Doing my final comment of the jam, but I just wanted you to know how much I enjoyed playing this one. The vibe of this game is fantastic. And the feel of the dungeon crawling movement is literally excellent, maybe the best of any dungeon crawling game I've played during one of these jams. It manages to make grid based dungeon crawling feel like some sort of Dead Space fps game. Very, very good in that regard and I could see expanding on this game pretty well.

I did have *some* issues with the combat as it felt like bullets weren't correctly striking enemies where I was aiming or something felt just a bit off. Maybe not the correct kind of combat feedback (for me anyways). I felt like combat was kind of the weak point, though I did really enjoy the different weapons and how they worked. Obviously it's a game jam so no worries though as you got a lot of good stuff done in a little amount of time! Great job!

I love this sci-fi dungeon crawler! I liked the idea of the shooter part as well. Players have already written here about QE\AD. I would have preferred the turns in QE.

So much visual polish! I love the CRT filter and how consistent the UI is with the game graphics. The environments were a tiny bit too dark to my taste, but it adds to the immersion and the feeling of danger. The combat is very snappy and fast paced, as is retrying so it was never frustrating to die. I like that your health regens outside of battle too, compared to having to find medkits. It makes the game more action oriented. 

As far as real time entries go, this one is my favorite this year. Great work!

The qe and ad swap took some getting used too. The combat worked well also (the fpsish dungeon crawler mix. Just wish I could play it in the browser or via the itch app.

This was quite a poetic one to end on, since it did some of the gameplay stuff I wanted to do, and very well!  It took me a while to get through the final gauntlet, but I have several excuses:

• I'm so used to Q/E being turn, not strafe, and in a game that's so reflex dependent, I was really struggling to hit the right movement buttons.
• Earlier in the playthrough I'm trying and failing to destroy an unalerted robot, so I get the idea in my head that enemies can't take damage unless they're alerted.  (I get wise to this not being the case eventually.)
• I don't realize that enemies are respawning because the doors are closing for a while, and assumed they just kept coming.  The timer was low, so I start trying to brute force dash my way to the end.  (This too, I get wise to.)

Eventually I realize slow and steady wins the race.
And you know what, it was fun getting there even with my troubles. (At least it had checkpoints.)
Great entry!

This was an interesting one, I liked the combination of dungeon crawler and FPS with System Shock style free-aim shooting.

The weapon variety was neat and felt satisfying enough. I especially liked the addition of the Boomer that could shoot around corners, an interesting tactical choice for these types of games.

I did notice some issues though, for starters it seemed almost like my blaster projectiles were colliding mid-air with enemy projectiles. Because me and a robot would be standing in a hallyway looking directly at each other, firing away and it seemed like impact effects were spawning at some point in between. Neither of us would be taking damage, or at least the robot didn't seem to. Might be something to look into.

There also seemed to be a range limit to projectiles, trying to fire at the 3 elites near the end game from the end of the room wouldn't deal any damage. Don't know if that was intentional or not.

Also the performance for me was just AWFUL. My PC isn't exactly old or low end, so I assume it's just a facet of having an Unreal game and not enough time to optimize. It caused me to turn or move further than I meant to a few times.

Speaking of the movement, I have to echo other comments about Q+E being strafe instead of turn. I think some games have used it in the past, but quite frankly it just does NOT feel good in my opinion. Especially in a game trying to lean into the FPS genre a bit, not having WASD was very disorienting. Combined with the performance issues it lead to me taking a few more hits than I think was warranted.

Back to the positives, I like how the enemies stand out due to the lights on their heads turning from blue to red when aggroed. The chickens clucking when  the player is near is a nice way to make finding them easier. And I REALLY appreciate having a checkpoint system in a jam game!

Oh and finally I like that this game sticks to a 10 minute time limit. I know this jam has some entries that can last over an hour so having a short but sweet entry is a nice treat!

Good work!

I couldn’t make it to the end unfortunately, and I think the game crashed on me on my third attempt at the last gauntlet. The atmosphere was very cool and the shooter mix interesting. It did get too hard for me though. My feeling was that the enemies were re-spawning in the final room? And I had absolutely no chance navigating while being shot at. I’m not sure, but I would wager that 9 out of 10 games I’ve played so far uses QE as turn and AD as strafe (also my own very strong personal preference). While in most crawlers that don’t allow to remap / toggle of keybindings, it becomes a bit annoying, but when pared with real-time shooting it’s quite like playing a game with on extreme hard mode unfortunately.

You’ll see in the playthrough how much I struggle.

The UI could perhaps have been looking a little cooler for health and shield. It wasn’t too bad that they were spread out as I feared, but it could have been nice to have them all next to each other too.

In some cases I feel like collision boxes on enemies were a bit too narrow and also that collision boxes on furniture and such a bit too large. Especially with that time constraint, shooting chickens that were quite well hidden shouldn’t be hindered too much by collisions on shelves and sci-fi gadgets.

Otherwise I really enjoyed playing, and I think the game did great with most things it attempted.

Playthrough: https://youtu.be/GxbvMV2fhuI

I survived! I loved the shooter aspect of this! The graphics were awesome and the sinking ship theme was well done. The variety of weapons and enemies kept you on your toes while trying to beat the clock and get off the ship.

Ran into some issues walking up some objects that probably shouldn't have been navigable and sometimes I couldn't shoot the chickens, it seemed the bullets hit some invisible hit boxes or something.

Overall awesome entry with a great take on the fusion and ship sinking!

Gameplay here

Love the old school Space Hulk vibes. Had some problems though with floors not loading quickly enough and falling through into infinite space.

Escaped with the score of 3600 and around 2 minutes left.

Atmosphere is really nice, it gives dark, Quake 3 vibes. Music, graphics, audio, weapons, lighting all were done really nice to make this atmosphere work.

Shooter part felt a bit odd at times, when enemies were at 45 degrees angle from you, at these moments I wished for the wider field of view (which would’ve helped with a more classic perspective as well). Dodging enemies bullets and peppering them with shotgun or sending rockets their way felt nice, though a bit awkward due to Q/E being strafes.

Took me some tries to figure out how to play, but it became a FPS shooter game, but the combat was fun.

I did make it out but the time ran out at about the same time, but it counted as a win.

Fun game!

This is a good one!

Had a lot of fun and found one chicken. Really nice to see another SciFi crawler and this is well done and very polished.

Did not encounter any obvious bug, the only thing is that I could kill some robots from the side without them shooting back, not sure if that is intentional though.

Definatly exceeds my expectations for a 9 day jam!

Good job!

Just a final note: This does not run well on an iGPU I got around 20 FPS on an Notebook with an Iris XE thanks to Lumen.

"ESCAPED" I scored 2,230 points, found only one chicken :/ .

The game is very fun. Perspective, controls and movement are perfect and the gunplay is super satisfying. The different weapons felt different (I mostly used the Rocket), I thought the robots proposed an appropriate threat and 10:00 felt right too.

Cool one!

This was a lot more enjoyable than I thought it would be. The gunplay was super satisfying, the music was on point, gun variety was nice, the checkpoint system made it not be tedious when you inevitably die. Escaped with about 3 minutes to spare, which was great. Found a couple of chickens too.

On the downsides, the movement/turning was a bit sluggish, but the enemies weren't too fast either, so it worked out. But faster turn speed would've been great.