Really nice aesthetic, the models and world were done really well. I haven’t played many games like this but it was fun and seems quite promising, having to consider time over ammo was cool. Unfortunately couldn’t get to finishing the game after dying several times but I think I’ll try to come back.

At least with my experience of the jam build, the combat to me didn’t really hold my interest well. I think it was mostly on the lack of enemy variety and quality, so I understand that’s recognized and already in the works at least, but I spent most of the time walking backwards away from enemies and shooting them without having to consider much else.

Not entirely a critique but at some point I had six enemies trap me behind a pillar facing the camera and I honestly thought I was just trapped, but I got to shoot my way out. I also saw a few of the void blob enemies get stuck on the altar steps though, not sure if you intended that.

Great work!

Spent a good amount of time just walking back and forth trying to recall which way is forward, but no big deal.

I actually really liked having to keep up rhythm for the shots to control the overheat mechanic, and occasionally coming up with more irregular patterns to make tempo transitions more consistent. It’s also something to think about since arenas are light on strategy, but I can see the planned extra guns already taking care of that.

I really liked it, the whole art direction was so cool and the story was interesting. I hope you can expand it in the future, the ending made me curious what would you add with no time restains!

The gameplay is fun, the only thing I missed was hold-down fire, but that's not a big deal. Maybe more weapons in the future?

Really good entry!

Very cool thematic/art style and well constructed. 

I feel like my main complaint though would be the lack of an hold-down fire; I don't mind a slow fire rate but clicking that much to shoot when fighting a horde got detracting.

Also, UE5 was not merciful to my card. I wasn't even getting 30 fps so I feel like that took away from what should be a pretty fast paced shooter. Graphic settings would've been nice but I get it might've been a time constraint.

Regardless, solid entry. I would love to see an expanded version of this with more levels and enemies.

It was a fun little top-down 3rd person shooter!  As a quick side note, before I forget (as I'm leaving a comment right after playing): was the whole thing about "a thousand years" in reference to Myth's song, "Journey Like a Thousand Years"?  On one hand, it's not Council/Promise's song... but on the other, the "thousand years" thing seems so deliberately repeated.

Anyways, as for the game itself, it was fun.  I'm not particularly skilled at these sorts of games so I appreciated that stray enemies in the world remained dead after killing them.  So I abused that and kept running back to the altar rather than using the time restoring items.  That way, I can save those restorative items during the hordes.

I definitely thought it was a neat idea, having time also serve as your health and, once your gun starts overheating, also your "resource" for shooting.  A lot of things really ended up tied to "time" so it was very appropriate for this game jam.

What I did wish there was more of as I was playing was enemy variety.  I was preparing myself to have to deal with different kinds of enemies but in the end, the two enemies there were ended up being similar in function as well, just one took one more hit than the other in exchange for having a larger hitbox.

Now, I don't know if you were going for a bit of an unsettling/horror-ish vibe but as someone who scares easily, I personally felt that way.  Though I do think, in a way, it is appropriate, intentional or not, given the tension I'm supposed to feel.

Overall, I think this was pretty well done and I'm curious to see if you will expand on this game after the game jam ends.  I hope so given teasing you did at the end of the game.

Great game. The difficulty felt good, I was able to win after a couple playthroughs. Really good job on this, I love the game concept! I cheesed it quite a bit by abusing the altars lol.

Very visually impressive! The atmosphere fits the game really well, all the sound effects were spot on. The cover/UI art looks really good too! I like the creative take on health as time, and the trigger-happy punish makes the whole gameplay intense.

Great work! Thanks for making this!

I like the artwork and the UI design that was put into this game. I do think having to click the exact spot in order to hit the enemies more precise than needed for this type of game. Most of these do a raytrace or projectile to see if you hit anything going in the direction of the cursor. Your gun taking away your time if you used it too much at once adds a nice tension and if you had more elements that forced you make choices between firing the gun to complete some non-critical objective or staying alive, it would add some interesting dynamics to the game, similar to other roguelikes where you can choose a harder battle for better rewards at the risk of dying or choosing an easier route. The horde portions sort of hit on that, but I think you can push that idea further.

Minor nitpicks I had was the UI color choice for the dialogue text lacks enough contrast and is slightly hard to read and the number of hourglasses you have is not really visible in brighter areas as it blends in. I really enjoyed this game.

This was a really cool idea!

I haven't played either of the games you've listed as inspiration (though I've heard of them), but this was a fun experience and a nice twist on the theme, with using time as health and constantly dwindling resource.

I will say that I might have gotten lucky with enemy and relic spawns, but I didn't really have too much trouble with resource management - I dropped down to 1 hourglass during one of the relic defenses, but that was mostly because I was panicking a bit and used those two hourglasses when I probably could have just taken it slow and used a single instead. Then was able to just backtrack and refill.

Maybe the hourglass spawn chance or spawn locations could be reduced a bit to make things feel a little more tense, but I suppose it depends on how the team wants to flesh out the gameplay loop.

Either way I think the aesthetics, music, and SFX were all good, and the animations too, considering this being a game jam submission. All in all great work, and hoping the team can come back to at least finish out the story that's been set up!

Fun little game! Dig the UI, very pleasant to look at and informative. Amazing concept of time being health and picking up healing collectibles to use them whenever you run out of time. Could work very well as a roguelite!

The gameplay is really good. There is a bug where some of the walls won't cull when they are hiding the player but a minor issue. I kind of forgot what I was suppose to do, so have something to remind the player of the objective would be great.

I like the concept! I really, really liked the UI design, and I thought it was an interesting top down, kind horror-esque game. The two enemies were very visually striking as well. Overall fun, and I think to spice it up even more, you could add in some juice, like screenshake and stuff. Albeit, that may just be bias on my end. 

It was a fun game. Using time as health was an interesting mechanic, and the fact that time drained additionally whenever the gun gauge filled up added real tension to combat. When enemies approached in groups, it was genuinely a bit scary. I really enjoyed playing it.

Very cool take on the theme! 

I think having the gun always shoot the spot where the cursor is makes aiming unintuitive. I ran into a bunch of cases where I pointed at a distant enemy and was able to hit them, but then couldn't when they came out of cover and should've been easier to hit. It also means I have to look at my mouse cursor during frantic combat, which just feels wrong.

I liked the ambience and the character model.

It's funny how you basically just slide (even backwards) when walking around. XD

The dynamic music when entering combat is also a nice touch!

At first I didn't understand what the items did and what the clock on the bottom left meant but it only took me a few minutes to understand. The Kronii "shrines" came in clutch after one of those horde attack events. Phew.

Improvement suggestions:

- Better marking of doors that can be seen at all times from the camera angle. The doors only become visible when very close to them or when seeing them from the "front" in a large room. In some corridors it was not that easy to find them.

- Character animations

- Volume controls

Good job on the game! Hopefully you can get that boss fight in after the jam!

Hello!! I really enjoyed the game and cant wait for the boss to be added!! The art is very good and I enjoyed the way the character and camera worked! (i kept shooting past the enemy LOL)

I am sad. No boss at the end :( Game is very simple and easy. I don't understand mechanic with a gun. It looks like there is some sort of reload but it chargers too fast to notice any difference in shooting speed. Level design is interesting.