The way you approached meeting all the conditions of the jam is truly impressive! The visuals, music, game design, and overall direction are top-notch. I particularly want to praise the design of the puzzles—they always made me think and pay attention to specific details and possibilities. I had to put in some thought, but I never felt stuck, which is fantastic. Overall, I'm simply amazed—this is a very well-made game. My only suggestion would be to improve accessibility, such as using a more readable font or adding options for people with poor eyesight. Excellent work!

It's a funny game. But... I have poor eyesight and it is difficult to read such a font. The hero strikes towards the cursor, not towards the turn. Is it necessary or is it a bug?

Très chouette!
La présentation est très propre, la palette réduite et le style retro se complémentent bien. Je n'avais jamais vu de jeux 2D du genre faits dans Unreal, (ou alors je n'ai jamais fait attention si c'est répandu ?).
J'aime beaucoup l'aspect Dungeon Crawler /  roguelite, et taper un mur pour révéler la sortie me rappelle les passages secrets d'un Dark Souls. Globalement c'est fun, et la vibe est sympa et maitrisée.
La salle de la chauve-souri m'a pris un petit moment avant que je comprenne haha.
Et petite critique, j'aurai aimé qu'on puisse passer ou accélérer la discussion avec Desmond au début de chaque run. Mais sinon chapeau, belle entrée pour la jam !

Really cool game, the graphics are really good and the music is pretty good too, the only thing I think could be improved a bit is the gameplay, the enemies feel a bit dumb and with most of them except the ranged you can just stay still and spam attack to kill them, but this is still one of the best games I've played in this jam, good job!

Game feels really nice! Visual, audio and gameplay have good connection between them. I like how you outplayed dialog window. But is there only one level, or I'm just unable to see some doors?

Amazing job! I love the whole experience: the art style, the map design, the music. The gameplay concept is simple but it is super well executed. Look forward to see more of your works!

First off: Well done!
Of all games I tried this is my favourite so far.

The music is good, the colour palette looks amazing and the animations are butter smooth. I would have never guessed that you used Unreal for this (shows your skill and how flexible this engine is). As of now I had only one playthrough so far, but definitely coming back to it the next days.

Ran into the bat room almost immediately and got stuck. Looking through the comments gave me the solution. You could perhabs add some expression mark and delay (maybe an exclamation mark) to let the player know that the bat reacts upon you approaching. But this is just a small suggestion.

You did a fantastatic job in the given time and delivered a well polished game! Huge congrats!

Fantastic entry.

First off, the visuals are really nice. Animation is fluid. Even though the character can only attack left and right, with all the other FX going when while attacking during an actual fight, I don't ever notice it; it feels right.

The dialogue write speed could have been faster and I would have liked a way to skip the Desmond cutscene after the first time seeing it. Although, it is nice that you can skip the dialogue with the old man after seeing it the first time.

Gameplay felt smooth. Going room to room and attacking things felt nice. The ranged and tank enemies add some nice variety to combat; mainly the ranged enemy who forces you to dodge more.

I'm playing on a 2K monitor so the screen was rather tiny for me and fullscreen didn't have a 2k resolution option and 1080p looked too blurry on it.

It's ludicrous that this was made with Unreal Engine. I didn't realize a 2D game like this was realistically possible with Unreal. Kudos.

My playthrough went something like the following:

1. When through intro
2. Explored a few rooms then got stuck in the pit trap room
3. Restarted, went through the intro again
4. Explored a few rooms, found the invincibility cheat
5. Found the bat room and couldn't get past it
6. Restarted again, went through the intro again again
7. Explored a few rooms got stuck on the bat again
8. Restarted, explored several rooms, found the pit trap again and abused the invincibility cheat to figure out how to get past the pit
9. Explored a couple more rooms
10. Went into a long outdoors hallway after a boss room
11. Found ANOTHER BAT and got stuck again
12. Turned off invincibility and backtracked to the pit trap room to kill my self and update my score on the scoreboard

The bat room was frustrating because the only solution I knew to it was to restart. I'm not sure if I missed something or if it was just unlucky RNG.

Regardless of the bat, fantastic game. Simple but smooth and fun combat. Fun running from room to room, cutting down enemies or solving quick little puzzles. Finding gold was fun too, I broke every single vase I saw. Cool that you added a story too.

The animations are fluid and lifelike, I love the nostalgic feel and the animated backgrounds, the breathing UI, everything feels natural and just looks so good. I can't believe you incorporated so much in such a short time. Bravo!