I finished it! Pretty cool entry. The movement is nice and snappy, which is great especially for the ranged enemies and traps you need to time yourself to get through and dodge around. The first time I was surprised by an enemy (first boss I suppose) and died, but didn't have enough health so I was a little more careful the second time around but explored alot more to get more health, so that was a good reward for exploring. I also liked that you got some new skills on the way through. Solid entry all around!

I completed the game! 

I find the pace of the game good, and there is always a way forward. Sometimes you are just missing an item to proceed so you need to trace back and check again. But I did get through finally. The buttons took me a while to even find, maybe one could have been in the beginning to teach player of their existence. The voice over is a nice ad-on but maybe a bit to much for my taste sometimes. I think it was supposed to bring me along the journey, but I got lost somewhere in the middle.

Combat was a bit strange but worked out fine once you got the mechanics.

The spaced out healing rooms was a good and necessary ad-on  that helped the game be more fluent to play. It might be hard to understand what the rest does though, but once you try it you will certainly use it.

The hollow walls was nice, but maybe some kind of mark on them would have made sense. Something out of the ordinary.

Movement is spot on.

A great game!

I really liked the premise and the monster design! You were very sneaky with the teleporters and spinner LOL :D I’m sure zooperdan must have loved that! :D

The movement feels good and I enjoyed the combat too.

Great job!

Fun game! In my first attempt I went into the fireball room, misjudged the pattern once and then died by two blasts. On my second attempt I went to the library room first, which increased my health to ~25 iirc thanks to the secrets, so I felt more comfortable to go through the fireball room again. This time I dodged all the fireballs \o/ so I didn't even need the extra health lol

Combat felt nice, and the bossfights were cool. One of them gave me a light panic early on, but I didn't have much trouble getting rid of them. The spinners did their job quite well and the teleporters were also confusing but not in a frustrating way.

Could use some more variety in the dungeon itself, as it does look quite same-y all the way through. Some more visually distinct areas would be pretty neat, I think. Some rooms felt like they have purpose, while others are just there. I think adding some purpose by adding visual clues and whatnot would go a long way to make the dungeon feel more interesting. I know there's furniture, but the architecture itself and the styling could use some love.

Other than that, not much to comment on. Pretty solid game, good job!

This was really good! I enjoyed pretty much everything about this entry and it had a very old school vibe. It really encouraged exploration, though having to restart from the beginning is a bit daunting if you die later on in the game (like I did once in that room with the two buttons that open up a lot of side doors). The room with a spinner had me puzzled for a bit until I realized what was going on. I think there is a sound effect for when you step on it, but it's a bit too quiet, could use with some volume up.

Very well done!.

The spinner at the fire trap was bullshit, it toggled, when I wanted to step of it while strafing (at least I think). That felt unfair and I had quite some fun until that part. The map is quite big and your systems are pretty complete, for what you wanted to accomplish, I think. Graphics and sound may be a bis sparse, but fine and moody. Maybe make the enemies a bit slower and give more in terms of hit feedback, when hitting an enemy. Fine entry!

I emerged from the depth of my confinment.

I think I ended with a little more than 50 HPs, not sure how many hidden passages it means I missed.

This was ton of fun, I loved everything about the game . A weird settings and unique visuals, instant movement, actual dungeon mechanics (traps, spinners, teleporters, small buttons, hidden doors ...). Combat was suprisingly fun too, the lethality, your abilities, the enemy behaviour, enemies shooting you out of the grid, everything made me enjoy it at lot and especially ton more than the usual real-time fare on a grid. The encounters are good and the difficulty right on point. Besides you feel the rise in power, ridiculing the two enemies at the end which used to be one strong enough boss was super fun.

This is easily among my favourite entries so far (I've played about 1/4th of the entries), congratulations.

This was a scary one! I had lots of fun playing it. Though at first it felt a little unfair how the enemies were so quick to attack. Once I abandoned melee more or less entirely and used corners and strafing to get around enemies, I managed to survive. I played with two hands. One on the 1-4 and the other navigating. Might work really nice on a controller btw (don’t know if you had that support).

It really added to the suspense too that the game didn’t say if there was any save or checkpoint, but it might have been nice. I died once early on, and if I had died later again I don’t think I would have wanted to start over. There are people that like that sort of loop though… so I who knows which is best.

