate the theme? | #143 | 2.051 | 2.051 |
Ranked from 39 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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Fun game, although I was sad to hear that a bug prevents access to all but the first level. I was ready to poison stack my way to later levels too. I hope you put out a post jam update so I can try out all the levels.
NEW VERSION:
Hey! I'm glad you enjoyed it I was very disappointed that I had a bug in the original version that did not allow you to continue to the other three levels of the game. I've finally been able to upload a working version, so if you want to play the rest of the game, you can try it again now.
Fixed bug preventing accessing the complete game.
Levels:
Prison
Town
Castle
Throne Room
Really like the idea of brewing a potion for a battle sytem - I think this has a lot of potential and would love to see it developed further. I think the beginning was a bit of a chore since the Chaplin kept healing himself. It would have been a more interesting fight if I had more options at that point, but since it's the beginning I felt like I had to wait for some good RNG to progress. Overall I think it's a cool idea and would be cool to see something like this developed more.
NEW VERSION:
Hey! I'm glad you enjoyed it I was very disappointed that I had a bug in the original version that did not allow you to continue to the other three levels of the game. I've finally been able to upload a working version, so if you want to play the rest of the game, you can try it again now.
Fixed bug preventing accessing the complete game.
Levels:
Prison
Town
Castle
Throne Room
Gameplay and music really shine here. The battle mechanic is really fun with poison and needs some strategy. The VFX and SFX are great as well. Progression feels constant and really fun, and the templar having its own music is a great way to discern them! Just one small knack is that after beating the templar I could not move.
NEW VERSION:
Hey! I'm glad you enjoyed it I was very disappointed that I had a bug in the original version that did not allow you to continue to the other three levels of the game. I've finally been able to upload a working version, so if you want to play the rest of the game, you can try it again now.
Fixed bug preventing accessing the complete game.
Levels:
Prison
Town
Castle
Throne Room
I really love deck builders, so this game was perfect for me. I had a blast. I played through it twice. I encountered a bug where I had double UI as there was two enemies right next to each other and I guess it was trying to make me fight them both at the same time, but it didn't break the game or anything. Would love to see more of this game.
NEW VERSION:
Hey! I'm glad you enjoyed it I was very disappointed that I had a bug in the original version that did not allow you to continue to the other three levels of the game. I've finally been able to upload a working version, so if you want to play the rest of the game, you can try it again now.
Fixed bug preventing accessing the complete game.
Levels:
Prison
Town
Castle
Throne Room
I really liked the battle mechanics, it's easy to figure them out and consistently win all encounters. It was hard to know that you debuf enemy attack only for one turn, but once it was clear, battles were enjoyable. Sadly game freezes after the templar, as this seems like there could be more content which I wished to explore.
Movements were a bit awkward, slow movement and turns animation, no strafes and no queue for movements made it feel really slow.
NEW VERSION:
Hey! I'm glad you enjoyed it I was very disappointed that I had a bug in the original version that did not allow you to continue to the other three levels of the game. I've finally been able to upload a working version, so if you want to play the rest of the game, you can try it again now.
Fixed bug preventing accessing the complete game.
Levels:
Prison
Town
Castle
Throne Room
This was a really fun game! Got to the templar and died but only just. I love card playing mechanic, good stuff!
NEW VERSION:
Hey! I'm glad you enjoyed it I was very disappointed that I had a bug in the original version that did not allow you to continue to the other three levels of the game. I've finally been able to upload a working version, so if you want to play the rest of the game, you can try it again now.
Fixed bug preventing accessing the complete game.
Levels:
Prison
Town
Castle
Throne Room
I played for a good while, it's addictive and overall very well made, great work!
I had a lot of performance issues (I have a recent dell xps 13, not a gaming machine but ususally decent), the framerate was quite low the whole time but I was having so much fun that I kept playing anyway.
Orientation is difficult since there is no landmark, I got lost shortly after beating the champlain and lost 5 good minutes finding the path again. The level of satisfaction I felt when I finally found the next enemy was very high 🙂
The sense of progression is good, it's a great motivation, but the game is very easy (I never felt like I was in any danger). It's not a bad thing for a jam game though, and the bosses are fun even if they are not that challenging.
After beating the Holy Templar, the keyboard controls stopped working completely, and I had to quit the game. It was a shame since I just got a significant upgrade and wanted to keep playing, but maybe that's just the end of the game in its current version.
It's impressive for game made in a week, I had a lot of fun!
I apologize for any performance you ran into with the web gl version. Now that I have a chance to upload edits I've created a windows build. You can try that and not only should it run better, but there was a glitch in the original preventing access to 75% of the game. Give it a shot!
Will do! 😁 This is one of my favorite game from this jam.
I was having performance issues at random time intervals, which made movement pretty hard. But that didn't prevent me from enjoying this game a lot. What did prevent me from enjoying the game is it completely freezing at some point :( so I didn't even get past the first level
However, I loved what I saw so far!
As I was writing this, the game unfroze and I'm now continuing with maybe 5 fps, let's see how far I can get!
Well, I got past the boss of floor 1 but it froze again. Guess I'll wait another few minutes lol.
Sadly this time it didn't unfreeze :( gg
I apologize for any performance you ran into with the web gl version. Now that I have a chance to upload edits I've created a windows build. You can try that and not only should it run better, but there was a glitch in the original preventing access to 75% of the game. Give it a shot!
A nice pixel art game with a solid gameplay.
Navigating was ok, though it was not always easy to see where we were going without map or diversity in the design of the dungeon to get hint of where we've been though this is pretty minor issue compared to the enjoyement. I really liked the game and would even like playing it a little more!
