I saw the game on the stream, and I wanted to play it for myself. I think it is a great game, and finished it. My only suggestion would be to have the things you do at the start become automated more quickly. The snail is not doing that much and is very slow (although makes sense, since it is a snail). Eventually the player is juggling a lot of different things at the same time: Keeping their units alive, getting the black goo, using coins, spawning new units, looking at the battlefield. Of course, this is a matter of preference, but I felt like there were not enough moments to relax and just watch the warriors fight the monsters.

I really liked the concept of this one, and it felt really nice to play, although I wasn't a huge fan of needing to hold down right mouse for a bit before being able to use the punch. I get the idea behind it, but I think something about the way the interaction was visually indicated just didn't quite work for me. I also couldn't quite figure out what the wizard was for, it never seemed to do anything. I would love to have a little sound that plays when the level ends, and another sound that plays when you die, maybe paired with an additional graphic or animation. The difficulty picked up a little too quickly across the levels imo. I loved the sound design and all the interactions felt very juicy and generally seemed to give a lot of good feedback. Great job!

Lovely art and game feel on this one! And also quite addictive to play, great job :)

fantastic job! like others said the thing to revive units wasn't clear but i still loved the game, i was able to beat it even without reviving (a couple levels took me a few tries though). I thought the variation of different things being available or not available on different levels was great. I didn't love the snail though I feel like sometimes he would get stuck on the bottom of the screen, maybe he was trying to run towards a blob of goo that was just offscreen? Regardless one of the best games I've played from the jam!

I love the affordances in the design, such as merging the goos. I also love how intuitive it is when one input has multiple actions. It gives the game a sense of wonder "what happens if I try smash this thing?" Although the early game is quite a challenge, it feels fair and encourages you to try stuff!

Loved this game. It took me a while to realize I could click and hold to gather up the juice. You had me hooked until the end. Here's a playtest!

I loved all the details in this one.   The little fellas jumping when the level was completed; the fist attack having a wind-up, the attacks also moving around the collectibles, all great stuff.  I'm glad you took it further than the basics in level one.  When I saw that clerics were also an ally to have, I knew this was gonna be a treat. 

The art/music was great and fitting.

Overall, this certainty fits the jam's theme.

Nice work! This is great for a small team in only 2 weeks. I didn't realise I could shake the guys to revive them but apart from that I found the controls pretty intuitive

Got addicted in the first minute lol, very nice delicious audio and art

Clicking and dragging made sense pretty fast. The only thing that took me a minute was realizing I was supposed to smash the boxes open to let the people out. Once I figured that out, everything else clicked.

I really liked the tabletop characters being actual tabletop character roles. That was a fun idea, and they were easy to recognize. The music and sound worked really well too.

The only thing I kept fighting was the drop zones a bit. I think I kept aiming for the top of the goo jar, and sometimes the goo would just sit there instead of going in. Same with coins, sometimes I’d drop one toward the top of a machine and the machine above it would take it instead.

Also, a quick restart would be nice for when all your characters die, so you don’t have to just sit there and wait for the heart to die.

Good idea, really good execution, just needs a little cleanup around the interaction zones.

Really Awesome game, would have loved an indicator that showed up everything I picked up a dead unit, telling me to shake it until I had revived it  

The toons are cute and I feel they all tie well thematically. I liked the hands and the squishing of bugs and the blob dragging, that was all nice. The controls also were responsive, when I needed to grab a unit to save it, it was instant.

Not intuitive the healing part, especially the levels that there is no healing and you just have to wait to die if there is a mistake and you lose your unit.

Also the healer it was nice if she healed herself, but that's probably intentional so she only heals when healing others.

I'm not sure I like the scripted nature, that you need to buy the items in order, but it makes sense if we think of this game as a puzzle game, though usually I think of this more as a tower defense.

I was feeling like the game is extremely hard and then at level four I noticed that a blob disappeared when I was dragging a blob around xD

Apart from that, it was very intuitive and fun!

I wasn't actually queued your game for review but I thought it looked cute so i played it anyway! I love my pet snails <3

All the assets made looked amazing but I didn't feel it came together in a cohesive way. Maybe a well done background would have tied it all together. 

Gameplay was really good, but I found it quite hard. I couldn't work out how to heal my guys once they were downed. Not sure if you even could.

But overall a great game with lots of potential!

I really really enjoyed this, there is so much to this. You've found so many clever ways to explore the core mechanic, and there is a nice sense of discovery as levels progress and new tools get unlocked. The art looks good and everything feels great, and I like that the player's mode of attack is to frantically bash little enemies with a rock.

It was not at all clear to me that your warriors get delivered in breakable boxes that you need to open first, and I was nearly about to call it a day with the game when I couldn't figure that out - luckily I did eventually think to try that, and after that everything was verry intuitive. The combination of tougher enemies and little flies that you can harvest more gloop from is great.

Unfortunately level four completely beat me, the spiked enemies are in my opinion far far too difficult. They take your warriors out in seconds and I couldn't figure out a way to stop them from sending the spike. In that level, your only warriors are ranged as well, and getting a second takes far too many coins to obtain. With better balancing though, I think I would definitely have wanted to play all the way through and I'm sad in fact that I couldn't make it past such an early level to experience the rest. (I'd definitely be back to play a post-jam update if this was addressed!)

Overall fantastic job, the game design in this is wonderful and so charming.

One last thing I'd note is that the concept (haunted boardgame) didn't really come through to me. Perhaps I don't know enough boardgames that use little toy gatcha machines. I think more could be done to style the background like a boardgame, even if it's largely just around the edges, like a ring of boardgame tiles, or the faint indication of a playboard with the heart at its center.

Difficulty ramps up a bit too quick in my opinion, but the game feel and responsiveness are great!

Wow great little game! Love the innovative mechanics, the implementation of the hand smashing and picking up was excellent.

Agree with the other commenter that it became very difficult quickly and it felt like I needed an optimized usage of my coins to beat levels 2 and 3

Could definitely see myself buying something like this on Steam!