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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Narrative | #28 | 4.415 | 4.415 |
| Artwork | #103 | 4.569 | 4.569 |
| Creativity | #141 | 4.415 | 4.415 |
| Audio | #590 | 3.708 | 3.708 |
| Enjoyment | #1603 | 3.508 | 3.508 |
Ranked from 65 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 day resets every time the player chooses the "wrong sacrifice", changing its objective within the same parameters .
(Optional) Please credit all assets you've used
Unplash, Pexels, Public Domain Review, LeanTween, Odin Inspector
(Optional) What would you like to be called if GMTK features your game?
Ex Ignorantia
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It's a bit confusing at first, but the narrative and artstyle completely make up for it. Amazing job.
thanks a bunch for sticking around through our admittedly confusing beginning 💚 super glad you enjoyed!
That was really nice.
Atmosphere, Art design.. narrative….
I am in love.
so very kind, thanks for playing 💚🐙 *eldritch hug*
Got the "good" ending!
This reminded me of those scenes in Madoka Magica where they go fight in the witch's domain, very creepy!
It's such a unique setup it's hard to think of a recommendation, maybe work with a pool of characters that changes year-to-year based on how the previous year's sacrafice went?
Great entry, nice work!
thanks a whole lot for playing and for the really awesome feedback! 💚
I was toying with the idea of more villagers, but I LOVE the idea of having the roster change / react to previous sacrifices. That's a really cool way to further the story, instead of just repeating it with one or two different characters.
Extra special thanks for that tasty nugget, we'll def see what could be done for a full release :))
I just simply LOVED the aesthetic. Really amazing work
💚🍻 cheers to you, friend! thanks for stopping by the pub for a
sacrificepint!What in the fever dream world did my sleep deprived brain just play - well done though. Excellent game - art style is fantastic!
💚🐙 the gods sure love a sleep-deprived brain! thanks a lot for playing and the sweet note!
The style is simply perfect, the vibe of the whole thing is amazing
It took me a couple of tries but i thing i understand the mechanics now (even though i couldn't win a round yet)
the mechanics are very interesting and refreshing, very good!!
🐙💚 thanks for playing and the kind note, friend! we're sure the day will dawn for you soon!
Damn this is the most conceptually exciting entry I've seen so far. Using the golden idol style matching mechanics as a vehicle for the player to engage with the poetry, the characters, and the world is so so so cool. The presentation is one-of-a-kind too. The "cutscenes" are so unsettling with some amazing sound design, and they set an impeccable tone for the game to live in. The collage style character art does that same - at once charming and uncanny it gives a life to each character that illustration wouldn't have.
Just absolutely blown away, incredible entry.
wow, what lovely, lovely words, Jack! 💚 we're truly honored, thank you so much for playing and leaving us this incredibly kind note 🍻🐙 may the gods hug you with their thousand-thousand tentacles for us!
Super cool aesthetic, but I have no idea what anyone is talking about! And that's okay! Great job!
🐙🐙🐙 *Lovecraftian sounds of appreciation*
I'll be honest, I have no idea I'm doing xD Font is a tad hard to read but otherwise loving the visual style!
haha we're happy you dived anyway 💚🐙 thanks fopr playing!
I really love the artstyle, i will love to do something like that one day : P
💚🐙 we'll love to see in the weird place this game lives! thanks a lot!
It's so weird I love it
*blushing* no, you're weird! 💚
Best entry I played in this Jam thus far. Everything about it is polished, intriguing and complete. It also really reminded me of the type of games I d used to play over at Newgrounds! Brought back some great memories. 10/10 well done!
so very happy you dig it, thanks a lot for playing and the kind words 💚🐙 PS we'll be digging deeper into your catalogue asap, your stuff seems absolutely awesome!
Love the atmosphere in this! The intro is just soo gooood!
Had a bit of a hard time understanding and matching the poems and dialogues, and everytime I picked someone the game got stuck on an image of the sun so I'm just assuming I lost all my attempts lmao.
ooh that's weird! the sun is the starting image for both the good and bad endings, don't think we had this freezing problem so far :\ sorry about that, but thanks for dropping by and letting us know 💚
this game really hits different
love the arthouse vibes the visuals are amazing!!!
💚🍻 thank you very much for playing!
Very weird (in a good sense!) and very intriguing! Love it.
weird is our highest praise 💚 thank you so much!
what an incredible atmosphere you guys crafted, right from the intro sequence - and im just sO obsessed with the artwork, havent seen this kind of mixed media-surrealist work done so well before in games! it took me a sec to figure out that i could use the tracker, somehow didnt see that xdd soooo soo cool!!
💚🍻 what lovely words, friend! thank you so very much for playing and dropping this extra-sweet note! hopefully, we'll get to dive deeper into our weird lil isle in the future — hope to see you there for a pint!
very cool and very creepy!!
🐙💚 *tentacle hug*
I absolutely love this concept and the collage style aesthetic fits the narrative well.
💚🐙 thanks a lot for playing and the kind words!
This is quite the feat in such a short time! I had a hard time figuring out the poems, but I really enjoyed the ambiance and the creepy sound design really sells it
💚🍻 super glad you dig it! thanks a lot for sticking around until the gods' demands became clearer (they could speak normal, right? haha)
As other have said, wow, what an intro. I feel like I could spend a lot of time getting into this game, it feels like it's really got a lot of (lamb) meat to it. Super polished and really unique and memorable art and audio. Oh man the audio, I had to lower the volume I was getting shivers.
You guys really nailed it with this one!
(It would be really nice if you can drop by and checkout my team's entry for the jam here)
/jam/gmtk-2025/rate/3776878
💚🍻🐙 may the gods open the skies and give you a hug for us, friend! thank you so much for playing and leaving us these lovely words!
Your game looks super fun, we'll def be checking it out soon 🙏