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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Overall fun and playability | #17 | 3.646 | 3.646 |
Ranked from 48 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Theme incorporation
The main enemy in this game is a Cosmic Horror named Eye Key Uh. The characters are also traversing a Cosmic Furniture store.
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Hey! I know you watched me play this on the stream, but I'll leave a comment here just to summarize my thoughts anyway.
It's interesting how small the map space actually is and the bulk of the game is actually the combat. For how small it is, this was one of the games I spent the longest time playing among the entries I've gone through so far!
The humor was honestly on point pretty much throughout the whole game. The missing assets and some menuing and gameplay adjustments were the only nitpicks I had, like allowing the canceling of assigned energy, or having the battle pace improve by changing the action point acquiring message at the start of every round.
All in all, a very good entry ,and I am glad I got to play it!
Nice! It shows that you had a lot of fun getting lost in famous furniture store! The combat was really interesting and felt like a tiny fire emblem, but I would have liked a little confirmation sound when you accept something, because you do not get a lot of feedback. Other than that, the green portion with the employee making you turn was evil!
Solid entry. Got a little miffed at all the spinners and disgruntled employees...It's like being in retail. This game really brought me back though. Great job.
Snappy movement and tactical combat done by the one and only main character what can you ask more?
Only down side: "Q" and "E" for strafing and not turning drove me crazy (but you are not the only ones).
Well done!
Thanks for playing! I am glad you enjoyed it. I intended for the default controls to be QE for rotate but messed it up in the final build.
I apologize for not making it clear in the controls menu and I realize it is a little too late now BUT you can bind the keys however you would like by clicking the buttons on the control menu.
So glad you enjoyed it :D
Well done you guys, this was fantastic! I loved the humor and the combat was really neat.
I really liked the game. As a fan of turn-based games, once I got used to the combat I had a lot of fun with it. Great Work!
Nice polished game! I really like the combat system (and the funny tone ofc)!
Really impressive! The scope was so ambitious too. I love the tactical combat. It brought back memories of the Gold Box classics. IMO the combat was the best part of the game - having 2 actions and pre-selecting them was perfect. Adding the perishable exert mechanic really added a lot of strategic depth.
Also thank you for color coding the rooms. Having the the "green key" (it was green I think?) for the door in the green area is very smart.
Really amazing and fairly deep gameplay! 10 out of 10 for the main character.
Really good entry overall - loved the style and the fighting, perhaps one of the most fun fighting mechanics I've dealt with in the jam!
My only nit was with the Green area where you get turned around randomly :( Caused me a headache personally. Seeing the enemies would've been nicer imho - just so I knew what to expect, but the movement and mechanics were 10/10, so can't complain much.
Awesome job!
Cool old school dungeon crawler game similar to Pool of Radiance. I really like the tactical turn based combat system. I think it would be better if we could see the enemies on the adventure mode as well. Also in combat screen it would be better if you would have used character sprites instead of portraits. Like the humouros plot of the game.
Nice entry to the jam. Good job!
Solid entry. I found the fighting mechanics quite intuitive. Perhaps the setup of behaviors could have a little more variation in the earlier parts as it was quite a few fights and they turned quite easy after the first go around.
I like the planning bit and then execution with ability to gain extra moves. But the amount of key presses could be a reduced quite a lot by reorganizing them having attack and move first and then in the execution filtering all things not possible selecting move if move and attack if no move as default. Something like that. Especially noticeable on the final boss, that suitably was a bit of a damage sponge.
It would have been nice with an empty line or some indicator of what is new text and where it begins and where the old stuff ended. Especially during walking around and getting story bits.
At first, the controls mapping really messed with my brain since the geometry indicated qwe asd in the graphics but they were layed out awd qse as default. Great that I could update it though!
Nice entry, nice style and fun humor.
Thank you so much for taking the time to write such great feedback! We really appreciate it!
The combat menus need a ton of work to make it feel less tedious. Our programmer (me) was overly ambitious on what could be accomplished in 9 days… At first, it seemed like all the time in the world… and then… it wasn’t :P
Regarding QWE / ASD: I somehow messed up the default control setup in the final upload. It was intended to be Q/E for rotate by default. I’m very glad the input mapping worked!
Thanks for playing! Glad you enjoyed it :D
Very nice entry. Grid tactics is not my thing but works well after a few fights.
Absolutely messed up by just ending my turn after picking my actions instead of actually then ‘using’ them… fortunately ol’ mate zoop just tanked it all until I realized.
Fun game, the music was great. Was it just me or was there some impossible space non-Euclidean stuff going on in some bits? felt like I was going around in one bit turning into space that shouldn’t be there
Ooops! The game definitely lacks a real tutorial to help learn the combat system. As with most game jams I enter, the programmer (me) was far too ambitious with what could be accomplished given the time.
I’m glad you enjoyed the game. Our composer was fantastic!
Re: Non-Euclidean: Are you referring to the very beginning of the game? Or the Green room? Both have some strange movement behavior that probably should be less odd.
Excellent graphics and presentation. was thrown with the combat when the entire style changed. but soon got used to it :)
Very nice combat. I think the combat would really benefit the ability to pan around the battlefield as well as inspecting enemies to see stats like health. From playing I could start to get the feel for which enemies had how much health, but in the beginning it's harder to plan your tactics without that information.
Thanks for playing! Absolutely, I agree that there is a core mechanic missing to just view the entire battlefield and inspect each enemy / player. Sadly, we were defeated by time!
We appreciate the feedback! <3
This is the best combat I've seen yet, I love the tactics-style approach.
Thanks for playing! I hope it was not too confusing <3
I broke the game during the last? fight behind the blue door, now enemies can't play their turns even after I press Panic and start again. I might restart later especially as I realised only at the end that you can increase the difficuly which should be fun. However I got a good glimpse of the game so for now I'll play some other entries first.
The game is pretty cool, it's not hard to please me with first person exploration and combat on a grid but the game is solid , the first person movement feels very good, I think the game is overall very well paced, I really like the combat system and the controls. Character progression adds to the fun. Difficulty is as you want it to be which is good and so are rebindable controls. I don't mind the meta settings that much but fighting against possessed furnitures and employees of a cosmic furniture store is really right up my alley so overall I like it.
Very cool entry, thanks for sharing.
Thank you for taking the time to play it all the way to the end! I’m glad you enjoyed it enough to do so. :D
The fight through the blue door is the last one. I would be really interested in figuring out what caused your game to break. One other person reported the Guard mechanic being broken / causing odd behavior in combat. Were you using Guard in combat?
Yes, exactly, I'm almost sure it was due to myself mashing the space button while needing to guard or something like that.
Thanks for the feedback. Yes. It appears the Guard mechanic has a bug in it. Sorry about that! If you plan to play again, let me know how it goes!
Thanks again!
Very funny entry. The Movement is solid, the music is nice, the graphics are good and everything has a nice gold box feeling. I liked it :)
Thanks for playing! I’m glad you enjoyed it :D