Ok, i did try your game. I'll admit, the premise is interesting, and there is some potential that can be explored in the future.

Regarding my feedback, here's some comments:

• While i liked the inclusion of RPG mechanics, i didn't understood what did stats meant. At first i thought the stats seemed to be inconsequential, except Stamina, but later on, i discovered that those stats are indeed useful. Mana is not implemented yet, based on what i read on the page. Changing your character depending of your initial stats seems like a cool idea, though. A level up mechanic could be useful in this context, too.
• I don't see the metroidvania elements in here, but it can be a novel idea to combine 2D metroidvania with top down resource collection, judging by the demo alone. I'd like to see more of that from the game in the future.
• The art looks nice and fitting for the game you are working on. Related to it, the design of some of the characters look good, so far.
• The Map selection looks good, not gonna lie.
• Related to the map selection, the boss fight was a good surprise. My only criticism is that the controls don't seem to be well adjusted for combat in that area. At least, not with keyboard and mouse. At least its theme rocks.
• Some more healing items could be nice, too. Especially for world 5, in which i get killed constantly.

I just encountered a few bugs:

• I noticed that when dashing mid air when the movement is 2D (not top down), the player launches itself to the air, specifically while moving right or left mid air and dashing, which essentially soft locks the game.
• Not sure if it's intentional or not, but it's impossible to collect one of the gems, specifically, a white gem.
• The attack button doesn't seem to work at all. The only way i could damage the enemies were moving towards the enemies, seemly because of the animation tied to the movement, which i assume is the attack animation.

In spite of the issues, the games ends up being unique on its own and fun to play in general. Hope to see more of it in the future. Good luck with it.

Hello, I tried out your game. For my feedback, I'll state things in the order that I experienced them. 
- Upon starting the game, it asks me what points I want to allocate, but doesn't tell me what they do in the context of this game. I can assume that HP lets me take more hits and damage makes me deal more damage, but I never figured out what stamina or mana was for.
- The combination of the mining and space shooter aspects was pretty unique, but I did not see any metroidvania aspects in the game. Maybe certain paths in planets could be locked until you get a specific pickaxe or other abilities.
- The space shooter part had decent controls, but the "mining" parts were confusing to figure out. How and when do I attack, is it locked to movement? While having to figure out things isn't bad, it is hard to do that when basic core mechanics are not explained. (This should be the first thing explained after controls  imo)
Overall, I feel like this was a unique entry that led to frustration due to things not being explained properly.

Hello,

All good? I played your game for some time and I wish you to share some comments. My comments will be more or less useful depending on the direction you want to take with the development of the game. I have played with controller.

Some details:

- The art is nice. I had no problem with it; it didn't prevent me from understanding what I can do: where I can walk, what are the environmental hazards, what are the enemies, what are the collectibles.

- The music fits the atmosphere greatly.

- I understand you developed the game for mobile. Congratulations for that! The UI and the way the map is layout in the screen were clear enough to me.

- MC movement feels nice: it is responsive and fast enough.

Some points regarding game design:

- IMO, if you give initial exp points to the player, he needs to have at least a minimum idea of what the game is about so he can enjoy boosting one ability in particular over the rest. Otherwise the player will just distribute the points equally, which is the same to not put any and I believe you don't want the player to have this feeling. Maybe, you can do a tutorial and right after, give those exp points to spend.

- It took me some minutes to undertand my objective, I got the What. I saw that I need to dig to find Alpha and Omega collectibles. But I didn't understand the How. Except for basic Mario Bros style games, all games today need to give at least some basic direction to the player, and an understanding of the available tools. Just pop up text, or through story. How do I efficiently kill enemies? How do I progress? How do I use the Alpha Omega collectibles once I get them?

- One risk with this digging design is that the player may end up just wandering around blindly since there is no information given to know if there is a block or a path. Unfortunately I don't really have a proposal on this point.

- Maybe the difficulty curve needs to be rethought. You can either put less enemies and don't give information on how to kill them so that the player has some time to play around and try things (I like this option less), or keep a higher amount of enemies but give information to the player beforehand.

- Also, ideally the enemies presence and number should match the game and MC progression. This point is difficult to apply well. Easier enemies at the beginning, more ddificult and intense moments later on.

- Regarding the Metroidvania design, I honestly didn't see it. Maybe it comes later on? To me, the key aspect of a Metroidvania game is the ability gated progression. You show a gate to the player, then you give the ability, then he feels the progression with the ability. The second aspects would be non-linear exploration (several paths to the next goal) and non-linear game progression (maybe some abilities can be acquired in different orders). What is your understanding of the Metroidvania genre? What Metroidvania aspects did you include in your game in your opinion? Third, the map should be constant. As a player playing a Metroidvania, there is no more rewarding feeling  that gaining orientation, learning the map and blasting through it as I progress in the game and I increase my knowledge of the map layout. Rogue games and procedurally generated maps are out of the Metroidvania genre if we apply this personal definition and criteria.

