I was drawn to this by the art I saw in the screenshots. It looks absolutely beautiful! I love the old school diablo 2 look. I'm interested in how you created the sprites.  Are they pure pixel art or like 3d models scaled down and scanned into 2d art?

The gameplay feels really good! At first I thought maybe the character hurtbox needed to be scaled down slightly so you can maneuver through little gaps among the enemies, since that's a classic mechanic of the genre, but then I realized you're meant to die often, so I think it's totally fine.

I think the game probably needs a lose condition to increase the stakes. Maybe you should have some number of lives before you die? (Although that might not make since since you're the sword, not the dudes) Or maybe as you kill enemies you power up the sword's  necromancy powers. If you die while you don't have enough charge, you can't control a new enemy and you lose. So dying once is fine, but dying twice in quick succession would be a loss. I dunno, something like that maybe.

Awesome work! This one was super cool. Well done and grats on completing the jam!

Cool game! I went straight in and didn't read about any guide - so I was wondering why I kept respawning without losing any of my upgrades - then I realized... You are the weapon 😂 and after playing for a bit, I started to get different units picking me up - and also got an upgrade where you no longer get picked up by the basic skeletons. I wish the upgrades could have been given to me faster - I tried grinding for a bit but even then, the experience rate was slowing down a lot. But, I thought the animations and all the neat little abilities you added were great. A great twist on the genre though, I liked that about this game. Well done!!

Really nice implementation! I'd suggest speeding up the upgrades, in a game jam there's not many people that will stick with it for long. Gotta show people what you got quickly. I'd probably start with 1-shotting the enemies and then make them have more health overtime. You did a great job overall though Congrats!

I played for about an hour, and killed the earth hammer guy several times. I like all the unique sword abilities, and I find it interesting how there is no actual death mechanic, but as a negative side to that, you can just sit in one place and afk until you level up. I wonder if a lose condition could be a timer

I love that this game is both addicting & chill. I don't have much experience with survival style games but usually they tend to punish on death which is logical. Its awesome that in your game once you die you still can continue the game and how you implemented it (both visual & idea wise) is great. The art is another thing to talk about - it has unique style fits with everything so well. I think you did a really awesome job on the art & design part. Special kudos for making nice progress bar at the top that is both visible and no intrusive, love it. Its usually one of my complaints for games that some elements take too much attention but in your case you managed to keep it clean & simple which is perfect. Another complaint that I usually have in similar games is how the upgrades appear. Sometimes they just immediately pop up, you accidentally click something and then continue. You handled this case perfectly - You have a quick yet smooth transition and you are not allowing player to make a mistake. Instead, you require explicit input (1, 2, 3).

Overall I think you did a really great job on the game and even in this stage it can be enjoyed more than some of the "full release games". I can give much praise for different elements but hope you get the main point :)
P.S. There was one minor bug - Enemy spawned inside the crystal but it was able to get out of it.

For 14 days of gamedev this game is nearly perfect, good job!!! <3

Between the unique upgrades, multitude of enemies with not just enemy movesets, but unique abilities for the player, there is a crazy amount of content here. And it’s really polished on top of that! The artstyle is really neat (reminds me a lot of Runescape), and the upgrade descriptions were pretty fun to read.

The lack of any real fail-state and a defined end point does hurt the replay value, but I think the fact that the worst thing I can say about the game is that it ends, says a lot.

I reallyyyyyyyy  like the general vibes/aesthetics/theme of this game! I think my favourite of the jam so far. I also really enjoyed testing all the different abilities and trying to use them to kill specific enemies (especially these annoying summoners). My biggest pain point was lack of a clear goal, from the comments it seems like after X amount of waves you win the game? This wasn't obvious to me, and I would like some sort of visible indicators that I am making progress. Also, I think the game would be just this tiny bit better if there were more gems (worth less). But overall I really liked it, good job!

Awesome survivor like twist. I didn't read anything and didn't realize when I died I would just get reincarnated. I like the vibes of the game. Was always getting killed when the summoner guy would show up. Nice job!

Cool vampire survivors-like game. The art direction is very unique and impressive for a 2 week jam. Good work!

This concept in a survivor like is very interesting, its looks like it has a lot of potentiel and i would love to see it expanded. the music was good and the old school art was really nice.

Great work!