Very smart game, good entry!

I love your art style and very unique game !!

I liked the basic premise of this one; Mastermind but with more interesting hints. I feel like there's some knobs to tweak to make this one a bit easier to solve within the limit (that's a lot of symbols to eliminate!). The theme is also fun.

Woo! Managed to (just barely) guess the code during my first run. I think this was the fist jam game I've tried so far that didn't use a live timer. Good idea to instead use the countdown as a kind of "currency" that you can choose to use to obtain more information about the solution.

The start was a bit confusing, but eventually figured out what I was doing. Really wish there was a way to view previous history, in the end my strategy ended being the 1/3 info, + just remembering which symbols belonged where and brute forcing.

Got it with two days to spare, though I will say it was kinda unintuitive to figure out, especially at the start. I had to frequently re-read the description before I figured out what I was doing, and everything could use a lil more visual feedback to help in figuring out what's going on, plus a bit of tutorial would be very nice. That said, god was it satisfying to figure out eventually. I really like having to decide on throwing away a day for a guess to confirm, or spending fractions of days for the smaller, still revealing boosts. It's a damn good concept and really good game, once you get the hang of it.

I like the concept a lot, of having a GIANT board of symbols to play alien wordle and have lots of powers to help you along the way. I think a bunch of UI cleanup would help it feel smoother (for example having a way of seeing your guess history) and maybe it would work to reveal whether a symbol was near a correct symbol? Idk that might break the balance

The idea was very unique! I liked it, the game was a bit difficult but the hints were nice and I liked the memes lol. Congrats on submission!

I enjoyed this game a lot more than I thought I would! On my first playthrough I didn't notice the powerups you could buy until I was more than halfway through (somehow I still won and got 630 points). My one complaint was mostly just ui stuff, like the inability to click, etc. I also think it could have been nice to deselect correct symbols so I could test more, but this also adds to the difficulty, so maybe it's good as it is! Great work with this game!

I am very happy to have completed the game with 420 points! XD
This is an interesting decoding game that incorporates elements of skills into the classic gameplay, making players' choices more diverse.
My game strategy is to buy a large number of skills first and then slowly decode, and I also bought multiple tools with a 1-in-3 skill. Isn't that skill a bit too powerful XD

Oh my stars! What a charming code-cracking game. I cracked the code on my second playthrough so I got to see both endings. I had a good time with it, and I appreciate that it brought a little bit of fun narrative and humor to a puzzle game. Here are my playtest notes in case you decide to make a post-jam release:

-More visual feedback for symbols you get wrong. Since naturally my first several guesses had no correct symbols, I couldn’t tell whether the console was doing anything. 

-Recommend adding audio feedback for correct and incorrect solutions. The instant feedback would help alleviate potential confusion, and it would add the little bit of “juice” that makes the feeling of guessing correctly feel really good.

-When I used the Intelligence Action that would highlight 3 (with one being a symbol in the sequence), the highlighted square covered up the actual symbol 

-In the Intelligence Action that let me pick a column, I would have liked to be able to reference the board to choose but the popup that let me pick blocked it.

-For green and locked, the instructions say “why would you want to move a correct symbol”. But after I got a few green + locked, I had fewer slots to test and eliminate additional symbols. It could add a small strategic choice to let players not have them take up a slot.

-Consider adding the ability to click symbols to add them to the console

Really unique take on the theme! 

This scratched some itch in my brain I didn't know I had. I really enjoyed getting to decode the language and I liked how you used clues as a way to manage resources and also correlate to the theme. Great game ^^

This game was really fun once I got the hang of it. It was satisfying to decode the message and decide whether to guess or use intel. The balance was a bit off since rng meant the odds of a symbol being in a row or column were relatively low. Stuff guaranteed to reveal something in the solution, like Theorist Theory, were really strong in comparison. Despite that, it was fun figuring out a strategy. For what I didn't like, a tutorial could've helped telling you how guessing worked, and I didn't like that your row/column got reset when you added a symbol. My best score was 690.

difficult, I like games like this though

Very nice. I liked how the tips give diferent hints. But I wish there was mouse input