Played this a while back but completely forgot to leave a rating! It's a great game! Really liked the art style and it fit the theme well. Nice work!

First off, great title! I totally loved the art and overall presentation. I also liked the simplicity of interacting with entities by walking into them.

Gameplay-wise, I felt like the flow never quite clicked for me. Either the player character moves too slowly, or the timer expires too quickly, making it feel like you don't really have a chance to evaluate enough graves. It felt very luck-based to me and hard to apply a specific strategy.

Instead of a short time limit, I would have preferred a longer limit with another form of pressure applied, such as a roaming enemy or enemies that you have to avoid while you dig. Also, it feels bad to accidentally potion an empty spot, and then watch as your time wastes away. An easy way to prevent that would be to make it so potions only work on graves,

Overall, I enjoyed deciphering the cause of death for each grave to assign potions, and the need for quick-decision making. I also really liked the retro vibes, environment art, and character designs.

Kudos to you for a unique and creative entry!

This hit me right in the nostalgia. GBA is one of, if not my favorite consoles of all time and this game was hitting all the right vibes. The biggest critiques I can think of would be to up the movement speed to give it a more solid "arcade" vibe that it seems to be going for, in addition to some way to remember which potion is needed for what since I immediately forgot and cooked myself. Overall, great work! Thank you for sharing your game with the world!

Took me a hot second to figure out what I was doing but I think that was more on me. I really like the names and the way they kindof hint at the contents (i think??)
Well done!

Fun and funny! Loved the names and causes of deaths, I scored 611!

Nice execution and pixel art!

Won with a score of 637, pretty fun little arcade playthrough nice job dev!! Feels very polished overall and you made great use of all the assets to put together a cohesive experience. Player on-boarding could be a little smoother as my first couple runs I was very confused on the order of operations, and it was only after reading the game page description itself that things started to click. Fun and well-packaged game, impressive stuff in just the 4 days!

Well done!

YESSS I love the GBA style, graphics and music are absolutely great! The concept is pretty simple but very well executed. Good job :)

Yoaaah!! GBA MA MAN! really loved what you pulled off with this one! The pixel art and Game Boy vibe hit perfectly, and the pacing feels super tight for a jam entry. Music blends nicely with the visuals too, really sells the mood.

Great work man, solid execution all around!

I love the concept and music! Excellent Job! Rated ♥

That music was ROCKIN! also the Gameboy visuals were very nice. I will say also when I'm apolying through games rarely do I keep playing it til I win but this was a game that had me going! very good entry.

Lovely art, tight gameplay, funny gravestones (Baker died of bread, really? :)). My only nitpick is the gravestone font doesn't match the rest of the game. Otherwise well done, a very solid entry!

Hey, the artist for Spikes & Switches, here!

Aww, I wish there was music but oh well.

I like the idea you used for the theme. Every jam submission seems to have their theme involve the player dying, while this theme does something unique and involves the enemies by playing around them.

overall this was a fine game.

very cool! loved the gba theme. maybe could've used a tiny grace period after digging up a monster so it isn't always a hit, but even so, really enjoyed it!

Very spooky. Had a hard time knowing which potion I should use sometimes, but besides that very nice!

very nice

Super cool. i love the art style!

Super fun! Lovee the gameboy aesthetic. Once I understood how to play it got engaging real fast. Amazing job!