Wow there is so much going on in this game. Art is super polished, animations are all great. Crisp gameplay. Really unique music and theme choice. Idk how you made this with 2 people, crazy!
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Junktail's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Artwork | #8 | 4.841 | 4.841 |
| Audio | #564 | 3.744 | 3.744 |
| Enjoyment | #887 | 3.805 | 3.805 |
| Creativity | #1040 | 4.012 | 4.012 |
| Narrative | #1508 | 3.244 | 3.244 |
Ranked from 82 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?
Junktail is built around a repeating countdown to sunset or an empty fuel tank. Your bike can only move with direct sunlight, giving you a limited window each day to collect scrap, deliver it, make as much profit as possible while growing your space beetle. Every decision costs precious time... in case your profits count down too far, you get FIRED… into the Sun!?
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Soundtrack by NeuralFold (https://neuralfold.bandcamp.com)
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BoldPixels Font by Yūki (@YukiPixels)
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Guilhim & NosbiGolem
Comments
insanely polished and with a really cute artstyle too :3
i can legit only think of small nitpicks like WASD not working for movement, and E not being usable for the dialouge popups, other that these it's perfect
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BRAINWIPE : CLEAN NETNice art, impressive number of mechanics! I'm not sure they are all necessary, but enjoyed it anyways. I'm always a supporter of maggot farming. Here's a playtest @00:01:51
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Unscheduled MaintenanceI played until my game bugged repairing a work station and I couldn't move anymore. I found it fun, but had a hard time understanding the grid system. Overall, I think it has a lot of potential as an incremental game.
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The Last RemainingI think this game succumbed to feature creep. There are so many different systems that don't seem to impact the game in a meaningful way. Day/night cycle, workers, roguelike progression, items-- any one of these could have made a good game but together they just interfere with each other. Even small things, such as needing to manually pick up fuel after the maggot dies-- it would have been a whole lot simpler if it just automatically refueled your ship. Everything was more complex than it needed to be for such a small game.
Don't get me wrong, there is a lot here that I like. The art is really clean and the juice is really well done. However, the game just has too much going on and fails to motivate me to keep playing.
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SundownFirst of all, and I know this is kind of hypocritical given my entry, but why are we still using the arrow keys as default controls in 2026? WASD has been in use for nearly three decades now.
There's a lot here that seems to have been developed with a different game in mind. A ton of bloat for what it ends up being. Given how short the game is (only needing a few days and a couple of workers) it seems odd there was a whole economy and worker placement affinity system constructed when it would have been the same game otherwise. Just have preset locations for the few workers you end up needing and remove the coins entirely since I didn't interact with them in any meaningful way. They're not a limitation and barely even a requirement, they just exist in the background. The main driving point could have been the stages of the beetle growth and it would have landed the same.
I'm not sure how to feel about this whole submission. Something just feels very wrong about it. A lot was done that didn't serve the game in any way and that's not typically how the priority or even time management structure works during a time limited game jam structure.
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All Wound Upvery creative with awesome art, good sound, and a nice gameplay loop. it was hard for me to stay engaged after a certain point because there wasn't much motivating me besides the number going up. Still, I admire the creativity and love when devs run with funky ideas.
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Going DownCute and original artwork; the gameplay loop is fast and intuitive right from the start, so nothing negative to say there :)
One suggestion: maybe add WASD controls for movement too? Otherwise, GG!
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Yume: The Last DreamI think that was my first 5/5’s all across the board – holy moly that was insanely good – such a simple but crafted game loop, really polished, minimalist and intuitive controls, and really stylish and fun characters.
The use of simple mechanics and clever upgrades that felt rewarding was really nicely balanced. It took me a while to figure out what kind of combos felt good and actually started earning me money, but once I did, I feel like I launched off like a rocket. I had a really good time trying to figure it out and barely breaking even but feeling like I WAS slowly making progress. Really interesting concept, cool use of the theme in counting down (bike count, time count, fuel count, day time count, countdown deliveries) etc. Very nice game. Nice job!
Also, these incremental games always get me but I wasted an hour more than I intended to playing this game, but I finally won :)
If I had to make one tiny nitpick it’s that I wish I could’ve used wasd to move as I’m terrible with the arrow keys and the control on wasd would’ve helped a lot.
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Monchums: Exact ZeroGame is very polished and actually pretty fun! One thing I would love to see changed is when the tutorial is popping up, I have to swap from keyboard to mouse, so maybe a "hold BUTTON for 2 seconds" instead of clicking "Okay" would keep a player a bit more engaged. Other than that, I really enjoyed the game!
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Hoardfall: The Vault Demands Its DueThe gameplay loop was not something I personally enjoy, but the game is very polished and looks great. A lot of content is there. Well done! A suggestion from my side would be to not give the player too many mechanics/choices at the start.
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Punch DownGreat stuff. didnt play till the end, but whats there looks great!
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Rituals of RlyehDefinitely a project to be proud of, even though there are some rough sides that I encountered towards the end. I recorded my review of your game, and hope you find it useful!
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30 Second Idle-GameThank you for the extensive review format! Quite insightful and helpful. You did encounter a major bug there - that lober crewmate was supposed to only have a 5% chance to complete an order when when placed in that grid cell. I really felt your confusion about a lot of concepts came from a lack of correct explanation and expectation setting. Once again, thank you!
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