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A jam submission

The Dead TruthView game page

Submitted by PunkGagarin, Madgine, ccor3xx, Leit, Fenneig — 3 hours, 37 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Immersive Atmosphere#54.4294.429
Innovative Gameplay#54.2864.286
General Enjoyment#84.1434.143
Logical Consistency#94.1434.143
Overall#113.8393.839
Emotional Depth#153.2863.286
Puzzle Fairness#153.7143.714
Satisfying Answers#173.2863.286
Jam Theme#243.4293.429

Ranked from 7 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

What makes your game a Mystery Game?
main quest, main mechanics and setting

How does your game integrate the jam's theme "Last Message"?
we are passing on a last message from the ghosts for our clients

Does your game use generative AI? And if so, in what way?
Nope

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Comments

Submitted

I had a lot of fun! Very creative and balanced game concept that could easily be expanded into a much bigger game. I had no problem making deductions for what ingredients to use. Only problems were that it was a bit annoying moving between screens so many times, and the memory puzzles on the final day were very hard -- but I did beat the game with plenty of coins to spare. Excellent artwork and music too!

Submitted

This was fun! A bit frustrating because I kept forgetting which bottles did what, and things didn't quite look the same as the drawings sometimes, and I think I was supposed to know what some of the icons meant but I didn't. I'd just need to play it some more to get used to everything. The art style was cool too! Nice work.

(+3)

Amazing artwork

Submitted(+3)

Such an entertaining game - I lost track of time preparing invocations! It's really polished. I love how you designed the ingredient mechanic using the book to prevent mistakes. With a bit more time, this could be something special. Great work!

Submitted(+3)

Very good game with good art style and intersting gameplay though there were hard parts to guess the race from icon, but overall this is a very good game.

Submitted(+3)

I'll start with the cons:

Sometimes I didn't understand who was standing in front of me, of what race. I especially often confused a dark-skinned person with a dwarf. Some of the clothes are closed and it's hard to guess who's in front of you, and they don't say the right race.

I don't know, maybe I'm already getting old, but sometimes I made mistakes in combinations when I had to repeat them. It seems completely unnecessary in this game, because it doesn't bring anything, only irritation.

I soon got tired of the music, there's only one track and it's unattractive.

Disappointment from the ending, which led to nothing. The plot and characters in the game are not revealed at all. There are images, but often everyone exists simply as goals: buyers are just buyers, girlfriends are just guides through the plot, the exiled is just a goal. There are no deep experiences here and little information is revealed. Perhaps this game is just a test of mechanics, and we will see a full-fledged story much later.

Pros:

Many characters, ingredients, well-functioning mechanics, the game is generally easy to complete. Overall, it was interesting to play!

But there is a feeling that this is still a tech demo, even if there is a finished plot. And the game can become cool.

P.S. I will give ratings later, as I watch other games. Thank you for Russian!

Submitted(+3)

This was a pretty good game. I think that the inferring you have to do in order to get the right ingredients is creative. Maybe you could make the ingredient combinations to switch halfway through or something like that, because I ended up just using the same combinations every time. The ending also did not work for me so that kind of sucked. The art/sounds/music helped create a very nice atmosphere though.