Yes, which is actually what I mean when I say that not every steam game has DRM. Some steam games will literally work without the steam client. Muri is one of those games. Just start the .exe file manually or create your own direct shortcut. Steam will not start and the game will still work. 🙂
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Good art, good style, good audio, but to be perfectly honest, I kinda found it boring. But I'm not much for story driven games with simple choices that ultimately take you to the same place. I also realized that I couldn't exit the game till I died somehow and got back to the main menu, or just use Alt-F4, so I gave you a low rating for controls and accessibility because of that.
Was actually quite fun. Best strategy is sit in the middle and don't miss. The enemy spawn rate seems to not get much faster as the levels get higher, so if you don't miss you can fire as fast as they spawn. I think the levels should start out a bit harder though, was really too easy at first. I think that you should make Zeus have hitpoints instead of being insta-dead.
Hey, thanks for your more than deservingly kind words. I have had trouble with people not liking the controls, and im not realky sure what to do about them. The previous version had controls where you didnt slide at all, and I just added the sliding because I thought it might feel better and help a little in the corners, but idk...
Im especially glad you liked my incredibly laughable placeholder programner art, haha! I also would like more, and better, music. I just havent really worked on that much.
Cone back sometime and maybe ill have a more updated version with much more content.
Also, one question: Did you make it to the end, or did you get bored/frustrated part way through?
Haha, we really weren't trying to make a horror game, I promise! I do really wish we had taken a few minutes to try and make it so that you didn't have to restart the whole game upon death, but we were just way too far behind and decided that other things needed more work, like adding more levels. Looks like that was all for nothing though since nobody bothered to play long enough to get to them. Thanks for playing!
Yes, the AI was half-baked lol. But at least it worked well enough for the jam deadline. I've been working on the game some more, and the AI has seen a massive improvement, plus got rid of those diagonal circuits that nobody liked :D BTW, my parter will appreciate the kind words on the music and sounds, because that was all his.
So, I absolutely loved this game, except for one very large issue, which I'll get to. I loved the original Myst which I only just played for the first time about a year ago. I wish this game was longer, but it's only a 9 day jam. You should make another but actually make it a full game. The graphics were awesome, the sound was great (maybe add some footstep sounds and some light background music). Controls were fine for me, it was just slightly non-intuitive on some screens because it's limited to screen edges and the center, but I think it would be better if you had areas in the screen that if you click on them it would take you towards that thing. Also, making the mouse cursor change depending on what you hover over would be great polish and good for feedback to the player.
Ok.. but the big issue... I can't beat the game. There is seemingly no correct answer. I watched Vikfro's stream (that's what's playing in the background) on twitch to make sure I had the correct answer, but it doesn't work. This seems to be a game breaking bug.
So, to be honest... I really didn't like the gameplay at all. It just made me rage-quit because when the "malfunctions" happen, it just takes complete control away from you. It's like playing chess, but there's a toddler that keeps knocking the pieces over and moving stuff around. Not trying to be mean, but it's just not very fun when the malfunctions happen. Other than that though, it's a good tetris clone. Decent graphics, good music, perfectly fine controls. The lowest ratings I gave were for Fun and Originality (originality because it's literally just a tetris clone with bugs done on purpose).
Thanks for making it though, and congrats on making a working game! Easily more polished than mine.
Thanks for the feedback! I too did not like the movement along the wire, but I had to fix the drone AI so I ran out of time. I also agree that it feels like your are almost doomed when you trigger the alarm. Originally, it was planned to only release 1 at a time when you trigger a trap, but again, out of time. I tried to make a later level where there are far more directions to go to hide from the anti-virus. Also, the anti-virus have a radius where they can see you, but if you get out of that radius they can't see you and just move randomly. There were also supposed to be far more enemy types and more puzzle elements like switches to rotate parts of the circuit... but alas..
Pretty decent game, but on the second "malfunction" I got bored with it, tbh, because it was just navigating the same level with a new twist. Would have been better if you designed the level more around the "malfunction", which seems to be what you were going for on the second level. Speaking of the second level, it was quite irritating to be forced to wait on the rising platform multiple times.
Good graphics and sound, controls were fine, but I don't like that you can't control the height of your jump. Excellent theme fit, though it seemed a bit unoriginal to me. Still earned a good rating.
Pretty good game! The graphics were good, sound was decent (although I didn't care too much for the music as I didn't think it fit the game). The biggest problem I had with the game, is that the tutorial leaves out key pieces of information, which is that: You will die if you end the day with zero of any resources.
Also, the buildings should show you what exactly they will produce and consume before you repair/upgrade them, otherwise it's just trial and error to figure out what you need to repair/upgrade.
Overall, fun game, but I docked some points on Accessibility because of those mentioned issues.
Very polished game! Graphics and sound were excellent, and seemingly bug free. Also quite fun, but I found the difficulty was lacking on the boss fights. I did like the funny dialogue in between stages.By the third level, the regular combat on the street had become a bit boring and tedious.
The refridgerator enemies were easily the only ones that actually did much damage because their ranged attack was not easily dodged due to being continuously locked into a "punching" animation; would be much more fun if you could break animation and dodge any time. The oven enemies either need more range or faster movement for their melee attack to be useful at hitting you, and I'm actually not really sure what the flying microwaves actually do. Overall with basic combat, my suggestion is to have less, but more powerful, enemies and allow dodging at all times. Oh and also, the special attack is not very useful because hitting with your regular attack has a very wide range, and it takes too long to fill up the special attack.
Excellent game overall though. You earned a high rating from me.
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Very polished game! Graphics and sound were excellent, and seemingly bug free. Also quite fun, but I found the difficulty was lacking on the boss fights. I did like the funny dialogue in between stages.
By the third level, the regular combat on the street had become a bit boring and tedious. The refridgerator enemies were easily the only ones that actually did much damage because their ranged attack was not easily dodged due to being continuously locked into a "punching" animation; would be much more fun if you could break animation and dodge any time. The oven enemies either need more range or faster movement for their melee attack to be useful at hitting you, and I'm actually not really sure what the flying microwaves actually do. Overall with basic combat, my suggestion is to have less, but more powerful, enemies and allow dodging at all times. Oh and also, the special attack is not very useful because hitting with your regular attack has a very wide range, and it takes too long to fill up the special attack.
Excellent game overall though.
Very cool and impressive game for the Jam. Although, I personally didn't feel like it fit the theme too well, I did think it was pretty well done. Graphics and Sound were excellent, as well as the amount of options in the menu. I did find the combat a bit boring tbh, it seems like it's just not hard enough, and there is not enough feedback for when you get hit and when you're doing damage to the enemies.
Overall good job!