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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Creativity | #1658 | 3.869 | 3.869 |
| Enjoyment | #3552 | 3.148 | 3.148 |
| Audio | #4912 | 2.705 | 2.705 |
| Artwork | #6983 | 2.508 | 2.508 |
| Narrative | #7818 | 1.885 | 1.885 |
Ranked from 61 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 player presses on numbers and makes them go down.
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Full credits in-game.
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This is such a fun idea. The part where you're selecting a stat to reduce is a great idea very creative!
Thanks!
Very happy that you've liked the concept :DD
Creative idea and works well with the roguelike genre!
Thank you!
Interesting idea for a roguelike! I like decreasing number on enemies, and there's a good amount of choices to do on the world map. I maybe would've liked more variety in battle, since every fight was played with the same strategy and similar enemies. But it was a good concept to pull out in 4 days!
Here's the VOD (game is at 3:04:00)
Thanks for checking out the game!
Updates with more content & variety are WIP and will be coming :D
Combat music really got me really engaged :D
Nice use of the countdown
Thanks for checking it out!
Dan did an amazing job with the tracks and it was very cool of him to let me use them :D
Cool SFX and combat control! The game was really fun overall. Good luck for the jam :)
Thank you!
Yo. This game mechanic is really clever and it’s pretty neat how you can “break” the game in a lot of ways. Especially once you have max negative power.
Thank you for checking the game out, glad you like the idea! :D
So many cool takes on the theme and this is no exception! Loved the “Slay the Spire” map, great game!
Happy that you've enjoyed the game, thanks for trying it out! :D
Very meaningful, fun little game, I loved how much impact you had on the combat. I think like we discussed main feedback is adding more ways for the player to succeed and break the boundaries you've set.
Thanks for checking it out and giving feedback!
One of my favorite games from this jam so far!
That's very nice to hear, thank you very much! <3
Loved the simplicity of this game, this experimental stuff is why I love game jams. Well done!
Thank you!
Super cool but I don't know if I was just bad but it really felt like the difficulty scaled way too quickly. The enemies would get powerful way more quickly than I could. Also it took me a while to figure out the main mechanic, although I'll admit it's a super cool mechanic and creates some really interesting decisions, although once you figure out the best decisions to make there's not much in it. A great foundation which potential, keep it up!
Thanks for checking out the game!
Nope, it was definitely not a case of you being bad, the game just isn't balanced in it's current state D:
One feature that helps combat this issue, is the ability to reduce how many enemies there are in the combat encounters. But since it's intentionally not made obvious that you can do that, it can be easy to miss :D
I plan on expanding on the idea and hopefully reach its full potential!
Fantastic game! I really struggled to get to the boss, but i very much enjoyed every second of it. On the first try i accidentally kept using the negative power on my on skills haha :-)
Thank you, very happy that it was an enjoyable experience!
Sorry about the non existent game balancing ;-; this will be addressed with future updates :D
Yeah, I keep seeing that this seems to be the first instinct for many people, I hope that adding a tutorial will help clear up the confusion!
This is such an amazing take on the theme. Amazing concept, beautifully executed. The mechanics is very easy to pick up but it introduces so much depth. The art and the player onboarding could be worked on, and then with some more polish, I can see a release. Good sound design too. Great work!
Thank you!
I'll make sure to replace the placeholder art and just overall update the game :D
This game has a lot of potential, alot can be done, and alot can be added. Please keep working on the game, you have a good concept here. Enjoyed it bunch <3
Thank you for checking out the game, happy that you've enjoyed it!
I'll certainly keep working on it :D
This looks really fun! I can't seem to get the web build to show up properly, though: It looks like it might be oversized on the Itch page? I'll try again later on my larger monitor!
Thank you for the feedback!
I have changed the viewport dimensions to be smaller and I hope this fixes your issue!
Hope you'll have fun with the game if you try it again :D
SLAY THE POOP WHO!!!! WE PLAY NEGATIVE POWER BABY!!!
In all seriousness I would love a full/polished release, this is super rad, keep making games!
Thank you for checking it out!
Polished release is certainly coming! And perhaps a full release at some point :D
It's a very unique concept, but I felt like the best move was pretty much always to reduce enemy attack damage and lots of the fights felt very similar.
Thank you for trying the game out and giving feedback!
You're completely right about that, the combats are currently leaning a bit too much towards the "reducing attack" strat. I will address this with future updates!
This is insane you made it in 4 days, really interesting concept, This thing has got a lot of replayability.
Thank you!
It's pretty crazy how much more productive I can be with the excitement that this game jam gave me. Learnt something new about myself lmao
I recommend checking out the game once more in a week or two as it'll have more content! :D
The theme idea is really unique. I would've loved a few hand crafted combats, rather than creating a lot of random but really similar.
Thank you for checking out the game and giving feedback!
Yup, hand crafted combats would definitely be something I'd love to add. Will have to think about how to make it so that it merges well with the concept of reducing amount of enemies in combat :D
At the very least, there'll be a boss hand crafted combat but will see about cooking up some others.
I think this is one of the few itch games I'd replay still
Thank you for trying it out, that's great to hear!
I would recommend checking back in a week or two at most, as by that time I would have also implemented all the content that got cut due to time constraints :D