I jumped into the game when i saw Tron and Gibson but i hate to say that i really found the game overwhelming. I just couldn't get into it. After a few tries i figured out some of the things in the game but i still die suddenly without even knowing why. Game really seems to be interesting, i like the power ups. Like the radar. I first thought that there are random encounters but when radar power reveals enemies on the tile i realized it's not. I don't understand how exactly tracing works. CPU bar is progressing over time no matter what you do but i think if you hit an enemy tile, it speeds up and CPU spawns enemies when the bar reaches a certain point? The CPU bar occasionaly resets, i think it happens when you change a floor. 

I had a hard time navigating the maps in this game even after i got the compass. Minimap doesn't show player's location so you have to guess where you are by looking at minimap and the compass and we need to find all soul shards to beat the game. I kept running in circles looking for those shards and the level gating is done by the system i dislike the most. You have to keep going up and down to access an area of a floor. To make matters worst, the soul shards are spawned on random tile on each floor. I think HUD shows how many shards are left in a floor after you use a powerup but i'm not sure.

The combat is straightforward but interesting. The more you wait for the time bar to fill to press the attack button, the more damage you deal but enemy can hit you while you wait too. I didn't understand what peer means and those two number values represent when enemy hits you. You can't walk backwards. When i reach a section of layer 4 i start to rapidly lose HP and then i got into an enemy encounter which i died as soon as enemy hits me. I don't know what that was about but that was point i quit playing. I honestly gave at least 4-5 tries.

This was my genuine experience about the game but i appreciate the level of detail and cool design of the game. I think  Cyberpunk theme is hard to pull off in crawler games as much as it sounds cool. Your game definitely adds a nice variety to games in the jam and i thank you for submitting it!

Actually quite fun game to play!

I'm not sure having the map show all possible spawnpoints for the pickups is the right way here. I found myself have to go through all levels checking them again to find the ones I'd missed. But then I thought I needed them all to complete the game. I got to a point were the enemy got overloaded/powerful and I lost cause of that but with health and many upgrades. The mechanic of the addition to the computers stats I didn't understand. Sometimes they seemed to go up in the middle of the bar and sometimes when it was maxed and I changed floor.  Trying to change floor often leads to some back and fourth play where you have to get one upgrade run to teleporter just to reset the bar. If that is desired, bad or good I cant tell. But the gameplay feels forced to go in that direction. Teleporter to level 4 was really hard to find, so that might be one contributor to why it took me an hour to beat the game, along with the death and restart of course.

The mechanics with evolving computer was a super cool mechanics!

Thanks for a good game!

I think this game has a lot of cool things going on. Letting you be in charge of toggling on UI, I like very much.

I did like the very simple and flat graphics too. Well worked out.

I did have some issues though, I didn’t start systematically clearing all things per level as the game and instructions hinted me towards doing a little and running to next floor. The way the teleporter color and floor level color didn’t seem to have anything to do with each other, I assumed they were just in a fix sequence and that the color of the teleporter had no meaning. The map also had blue things that I don’t know what they were this made me even less prone to reflect on that you could actually determine where you were gonna go between levels for the longest time.

Which caused another problem, I probably missed some soul in some corner, but where I have no clue. I think I spent something like 10 minutes in the end without finding any new data or soul. And that, I think comes down to a bit of UX, maybe missing ability/program, but also level design / game design.

You have quite a lot of space that we need to crawl (also without strafing, increasing the number of button presses substantially) and that becomes a problem if you have to find all parts of the soul. Even though it makes sense that if the soul is fractured into 10 pieces that the player needs to find, that there be 10 pieces in the level. But I’d say it should probably be 12-15 pieces, and you just despawn the remaining or transition to the conclusion as soon as the last piece is found.

I did overall like my stay with the game, just wish I could have seen it to the end.

Play-through:

"The rogue AI has been defeated and the city is now safe."

The first time against the boss I activated the Soul item (among other ones) then realised that it had killed me so the second time I didn't and won. I got confused at first by the lack of item to pick on some item spots indicated on the map, not that's it's either a good or bad thing, just a loose note ;). 

I'm glad you suggested to try to figure out the hps of the enemies to kill them before they play (or play twice), I wouldn't have thought about it and I enjoyed doing just that.

The game is well rounded, everything fits together. It's fun to play, trying to remember what the items do and use only the worthy ones in the middle of the action because activating all of those anytime is bad, the combat system is fun, the difficulty is appropriate for a jam and the game ends with a satisfying boss fight.

Thanks for sharing!

Sneak is so powerful in this game. When I tried to fight the AI boss, I dodged it twice!

Very Tron and 868-HACK (complimentary). Overall, I had a lot of fun with this! I'm still not sure I understand what half the powerups do, but I know that Radar and Sneak are OP. I couldn't tell if I was just playing fast, or if there wasn't much of a downside to the CPU knowing your location. I could usually avoid most battles, and when I couldn't, my health regen would win out. Great entry though!