wow, this is a very nicely done game! 

only things that i found in the gameplay that were not done right is the traps. they all said something like  "secondary text here" and the 2  buttons said the same thing on each. outside of the gameplay, before you start a new run, the main menus overlap one another. if you open a menu it should close any other one that is already open. outside of these relatively simple fixes, the game is great in my eyes. keep it up and make us some more wonderful stuff!

would like to mention that there were a few floors where a big block prevented me from getting into some rooms. not sure if that is a bug or an intentional game design.

beat it on the 1st try. (alternating between life sap and magic sap) so found a little loophole to stay full on everything without needing any potions

additional suggestion: LMB should be changed to Left Mouse Button. People that design games will know what this is but a generic player may not know it. 

great work overall, you get a 93% from me!

I posted on the main page but thought I'd also do it here and say that is bloody incredible for three weeks or whatever. Great style and love the concept and execution. Amazing work, very inspirational ;) 

Really love the game. Interesting one.

Cool concept, felt original and interesting! Here are my points:

- Font is much more readable than in previous versions;

- Progression felt relatively random, didn't really have any idea how far I went, nor how I could improve my chances at surviving;

- Outside of combat the game sorta plays itself, you go through as may doors as you can hoping to get the most out of everything beneficial. I haven't encountered any real choice in where to go or what to do with something I found. Was mostly get gold, give it to the priest, pick up flask, rinse, repeat;

- The only decision seems to be do I keep going up, or do I take time to explore, but even then seems like going up without preparation would be a bad choice, as difficulty seems to ramp up fairly fast;

- Enemies showed a bunch of stats that weren't any help in trying to understand how I could use them efficiently to defeat this type of enemy, the name of the enemy sometimes helped though;

- Without any clue about what the enemy might do next, defend seems like a waste of a choice, leaving me mostly switching between attacks and magic until I found what was the most efficient;

- Didn't see much difference in damage when using a free attack versus one costing mana, didn't really see much difference from weakening enemies either;

- I tend to find random encounters to be pretty dull in general, since you can't prepare for the upcoming fight and they always feel like an interruption. Experience might be more strategic if you could be hinted with enemies position or movement;

- This would also open a risk versus reward decision to let players initiate combat sometimes;

- Experience feels repetitive relatively quick, outside of the new enemy, you cycle through the same things over and over;

- You might want to leave the stats and inventory visible at all times, doesn't feel all that useful to do an extra click to get the required information to disarm a trap for example;

- Bug, you can walk down out of the screen when facing the first stair;

- Bug, clicking on the stats or inventory in front of a door seems to open that door?;

- Bug, might have misread, but I think you have a typo in "disgard".

Loved the game. Everything fits together nicely, great art, music, sounds, etc. 

Only downside is I think the game is a little grindy, you're opening all the doors, stepping on the same traps, same encounters. It could probably have been trimmed down by quite a bit. The magic and attacks also felt redundant, couldn't really tell when one kind of attack was better than another.

I got all the way to the tyrant. Would have appreciated some warning, like a glowy room or boss music. I think there was enough resources to win that one; I didn't feel like the game lacked the resources to win, but the route up the tower was so long, I didn't really want to have another go at it.

Loved the game concept before as I mentioned in Discord, but now that I've played it I enjoyed it more than I expected! :) I agree with some of the other comments, for example the speed of the animations and movements could be faster, or I would also make it so you enter doors with "W" as well, like the stairs. Also items in combat would be nice, but I already read that you ran out of time for that one. ;)

I would definitely love to work on this sort of game sometime. I can imagine a UI-based game like this to be right up my alley with my skills, and the aesthetics are just a really nice bonus. Can't wait to see what you make out of this in the future.

Hello Friend. Congratulations for your Game. I like very much the Graphics,the Sound,the Fighting system. It is very promising game and I loved it. I enjoy playing it. The only negative was that it was too slow the movement and in the fighting, But I believe this is easy to fix it. I wish you good luck to your Excellent game. The best I played so far!! 

First of all, congratulations on finishing a game, and you did a great job on what you have accomplished! I really like the dark/gothic fantasy atmosphere and style of your game. Also, claw wizard - brilliant!

I had a few runs and here's what I thought of gameplay and balance. 