In general I only got lost once even though the map was quite big and that was at the very end because I didn’t find the door that just opened and there was another that remained shut that sort of begged to be opened.

There were some really evil level design, and I liked it since I survived, but if it would have killed me I think I’d be upset. In particular the spinner in the stressing fireball sequence.

There was also a the repeated pattern of: Here’s a big room. There’s nothing in it. We promise. Just a button, why don’t you press the button. And how first couple of them I could run out and be safer but then came another room…

Really good drama in that level design.

Over all, I think it was a splendid entry!

Playthrough: https://youtu.be/Iewie-421Eg

Hey,

nice Crawler. I liked the fat snappy movement and fast combat, plenty hidden rooms with red orbs. The Style was not so much my cup of tea. The Lighting was also a bit off. And I did not like the turning trap, it killed me. :D (Hope it was a trap and not a bug. ) Or rather the fireball did. But I liked the “Gladiator” Suprise Room.

Nice Entry. :)

Basic dungeon crawler which works well but didn't pull me in so much to be honest. I find the dungeon too dull and sterile. I don't understand what kind of setting the gameworld takes place. Is it modern day? There are couches and bookshelves in some of the rooms. I mean it looks interesting but confusing at the same time. I don't know what to make of it. Enemy designs didn't appeal to me much. Combat is not very fun and engaging.

My final opinion about the game is, you managed to make a grid based dungeon crawler game with basic gameplay mechanics mostly but i think you couldn't manage to make it fun and interesting. But regardless of all my ciritiscms i appreciate your time and hardwork. It is something, better than nothing. Good luck on your game development journey. I wish you success!

Yep. very nice, straightforward crawled. the graphics and sound were fine - nothing really to say, neither good nor bad.

The movement speed was great - nice and snappy. I didn't like the monsters having some form of realtime. you would see them and they would be attacking you before you could get the mouse read to click an icon - I was using the keyboard. So That would be where I would put my thoughts - making the combat very keyboard friendly and intuitive :)

This was good, if a little rough and early. Nine days isn't a lot of time.

Its a good thing that you read to me, because I don't read stuff in games.

I found myself just smacking stuff with the sword and not dark orbing anything.

A solid entry.

Really solid entry!  I love the devious dungeon design.  Even knowing it was coming from Discord chat, the spinner in the fireball corridor really disoriented me ^_^.  I also love the second boss where this time I'd learned my lesson, stood in just the right place ready to fire off all of my spells, clicked to open the door and... bam, stabbed in the back =).

Very solid crawler experience, will return to it later for a more comprehensive session.

Pretty solid fundamentals on the real-time action style gameplay. It’s kind of punishing for trying the usual kiting manoeuvres because of splash damage and enemies seeming to get a hit off immediately after rounding a corner. I also like the cooldown design in favour of having to manage limited MP resources.

I died trying to run back to a heal room shortly after the first boss, I kept getting spun around, on a strafe movement, while trying to backtrack past a fireball trap. Perhaps that was some kind of deliberate decision and not the inputs bugging out… haha.

The writing is a good touch, but I would prefer silently reading it over the TTS voice, to be honest.

Very fun. I like the variety of experience - sometimes it's combat, sometimes I'm trying to figure out how open a door or leave a room, sometimes it's something else. Also the narrator was a really nice touch.

The initial secret door was great, the way I discovered it, very awesome.

LOVED this!

I thought the tuning was absolutely spot on. I died almost immediately in my first run to a fireball and then completed it on my second run  once I had the movement figured out.

The variety of monsters and abilities was great, It feels awesome to build up and chain several ranged attacks on the harder enemies. I explored a fair amount and I enjoyed that there is some reward for finding the false walls and hidden rooms.

I did have an awful movement bug (not a bug, my bad!) on the gauntlet towards the end where you need to run towards a trap and hide in the left / right alcoves sequentially. On the final alcove when I tried to strafe out it was turning me all around. But that was it, everything else worked flawlessly.

Beautiful art and great gameplay. Thanks so much.

Pretty tough! I died a lot, sometimes from fireball, sometimes from normal enemies, sometimes from super muscular man ; - ;.
That's a lot of shelves! Pretty nice overall!

Was a little bit confused in the first room until I realized you could walk through the wall next to the bookcase. Overall a fun game to play! (I died three times, once to a fireball and twice to enemies)

Good job on this entry, feels fun to play once you start to understand how it works