Wow this game is really cool actually!

It has quite a nice level of quirk to it, I think sound effects would have made this game feel 10 times better.

Altough I would not reccomend anyone make a long idle game in a game jam, this is a really cool concept, I could really see this being as a niche cult following idle game lol, deffinetly a super expandable project post jam. 

If I am judging the game for how it is right now as the jam version tough, it is cool for 5 minutes but there is not much incentive to keep playing after longer than like 10 minutes and its kind of just a proof of concept rather than an actual game ig, it is fun to make a unholy god spawn with all the enhancment drugs  cool mutation foods you get lol. Spriting whould have been much appreciated especially cause you have to carry food, holding down the moue button is also a little bit unecessary, could have just been a click to hold.

The procedural designs are very cute and have alot of character actually, I imagine this system took you a long time to make since I think its really well done.

Really cool idea that was not well designed for the 7 day time period of the jam but still, good job :D

Haven't played it yet but looking at the screenshot, could you naybe switch from gamma color space to linear color space in  player settings in Unity and add a post processing effect "color correction" and select "Aces" and then send a screenshot here cause I think it would unironically make the game look 10 times better 

Okay, actually might be the strangest place I have been to this jam, the game is quite eerie and I think the graphical fidelity adds so much to the vibe, the only model that I do not like is the parents models, they look way too cartoony for the world, even though the game is so consistent in inconsistency. 

I am not sure if the broken tiles were intentional or not, they somehow add to the game since it feels alot more like a deranged persons asset flip which I really like :D. The game is quite artistic in its imperfections, but I am a sucker for weird ass games so this is purely a subjective take.

Generally the whole map is just so surreal and non sensical I love it honestly.

The gameplay is quite uninteresting, its just walking back and fourth and is rather easy since the characters are so slow and both of the objects are basically the same, just click E and thats it, even for such a short game it felt quite tedious :/

The game would benefit greatly from some walking sounds and more ambient music, I think the current music kind of just does not fit, it feels way too dramatic and intense and kind of just desentesizes the player after awhile or even feels a lil goofy. Some weird drone ambiance sounds would make this games atmosphere so much more crushing and opressive!

That last voice line after beating the game is also delivered very well.

Good job and good luck on your future projects :D

Sorry for the late reply!

This is a really cool project, I don't understand the metaphores too much but the ambiance is very strong in this game, it has a very gloomy and melanholic feel to it, the art and the sound combined make for a very cool ambiance.

Gameplay wise, there is some really weird and badly placed colliders, especially on the rocky areas, some rocks look like they are a part of the foreground but are actually not collidable while others are? Moving while entering the doors is a small detail but still something that you would not see in a polished product. The last puzzle is kind of annoying with it just being a guessing game, it could maybe tie into some kind of metaphore , even if it is, I think it could have been executed much better and got the messege across much more efficiently, might just be on my end for not really understanding.

The arstyle, while really original and good has some inconsistencies and the biggiest one is unfortunatly on the most important asset, the main character. The little paper outline has very obvious pixelized edges that do not look consitent with the rest of the enviorment, it is a very small detail but sadly a little jarring.

Really good game, nearly everything is in the right place but its lacking in the tiny details that are easy to miss as a developer.

Good job :D

Nailed this one.

First of all, took me a tad bit to understand what to even do, it is quite a simple game but an explenation or a tutorial would have come in handy either way, it does not suffer that much from the lack of tutorial.

The gameplay is good, but the progression could have been way better.

The early game is filling up your shelves only to be demanded orders that you cannot finish at all (Ofcourse you can toss the order into the portal) but idk, I do not like the order system in the early part of the game and the way it was executed, later in the game it becomes much more functional and makes much more logic and is somewhat interesting, especially how fast the order time clicks lol.

But late game has its faults aswell cause the game becomes quite repetative, you could have added some really cool stacking upgrades or something, like being able to stack multiple books into your hand or maybe even a ceirtan element gives you more gold.

But my idea also goes against the game being split into 7 days which does not fit this game at all in my opinion, this would be a way better scaling / roguelike hybrid + the order system would deffinetly have much more sence if the game was "infinite" and scalabe type of thing, the idea is interesting and the possibilites with this approach would be endless! The difficulty does not even increase that much in the 7 days and I had no issue beating it in a single try, I also do not really understand what the instability thing does or is or what its purpouse is lol. The game does pick up pace well and the speed and stress become way more obvious later on but still, it just falls short of being really good but you were headed in the good direction.

