Hi Renonsical!

I'd like to start by saying how wonderfully thought out the level designs were! I still need to go back and play this a bit more and knock out the final 3 stages. That said, here's my feedback!

Gameplay:

• As I mentioned, the levels were masterfully crafted! The progression with each level was not overwhelming and added just a touch more challenge but it shined in making the player feel confident in how to beat the level only to pull the rug right out from under them. 
• It's unfortunate that knowing the solution to a stage limits the replay value of puzzle games but at the same time that just simply means that we as the players want more. That said, I'm looking forward to what more you have in store with the later stages.
• Controls were simple and there were helpful reminders that popped up at the right moment like when resetting the stage through the menu a hint would remind the player of the hotkey to reset.

Audio:

• I know that you mentioned during my stream that there would be different music in the later biomes/stages but for the levels I played, I was left hoping for a little bit more. What I would suggest is that since the player is moving further away from the surface, you could start with some sound of like crickets and wind but the game gets quieter with each stage and you start hearing some other tones. Something to add intensity to the progression.
• No complaints about the sfx, everything had a sound queue that worked well for the game for my experience.

Visuals:

• As a color blind player, I am usually not a great judge of visuals so what I primarily give feedback on is how visuals impact my gameplay. The color choices and visuals did not negatively affect my gameplay in any way as I felt there was a clear enough distinction in all the elements in the game so long as I paid proper attention and looked around first. If anything, the breakable walls were the only thing that I could have missed if I were not paying attention to it.

Other Feedback:

• One thing I noticed was that since I had time constraints to finish as much of the game as possible, I started to feel pressured to get it done which made things slightly more exciting while at the same time I had set a personal goal of clearing the game with as few screwups as possible. I feel like it'd be cool if there were some kind of varying profiles where players can compare their first times completing each stage, taking account time, deaths, and number of moves would help drive all these objectives without forcing the players who don't care to compete.
• If possible, I'd love to see this as a mobile game so it gives me something fun and challenging to bring along with me instead of playing non-stop gacha and p2w games. On PC, or console your game has a bit of challenge with the wealth of options out there but I feel your game would stand out well as a mobile experience.

Overall, I loved the game and would be looking forward to playing this more!

Thank you for your time and creating such a fun game!

Regards,
- Glim

• Youtube Timestamped Link
• Graphics : Considering the inspiration of the game (Boulder Dash) , the graphics are lovely.
• Music / Sfx: All good here, all quite nice.
• GUI : The Menus look quite nice. 
• Gameplay : I'm generally not a fan of these types of puzzle games but I enjoyed this one , no complaints here.
• Notes :
  • This felt much higher quality than it had any right being.
  • I saw another review elsewhere calling this a "sokoban" game and had to look that up; had to do the same with Boulder Dash but if I had to choose between playing any of those vs this, I'd pick this every time.
  • I only played a short bit due to a massive headache I had but I definitely wanted to play more.
  • The amount of levels just for a demo feels very generous.

I feel kind of bad for not having more to say about this game, I think it's quite nice for what it is , I like the fact that it is attempting to have more to it (story) than many other such games. I would've given the game a longer try but I had a massive headache at the time but in spite of such, I greatly enjoyed this game.

Hello!

Very well put together game! It feels very polished. Admittedly, this style of puzzle game is not really my speed these days but I have fond memories of playing similar games when I was little on my family's old Macintosh :)

The art was very functional and was nicely done. I liked the totally-not-Cthulhu Statues! The UI was very clean and polished, I liked the menus a lot. The music and sound effects were good if subtle. I thought they did a good job of setting the 'trapped underground' spooky atmosphere.

Gameplay was solid as far as a Boulder Dash style game goes. The puzzles are at a good difficulty level with the difficulty ramping over time feeling reasonable. I like the various enemy types mixing up the puzzle design, especially the slimes with objects hidden in them. I'd usually try to provide more constructive feedback but honestly it just seems very solid and would definitely be enough to carry the whole game with additional levels and maybe some extra variety in special units or tiles to spice things up later. 

I think this is an excellent demo and the full version of the game will be very solid if you keep up this quality. Very good Job!

Our team have submitted a runner that combines Tetris and precision platforming if you'd like to check it out (Link below). Would love to get some feedback if you have the time. :) 

I wish you the best with your projects!

/jam/feedback-quest-8-indiegames-x-indie-streamers/rate/3773442

The game was really fun from what I played. Unfortunately, I got stuck at "explosion" and had to use a level skip, but the puzzles I played were really well laid out (I have not finished the game ye,t but I am hoping to return to it at some point). The way the physics reacted to the environment really reminded me of Donkey Kong: Bananza in that there is a lot of open-endedness in how the player can solve certain puzzles. However, I did find that occasionally there were a few instances where it was hard to tell what the physics were going to do, making some deaths feel unfair. 

