Very complete game! It works well and the little talk with your crew after jumping are cool. Very solid entry! What's the screenshot on the game page? Space Hulk Editor?

There's a critical bug: when I have completed a few missions and then talk to the captain to I chart the course, the map resets to just right after the first mission. I did it twice, the second time was when just before the final mission, so I get discouraged from playing more. I checked it, when I go to the terminal directly, the map shows the right progress, then I talked to the captain, then I check the terminal again. The progress got reset.

That said, this is a cool game. The combat is cool but yes it's too long for the amount of variety in cards and enemies. The scrap and biomass rewards are too stingy so I never upgrade in the armory and medbay except at the start of the game with the default funds. The visuals and audio are on point, no comments there.

I like the Space Hulk style derelict ship exploring theme. I like our mother ship too. There's teleporter and stuff and you can jump between systems(that star chart looks like the one from FTL btw) cool Star Trek vibes, like the atmosphere and the worldbuilding.  The retro style graphics look nice. I espcially like the dithering effect. 

The deckbuilder combat is straight from StS, which i have beaten recently, so it was kinda strange for me to see that here :) But i like the implementation of it. New cards in the ship cost too much. I could buy only one in every 2 runs. Trashing cards are expensive too. You don't get too much scrap from runs. I don't get what biomass is for. You don't buy anything with it, i didn't see anything in the game that it is used. 

The emphasis on combat in the game is too much for me. If someone made a pie chart of things you do in the game, probably %80-%90 of that chart would be combat. There's almost no exploration and maps are very straightforward. Maps only serve as arenas to kill the monsters. The layout of each ship is different but they look identical otherwise. I wanted to beat the game but the frequency and number of combat burned me out at some point. I had to drop on the level before the last one. Game is pretty long too. I played it at least for an hour maybe more. Not only there is too many combat encounters, the time combat resolves  is not very short either. It felt really repetitive to me at some point.

I really admire you  for making this game with an engine you built from scratch. That's an achievement in itself. Some of the things in the game can be improved maybe but i enjoyed it overall. I'm always down for a Space Hulk/Star Trek kind of Sci-Fi crawler anyway :) 

I think I have to start by saying that the technical achievement is great. I love a homebrew engine and I did a 'sort-of' one last year, but it was just writing to a framebuffer on the CPU rather than a full rasterizer, so i'm finding this extremely impressive. I do wish that the view was pulled back a little bit, but aside from that, it's got some really incredible fundamentals to move forward with.

The art is obviously great, and despite coming from a few different places, all intregrates nicely together for a cohesive experience. As does the sound, UI and all that. Everything works together nicely.

For some reason there are dozens and dozens of card battlers in the jam this year, and your implementation of the is one of the best i've played across probably over a dozen with card systems. Sure there were some balancing issues, but i'd rather be able to cheese through a game in a reasonable time considering the amount to be played and rated.

On that note. I would say in the current position of the game, it's probably too long already for the content. I felt like I had seen almost everything after the second ship and by the time I killed the boss it was getting a little stale for me. This is almost certainly a symptom of it being a jam and not having the time to expand the systems / enemies etc for more variety, but in that case I would say there's no harm in a game being shorter and taking 20-30 minutes. I think my playthrough took just over an hour and that was without stopping to shop at all (perhaps I missed something really interesting there).

The movement controller felt great, and the 'choose your own journey' on the bridge was great, but I did wonder if it changed anything? As it seemed the ships all had broadly the same layout.

All in all this is really strong, from both a sytems, gameplay and technical standpoint, with strong art to back it up. My only critique would be the length, but I might be alone on that! Thank you.

I've obtained the first rare sample.

Overall the game is pretty fun. The exploration part feels great, choosing your plasytsyle by selecting a character is great. Combat is clear, controls perfectly and can be played as fast as you want with overall the right lethality or at least enemies which die at the right pace.

I really like the range system. After winning with an engineer I briefly tried a sniper to see the difference and how you're dealing with enemies with different attack ranges is actually different.

Stun card felt like cheating and I wish there were fewer but more threatening encounters. I think one thing I would have enjoyed is no Stun card but slightly cheaper card Trashing so that I could try to rely on Dashes and Melee weapons adding shield as trying to build that sort of deck was definitely the part of building my deck that I enjoyed the most, this one felt strong but fair as I needed to find the right balance between cards to move forward in the beginning of a fight (at least when enemies don't) and melee+defense cards not to take damage during the further turns.

Thanks for sharing!

I love the retro aesthetics of the game, along with the space ambience looping sound. This game is really solid overall. I love how you have these different levels and each one has hostiles and terminals you can attack using the cards you currently have. Each battle is unpredictable and that's what makes combat exciting when hands are randomized on each turn, well done.

The card battles are fun, the graphics are veerryyy good! I like that you made more galaxies than one. Controls are good, didn't understand the purpose of the mouse-strafe tho

I don´t really see much of the themes here. But the color scheme looks kinda retrofururistic. But anyway, the game was great. Very cool card battlesystem, escpecially the grid movement. I think it was easy to exploit, but that is fine in a jame. The sound was great, the movement was super snappy and smooth. Controls worked well. There was a bit of story, there were NPCs. Just a very complete package. And you made your on software renderer?! I wish we would have a way of rating the technical achievement. Well I think I will put that into the Visuals rating. Really liked this one!

Edit: What was the Biomass for? And the prices were to steep, I could by a couple of grenades, everything else was to expensive.

Game was a lot of fun and looks great too. The cards had a good amount of variety as well. Only bit of feedback is that it would have been nice to earn some more credits and biomass from the missions as I found it hard to really buy anything when back on your own ship (not that it matters I guess because you get showered in cards after every fight anyway) and it's a bit disorienting when you set a course and are then placed back at the teleporter area. I had some space quest vibes looking out the window of the space ship!

Absolutely love the visuals here the dithered rendering is gorgeous. Fun combat too, I got melee cards before movement so didn’t know what that was about at first but then after the movement it made sense, neat little twist to the combat that.

Great job all of you.