Its a very fun game, but its hard to understand the controls.
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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Enjoyment | #2059 | 3.480 | 3.480 |
| Audio | #2469 | 3.200 | 3.200 |
| Artwork | #2955 | 3.440 | 3.440 |
| Creativity | #3689 | 3.440 | 3.440 |
| Narrative | #6659 | 2.080 | 2.080 |
Ranked from 25 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?
Time is your health. A constant countdown ticks toward zero, and the only way to survive is to steal time from enemies by defeating them or collect coins to gain extra seconds.
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Feels unfair to rate this since I could not figure out how to jump and therefore play the game. When I played singleplayer, I could control my guy with the arrow keys perfectly fine, and the controls say L is to jump, yet L does nothing. Sad because the music and art are great.
I love the CO-OP spin on the theme, with multiple people bonking eachother's heads for time/points. Sounds and animations were really nice and polished. Only very minor issue was not knowing who was who.
Nice little game.
That jump smoke cloud is *chef kiss*. and the audio is so clean.
Great concept having a timer be health, having a "pve" and "pvp" element to gain time was nice to see in a jam game, i love a bit of local multiplayer. Very nice and well rounded game for a jam. Great job!
Cool game, i love it when game jams also include 2 player. And I can see this game being suuper fun with friends. Tying the life of the player to a count down is a clever way to create urgency. The ai was kinda kicking my butt, until i realized i can grab the coins and jump on the standing enemies too. Good job!
The concept is so Good , i really like the awesome art style of the game and the way the theme is use is damn good overall a great submission
By the way, if possible then could you try my game
Wow I liked this game a lot! The movement took some getting used to, but I always enjoy a 2d platformer.
The AI was quite good! I even briefly wondered if it was human players since they played so well. I thought this is a great use of the "health is counting down on a timer" mechanic - fighting with your friends like two monkeys in a phonebooth lends itself really well to fighting for a limited resource.
I liked the coins and the enemies, but they didn't respawn after the first round! It would have kept the gameplay fresh. I assume that's a bug. More NPC enemy variety would have made it more fun. I unfortunately didn't get a chance to play test with another human - also not sure how well it would work on my keyboard since multi keyboard use is limited by the key rollover which is usually quite low. But I love the concept and could see this being a fun couch game to play with a controller with friends.
Thank you so much for playing and for the great review.
Huge compliment on the AI too! It’s awesome to hear it felt smart enough to pass as a real player—that definitely made my day.
And good spot on the coins and enemies not respawning after round one. That is definitely a bug on my list to fix! You're totally right about keyboard rollover issues too—proper controller support and more enemy types are high on my list for future updates to make couch co-op feel smooth.
Such a cute and well-made game. The countdown is integrated very thoughtfully. The map also really reminds me of Super Crate Box.
The in-air jump mechanics are a bit stiff, but other than that, gj! Good submission.
A veery good game . the Idea is also very creative making the time your health . the enemies don't mess around though
Almost addictive gameplay with great controls. AI seemed to shift from cuthroat to "bouncing in corner repeatedly" a little randomly, but played far more screens of it than I was expecting to.
Really fun! The controls are clean and the gameplay is engaging. This would be really fun with friends! Love the silly voice-acting too lol
Very interesting concept. It has a good cat and mouse chase when you have the higher timer, and it was good that it had a single player mode, although the bots destroyed me a couple of times





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