I fear my tired end-of-week brain didn't really get the idea of the game. Quite a lot to read and take in, and then level two seems to ask for something different. I completed those levels without any clue what I was doing!

But I starved the flower on level three :(

I'm a terrible gardener in real life too!

Wow, this is a very original game! Amazing concept and style. It fits well with the theme. I also liked the music, it immerses you in a meditative state)

I must be missing something because my flower was gaining health, but then it just said I ran out of time, but there doesn't seem to be a time indicator on screen?

The music and graphics are lovely though, and work really well together!

Woops, almost forgot to comment !

I played the whole game while streaming to a friend, who happens to love bonsais and he was absolutely amazed by the concept.

The puzzle works, the levels are greatly designed, the music fits very well and is beautiful on its own : it's a superb submission of course, but it is a great game first.

The only problem I had personnaly, but that's just because I suck at puzzle games, is that I took a lot of information at once, but let's not forget it has been made in 2 weeks and you didnt have time to make three levels per tutorial step to give us time.

No, really, you nailed it, congratulations.

Probably the most original game i played this jam. Nice tutorial, graphics and audio. Well done! I still wished there were WASD bindings by default though, but that's fine :P 

This game was really unique and creative. I must admit I was a little overwhelmed the first time I tried to play it, but having the smaller second level and all the texts helping me at the beginning of each stage made me understand well the game.

Would love to see more levels and mechanics :). Congrats to the team, amazing interpretation of the theme and for the original idea!

I finished the game even though I’m not a puzzle person, things I liked:

• Mechanics - this is one of the most unique and original entries, I’ve never seen mechanics like this before and I’ve played thousands of games - great job!
• Code - game source is available, and the sources seem well-structured into readable chunks.
• Music and sounds are great.
• UI - nice turn indications, full game menu with sounds/screen controls.
• Introduction - game mechanics were clearly explained.
• Art is simple but works.

What I suggest improving:

• Controls
  • Holding arrow key doesn’t continue moving character
  • Z key to wait didn’t work for me
  • no WSAD support - that’s easy to add through Godot’s InputMap
  • no controller support - as easy as adding WSAD :)
• Code is missing LICENSE. I suggest using MIT license like Godot itself or any other you like, but at current state it’s not safe to contribute/share code under an unspecified license.

Overall great entry, well done!

This is quite unique among the jam entries. A very cool concept and the levels were well designed and thought out. The difficulty curve wasn't too extreme or flat and it was a lot of text but the mechanics were introduced cleanly and with concise explanation that made it quite parsable. Well done!

Very fun, and quite challenging. gets a good balance of thoughtfulness and tension , which is very nice for a puzzle game.

This is a really cool puzzle game. The colors kinda hurt my eyes though

Hey, gratz for the release!

Thanks for the first external constructive feedback on our game, and I’m sorry for not reciprocating sooner, but I was knee deep in the code 🙈

However, I’ve found your simulator-ish approach very original and interesting and I’m looking forward to playing the final release and properly rating it after I take a little break after these two weeks of non-stop coding :)

I noticed our games differ the most (real-time vs turn-based aside) in approach towards player guidance - Supercritical provides a lot of text while ToUG provides as little text/guidance as possible, challenging the player to figure out what’s going on. Some players hate that as much as others hate overabundance of text. I for one would enjoy these interesting game mechanics more if I was “forced” to uncover the mysteries of the simulation myself, but perhaps people spoiled with modern games don’t have patience for that :)