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!

I have a soft spot for NUMBER GO UP so I stuck with it till the end. I appreciated being able to get through without 100%'ing the tree.

I do feel like I ended up going the "wrong way" a bunch. I skipped on the Move node until I maxed out what was available, only to see that's how you get to the rest of the tree. I also didn't even unlock Mend until the end cause the Mage HP didn't bottleneck me until the very last pick.

Overall well done, appreciate getting to play another autobattler. :)

It got me hooked and I played to the end! The strategy component came together near the end for me, where I was targetting upgrades to maximize runs. Early on, felt a little bit like anything was good. I did fumble around trying to find the mage, and upgraded the fighter almost entirely while ignore the movement upgrade XD

Fun game!

Alrighty I don't know where to begin with this game. Initially, I wasn't expecting an autobattler. I thought I was doing something "wrong", especially given that my coin counter kept resetting. It wasn't until after a few loops that I realized that I was in fact, gaining money. Some of my buddies who were watching also noticed this. I thought I'd only stick around for about ten minutes, but here I am an hour later, having just finished it to the end.

The upgrades seemed whatever at first. Decided to go for pure attack first before expanding. I thought speed was useless, and then the wizard became an unlockable. I should've figured this guy would show up, but I thought he was cut content and only appeared on the banner. From there, I was hooked. I excitedly watched as my duo got stronger and killed more. Eventually, they were joined by an archer, which was tons of fun!

All in all, a VERY fun entry. I adored it. My only gripe is that walk speed is_very_ expensive. I was hoping that by unlocking the final tier, it'd unlock a secret new node, but that never came.

Anyway, great game! Beautiful sprite work and music. I adored it.^~^ 

Very well done! The spritework, animations, and especially the character portraits are great and very polished. I think having to select a dungeon and whether to continue after each is unnecessary. There's no strategic reason to not run every dungeon from the beginning or stop after any of them. There are things you could do to make these choices interesting, but in an idle game, you really only want to give the players interesting choices, so I would just take those out. It's a minor complaint though. This is a really great submission!

I absolutely LOVED this game. You really made an auto-battle/incremental game feel SO fulfilling. The art, music, attack effects, the palette, all combined to really encompass the gameboy soul. I would have loved to play this on my gameboy growing up. Great job!