It’s almost criminal how few ratings your game has been receiving. This is such a unique experience and I’ve had great fun playing it!
Don’t know if you’ve played Lethal Company, but was this inspired by the ship computer from that game, at least in part? At first it seemed this would be a similar experience, since in LC you can watch your team explore the level from the ship’s computer and issue text commands to open locked doors and disable hostile turrets.
Graphics and sound were both excellent and made for a kind of eerie vibe, which I loved. One thing that could be improved is the choice of colors for some obstacles: I often could not distinguish between actual obstacles and simple terrain height differences, as they’re both highlighted in yellow by the ship’s radar. Also, it was a bit hard to figure out if creatures were still hostile after I hit them with enough torpedoes. Maybe a change in color or a special sound effect to signal that they’re backing off could help with that. As for sounds, the dash sounded too cartoony, but the rest was great.
I couldn’t figure out how to use the pressure room. Its description said that it can repel enemies, but it seemed to do nothing. Sometimes I would get stuck in a corner while running from an enemy, resulting in me bouncing between enemy and wall and taking tons of damage. Also, I’ve tried collecting that one room guarded by a creature (AN I think?), but whatever I did just made that creature run away with said room, so I either needed a specific room to get it or I was supposed to do something I just couldn’t figure out. Last room I acquired was the dash, then stopped playing as I couldn’t find a way to proceed.
When I first played this, I experienced a very weird bug. I started a new game, didn’t save, quit the game to tweak some stuff to make it run better on Linux, relaunched the game, hit Continue and found that the DO room was still there, even though the ship had already powered on and I could move in the level. When I went to pick up the map and save rooms, the ship’s layout would not change, so when those rooms got damaged by creatures, the only thing I could do was drop them to prevent the ship from getting destroyed. I then started a proper new game and didn’t encounter any other issues.
Having said that, this is definitely one of my favorite entries. Great job!