Play short bizarre thing
Me and my eldritch parasite (jam version)'s itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Originality | #779 | 3.677 | 3.677 |
| Presentation | #1273 | 3.402 | 3.402 |
| Overall | #1808 | 3.094 | 3.094 |
| Fun | #3508 | 2.205 | 2.205 |
Ranked from 127 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does your game fit the theme?
Player is joined with a parasite. Harm to said parasite affects the player.
Did your team create the vast majority of the art during the 48 hours?
Yes
We created the vast majority of the art during the game jam
Did your team create the vast majority of the music during the 48 hours?
Yes
We created the vast majority of the music during the game jam
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It has a nice atmosfere (very creppy) and I like a lot how you use hte theme of the GJAM !! Great work !
The text was also to fast for me and I had to die to come back and see (:
This game was really creepy! Very well done on the atmosphere. A small crit i do have is maybe adding wasd controls (my dumb brain thought i it broke bc i didnt pay attention to the starting message). Also the text is a tad fast for me... Great game otherwise
I really love the aesthetic choices made for this game - it absolutely nails the creepy parasitic vibe. Great job!
I really like that style, It's creep but a little calm (perfect for jumpscares), and I liked the concept of the parasite be a thing that you can control, but I don't know If It's was me the problem, but I died so much cause the parasite was angry and I didn't know how to calm it, I read the comment saying to go to the guards, but I died a lot before find a guard, I had to speedrun the game to be able to find a guard before dying, and when I found the guard, the parasite became calm, but the text was still saying it was angry and I died. I loved the concept and style, but I couln't finish the game.
I can dig the spoopy vibes.
A bit weird but interesting. Found a few bugs, but it doesn't really interfere with the game. Keep it up! You can also look at our game too, if you have a time :)
what did I just play? beautifully bizarre and somewhat otherworldly. This could actually be a game some day!
Really creepy. Loved the Lovecraftian atmosphere. Good job
on word. ATOMSHPERE! yo nailed that aspect! such a creepy yet cool world here with a really neat mechanic of having to stop and move the parasite around. Seeing the dialogue adding a lot of interest in the sense that the two are so super connected! really cool great job!
The setup and presentation is a bit confusing and the idea of having player control two things connected together is a pretty common theme.
the game seemed a little broken. i think it needed a hunger / angry bar of some sort. I also just didn’t understand why it was getting so angry and killing me all the time when i felt i was doing well. The art style was the best art ive seen in the game jam and i wish i had made it xox
I wanted to keep the hunger and anger bars hidden for making the game feel spookier, so I decided to add warning messages when the levels get dangerous. The problem with the parasite getting angry is that you have to calm it by attacking the guards from behind, but that instruction is revealed after meeting a couple of guards because I didn't want to overwhelm the player with information.
If you have any suggestions on how to make the hunger and anger more visible without using bars I'll be happy to hear them, I've been thinking about making this a full game since I liked the idea but couldn't flesh it out much because of the jam deadline.
That is probably going to give me nightmares :) As any Eldritch related content should!
I couldn't pass the laser. Can you control the girl and the parasite at the same time?
Superb ambiance !
You can't control them at the same time, but you can move the protagonist while the parasite is moving back to the chest. The lasers always move from side to side, so the best tactic is to go to their middle position, move the parasite away from danger, wait for the lasers to pass and then move quickly. Or just spam "space" and keep the parasite away.
i felt like this was really hard to control, but it's a cool atmosphere.
Very weird and atmospheric, especially with the unsettling art style. I'm not sure why there was so much parasite food around if you only need it in the first room ,and I don't really understand what triggers the berserk state. Also, having to restart from the very beginning if you mess up at all is a bit annoying.
Really unique game in such a cool way. I wish there was some sort of meter that displayed how hungry the parasite was. Great job!
Weird game...
Weird game ^^ but I couldn't get farther than the laser
Great art style. Controls are a bit challenging and at first i didnt understand that i was going through the doors, when i clicked up and down. Great atmosphere for sure though!
Really cool ambience and atmospheric feeling!
Loved the artstyle!