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Off With Their Heads!'s itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Narrative | #1722 | 3.157 | 3.600 |
| Artwork | #4170 | 3.157 | 3.600 |
| Creativity | #4635 | 3.245 | 3.700 |
| Audio | #4839 | 2.719 | 3.100 |
| Enjoyment | #6046 | 2.631 | 3.000 |
Ranked from 10 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does your game fit the theme?
We're counting down the years as advisor to the Monarch, and monarchs as they get beheaded by the revolting people.
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Royalty-free audio from various sources.
Two free stock drawings for backgrounds.
See description for full credits.
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Very creative use of the theme, and the hand drawn sprites are lovely! Nice job!
I reaaaaaally love this one!! advising unruly, awful rulers is such a fun concept for a game, and your writing is so full of charm and anti-authority snark hahaha
My only critiques would be that there should be a way to advance time a bit faster. each event steps forward after a few seconds, but I think it'd be much more fun if you could keep it moving by clicking to the next event, or something like that! And I also wish there were more opportunities to change the laws. I got stuck with some bad options from the very start and got stuck in a spiral of having no medicine or fabric, and no trades or opportunities popped up to get any fabric at all in two whole reigns.
This is so so fun though, I would really love to see more!
What an interesting take on the theme. Felt a bit like a chaotic and face-paced Civilization, with a lot more beheadings.
Game got stuck for me a couple of times after picking cards. But other than the expected jam game bugs it was a lot of fun and very different from the others I have played.
I like the overall idea, it's a fun twist on the resource management genre. I feel like having more events per year, like 2 or 3 would make it more fun as it felt like I would lack a resource and have to wait to long to have the choice to replenish it. Great work on your game!
Also I just realized, count down, pretty fun twist on the theme :)
I love the concept of being the advisor to a bad monarch, with the countdown being the length of time until the monarch is beheaded. The text did glitch out occasionally and the cards sometimes took a while to show up, but those were the only bugs I really encountered. The art style was cartoony and consistent, and the implementation of the materials being drained by the monarch is a fun challenge, especially given that resource management games rely on unforeseen challenges. I also love the character names. Long live Queen Leonie, Lecherous Queen of the Dagger Kingdom!
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