I loved the models, so cute!
but I felt like it was tedious to have to select the correct helper to send, you said your inspiration came from Pikmin, in that game, when you throw a Pikmin, you automatically send the next one, and if it was, say the last blue, then it'll start sending yellow ones next.
Also I had a bug after killing the first enemy, basically I couldn't send helpers anymore and the ennemies didn't do any sort of damage to me, I could explore without any worries :D
But other than that, cool game, congrats on submitting!