Thanks you for playing it! I absolutely agree, the current movement system is pretty janky and if I would design the game from scratch, I would definitely go for a completely grid-based system instead. It mostly stems from the fact that the game couldn't really decide what it wanted to be for a long time, and turning it into a tough puzzle game was sort of a last-minute panic decision, as designing tough puzzles is what I have most experience with and was the only thing I could reasonably see myself pulling off in the remaining amount of time. I'm very glad you still enjoyed it, though! Really makes me want to put some time into it after the jam to try and turn it into a more cohesive experience.

Thank you for playing, I'm glad the atmosphere managed to keep you around long enough to get to that point! Yeah, that room. It's just bad. The solution doesn't even feel particularily clever. I already suspected it might be a bit weak when I submitted the game, but it's helpful to hear those suspicious were justified.

I also noticed I sometimes missed the texts when playing on itch, but I had hoped that it was maybe because I had already read them so often. I think I really didn't do myself a favour designing the page to blend in so much with the game. You're definitely right, it would be nice if they stood out a bit more.

Thank you so much for the detailed feedback! Vision cones are a great idea and something I'd definitely want to implement in a possible post-jam version.

You make some good points about the level design. I think one of my problems is that most of my level design experience comes from making custom puzzles for already tough puzzle games and making PuzzleScript games, where in both cases I can expect the target audience to be relatively familiar with Sokoban mechanics and patterns. Even then, I often tend to make the difficulty curve a bit too steep for most people's liking. So feedback like this is very valuable to me for trying to learn how to design a more accessible puzzle game.

Fair! I'm personally quite a big fan of tough puzzle games, so I tend to overshoot the difficulty whenever I design puzzles myself. And while I think it's fine that not every game is for everyone, I do think this time I messed up the difficulty curve particularily badly, since the game also requires a decent amount of execution, which is always a dangerous thing in puzzle games. I appreciate you giving it a try, anyway!

Thanks for the feedback! Yeah, I definitely have a tendency to make puzzles a tad too hard, and this game also having a relatively large execution component doesn't help with that. I originally intended to add add a level select screen with all levels unlocked from the get-go, but I ran out of time. In hindsight, I should have probably spent ten minutes implementing a "skip level"-feature, but I didn't think of it in time.