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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Enjoyment | #21 | 4.500 | 4.500 |
| Audio | #1068 | 3.500 | 3.500 |
| Artwork | #1283 | 3.850 | 3.850 |
| Narrative | #1630 | 2.950 | 2.950 |
| Creativity | #2716 | 3.550 | 3.550 |
Ranked from 20 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does your game fit the theme?
The main hero is stuck in a vicious loop, every time he dies he is returned to Limbo. The only way to break the loop is to kill the Satan himself. Also the circles of hell are inspired by the theme.
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Nice work, loved the audio, and the game is too addictive.
And I would appreciate it if you rate my game!
This is so fun and polished!!
The gameplay is very addictive and all the mechanics are so much fun especially the ground pound. Very smooth and exceptional character controller. I also like the art, it's pretty cohesive, nice enemy designs.
If I had to nitpick it's that the game doesn't seem that on theme because it basically works like a classic rogue like as the loop.
Absolutely great game, I tried the boss multiple times but couldn't do it. Great game!
Wow, absolutely one of my favorites so far in this jam! Very addicting game loop, every upgrade felt meaningful and I used them quite regularly, especially the stomp move. The boss fight with Satan at the end was awesome and felt properly balanced as a heavy hitter and damage sponge. I remember I also had the idea to do something with the nine circles of hell but couldn't think of a way to make it fit, but I'm glad you got a great idea out of it. Fantastic job!
Yay, somebody defeated the Satan! We are happy! Thanks for your feedback :)
After groundpound and jackpack fuel it was like a farming simulator. Pretty polished game, loved it - it was too addictive.
Thanks, we tried to make every update in a way that it will change the gameplay when unlocked
Hi. I am currently in the middle of the game but I had to pause bc 1. I need a break to calm myself and 2. I had already read the comments before playing and... what are people on? I feel like no one is nearly as excited about this as they should be??? I am currently attempting to beat Violence and well... let's just say atm it's only violence doing the beating. And wow. wow wow wow wow wow. I have liked plenty of games in this jam, I have enjoyed them very much and some have become one of my favorite games. But this? This is on another level. I have rated and went through over 300 games and none, N O N E, have made me feel like I am not playing a game jam game. I enjoy this so insanely much, it's such a dopamine rush, just such a satisfying and amazing fun playthrough. I saw in the screenshot that there is a boss fight so I guess I still have a long way to go.
But jesus christ. This is such a fun game. I thought it would just be ANOTHER platformer but no, just 10/10 all around.
I cannot believe this game has such few reviews, you deserve so much more but do not get discouraged! Last year a lot of the games that got top 100 in ratings and that won had few reviews as well. I really, from the bottom of my heart, hope you win, not just top 100 (which... if you don't... absolute robbery), but that you also make it into the video because this is such an amazing game and experience. I am completely hooked and already anxious to get to the end and realize this experience is over.
So happy that I came across your game.
Update: I got to treachery!
Update ... : I accidentally clicked to go to the previous page and I lost all my progress. I think a tear rolled down my cheek
Update: I downloaded the game hoping my progress will be saved and unfortunately it crashed for me... I really hope I will get to keep my progress
*SIGH* IT did not get saved. Welp.
On behalf of the team, we are incredibly grateful for your detailed positive feedback!
We are very pleased that you enjoyed it!
Thank you so much! <333
Hey, thank you so much for this comment, you made our day!
We are sorry you encountered issues with loosing the progress. Unfortunately, we didn't have time to implement the saving system during the jam. But since you enjoyed the game so much, we decided to upload our development build which we kept improving after the jam for you.
https://evgeek.itch.io/vicious-loop-2
The change list:
We can't restore your progress, but this is the least we could do. We hope you'll enjoy it. Thank you again for your kind words
Oh My god this is so kind! I have been playing it the entire day and - idk if you encountered this too but I feel like in the downloaded version whenever you get to a certain point in Greed the game just stops working. Either it gets overwhelmed or something else happens. On the web I didnt encounter this issue, however I swear the WiFi gods were against me winning because the WiFi kept breaking randomly today.
I am so so excited to try this version and win!
Also, super duper excited to see what you guys will do in the future, and I really hope you'll win.
This game was a ton of fun!!! Felt a lot like games like motherload or utopian mining which I love. The art is amazing and the doom-like music fits really well. Polished and well put together!
Very cool, good job !
Wow. This is polished. I can keep playing it for a long time.
loop = ring -> rings of hell, this game is actually hella fun and nails the satisfying gameplay
Exactly! We are glad you enjoyed the game
thanks<33
This was great! I love rogue-likes, and this one was really fun to play! The gun was quite satisfying to shoot, especially after even just a few upgrades!
We are glad you enjoyed it, thanks for playing!
A very addictive rogue-like! I loved the destructive environments and how increasingly crazy the levels get. I would just add a health bar to the enemies, because sometimes it is not obvious if i cause enough damage to actually defeat them, especially at the beginning of the game. Amazing job!
Thanks for playing and for the feedback! Health bars were on our todo list, we even added one to the Satan. Probably having them on all enemies and having the damage numbers show up would be even cooler
Had a lot of fun playing it! especially fighting and upgrading, just satisfying!
Extremly fun to just get more and more overpowerd until you just speed through the layers and enemies. One problem i personally had was that it was a bit irritating that every sound was 3d , even the bullet sounds.
Thanks for playing! We actually enjoyed how the bullets sound fades out when you transition to the next loop, so we decided to keep it in. But we appreciate your feedback, probably we should have make it fade out in some other way
Fun to play, Nice idea! Keep it up!