Played it for a bit and its a cool game, great visuals and all the stuff you know now with these great scores. Do understand what others said now though, had no idea how to get to an ending or what the ending would be. I was just cruising around hiding from big eyes and slashing at skeleton monsters. Maybe some form of environmental story telling (Stuff on walls) or a basic heads up at the start on what you should be tryna do would help this. Maybe a lil cutscene or whatever you think would work to get the point across.

The main thing that disoriented me was maybe the movement was a bit too jumpy, especially turning, I think you go diagonally forward each time instead of on the spot making it hard to get through some points.

Proper good game though all the best with any future updates.

The visuals and sound design were really nice! I love the shader effects being used! The monster designs were really excellent and I loved how the skeleton monster’s eyes glowed in the distance.

I thought the controls mostly felt decent. Functionally, they were spot on with nice smooth animations, however, on a personal level, I really did not like the turn-and-move of the A,S,D keys. There were a lot of points I I pressed those keys expecting to strafe, but got turned around unexpectedly. Honestly, there’s nothing wrong with the action, themselves, it was more I didn’t like that particular style of movement. Perhaps an option to turn and move or just move.

Wasn’t totally sure what the point of the game was. I assumed it has something to do with finding the exit, but nothing is really explained in game or on the games page. There were walls with holes in the corner that, I think, might have been secret doors or breakable walls, not never figured them out. The Eye monster kept killing me before I realized I was supposed to close my eyes to get rid of it, and, even after I did figure it out, it feels like it takes quite a significant period of time for the Eye to give up… which lead to several deaths as other monsters kept attacking me while the Eye had me stuck! One last issue I had with the Eye is that it often seemed to just suddenly appear, instead of me getting too close.

Over all, I felt that most of my failures while playing had more to do with pure RNG than it did with my skill (or lack there-of) with the game. Like, Eyes require you to close yours. You need the knife (oh, BTW, there is a knife) to kill the Skeletons. We have ghosts that you can’t(??) kill. You need the torch (oh, BTW, there’s a torch too!) to (I think) go down dark passages. There’s just quite a bit that’s not explained. Mystery can be really fun in a game, but not explaining the core mechanics anywhere (except movement and closing one’s eyes) can lead to quite a bit of frustration.

I am not trying to bash the work done here. The visual and audio presentation is wonderful! The game mechanically plays great (even if I may have disagreed with the how some of the movement was executed)! The monsters (from the rules I gleaned) all seem unique and function very well! This is all excellent work! I just feel the lack of communicating some of these system (especially with the monsters) lead to (my) frustration with the game.

If you’re interested, here’s a link to my stream of the game.

I really loved your game, I also made a dungeon crawler. The movement in your game is very well done. I would like to talk to you more about how you did it. The visuals were amazing, the enemies too, that eye I didn't understand what it was doing, how did it alter visibility? That was amazing, also finding the sword and being able to defend myself was great. The sounds and the environment really caught my attention. Please check out my game, it's not that polished but I feel like I'm on the right track, if you try it be careful with the sound because it's very loud when a fight is generated. Please give me any details to improve my game.

i love the effects you have going on there, the mesh deformation especially looks cool and the materials look great (are they maybe made in material maker?). the combat lacks some feedback or impact but it works i think for what you're going for. i never really figured out if there was a goal or if there is what that goal might be, but i still enjoyed my time with it. it's awesome to see another grid based dungeon crawler in the same jam, i love seeing different takes on the same concept. i really like in particular how the movement works in yours, i think it's quite a bit smoother than the way i ended up doing mine. there's value in both and i like the distinct steps in mine, but the way you can hold the forward key and smoothly turn is really great in yours. overall really cool entry!