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The hand of Damocles's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Narrative | #3889 | 2.571 | 2.571 |
| Artwork | #3961 | 3.214 | 3.214 |
| Creativity | #4451 | 3.286 | 3.286 |
| Enjoyment | #6313 | 2.571 | 2.571 |
| Audio | #9119 | 1.643 | 1.643 |
Ranked from 14 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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Your very hasty rule is dictated by the countdown, it reaches zero and Damocles falls, but keep the masses happy and you might live a little longer.
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Good work, original take on the reigns style
The text is a bit hard to read at times, but the UI icons make it still quite easy to play even without reading everything. Nice concept! Would have loved to have some sounds.
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This is a really cool concept with a lot of style. I love seeing cards being used in games in interesting ways. As I get older I find fonts like this a little hard on the eyes. An option for something more standard may be nice as a togglable setting somewhere eventually. But what do I know, I'm old!
I really like the idea, i have played Reigns and this is honestly a WAY better idea then selecting just text options. please make a full version! i would love to play it!
Thanks for the feedback, I'm definetely planning on adding an "after jam version", where I can add stuff i didn't have time for like menus, sound, more polish, cards, and events. And a mechanic of major arcana cards, that would have special abilities, and could be flipped to gain a bonus for a cost. Just things to make the gameplay more interesting.
that sounds awsome! ill keep an eye out for your work and am looking forward to seeing V1
I haven't played Reigns, but i feel the options you choose are more pertinent to what the problems are. Here it seemed like I ignored the people and was just playing the symbols on the cards
Yeah, I spent some time thinking what way I could implement this since I didn't want to limit the player's choices. But I'm still thinking of a way to make the events more engaging, maybe if you play the same card type on an event type you could get some bonus? Still need to workshop this idea. Thanks for the feedback!
The font made it hard to read for me ^^'
Realy great Pixel Art btw!
Yeah, the font was a bit of a rushed choice😅.
Hello other Damocles ! lovely game you've got!
No way we got the same idea😂, need to go play yours, looks good!!