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A jam submission

Down With the Rat KingView game page

Roguelike Deckbuilder - But you count down your cards. Made for the GMTK Game Jam 2026
Submitted by Creabit — 54 minutes, 46 seconds before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Artwork#9744.0564.056
Creativity#20823.7783.778
Enjoyment#24513.3893.389
Narrative#28132.8332.833
Audio#31643.0563.056

Ranked from 18 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?
The game is built around using cards in a descending order

(Optional) Please credit all assets you've used
The font used in game was Architects Daughter: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Architects+Daughter

(Optional) What would you like to be called if GMTK features your game?
Team Ollie

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Comments

so tuff

Submitted

The art is really good and the synergies between cards were really well crafted.  I felt like there was a bit of information overload from the beginning but I'm just dumb - great game!

Developer(+1)

Thanks!
We ended up being a bit tight on time so we didnt manage to finish a tutorial, its definitely not on you. I would have liked to add a few more things to help explain what is going on to the player but some of the features were added last second

Submitted

Nice game! I love the artstyle and the music is a vibe, plus it feels really well polished.

Submitted

What a lovely game :) The art is outstanding, the vibes are great, the gameplay took me a few minutes to figure out but once I did, I felt really clever playing my cards in the optimal orders and whatnot. There are of course some small issues like the music not looping and whatnot but like, it's a game jam, the fact that you made this in this short of a time is so cool. Very well done!

Developer

Thanks for playing, We're glad you enjoyed it!

Submitted

Pretty nice game!!

The rules can be a little card to understand if you are new to this type of game but other than that the game feels balanced and smooth.

Only issue I found was the music sometimes not looping and the game therefore remaining silent.

Also, the visuals and music are great!

Developer(+1)

We're glad you enjoyed it!

We sadly didn't have time to fix the music looping and a few other small things so they got left in, I hope it wasn't too annoying during the longer battles

Thanks a lot for playing

Submitted

Such a fun game. It made me really use my brain and plan a lot. Once it’s polished, it'll be amazing. The visuals turned out great though.

Submitted

I like that art style, but yep as other said, the description should be white font on dark background, it s almost impossible to read. easy fix.

Developer (1 edit) (+1)

Thanks for playing, the descriptions are definitely unclear, im not sure how we missed that. We really appreciate the feedback

(+1)

like another review, could use some readability improvement. but also score boosted for the fact you actually let me change the volume so it doesn't break my ears.

Submitted

Crazy? i was crazy once, they locked me in a room, a rubber room, a rubber room with rats, and rats make me crazy

Submitted

It's a little hard to read the cards' descriptions, but other than that the game feels really good and balanced, it really got me playing for a while :) Great job

Developer(+1)

Thanks a lot for the feedback, we're glad you enjoyed it - we had a blast making it.