Really fun game with a lot of replay value! I would love to see this expanded to some sort of Metroidvania where you collected new recruits/powers along the way.
The game got pretty easy once I got 3+ recruits. I'd be interested in seeing how the game would play if there was a limit on how many recruits you had. It could add a nice resource management aspect maybe?
One last thing is that I was a bit sad that I couldn't recruit the enemies.
This is my favorite game this jam and it really got my gears turning. Really inspiring! Great job! I'd throw money at a full version of this.