GMTK Game Jam 2026

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Crushed to DebtView game page

Pay off your debt in this puzzle idler

Submitted by Psycho, Parazytee, monkiBrain, mbythestar, 02Zack — 2 hours, 7 minutes before the deadline

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Criteria	Rank	Score*	Raw Score
Narrative	#2282	2.967	2.967
Audio	#3299	3.033	3.033
Enjoyment	#3788	3.100	3.100
Artwork	#4019	3.200	3.200
Creativity	#4410	3.300	3.300

Ranked from 30 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?
You're trying to gradually pay off your student debt to finally live debt free

(Optional) Please credit all assets you've used
All assets, where created during the period of the jam, including the visual, the code and the music

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Comments

OnocentaurSubmitted44 days ago

50K student loan debt? Lucky. Was pleasantly surprised when the debt spiked up. That felt real.

Did run into a bug where one of my items became unclickable. It was stuck in the floating state but not attached to the mouse, but was taking up a spot on the board.

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ParazyteeDeveloper43 days ago

We’re canadians, so 50k seemed like a comical amount of student debt to us….

FinnGSubmitted44 days ago

Incremental games just scratch a particular itch in my brain, and so did this one. I liked the modifiers bonuses depending on structure placement. Well done!

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VityaSSubmitted45 days ago

It's an addictive game, but unfortunately, a bug occurred that prevented me from playing anymore! Despite that, the game is simply superb, and I wish you continued success!

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matt_neaveSubmitted45 days ago

Poor guy is always so close to cleaning the debt and then something happens haha. I really enjoyed the game, love the pop ups, loved that you also have to manage the grid and placement of the elements. I did ran into issues when placing objects it creates a random copy outside of the grid and they just vibe there, but it doesnt affect the game at all. I think would be great to have something for players to do in between just waiting (perhaps multiplier, or player click to earn money), and perhaps playing around more with the escalation curve. Great job on the game!!

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RekinSubmitted45 days ago

Cool incremental game! Kinda silly to get pop ups that I gained $10 when I'm racking millions 😂. Did run into a few issues like persistent "placedown" particles and floating buildings, but was still an enjoyable experience to leave on the side of my second monitor. Good game!

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Sebastian ScainiSubmitted45 days ago

I love a good idle game and the grid layout is really interesting!

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KingAJK30Submitted45 days ago

Dude this game is so fun. I played it for way too long. A fast forward button would be nice though

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MusabSubmitted46 days ago

The first incremental I came across in this jam. Managed to pay off my 50k debt. Then realised I had 500k more :(...

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Disco Gone Rogue

rBrink21Submitted46 days ago

Nice iteration on the idle genre, also fun to see a similar take on the theme!

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ajcodesstuffSubmitted46 days ago

The gameplay sometimes feels slow and unrewarding, but overall, it's a really solid game.

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Running LATE!!!

LawncoderSubmitted46 days ago

This is a really cool concept, I loved reading through the item description, seeing all of the jokes, but also realizing all of the different synergies. I think this really shows how the idle game formula can be improved upon so much. Ran into quite a few bugs where placing objects would "bug" out.

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Potions and Pitfalls: It's Time to Bring the Count Down

DarkbasicerSubmitted46 days ago

nice nice nice.

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Revenge Of The Neglected Cat

SwommySubmitted46 days ago

Nice solid game! The progression might be a little bit monotonous, but a solid base to increase the complexity

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Count goes Down and OUT

WillEMaccaSubmitted46 days ago

I got my great aunts debt! Really cool concept of a backpack builder+ see number get bigger. Kept me super engaged. The game did freeze up & crash when I started moving the booster packs around really fast.

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Orbital Microwave Pirate

ParazyteeDeveloper46 days ago

Its great to see people enjoying it. I’m sorry to hear about the crash, our devs will try to have a fixed version post jam. Thank you!

Chef GamesSubmitted46 days ago

The game is interesting, but I would like to see more action to make it more fun.

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THEY WILL DESCEND

linki6446 days ago(+2)

Debt? i can't hear you over the sound of my trillion dollars making nuclear plant operation.