We really love the visuals and Jacksepticeye references, they add a fun and charming touch! The use of the theme is excellent, and the art style is cohesive and lovely. The lore also feels intriguing, giving a lot of potential for expanding the story.

Some things felt a bit slow, particularly the dying mechanic, which takes a while. It could be interesting to see either a faster process, or an in-story upgrade/feature where the character gets used to it, allowing smoother gameplay. Also, timing-based puzzles could be less restrictive to let players explore more freely.

Overall, this is an amazing jam entry!! fun, engaging, and full of potential. With more content, story elements, and animations, this could really shine. Great work! <3

this is super cool ngl! love the idea of your own death driving you forward.

Hey this was pretty fun I did have a bit of issues around the second checkpoint (I think) but I pushed through

I Liked the little touches; like the logos in the background, the text animating when hovering over buttons on the main menu, and the music volume fading when switching screens from the main menu.

I think what makes this game stand out the most is the ambience. Very moody and great lighting! Plus, I haven't seen any other games so far from this gym that emphasize stealth, so well done there. The statues are a good twist on the "leave a body to keep the switch pressed" mechanic, but some kind of sound, glow, or praying animation to let the player know the prayer is working would help. I got stuck at the monk guarding the switch in between crawl spaces, but otherwise I was hooked! Great job.

I'm so impressed with this game, great job! Visuals are 10/10 and the music is so good!

I did play the latest version so I think I had an easier time understanding the controls.

Please consider rating my game as well if you find the time!

Really great job!

Amazing game!  I really enjoyed the graphics, and the atmosphere was done really well.  The darkness combined with the soft music and the stone and bones everywhere really sold the grim feeling of the cultist's lair.   I liked the part close to the end of the first level where there's a ton of cultists above you and their footsteps get louder, don't know how to describe it but it felt cool.  I also really liked the concept, it follows the the theme well.  I've seen similar mechanics used before but for some reason I don't remember them ever putting a limit on the amount of bodies you can have at once, which in your case really helps with the puzzle solving and making you think carefully about how you are going to use the mechanic.  Speaking of, I enjoyed the puzzle close to the end of the first level, it really made you use your head and take into account what you were seeing, though it took a bit for me to get the solution to work.  My only disappointment is that I could pray to all those statues except the Lixian statue.  Such a pity.  Also I ran into a bug where I briefly had a twin after both the cultist and myself killed me at the same time.   Overall, really good game, excellent job!

really good job! i cant wait for an updated version. rated! i'd really appreciate if you could give my game a rate back :) great job on the jam! /jam/jamsepticeye/rate/3928723

As someone else already mentioned it is a bit hard to know when you do reset your spawn point. For the second altar for example, I thought I had pressed [F] for long enough, but I guess not because the second I respawned I found myself at another spawnpoint. Other than that I think it´s a neat little puzzle platformer! Two of my favorite genres in one??? Count me in ♥

Super cool visuals and great audio!  All darkness in the level makes things very oppressive which is a great atmosphere!  (I loved the room full of cultists stomping loudly back and forth!)  The main mechanic is real cool too!

The praying to checkpoint was a little confusing cause there's no visual to show it's working, but i did figure it out.  Things did feel a little tedious with having to redo parts of the level every time you die, but you have to die to progress.  I'm not quite sure what a good alternative would be though.  And it felt a little like it wants to be both a puzzle game and a platformer, which was not a good feeling.  I was unable to finish because trying to jump over an enemy was really difficult timing, but i had no other way around.  I don't mind the enemies but maybe it'd be more fun if instead of resetting you to checkpoint, they kill you and take one of your charges.  So then it could be like "oh they killed me but now maybe my body's in a useful spot" 

I think there's a lot of potential to make a nice, dark, depressing story here, and I'm all for it :kekw.  And the main mechanic could leave room for some real interesting puzzles, especially if more things interact with bodies in special ways.  Like maybe cultists carry a body somewhere else, somewhere useful or it's a window to sneak by them.  Or maybe dying a specific way gives you a special item that you need elsewhere, like a key or something.  All sorts of interesting routes you could take this!  

Overall, very pog much cool y'all did awesome!