This had a good foundation but I could never find any other floors or know how to do any of the combat. Somehow I missed the combat instructions on the page when scrolling through but it could greatly benefit from an in-game explanation/tutorial of sorts. The movement was solid and you're in a good spot to build on this to make something really cool.

Gameplay here

It's not a bad start.  Only big problem was there was no in-game explaination.  I should really default to reading the game pages ahead at this point.

I did some runs. The best I did was probably 46 points starting with no bonus, never got past floor 1.

The perspective is good, movement feels good and the game controls well. I like the idea of the battle system, including that you always die in one hit (that's a good thing but it's perturbing because you've got an hp bar that is never eaten) immediately when failing to press the right key.

I didn't think the super sad music worked very well with a game where you chase chickens and combat is about pressing keys as fast as you can.

Now I would have tried 2 things to make the game more exciting. First 10:00 per floor is very long and I think the floors as huge. Mapping the game I think that I never managed to reach neither an edge nor a point where a floor would loop (with the west connected to the east). Something like 02:00 and a small floor (then either each floor is smaller than the previous one or you have less time) might be more what I'm looking for in such a game. Secondly, while I like that you immediately die when you type the wrong key, I think the time left should decrease faster while you're fighting to put extra pressure on the player, and probably faster and faster as you ascend. Maybe these are not good suggestions, these are the things I'm currently thinking of that I would have explored.

Thanks for sharing the game!

Neat game! I included it in my compilation video series of all of the games from the Dungeon Crawler Jam.

The dungeon looks very good; I enjoyed the art style. I also really enjoyed the combat, it was a lot more interesting than just smashing one button. The skill points you can use upon death are a neat addition as well (I got up to 58 points). As for the movement, initially I thought it was fine, but the more I played, the more it felt really slow and sluggish. In my opinion, there is a lot of moving and backtracking in this game, and the movement speed needs to be increased to accommodate this. I also second what others have said: a map, or some other way to get your bearings, is necessary for this game, as the maze was way too confusing and it was easy to get lost or accidentally backtrack. I made it to the second floor literally at the last second before the timer ran out. I'm not sure if points were automatically added to my character after reaching the second floor, but on the second floor the enemies were a lot easier to beat. Some other minor issues: a volume control would have been nice, since the music starts really loud and I had to decrease it in my system settings. Also, adding audio to combat would have added a lot in my opinion. Good work overall for your second game ever, definitely something you should be proud of!

I think there's a good base here that could've really benefited from a few extra things. Foremost being a map. I navigated my way through a few levels, but it's very very hard to orient in procgen mazes without a map. So whatever exits I did find were purely out of luck. With either a map or some landmarks/clues to orient around, this maze navigation thing would've been cooler.