Holy nuts. This is stupid good for a jam game. No notes. You win.

ETA: I played this for about an hour.

Really great! I love the premise of the gold itself becoming evil. Monsters in RPG always drop gold, and this is the first time that has made sense! I think you nailed the pace of the progression. The sound and the art were both perfect for the Game Boy. Fantastic work!

Ah! I am in love with the concept. I am a huge fan of RPG's so this approach really was resonated with me. My favorite part, the pixels! The sprites, portraits, environment art, and music are were so well done! Great work on this!

Nice little incremental! Beautiful sprites and a very impressive amount for a 10 days jam!

SFX are well designed, we can ear wich attacks hits.

Overall nothing much to say, it's a great little game!

I will basically always play an incremental to completion hahaha

The art and music were both delightful! The SFX felt a little bit loud, but the animations and timing were all very clean and cute. I also liked all the characters! There wasn’t a lot of dialogue, but I liked what was there, and even without reading the additional info on the page, you could still glean their history from the banter. I have two main things to note:

The first is that while the health is shown as ints, it feels very obvious the game is doing decimal math in the background for damage and overall health, which ends up feeling a little stilted.

The other bit is just…. the autobattler bits end up feeling kind of long? I think if there was a bit more variety in the animations, or if you could end a run early if you knew you couldn’t beat any more monsters would make it feel a little bit snappy. That said, adding the “mend” option for the wizard near the end definitely felt like it added more variety for the auto battler, and I appreciated how many levels there were!

Disclaimer: I'd never played an autobattler in my life prior to this. Maybe that makes my perspective more interesting, though?

This was a very fun game once it clicked. It's a little slow to get started, but once you do you're going to be making a lot of decisions while building. For 10 days of GBJAM, that's very impressive!

The presentation is delightful, and combined with the gameplay really immerses you in the experience of playing a GB cart. I really like how some elements were used conservatively to great effect, such as the dithering in some backgrounds. 

As for the gameplay, coming into an autobattler like this there were about 3 things I felt like I missed from turn-based rpgs: criticals, different damage types (magic, projectile, etc.) and the resources (perks) to counter them, and perhaps, since this is a perk system, a few more "action" perks like the mage's Mend along the rest of the tree. Other than that, it was quite excellent in that I really felt like I was making progress in making my fighter a tank - a testament to the game being balanced.

Awesome game!

Lovely little incremental game you got here, I enjoyed unlocking almost the ranger as well! Overall the only bad thing I could say is that the upgrade menu to gameplay loop controls are a bit confusing at first, but once you understand that part it is smooth afk sailing!

Graphics wise the game has a charming look to it, love the black and white.

Sound and music wise sadly the two are way different in volume levels to each other, sfxs are just a smidge higher than what they should be.

Overall cool little incremental you have here!

Played through to the end after a long day. I'm not really the target audience, but the incremental games in this jam have given me interesting game design things to think about. I agree with most of the feedback here about what worked and what could be better, so I'll try to only add something new. 

I played while cleaning my room and vegging out. Used to wonder why not have more interactive stuff in idlers, but this time I would've appreciated it if some things were more optional or automatic. 

I agree partway with Duncan's comment about wanting auto-advance, but I still appreciated level select. For example, at the point you're able to clear the first level but too weak to make it far in the second level, it's still worth grinding from the start, and late game it's better to just spam the third level. An idea might be to auto-advance on a timer to the next level, and let the user optionally intercept the auto-advance to go to buy upgrades. It probably makes sense to require manual restart after death, I thought about what if it auto-restarted, but then the upgrades lose their allure if you can just AFK and come back and buy everything. Getting one or two upgrades at a time is really what makes the game fun IMO.

The other thing is about audio. It'd be nice to toggle music on/off but still hear coin collected SFX, in case you're just kinda playing on the side while listening to something else. Also the SFX was too loud compared to music (same in my game lol). 

An excellent game; I liked everything about it.

This was a lot of fun! I played to the end and then maxed out all the stats. You managed to adapt the incremental genre to the gameboy format in a very successful way.

The progression felt solid, sure a bit grindy in places but not at all annoying. A couple of small things I think would help with quality of life are being able to quickly tell at a glance which upgrades have been maxed out and also seeing your total gold during runs rather than it resetting to zero. 

It maybe would have been cool to have some kind of action you could do during runs, maybe something related to each character but I really enjoyed unlocking party members, well done!

Simple, straightforward, and addicting.   I liked that you didn't have to max absolutely *everything* out to win (but it helped!)  The Mage is an excellent support character, especially once he gets his heal, but the Archer seemed underpowered compared to the other two, with fewer HP and less damage than either of the others.  (Really, the Fighter was carrying the party; when he died, the other two *quickly* followed)

I'm also not sure what Quick March actually did, since movement doesn't seem to be an aspect of gameplay.  Unless it affects dodge rate?

But, generally, high marks all around.  I couldn't stop playing it until I was done. :D

Neat concept, that odd kind of simple grind that digs it’s claws into me for reasons I cannot explain.

Great work.

Interestingly addictive.

this game contains a well thought skill tree in a small package absolutely addictive and replay able

I think is the only idle game I have seen! Very addictive, I would like to see more content hehe.

This was a really fun, addictive gameplay loop! I'd legitimately just keep playing if there were more dungeons. I've also not seen an idle game for game boy so it's a really creative idea. Great job!

Extremely addictive gameplay! One feedback I can give is that I wish there was the option to either fast forward a run or quit in the middle of a run (not sure if this has been said already), although I'm not sure if that would defeat the purpose of the game. I found myself in a situation where i needed 3-4 runs for the next upgrade and just waiting for the runs. But still, great game, had a lot of fun with it :)

A great little game that overstayed its welcome :).  The start was pretty strong, I liked how after most of the first few runs I always had something I could spend my money on.  By the end I was doing 4-5 runs in the background without looking at the screen (luckily the controller A button still worked even if I couldn't see the game :D) between any interesting choices.  This could have probably been improved if either combat was noticeably faster (even at the beginning it felt a bit slow to me, though I don't generally play this kind of game) and/or there were more, smaller upgrades to spend on (at the risk of each upgrade not feeling like a noticeable improvement).  That being said, still very nice and impressively balanced for a jam game, nice job!  I liked the different areas and monsters and visuals, they were all good (though maybe a little parallax on the backgrounds would have been cool).  Music was nice.  All felt very Gameboy.

very captivating and I managed to win the game. Lovely graphics and good sound effects. I found the tech-tree well balanced, although in order to beat the first level, iirc, I ended up upgrading the fighter to the max. there is not much strategy you can use.

well done!