I do like the art and sound effects, only missing sound is the gold falling effect which I think is really neat and satisfying already, but with sounds it would be an eargasm aswell lol

This critique feels a bit more opiniated cause I don't really know what this game is supose to be, is it supose to be a survival resource managing game, a chill experience, so I kind of just say what I would have personally done with the project :P

The game has charm and character but lacks an identity.

Good job either way, pretty impressive for a jam submission and good luck on your next projects, you got alot of potentional :D

Wow visually the most striking game and an EXTREMELY creative idea!

Top notch stuff!

I honestly don't have much to criticize about this game, I think the design is very tight and good.

Only thing that I do not like is the talking sound, its a really cool feature but it clips, not sure how you exported the audio but an ogg file and some inscript smoothing between the sounds will make it clip much less and make it alot more tolerable.

Its a very cool experience but the end of the game is a tad bit random, getting WASD controls for 3 seconds felt unecessary but it also subtly drives off developers intentions and makes the last part alot less predictable and hit harder which is both a con and a pro, deffinetly better than just a straight custcene thing but also there could have been way cooler ways to execute that steering of expectation.

Super short and fun experience, very much it's own thing as a game, its like a pseudo social experiment and I see this idea being executed sooo well and alot more expandable, but maybe not in the driving and seeing a bloddy knife guy way (The idea is not in any way bad, but I am not sure how you would expand upon it after the initial reveal), some kind of psychological thing like the game called qualia. 

Really cool and creative gimmick with a very dark ambiance. One of the best games I had the pleasure of playing so far this jam :D

The concept is interesting, the execution is not good...

There is no real tutorial besides the little help paragraph that does not really explain much, I could not beat level 1 for the life of me... the way the house is layed out is just super punishing with only 1 place to hide (closet), there is also no way to know how loud an action is exactly, I still dont really know how to get to the second floor while he is on it, I got it a couple of times but his detection system feels extremely weird and inconsistent. I guess I could beat the level but by going painfully slow, it kind of just becomes a waiting game which is not exactly fun... maybe even when entering a door, the human is on a staircase or hall so it has a small delay between going trough doors, currently the only way of beating the game is to just steal his toilet paper and wait lol, also I had no clue how to put down the weird crafted items, it seemed like a cool mechanic but yet again, nothing is really explained to the player :&

The camera transition between the demon and the human is just way too slow to serve any tactical purpouse, it takes so long that by the time you zoom out, you are left with just a guess and not a good imformation, I guess the "currently doing" thing is the more important mechanic, but then why have the human camera in the first place, a free cam or a minimap would have worked much better.

Altough the gameplay has some issues, especially the detection, I think the bigger problem is the level design, it does not compliment the games mechanics at all, maybe should have made 1 super well made and interesting map instead of 3 smaller maps?  Game mechanics might not even be that bad, just not explained at all?

The artstlye is really cool, I dont have many complains on that end, it pairs really well with the super weird and almost trippy audio, I really fw the music and art for the game, it feels quite deranged in a cool way , some of the shadows were quite strange but personally I found them quite charming and adding to the surreal feel of this game, maybe a bit more interactive sound effects to make the game feel a bit more interactive.

The only thing in the art that I do not like is the UI, it feels very off and is not consistent with the rest of the game, mostly cause the pixel sizes are not the same (the pixel filter?) and the UI just feels like its a slapped on jpg on a pixelart.

Overall, cool idea, cool aesthetic, bad readability and consistency

Good job and good luck with your next projects :D

Pretty cool level design!

Alot of begginer pixelartist make the mistake of having good sprites but no consistency at all, all of the games sprites look really good individualy but look very mistmached and off putting when put together, it looks like 3 artstyles at once, good tip would be to use Lospec for color palletes and sticking strictly to the color pallete, or when designing a charater to use the color pallette of the assets you use. Even more important is that every pixel is the same sizes, so all the sprite are imported at native size + no object scaling in the engine, another thing is that you always keep every object on the grid besides non static objecets so that the game retains that pixel perfect look that gives pixelart games its charm. Rules are made  to be broken but I think you have to learn the fundementals first cause pixelart can be a bit of a difficult art form at times and it takes quite alot of skill to execute very well :D.

The movement system is quite rudimentary and it lacks cayote jump (Being able to jump even after falling off a platform for a small time interval) and the pre jump... thing... forgot the name (clicking the jump button in the air makes it so that for a short time you will jump if you hit the ground), thease things are really important for any platformer really and are the core things why games like celeste feel so good and satisfying to play, the dash mechanic is quite well done but a tad bit too snappy, maybe the player should retain a little bit more momentum after the dash. There also seems to be a little delay between clicking a key and the character starting to move which does not ruin the game but makes it much less satisfying.

The sound effects and music were really good btw!

Overall, amazing job for your first game, my first game was way worse lol!