Super polished and professional. Just a gorgeous game. It's simple, but in that really addicting way. The sound effects and animations are super juicy and add to the satisfaction perfectly. I didn't manage to get past the snowy area, which is a shame because I see there's a beautiful desert zone I missed out on. I'll have to come back and try again. Great job on this!

It's so simple, but I love it so much!!! I was just testing a bunch of pirate jam games, but I've been on this one for like an hour..... You've got another Steam Wishlist from me!

Really well made and polished. The art, sound, and animation are very well made and really contribute to churning through your items. The UI is fun, non-obtrusive, and very informative which is ideal for a game like this. The core gameplay loop is very good and the concept is solid with a lot of room for expansion post jam. Also making the player remove a portion of their kit part way through is an interesting concept that I like. Since it's already pretty well polished I'll mention a bit more of the nitty gritty on what I thought from the two runs I played.

The difficulty scaling could be bumped up quite a bit, definitely seemed like there were whole rounds where I was just clicking through to the end. You seem to be able to make a pretty strong build pretty early on so having some higher numbers required near the end of the round would be nice. Both of my runs ended with me, having to leave to do something else rather than actually ending the challenge. In a somewhat contradictory point, the number you need for the start of the round could stand to be a bit lower. There were times where I was barely making the cutoff after losing my board between rounds. While I think that's important decision making towards what you carry over, it did feel a little bad to think that I didn't have a chance to grow configure my strategy afterwards. Maybe even displaying the next required Target at the end of the previous round would help with that.

The buffs seem to lend themselves to only specific strategies. It really seems like if you're going for one kind of strategy you've locked yourself into just playing that one for the whole run. Some weapons offer a decent  (e.g. the Katana) but I found I never really felt the need or temptation to switch up my strategy for something that looked good in the shop or include anything that wasn't directly part of the tools that I had buffed. It kind of made the shop phase between rounds feel a little lackluster. Maybe offering randomized buffs based on the area you're in that could target different weapon groups so that when you're back to a base set of weapons you feel more inclined to pick something else up in the shop.

Some items could also use a visual feedback, such as the Dice. Would be nice to know what their multiplier is after they roll versus having to scan the damage numbers on the weapon attack. Particularly if you have multiple dice affecting one weapon. As well in the space between rounds the visual design is a bit more cluttered so it's a little more difficult to figure out which of your weapons are which to choose what to take to the next round.

Outside of that, I was playing on the Web Version and there was some performance hitching at the start but it resolved itself in the second area. I imagine that wouldn't be an issue with the Desktop version. As well I encountered one bug where the Start Next round wasn't working, it happened after I had swapped some weapons around. I was able to get it working again by pausing, clicking out of the window, and clicking back in.

Besides that an incredibly well made game with a lot of inherent strategy and replayability. I'm excited to see where y'all take this!

I spent way too long playing this game. The game feels really good, and I saw you’ve already put it up on Steam.

I found some bugs with the game, mainly with the main menu, after playing it a few times, returning to the menu and changing the settings seems to always have the “Combolite” logo appear everywhere, blocking the screen. I could also start the game while in the settings screen, though at least I could exit the settings while in the game itself.

The balancing seems good, though it’s very luck based, perhaps a way to increase the $15 you get, or permanent minor upgrades after every run would be great. Some runs I get to go very far with just good rolls, while other times I basically can’t do anything. I feel sort of a skill expression for people who have played it more so that their runs don’t just end due to bad luck would be good.

The game seems too big to be a web browser game, and would definitely do better as a standalone app. I had some performance issues running it in Chrome but it seemed to work better in Firefox.

A way to turn down the brightness would be great as well.

Overall a really complete and good game, just needs some finishing touches and it will definitely do well!

I went boomerangs with the green gems and stacked them to infinity.  Got one really high attack and just had 5 donuts before it; and also had the perk that every boomerang gave other boomerangs 2x damage; basically my first boomerang did millions of damage 10/10