The progression is real as we do after some time understand well the gameplay mechanic to defeat all opponent. The only issue I had was with the chapelin constantly healing themselves making just the fight last forever with no ability to flee to fight again later.
But overall, this is a very solid entry!
Tho I would like to know : is something supposed to happen after the templar? Because I just ended stucked there and thought it was just the end of the game.
NEW VERSION:
Hey! I'm glad you enjoyed it I was very disappointed that I had a bug in the original version that did not allow you to continue to the other three levels of the game. I've finally been able to upload a working version, so if you want to play the rest of the game, you can try it again now.
Fixed bug preventing accessing the complete game.
Levels:
Prison
Town
Castle
Throne Room
Thanks for the news! I'll check this out when I'll have time
Nice pixelated style and dungeon with nice atmosphere!
I am normally not a deck-builder fan but for some reason I think it works well in a dungeon crawler. Nice touch with the brewing of potions that can be thrown. It could be taken further with other types of potions (explosive, concussive, burning, freezing etc).
I wish the game started out a little bit easier with shorter encounters. Maybe a handful of weak enemies that you would kill after a brew or two, so you could gradually get your feet wet before meeting those with 25+ hp. They were also cleansing and healing themselves so the combat took forever.
The popup info was hard to read in the deck screen but was alright when fighting.
All in all a solid entry that with some small adjustments could be a solid crawler!
The perspective could've been improved a little bit. Because of the small tile size the player can't see parts of the floor and corners on the current tile and that makes orientation a little bit more difficult. This can be solved by increasing tile size in combination with pulling the camera back a little bit or by increasing the FOV slightly.
+1 for volume adjustments
NEW VERSION:
Hey! I'm glad you enjoyed it I was very disappointed that I had a bug in the original version that did not allow you to continue to the other three levels of the game. I've finally been able to upload a working version, so if you want to play the rest of the game, you can try it again now.
Fixed bug preventing accessing the complete game.
Levels:
Prison
Town
Castle
Throne Room
The exploration is a little bit awkward compared to what I’m used to in dungeon crawlers. Very slow turns / movement makes it feel clunky.
The overall concept with the deck building is super fun! I’d love to play more of it. Sadly (as others have reported), after defeating the Holy Templar the game just locks up.
One thing I wish the game had was a way to get rid of cards from my deck.
Great work!
NEW VERSION:
Hey! I'm glad you enjoyed it I was very disappointed that I had a bug in the original version that did not allow you to continue to the other three levels of the game. I've finally been able to upload a working version, so if you want to play the rest of the game, you can try it again now.
Fixed bug preventing accessing the complete game.
Levels:
Prison
Town
Castle
Throne Room
The exploration is quite clunky but the combat system is honestly great, the first encounter with the chaplain that kept cleansing himself was realy rough however. The game froze right after the fight with the holy templar but I had a really nice time, solide entry
NEW VERSION:
Hey! I'm glad you enjoyed it I was very disappointed that I had a bug in the original version that did not allow you to continue to the other three levels of the game. I've finally been able to upload a working version, so if you want to play the rest of the game, you can try it again now.
Fixed bug preventing accessing the complete game.
Levels:
Prison
Town
Castle
Throne Room
Ah great ! Thanks for the ping I'll check that out !
This game is rad! I really like the card mechanic.
Had a lot of fun with it, got some great combinations going after picking up a few more cards. I don't know if this is supposed to happen cause it's the end of the game or something, but my character froze in place after defeating the golden knight.
It is a bug. And I am very sad about that, because there are two more levels and a final boss fight.
NEW VERSION:
Hey! I'm glad you enjoyed it I was very disappointed that I had a bug in the original version that did not allow you to continue to the other three levels of the game. I've finally been able to upload a working version, so if you want to play the rest of the game, you can try it again now.
Fixed bug preventing accessing the complete game.
Levels:
Prison
Town
Castle
Throne Room
Awesome! Brings a lot of Potion Craft and Guild of Dungeoneering vibes. Very cool!
NEW VERSION:
Hey! I'm glad you enjoyed it I was very disappointed that I had a bug in the original version that did not allow you to continue to the other three levels of the game. I've finally been able to upload a working version, so if you want to play the rest of the game, you can try it again now.
Fixed bug preventing accessing the complete game.
Levels:
Prison
Town
Castle
Throne Room
cool card style combat :D i was confused as to what i was doing for a bit. and is there no default attack?
I really liked this game! The visuals were really strong and I do love deck builders.
Great game! Super fun card system. Graphics and audio are great too.
BTW: after I beat the holy templar, I chose the +1 cauldron size, but the game stopped responding after that. Not sure if that was a bug or if I just beat the final boss. I definitely would have continued playing if that were an option. I'll probably play it a few more times, after I finish reviewing other games.
It's not easy to design and build an effective card battler within a week. Well done.
NEW VERSION:
Hey! I'm glad you enjoyed it I was very disappointed that I had a bug in the original version that did not allow you to continue to the other three levels of the game. I've finally been able to upload a working version, so if you want to play the rest of the game, you can try it again now.
Fixed bug preventing accessing the complete game.
Levels:
Prison
Town
Castle
Throne Room
Okay, this is excellent! I love deck building games and the way you implemented this is great! I'm definitely coming back to this one after the jam.
Poison + Health deck was looking sweet.
NEW VERSION:
Hey! I'm glad you enjoyed it I was very disappointed that I had a bug in the original version that did not allow you to continue to the other three levels of the game. I've finally been able to upload a working version, so if you want to play the rest of the game, you can try it again now.
Fixed bug preventing accessing the complete game.
Levels:
Prison
Town
Castle
Throne Room
The deck building combat system is really cool.
Animations and models look great - the dungeon textures look pretty plain in comparison.