Nice, I love a scratch game! And varying the speeds of the arrows made it really non-obvious which one to go for, creating some nice moments of tension where I had to switch directions very quickly. The upgrades felt very solid too; getting two swords suddenly felt much more capable.

The ending inversion was unclear on the first run as others have mentioned, but otherwise very enjoyable!

ending was a bit unclear, the soundtrack could've been a bit longer and since you're using pixelart all the pixels should be the same size(rn the bg pixels are alot bigger than the swords/arrows/towns pixels)

otherwise the game is pretty good. The gameplay loop is very unique and fun.

Actually surprisingly fun. You have a really solid gameplay loop. I chose to get the 500 gold and the love, but I somehow still saved the village?

Love the pixel art style. I'd probably change the arrow for a bandit or something, but it's super clear on what to do regardless, clear indication on next progression, good good good all round.

I haven't played a lot of scratch games in my time, though I did use it going back around 10 years ago, but this is easily the best scratch game I've played.

Fun concept and cool little bite sized experience! Only issue I have is that I think the ending sequence is a bit confusing. It shows you the options and what you get for them, but they are inverted. The key for destroying a location is accompanied by the text for saving it, so I made the wrong choice the first time. I think I see what the intention was, having the description match the location on the map, but for a first time experience I was confused at the outcome. However, with a little more clarity I think that would be a really cool moment in a game!