Loved the atmosphere! Movement feels good, even if a little bit dizzying because of reflections in matrix world and movement blur in overworld. Got a little bit confused at start with fighting and where i needed to go at some parts. Really good combat system that kept me strategizing my next moves. Overall cool game with great fighting and really nice art! :)

This reminded me System Shock in matter of ambience. I liked the aesthetic, the mood and the exploration.

I just wished the rules would have been explained earlier though to understand how the game is working in matter of fight system and the numeric world. Because once we understand how to play, the game become enjoyable and just expect us to keep focus on our step and the management of space. But before that, we'll just die quickly, not really understanding how to pass the first enemies.

If an extension is planned, I would suggest to add a little tutorial with some almost safe zone so the player understands they have to dodge the enemy's attack then attack them during a turn of rest they all spend after their last blow, and how the numeric tiles work (maybe making the numeric worlf kicking us back to reality upon failure rather than death?)

Anyway, the theme is perfectly respected, the theme is neat and I admit having enjoyed the game a lot!

Good work on this entry ;)

I get single digit FPS on the machine I use for testing. Absolutely unplayable at 1080p. I had to manually lower the resolution down to 720p to even get near 20 FPS. I mean sure its just an iGPU but it looks like your are using a LOT of fillrate just for the post processing. Since the combat mechanics are build around a fast reaction time (and you don't have that with a frame time of around 50-60ms) it makes combat very difficult/frustrating.

Nice reflections and motion blur (Unreal?) - the reflections include the health bars for the enemies which is strange. Dithering is interesting but not sure why your needed it.

Turn based movement/combat makes it much more tactical than the usual dungeon crawler. Only having 2 HP means you can only do one hit before you have to run away to regain your HP. 3HP might have been a better starting number (or more).

Smooth controls and great camera angle make it all work as expected. Free look would have been nice.

The foliage sometimes gets in the way of the camera. We expect this is by design but it makes it hard to see if there is anything to pick up.

Cyberspace , especially with the motion blur is a bit hard to view without getting "disoriented" as your message suggest. We died after walking on a symbol on the floor which made it a bit of a chore to have to replay all the combat in non-cyberspace again. Load/Save is a tough ask for a game jam but might have been worth a shot.

Unfortunately we didn't get Cyberspace for quite a while and just died every time for no obvious reason. We could have done with some instructions on how to navigate this. Eventually we got that some symbols were OK to walk on and some not and managed to open the first door.

Ah. We just spotted that the different cards and doors have different symbols on them. That was almost like a test for colour blindness and we nearly failed! The more we play the more this is a nice mechanic. Good job.

We so nearly finished and then just died where we think was the last door. Game Load/Save is definitely needed.

Really good game. Just brutal if you make a single mistake. Well done.

Nauseating but the game is really good. I really enjoyed it.

I feel feedback from every action I take. Juicy kicks! Nice puzzle with doors. But still, 2 health is not enough :) I really liked this work.

The combat was a bit tricky at first, but once I figured it out it was very doable, although maybe a bit too high stakes without checkpoints. The visuals were great, and I liked the contrast between the two settings. Great job, especially for your first jam. It's chock full of content, and with a full story to boot.

This is some very great dystopian end-of-days setting. The atmosphere is very frightening and thats great. The art is very fitting, the monsters look very creepy. Switching between real world and cyberspace was cool and the minigame shook things up a bit. It took me a while to understand how to (properly) fight and how to navigate the cyberspace runes, though. I would have loved to get more information about the world and what happened, but sometimes mystery is great too. No real "happy" ending I guess, but you can't always save the world (or yourself at least, haha). :)

I cannot rate it because I couldn't play it. It constantly just flashed the textures, mostly to black. I'll try again later on a different computer but so far it didn't work on my machine.

I adore this game, very beautiful with a lot of good ideas ! Great job!

"The shuttle leaves with the AI controlling the human's body."

The game is super solid, both in presentation and gameplay. I love that you went with different gameplay between the two realms, the use of the theme goes below visuals and narrative. The game looks very good and movement is fast and smooth.

The settings and story are pretty cool and pretty well realised, by the way.

Both combat and puzzles are very fun at least at first, they eventually both get a little bit repetitive and it feels like the only way you could die is really just an attention or button pressing mistake in both cases, it becomes more tense than really brain intensive. That's a minor complaint, with a game this length you won't have the time to get bored either.

Super cool game, I had a lot of fun playing it.

Love the game ! reallycool mood and art ! but kinda hard, or i'm jsut bad x)

I absolutely loved the design of this game! The art is gorgeous and the setting feels incredibly unique to the genre.

I wasn’t quite able to make it through the whole game, though I did give it three tries. I hope to have time to come back to see it through to the end.

Thanks for submitting! Great work!

Cool setting great monster design although it seems a bit repetitive; seeing the different types of monsters have different types of attacks wouldve been great! additionally it wouldve been a bit more fair if there were checkpoints or a revive mechanic given the length of the game.

Hmm. I want to love this game, but I opened the door with the bound leg and then immediately died to the crawling dude. Restarting the game from the menu didn't seem to work. 

Is the crawling guy supposed to be too tough to fight, or am I doing something wrong?

I absolutely love the environment and the aesthetics. Love me some dystopian biopunk/cyberpunk.

Overall, I think this came out great. The enemy design and visuals where spot on, as was the overall vibe.

Combat felt a bit clunky and overly methodical, but I did eventually figure it out. I almost would have preferred it leaned MORE into kiting and dodging and less into weaving in damage, and avoiding vs aggression was a meaningful choice with the horror aesthetic.

I'm still not 100% sure how the cyber space instances worked. At first I thought the safe tiles where based on the pattern on the key, but that didn't seem to be the case. I wound up basically going through using trial and error and regen until I beat it.

I also didn't understand the human/machine duality at all until the ending, and didn't even really realize the other thing talking to me was the computer and not some other person over an intercom or something, but that might be on me.

The movement felt great though, and the atmosphere was top notch.

Great and unsettling visuals.

I also struggled with the combat at first; it took me a while to understand the proper strategy. I'm probably too used to other dungeon crawlers where you're expected to just take the hits.

The movement is fantastic. The smoothness of transition movement and the speed of instant movement? The best of both worlds.

I had a good time, even if I think I made a few poor choices at the end there, hehe.

It runs at 5-10fps for me and I never figured out how to dodge consistently, also you can still attack when dead. Aside from blown highlights in some areas it's a pretty cool aesthetic though.