This was a lot of fun! I like the inclusion of the unlockable GWJ community members as an incentive to replay the game with new setups and teammates.... It's such an amazing tribute and the care you took for the art and the animations is astounding Raine 🥰. I didn't find any bugs, there's save files, great job Kwabsi. And we all know John makes quality audio.
I know you'll rightfully get a lot of praise for this, but some constructive criticism: I feel like this started as a tongue-in-cheek gimmick in regards to the theme, but I think the theme didn't come out as much as initially intended. The growth seemed very much controllable.
I also found there was a lot of code coming out, a lot of art coming out, but not a lot of sound jobs coming out. I might be mistaken, but I scored a lot higher by just skipping the audio profile altogether. Unfortunately, this might be pretty accurate for jams in general for a small team😅
Having a tracker of completeness, a fake checklist like you'd have in real life, to reference game completion, would also be quite handy to keep track of progress.