I was shocked by the concept, well done!
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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Narrative | #611 | 3.561 | 3.561 |
| Creativity | #1131 | 3.963 | 3.963 |
| Artwork | #1596 | 3.728 | 3.728 |
| Enjoyment | #1802 | 3.443 | 3.443 |
| Audio | #2498 | 3.106 | 3.106 |
Ranked from 246 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?
afterloop is a short adventure puzzle game where every attempt matters. When you restart an echo of your past run will follow your previous steps and each new attempt becomes part of the puzzle.
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I think this is a solid concept, but having to walk in place so much to wait for your other selves to catch up is tedious. If you were add a fast forward or rewind or something, that would be fantastic.
Very cool entry! Having the movement be turn based makes this a an interesting take on theme. Ensuring that you are timed up with your past selves becomes more of a puzzle than a flurry of execution and it gives the game a relaxing and thoughtful vibe. The art is gorgeous too, you manage to get so much texture out of the 1 bit style, its really impressive.
Great entry, thanks for making it!!
I’d like to step away from the game itself to say how nice the banner art is, the player character looks really cool! As for the game itself, having it be tile-based is a novel approach to the “use your past selves to help you” genre that I’ve seen many of here, good work coming up with that!
Great idea, I love that you used tile based movement so you could repeat what happened before easily without room for error. Holding down a button would've been great and I left a guy on a spike button so I wasn't sure what I should have done after that. But overall great game! I love the narrative too.
something tells me you should have prevented people from “R” on a spike button, cuz I get the feeling I might have had locked myself out of something since I couldn’t find a way to got to the desert haha or find a way to trigger the last lever for the upper room
I thought about it but decided to leave it in because it wasn't fair. A better solution would be to check the entire map and make sure that in every possible situation there were alternatives and player could pass even if he stayed on the button with spikes. But because the game is quite short I decided to leave it in so that the game wouldn't be too easy.
Really love this game, it was awesome and the ending was so epic O:
I've seen this take a few times, but this one did things quite a bit differently and it runs very well with it. Took me a few tries to figure out they all move with you, and found myself going back and redoing some of the earlier ones to get them done faster. I liked it. Well done.
Nice aesthetic with a cool concept. A bit tiring to repeat all those moves but interesting nonetheless. It forces you to be efficient with your moves otherwise exploration can become tedious as you wait for your stupid past ghost to finish moving in circles lol. Congrats!
i got so drawn in by the art, and then the narrative and then just trying to figure out where all the switches were. loved everything about it -- wish there was maybe a way to delete past lives/know where you went previously bc i kept forgetting what i've already checked so random doors/things would go off xD
overall AWESOME JOB!!
Very creative take on the theme. I liked the puzzle mechanics. The only thing that i would like is some kind of check points so you don't have to walk all the way to the other side of the map. Overall a good game :)
I would appreciate if you could check and rate my game as well.
Very cool concept, I'm jealous for not having such an idea😅 I really had a fun time playing it, I only would have liked to difference my current character and the echoes with a color difference.
Very cool concept, I'm jealous for not having such an idea😅 I really had a fun time playing it, I only would have liked to difference my current character and the echoes with a color difference.







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