Impressive scope for a game jam game!  I liked the inventory system, picking up items and moving them between inventory slots was responsive and easy to manage.   Environments were well designed, lots of variety to the decor and I liked the spark effects and attention to detail.   Sound design was great too and really well implemented, it added a lot to the sense of being alone in an abanonded space station. 

I would have liked an in game tutorial, especially as the enemies didn't seem to stop coming at me when the game was paused while I was checking the controls.  I also managed to soft-lock myself at the start of the game, where I accidentally dropped the yellow key card and it fell through the floor, preventing me from entering the next area. 

Combat wasn't very engaging for me.  It was interesting that you added a level up system with stat progression and some RPG elements, but I wonder if more could have been done to enhance the combat and make it more exciting. 

Interested to see where this could go!   

Wow great entry! There is a high degree of graphical fidelity on this one, the animations on the enemies, the effects (water spraying, sparks, fireballs) and the environmental design are all top notch. I immediately knew I was on some sort of space craft or station and there were alot of props to fill in the spaces to make it feel lived in. The movement is a little bit slow, but luckily the environments are not too wide open so it doesn't suffer too much from the slower movement. Otherwise, it's implemented perfectly with turning and grid stepping. The combat is a little basic, but the options for different weapons was great, the funny items too are a good gag in the otherwise serious tone of the game. Leveling up and lots of items are there to customize into things, even if you don't get a ton of level ups in a single run to see through different "builds". 

Loved the stimpack reference too!

The biggest complaint is that it was too short! I wish there was more and I hope you continue developing this.

Wow this is a nice one. A very complete and polished game. There's no story or indtroducing the player to the game world but there's a premise. That's fine, not every game  has to tell a story, this one focuses on gameplay and i think it does a pretty good job at that!  In terms of gameplay there's not much to criticize, everything works perfecty. Movement is very smooth and snappy, enemy AI is fine, inventory, levelling system, it has all basic mechanics of a dungeon crawler game.  

Third party assets you used in the game are very high quality especially the enemies and the  shaders on the objects. It's more nitpicking than criticism but the environment doesn't feel much like a spaceship to me. This could be place like mall or an office too. Comparing to some other contenders of the jam, the atmosphere of the game is a little weaker i think. Also there's something off with the lighting. With the lighting capabilities of UE5 i think a much better lighting could be achieved to contribute to the game's atmosphere.

Combat works well. It's pretty straightforward but it works. There's a decent feedback, you know you hit the enemy. Enemy's death animation activates  with a 1 second delay.

All in all i think it's a pretty solid game especially taking the time limit into account. I am really glad that your game wasn't disqualified from the jam, it really would be a shame. Great job and good luck!

This is far better entry than you would have had me believe from your comment to me. Genuinely very feature rich, and while I understand you are perturbed by having to cut content; this has alot going for it.

The environments are stunning. Many will put that simply down to Unreal, but the scenes are dressed well and a considerable amount of thought has been put into which assets to use and where to place them, which is a skill in of itself. The menu, UI and other 2D elements are solid and warmly recieved, there's a great deal of QoL baked in which is really nice. The collectibles and flavour text are all nice little touches that really build on the exploratory portion of the game.

You've had some really outstanding feedback from the other commenters, so I won't add to things that you already know. However there might be a few things I might be able add regarding my experience as a beginner. 

It certainly seems that filesize is directly correlated to the number of plays, and this is a beast. I'm not sure what resolution textures you're using, however I would assume due to the filesize that they are on the larger end. I have been porting my game to 3D and in my own learning post jam, I have realised that you can be really efficient in dungeon crawlers, as many meshes are only ever seen from one side within the grid. I've been manually unwrapping the UVs and shrinking all but the visible face to 1 pixel. You can essentially squeeze 4k of resolution into a 1k texture at around 1mb compressed and it's doing wonders for my filesize.

My firewall also popped on running the game, while I understand it's probably just Epic doing some data collection, it's not ideal considering I couldn't run this through the itch client.

All in all I think this is an great entry and I think you need to give yourselves more credit for what you've achieved. Especially considering your working commitments alongside the jam, well done. I hope you will considering entering again next year, because I think you could produce something really special with some tooling ahead of time and after applying everything you've learned. 

Thank you.

Well this is so far the first Unreal dungeon crawler I've played this jam so it's unique in that aspect. And while it looks great and there's a good amount of polish, I'll go over the issues I encountered first.

The first issue, which is probably mostly on me, is I couldn't figure out how to get past the second room. I had assumed that I used the yellow keycard to get into the second room (since the door going in was yellow), and thus wasn't required to actually drag and drop the keycard onto the doors. Once I figured that out I was good.

But on the subject of the rooms, it's a bit disorienting moving forward and suddenly teleporting. I assume this was done for performance reasons, which with Unreal is fair enough, though it caught me off guard at first. Oh and I ran into a bug where when going through the first yellow locked door, it teleported me back to the starting room. Had to run through it again to get to the first open area.

