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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Artwork | #1192 | 3.964 | 3.964 |
| Creativity | #1820 | 3.836 | 3.836 |
| Narrative | #2932 | 2.800 | 2.800 |
| Enjoyment | #3068 | 3.255 | 3.255 |
| Audio | #3685 | 2.945 | 2.945 |
Ranked from 55 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?
Your items have a Shelf Life! Food will count down each day until it expires. Manage your inventory to gain money and pay your rent each week.
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The world is so fascinating! All of the items make me want to understand how they came to be! I really liked packing the items in the most efficient way, trying to find the combinations that worked best! Great work!
I really enjoyed this concept- I liked how it affords the chance to try sooo many different strategies and combinations. Loved the arts style and palette so much! Great job!
This is such a fun game with an amazing concept. I really love the art style.
Drink meta!
Great game, i have no notes other than maybe an outline where the item is going to be placed, i had a little bit of trouble with the bigger items snapping to places i didn't expect.
Expiration dates was not an idea i have seen or had, so very creative. Art and music was top notch. Overall a great submission. Awesome job!
Fun little economic puzzle! Not super tightly knit to the theme, but I had a blast playing it. Great job!
If you have a minute, I'd really apprecaite if you'd take a second to check out our game and give it a rate as well :)
Also I managed to do this :P
Nice looking game! Grid underlay would really help to play :)
Interesting game idea that I would have NEVER thought of from the theme of countdown but somehow you have, this is really cool and i really like the art as well as the silly selection of items xd, really good game :>
Fun game, Maybe If I have an Indicator/Grid Like view in the shelf I'd feel better and know where to put. Still Enjoy it Love.
This was a fun one, and a great take on the theme! I agree with a lot of the other comments, currently the game is a little bit too buggy to reach its full potential. I personally had this happen (I choose to call it the Infinitest Sausage) which was funny, but other times mostly frustrating. At one point my tooltip also bugged out, and wouldn’t show me what the items in the shop did, which was also an issue.
Overall though, despite the issues, I enjoyed it a lot!
I like the idea! I think the overall theme of using food expiry dates as countdowns is nice, and the art is pretty good :D
Thank you for playing!
This has so much potential, I hope you'll continue working on it. I really enjoyed the puzzle overall, it was hard but quite rewarding. Only the UI was a bit of a hassle to deal with some elements overlapped/"fell off the screen! or weren't displayed properly (wrong discriptions for items). With some readability tweaks this could really shine! I had a great time already <3
Thanks for the kind works! And great suggestions. Based on feedback that's where we would start too if we continue!
I played for waaay to long... My best was 304 though, by stocking up on Lightning Jars and Honey, never got to 500... Probably a skill issue lol
We're glad you gave our game some of your time! Thank you for playing!
This is really good and I'm really bad at it! Loved it
Thanks for playing!
Great concept and well executed! Could benefit from a bit more work on the UI like showing price and time left without needing to hover over the items.
Great suggestion! If we continue the project we're definitely starting there
Really clever idea. I'm really bad at this game, but it seems pretty cool.
Thank you very much!
What a great take on the theme! Enjoying playing it, art assets were nice as well. Hope you develop it further, congrats on completing the game jam!
Much appreciated, congrats as well!
Congratulations for your submission! I think you should show the grid space each item takes while dragging them in the freezer. Interesting concept. Good job!
Thanks for the feedback! We agree :) if we continue working on this we definitely will or maybe have the item highlight where it will drop! Thanks for playing!
oooh this was a very fun take on the theme! really enjoyable experience:))
Thank you for playing!
Fun idea and very nice art
I do think the difficulty should get adjusted because it can be very hard to get a run going, 500$ is very rough for the first week
There are also super expensive items that can appear that you simply can't buy which can feel frustrating (though I do understand that you need to make the player aware of them so that's its own issue)
I think with additional balancing and mechanics this could be really fun!
Thank you for the feedback and playing! We agree for sure! Balancing came up pretty late for us in development unfortunately and we would have liked to do more iterations there. Hopefully we can if we decide to build this out!
Interesting game! i love stacking the items!
That's gratifying to hear! Thank you for playing!