The first run I tried to explore everywhere and bought the first upgrades that were presented to me. I found I ran out of gold very quickly and so many rooms presented upgrades I was unable to obtain. This was a little bit frustrating as not many rooms contained gold. I died about half way up when the difficulty of the monsters increased and I didn't know the best way to beat them. 

The second run I also explored everywhere but this time was more selective in the upgrades I chose, which helped, but I still struggled when the claw wizard absolutely destroyed me. It seemed to do quite a lot of damage, however, maybe I wasn't paying attention to my hp as I was focusing on trying to sap it's mana. 

The last run I mainly headed up the tower as quickly as possible only stopping the at rooms on the way or visible from the stairs. This time I got all the way to the top to face the tyrant but struggled to defeat him before dying as I had no way to heal myself. 

Hopefully that will give you some insight into how a player might approach the game. I wouldn't want to comment that the game was too hard as I feel like this is probably intentional, and to make the player make conscious choices about which skills to increase and which resources to use including mana. 

One suggestion I would make is to make items available in combat, as this would allow a player to have at least 1 way of healing during battle. I think on one of my earlier runs I had a hp sap type spell but this was offset easily by the damage the enemy would inflict on that turn, making it less effective as a healing tool. 

Some of the skills had more obvious uses that others, for example, strength, toughness and arcana have obvious benefits to combats and traps. I felt dexterity only had a use for traps, which I could use something else to overcome. I didn't see any use for faith so it was unclear what this would affect. Other than more damage, I think having some more feedback that the elemental spells were more effective would be helpful. 

All in all I think you have a very good base, and I'm really impressed with the progress you've made in the bootcamp with this. I think there's a lot of room to build upon what you have already to make this even more great! 

This feels like a good mix of influences. It makes me think of Dark Souls, a roguelite, and dungeon crawling. I find it very enticing to keep playing to get to the top of the tower, but also find the difficulty keeps me trying to figure out the best play.

Resources seem scarce and their appearance is spread out enough that it seems unbalanced. After a certain amount of time playing, I find that I get to this point where I can no longer survive encounters because the ability to increase my stats or heal myself is too little to offset the amount of damage or drain the enemies can inflict. It basically becomes a damage race that gets skewed in favor of the enemies over time. 

In Dark Souls, you can account for the difficulty of bosses and enemies by way of skill, using items at the right time, and getting stronger and getting better equipment over time. Here, skill isn't as much an issue because of the turn-based nature of the game, so it comes down to just attacking and knowing when to use the right magic type against the right enemy. Getting more powerful seems to come down to encounters, and the randomisation needs some more work because sometimes you'll get the same encounter 2 to 3 times on the same floor. And with the lack of gold, it's hard to get anything. I do have to choose wisely what I get because of the low gold amount.

I find I want to run across the hall but the movement seems limited to nodes or a grid, is there a way to keep the player moving seamlessly but still taking the grid into account?

The game is pretty great overall, and I enjoyed playing it so much that I want to keep playing. Great world building as well! So great job!!! Some more polish, in terms of effects when attacking, hitting, using magic - like screenshake perhaps, screen flashes, etc - could go a long way of pushing the game even more, as well as more art polish. And then playing some more with the randomisation, and maybe giving the player more gold, could help equip the player better to handle the difficulties of the tower.

Dude, I LOVE the vibe you're going for! Had a lot of fun exploring the strange tower. Thought I had it, but got killed by a damn claw wizard midway across my ascent 😅

You tackled a pretty ambitious design with this project - both in terms of game design, content and graphic style. What you managed to build in such a short time is amazing - congrats! I particularly liked the world building - the themes, the texts, the encounters. I also really appreciated how, despite conveying a great atmosphere, the text is not verbose. Just a few lines of text to get the point and vibe across and it's done - which is cool because it also leaves room for imagination. Another super cool concept is navigating through a sidescroller view in a corridor, and most encounters being a room. Really makes you feel like exploring some sort of dark monastery.

The hiccups I had were all minor, and definitely the kind of stuff you could easily improve upon with some more time. Particularly, I wish there were navigation choices (like in Isaac, where you choose whether or not to enter a room making some sort of risk / reward calculation, etc). It would also feel more satisfying to control with more instant input recognition and faster travel time between cells.

I really like the idea and vibe. The darker tone and game genre is well aligned with Steam, if you keep improving on it. I would love to see this game keep evolving through the bootcamp! ❤️

Congrats, and thanks for the fun!