I think that is all I have in mind. You can do a lot with this game depending on the direction you wish to take, and the decisions you prefer to make mostly regarding game design.

One thing that I found: if I press Dash and Jump at the same time, the MC jump high beyond the ceiling and never comes back :D I found it was a funny moment though, and then I just used TAB to keep playing.

Cheers

It was an interesting experience. Collect resources from the planets, grind your stats so that the piranhas don't destroy you and kill the alpha and omega bosses.

The difference between space and planet gameplay was interesting. Although the space one requires more complexity to my taste.

About the metroidvania part i don't see it. To me this kind of games require a fixed map, not a proceduraly generated one. If every time i visit a planet it changes my previous visits does not matter.

I definitely got a very classic feel from this, reminded me of the old Dig Dug game. The presentation was also really good, the opening art sequence along with the somber music really set the stage for the story yo'ure telling. I also loved the little transition from digging down into the world vs. climbing onto its surface, that was really cute. I also appreciate the procedural generation that went into each planet, and that they each felt like they had their own biomes and enemy types. Despite being very simple, they all felt like they stood apart. The stat selection at start was also a very interesting route, it got me intrigued to see what I would encounter later on.

Some general feedback (I played with mouse and keyboard :

- The game was quite difficult for me at least. I felt like I was never really getting the hang of attacking enemies and was constantly getting swarmed. I would try to make rocks fall on them, but because there was never really a way to predict a clear path between you and the rocks without a barrier appearing, it was difficult to plan ahead in this regard.

- I was a bit unclear on my goal, I had to read others' comments to realize you have to get the Alpha and Omega signs from each stage. I think I was confused because in the very first stage there are so many different items you can pick up that I wasn't really sure what was important and what wasn't.

- Unless I was missing something, it didn't feel particularly Metroidvania to me. I think that's fine if you ultimately weren't really going in that direction, but if you were then whatever Metroidvania elements were in this game didn't really click for me.

I think that's about it. The game excels at its presentation and theming and although it was a bit too difficult for me personally, I still enjoyed my time with it. Good job!

looks kinda janky, but the art is good!, the concept of stat points in a metroivania is somehting that ive never seen before, really good game!

The concept of going to different planets is really interesting and the way it's done has the scope of that concept without requiring excess in terms of presenting that scope. I quite enjoyed the idea of the game, but I actually would've preferred if maybe the entire game was contextualized through the ship, because that felt more immersive and dynamic to me than the actual combat sections  in the planets .The actual gameplay within the planets didn't really have much impact in terms of player control in my opinion. 

Huuugeee props for getting in mobile control though, this game honestly felt like it played more naturally on mobile

Played through a few times to try and make it to the end, I was able to get all the alpha omegas on each planet and destroy the ship thing, but there didn't seem to be anything after this other than goin back to the planets. i did get the android workin again too.
It was an interesting concept, on mouse keyboard I was able to spam defeat the enemy in space pretty quickly.
I ran into a few issues like being able to dash jump while near the top of a planet sending me flying off screen only to return using tab. 

Would have loved to see a bit more in the way of unlocks and abilities.
Was fun playing this style of gameplay as  I haven't seen these mechanics in a long while.

This is a very interesting concept. And congrats on going mobile with it. I definitely would not be confident enough to try that lol. Unfortunately, I had some issues with it due to lack knowing what to do again. I like the idea of being given a choice of how to play in the beginning of the game. I love that idea. But besides,  stat name and icon, there wasn't information telling me how this would affect the gameplay. I just had to assume that they would factor in somewhere.

I also was unclear about my goal. I just looked down at the rest of the comments (something I try to avoid so that others don't sway my vote), but you posted the goals here. That should be on your game page at the very least. Ideally, that would be communicated in game, but definitely on your page.

I would also make sure the player can't do anything during dialog sequences. I noticed that when I triggered a sequence on top of that. I was a bit confused at first.

This is definitely on my revisit list. Since I'm not able to record this time around, it frees some time up to play the games that I feel need a replay to see if my original rating was correct or not.

I managed to set dynamite and blow up some rocks but I couldn't interact with the white gem or progress the game in any way after that

it seems I can start a conversation while in a conversation, leading to a huge number of dialogues stacking up for me to read

If I could get further into the game I'll give it a higher rating but I didn't get to see very much at all