Like several of the other comments here I found something a bit off with the tile size and position. Some were definitely too small, like in the final boss room the camera clips into red columns. And others just felt awkward, like in the first room you're either too far away from lockers or have your face pressed against it. Just generally a bit weird. Oh I also discovered you can step onto objects, which isn't an issue and is kinda fun, but I wasn't sure if it was intentional or just an oversight.

The final boss was kinda neat, but again with the tile size issue it made it awkward to fight because it's hitbox is so small. And even though I beat the boss, I don't think I made it to the ending because I couldn't figure out where to go next. I searched through the boss arena and backtracked through other areas and didn't find anything. Is there no win screen?

Now covering the things I actually liked, graphically the game world looks great! The sparks coming off malfunctioning equipment, overflowing sinks, running showers, etc. all looked very nice. It chugged a bit on my machine even on low graphics, but I honestly think that's due more to some issue with my PC than the game itself because it's been a bit slow lately.

I liked finding all the little secrets scattered around, the blue and red stimpaks, and the toy weapons were all fun.

I appreciate the options of instant or continuous movement, I switched to instant as I found it a bit faster. Mind you my game has slow movement and no option for instant movement, so you got me beat there!

The combat was fine, I know others have mentioned it being too easy but in a jam I always prefer too easy over too hard. I assume there was a magic system planned but scrapped, since Intelligence and the blue bar don't do anything.

I also liked the interface, very intuitive, and I like the detail of leaning into crates when opening them. Very Legend of Grimrock!

Overall I had fun with this one. It has some obvious growing pains of devs who haven't made a dungeon crawler before, as you mentioned in other comments, but I think if you were to take another swing next year you could make something great!

This looks amazing and sounds great. It's extremely well presented, from the menus at the start to the user interface and graphics in-game. Great job.

The movement is smooth, although it felt very sluggish. Then there's the tile size. It felt way too small for a classic dungeon crawler. It was very apparent when the prawns died and there wasn't enough room for them to die on the floor so they disappeared through the wall.

The transitions between the rooms via doors, or the TV teleporter, were very disorienting. You thought you could see through the door to the next room but when you went through the door you were somewhere completely different. Most of the scenery looked nice but was completely static and didn't really add anything to the gameplay. Why were we in a gym with lots of toilets? It felt a bit disconnected.

The inventory looked great and it was nice to be able to pickup in free look. When you picked items up the icons had no transparency to them which felt like an oversight, given how polished everything else was.

We picked up everything we found but didn't use anything except for the baton, the sledgehammer and the keys. We didn't get hit once throughout the entire game, even for the boss at the end. Were the red and blue bars health and something else, because they just seemed to be static for us. It was too easy to two-step around all the enemy. The small tiles made it very hard to know whether you were next to an enemy or a square away, especially with the end boss. Thankfully he was so slow that you just moved up to him until you couldn't move any further and then back away as he was turning.

There weren't any puzzles that we noticed and we didn't find any secret rooms. Did we miss some things?

Overall we were very impressed with the graphics and controls, but the gameplay and combat were lacking and in the end it wasn't as fun as it could have been given the foundations you put in. We didn't encounter any bugs that we noticed though, which is quite an achievement, much better than we did!

Very cool game! I'm astounded at how feature complete it feels, the inventory had some nice quality of life and incorporating a stat system was great too. 
I however noticed that I basically never needed to use a stim. Still liked having them though!

Graphics and Music was nice.

Stimpacks going SC on me, duck, panda and corgi found (that you can hit with). Stim that does negative accuracy... That is all I found personally.

There is a bug with last boss when he moves - you 100% will miss. And he moves slowly, so its not as noticable. I though that I need to do something else there. Movement was a bit strange in general. Kiting boss with hammer too OP!

This entry will be disqualified. Submitting an entry with a link to external file is of course not allowed in a ranked gamejam with prizes. It's not allowed to update or change your game past the deadline and with externally linked files we have no control over that. That is unfair to the other participants and is downright cheating.

I will leave your entry visible to others so you can get feedback but once the rating period is over your entry will be removed.

A very amusing game wrapped in serious graphics! I got to maul bugs and a huge ass alien boss with a corgi and a red panda. What else can you want?

This game has fancy graphics! It should have though cause the file size is enormous. (And the zipped file was actually larger than the unzipped items...) I liked the touch with the small mascot weapons you can get.

The tile size and steps seems of for some reason, it feels like you take 1/3 of a step when strafing. I don't think it is because the assets used doesn't cover entire squares though. 

Combat is fine, but I mostly danced and used double weapons. The two handed one does half the damage per second than two one handed ones. Final boss was epic.

Anyway good job!

I got Corgi, a red panda and a rubber duck and defeated the big thing. I never raised my Intelligence stat of course. A  heavy hammer smashing the enemies in one hit was a satisfying find, I liked the different containers animations especially and for example I liked just how much the toys were highlighted, neither too much nor so low that you would never try to click on them. Movement is smooth and pleasant to control and the speed feels just appropriate so that you feel like you're smashing hard things with a huge hammer.

Cool game, thanks for sharing.