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Grateful for the review and hearing your thoughts on this!

Yes I did, I appreciate the compliments!

The mechanics felt very original and they were fun to experiment with. Impressive you did this with your own engine too!

Love the playful art style

Thank you a lot for the feedback, I'll keep that in mind.

I should’ve done away with the “percentage level cleared” in the level summary because I did not expect the player to go through every destructible tile in the level. Also, some cheaper upgrades would have been nice for compensating that.

Thank you!

Awesome music choice, very fun mechanics, and I like the level design!

Fun to mess around in! Here are my recordings:

Exploration

Stop-motion

Bush-man

Nice! I got 119k score!

Thanks a ton!!

Look out for occasional chest spawns; the different types of weapons can be very helpful! I believe the ranged enemy that you're talking about is the blue Splintering Alien, in the first area. Although it may be intimidating at first, you'll notice that they get very cowardly once you get up close!

Thank you so much for taking the time to write such an in-depth review! If I decide to do more with Xenocavern, it would definitely be in a rewritten sequel, due to the time constraint forcing me to not go with the object-oriented approach for various systems in the game. Your feedback is very valuable, especially with you recounting your experience with the game. I already have some ideas brewing for a potential sequel.

Very cool game! I really like the graphics and the theme.

I noticed when the player fell with any velocity they would sink down through the ground, rather than being placed onto the ground. Also, if the player died, their velocity wouldn't reset and therefore they might spawn inside of the ground.