Pretty tough game, well implemented, though! It would have been cool to have some more player feedback for hitting/being hit, though. Great job!

There’s an impressive amount of content in here for a jam game. Good work!

The design for this is pretty solid!  The upgrade system and difficulty progression are really good.  I actually played this one a lot.  That said, I could have done with less dialog before getting into playing the game.  I also found it odd that with each thrust of the spear the character traveled forward in the direction of the thrust.  Took some getting used to.  And the different attacks didn't have much difference except that the secondary attack took longer.  It might have had a longer reach, but it didn't seem to matter.  It was better to get up close and spam the primary attack and do much more damage in a short amount of time.  Even when  got a damage bonus both attacks did the same amount of damage.

Anyway, don't let any of that get you down.  It really is a good game!

Nice game but so so hard. The knockback is really strong but the low damage, sheer amount of enemies and long attack time make it necessary. I also like that the enemies telegraph attacks. The heavy attack and dash didn't seem useful to me, also I managed to get offered the same upgrade at the start so something to be wary of!

Nice work! The gameplay loop is well designed to make you keep playing! One thing is that perhaps there is a way to animate melee attacks by enemies (e.g. lunging) to better indicate when an attack is made!

Great take on Hades and boiling it down the core mechanics and things that made it enjoyable. The key difference there and here I think is that Hades is a full game you're committing to when you purchase, for a jam game, I think more jammers would get a chance to experience the awesome game you made if you cut the difficulty by ... maybe half, at least 1/4. Give us more health to start, or more damage, or reduce enemy damage. Just a slight balance adjustment to get kicking to into things quicker.

But I'm glad I kept rolling through my lives because it's a really enjoyable experience. One oddity on my first run is that my Favor was the same item, if I weren't familiar with the Boon system I probably would have just thought the chest was glitching.

If you did want to keep that initial difficulty curve and you can safely assume a player will die quite a few times on their initial run throughs, then I would suggest chopping up the opening dialogue and doling it out on each restart. The dialogue itself was good, it was just too much at once when I wanted to dive right into the dungeon crawling!

Overall, an awesome jam entry. I enjoyed my time with it. Your team should be proud.

I love this sort of games, I just wish the game was saved after leaving.

Had to leave and lost my progress =(

Really fun game, has a lot of replayability too! Well done man :)

fun game but you cant really attack the enemy without getting hurt because when you attack you go forwards. also too much dialog at the start

Very well done and polished game. I love the design of the enemies and the random feel to dungeon layout. Replaying the game works well and I can see much more added to it. The only thing I would change is that if I'm attacking with the spear and move my cursor, the direction of the spear should update rather than waiting a second before attacking again. 

Great job Wes, what an ambitious project for a jam game! Following you and Sparkman's videos is what got me into GDevelop! I thought it was awesome how much y'all were able to implement into the game in the given time, and I enjoyed both the art and music you chose, they fit the game really well! I think dialogue at the beginning was a bit hefty and the game would have benefitted from spreading the story throughout the play experience. That said, I thought the story contextualized the game really well and helped motivate the player to keep pushing towards the end! Great Job!

Good job, I enjoyed the rouglite aspect to it. I eventually made it all the way to the end. For my feedback, the things that frustrated me the most was how long it takes before the player is back in controll after the attack animations, Ifelt too locked in to not being able to move too long after attacking made evading really difficuilt. For me the best stratagy to win is level up strength first untill you can 1 hit kill all the enemies, then level up hearts. I think it also would have been wise to make upgrades cost more each time you baught one.

Anyways, good luck for the rest of the Jam!

Turned out really well dude!  You the first dialog with the grunts and stuff immediately reminded me of hades.  The upgrades are great, I def got a mini hades experiences.  Now when's the devlog? :)

Great game!

This was great Wes. I haven't played Hades but I love the idea of a game where you always feel like you are making progress, especially in jam games. Nice variety of upgrades and enemies, the game was fun to play and a good challenge. I also liked how you enemies visually telegraphed when they were about to shoot a projectile to give you a chance to get out of the way.

My feedback would be to have a death animation for the player, have some audio indicator for when you only have one heart and probably have less rooms before making it to the boss.

Overall, awesome job!

Cool little brawler. I loved the upgrade system and the attack sound effect felt really nostalgic for some reason. I found it pretty difficult, mostly without any upgrades it's brutal. The small enemies are a bit hard to hit too (I guess I'm too impatient).

Didn't find the boss but it was fun for the time I played it. (finishes a room and a half at best)

nice game and fun but i was very bad and could not even get pass room 1

I don't see where theme is but the game is fun with upgrade system :)