But, overall, from what I have experienced so far, it is a really polished package with some really good sound and art design (the art really reminds me of early 2000 pack-in Windows games). Keep it up!

Hello! Welcome to Feedback Quest 8! My name's Hythrain, a co-host and one of the streamers for this event! This feedback is being written live as I stream your game! If you're interested in seeing my live reaction, let me know and I can send you a link to the VOD once it's posted to YouTube!

So my normal approach for any game in these events is simple: I get the game, make sure it's not a virus, then play it with as little information on how to play as possible. This way, I can judge how intuitively someone can figure out the game. Only if it's obvious that I need to read more will I do so. I note this so you can get a sense where some of these feedback comes from. In addition, I want to note that feedback and rating are different; don't use this feedback to gauge what I'll rate, nor should you view my rating as entirely indicative of my feedback.

So I'm torn on this one. On one hand, it's a fun and challenging puzzle game. On the other hand, its physics don't entirely make sense and I find its controls very frustrating. The physics part, I can get over. It's weird, but it's just how the game rolls. However, the controls are something I don't want to touch ever again.

This is game that is built around very precise controls. It's all about careful movements, as a single misstep can cost you the round and force you to restart or can kill you. However, the game doesn't control like it's very precise. I often find myself everything one block at a time for fear that holding the button even a split second too long will screw me over. This is because there's dirt everywhere that the player has to clear out in order to do things, including in places where it doesn't affect the puzzle, which causes players to rush along to try and clear the junk dirt quickly in order to get to the good stuff.

So I thought about how to fix this. The one idea I had that I felt could work that wouldn't add to the frustration was as follows: first, remove a lot of the excess dirt. Only keep dirt that's the most relevant for a puzzle instead of just filling every tile, as that's otherwise just a huge waste of time. When the player starts to dig, put in a slight delay between each tile. That way, the player can have an extra moment to let go of the button and stop their movement before they make a move that they don't want. This also would apply to when they're digging the last dirt tile and are about to walk into a stone, statue or bomb eye to also give them that moment.

This would fix the issue of precise controls, because the delay would make them be not as precise and thus make the player less prone to making a split second mistake. It doesn't need to be a long time, no more than a quarter of a second and maybe even down to just a tenth of a second.

Also, there was one sentence I saw that just didn't make sense with how it was written. "As you enter the chamber your eyes fall upon a new kind of... deformities." In particular, the sentence refers to the upcoming noun as singular through "a new kind" but then switches to plural with deformities. If you want it to be plural, the sentence should be "As you enter the chamber your eyes fall upon new kinds of... deformities." If you want it singular, it'd just end with the word "deformity." Since there's only one new type of monster, I'd say you should go with singular.

Nice game! The music and aesthetics fit very well. The difficulty level is also good. I'm not a big puzzle player, so I found it quite challenging. One change I would like is for the info boxes to stay on the screen for longer. I couldn't read any of them because they disappeared immediately.

Well-well, Boulder Dash/Supaplex here! Game is very neat!
It seems like it does not count restarts properly (I restarted chamber and it still shows 0) and probably restart on hotkey can be useful.

Very nice! I hope this does well at release

The visual and sound aesthetics are really good

I beat 'Hex' without using the rocks at the top right and instead by sending the enemies above and then outpacing them from below, which I feel probably wasnt the intended solution

'Avalanche' felt like it required a lot of set up work to dig out the large area even with knowledge of the solution, but maybe I don't have the rock physics knowledge to find the simplest solution

I had a minor dislike of 'The Pale Queen' introducing a new mechanic after making me solve some puzzles when it could have been in an earlier chamber. Admittedly the second 'eye' and the squid guys prevent messing up with the first 'eye' being a softlock, but it was easy to feel like I failed the puzzle considering I didn't have full knowledge of the puzzle at the time

'The Pale Queen' also had a lot of ambient noise even when the queen wasn't onscreen which made it hard to focus on thinking about the right solution

The tooltip for quick restarting when you restart from the menu was a good choice

Your final screen still says "releasing in fall 2025". If you're planning to release on Steam I'd say that this is is good enough to put up as a demo

Nice little puzzle game with a few new twists to the genre. The pixel art was nice, although I thought the main player could have been a bit more animated as they move around.

I powered through the early levels and they introduced new challenges at a reasonable rate.

However once I got to the Sinister level (classic maze in appearance) the game seems to have added a random element that can mean you need to get lucky as well as solve the puzzle. Basically when chased by the monsters you have to choose where to hide and it is just 50/50 if the monsters comes your way or not. Adding a looped area to hide in would solve this problem so the player can always escape if they are quick enough. Taking away skill and adding random deaths definitaly puts me off a puzzle game. Apart from that though nice presentation and spooky story.