bro this game lowk sick i played for like 2 hours and i really like the exploration and humor like why is walking called legging lol. but i do think that the progression is a little too grindy. maybe its just me cause i prefer the exploration but i also like progression, but i stopped playing once i got to the third floor and saw it was 1000 for the next lighthouse upgrade and i was like bro ts too much.

i think it would be nice to have an option to hold to mine stuff as well. something cool is that you can cut trees to a certain height and make a staircase basically. you could use that for a puzzle or something but you’d have to have a way to reset it if you cut too much of the tree.

i thought it was cool how you could fight npcs like a souls game, however i fought the apple guy and for a minute i thought i was locked out of his upgrades. i did check back and it was unlocked which was nice, but maybe like give a slight hint with the apple like you did with the guy at the forge. cause he says like you should cool off for a bit, but i think the apple guy should say something like “you should leave for a while pal” just for clarity

i like how everything is pretty vague and there isn’t like a big tutorial or anything it makes the games aesthetic cooler. i cant wait for future updates though cause i really liked this, in the future i wanna make a 3d exploration game like this. another thing is that the first floor is kind of empty, i only found two items of interest (the tree with apples and the chest with a bunch of trees (why were there so many trees lol)). also i found a pretty big glitch, ill put it in the bugs and problems section.

I just finished playing, and overall it's a very enjoyable time. the exploration is fun and the night time gimmick is creepy & interesting, but the grinding sure takes a long time, sometimes too long of a time. What makes it extra long is that I don't know what the upgrade does prior to getting it, so there are a ton of good upgrades that I skipped because I didn't think they're all that good for the price. I would love it if the shopkeepers tells you what the upgrade actually does, bonus points if they give detailed information like "+50% Breaking Efficiency" or something like that.

Second thing, I think it would be great if you implement some automation & batch processing. while you are grinding resources on one level, the bot is gathering resources at another level. It doesn't have to be bot heavy, just 3 bot (1 type for each resources) for each level would help a lot since it reduces the need to backtrack multiple times. you could also add this to the processing part that will automatically process resources like microplastic or sand and such, that way you can grind while waiting for your stuff to be process. alternatively, if you don't want a bot for that, you could have batch upgrade that lets you process a large batch at the same time instead of needing to process like 1000 microplastic at a rate of 10 every 3-4 seconds (it takes 2 hit minimum and sometimes it doesn't activate even when hit because the ball hasn't settle yet)

I like all the levels, though a minor problem I have is that the 3rd floor becomes quite annoying to traverse once you gather the resources near the lighthouse. I just end up using the unstuck button to quickly get back to the lighthouse because of how far everything became. I would like it if the size gets reduced a bit or if you could add some kind of reset button that would respawn the resources back.

Also, speaking of respawning resources back, I can't complete the card collection. excluding the fog, I'm missing 1 card from the forest which I guess is either the apple or the apple tree, but I couldn't look at the apple and the tree I've accidentally cut down before I could look at it and it won't respawn, so I'm stuck there.

These are the things that I personally find annoying in the game while playing through it, other than that it's a super fun game and something I would love to play again once it's fully released.

A TL;DR: Add automation, reduce 3rd area size, add resource respawn mechanism. please and thank you <3

I don't mind a good grind.

I think the enjoyment of the incremental is the feeling of past experience leading to allowing you to do more intensive activities which once seemed impossible.

I'm sure I remember a creepy-pasta based on SCP-934.. (might have been erased from the collection owing to how 'story-like' it was at the time) This game in the early stages reminds me of that situation. As such, I played this game working from a bunch of narrative expectations. Namely, how I chopped a LOT of wood early on in case the game gives you a trollish 'oopsy -- the evil entities are at the door and you're out of emergency firewood' experience. So I gathered enough logs that automatically piled together to half the height of the lighthouse itself. In the process, the game continued to stutter as the physics of the emergency pile levitated into the air (as it bumped against the trees). I cannot file this under 'bug' because no dev can anticipate every stupid action of the player.

Suffice to say though that I felt the lag affect me even when I was in the Terrarium world. My stupid choice led to an outcome I could not control; with there being no other way of anticipating the repercussions.

A suggestion:

Have some NPC agent available at each furnace who will 'keep the flame' (once the minimum resource pool requirements has been met) so the player doesn't need to feel fearful of a furnace going out unattended. That way if you ARE going to add complications to the story, you can drip-feed clues to them that a furnace worker might end up tricked by bob at a key time. Letting the player know to check the situation. 

What we have at the moment is a furnace that says 'ON'. once the limit is met. What happens before we reach that limit? It keeps counting down. The player is incentivized to manage a game world where the danger closes in on them but there is no wood available to feed the flames. The solution to the puzzle in that case is to hand-chop trees as close to the darkness as possible so all wood closest to the lighthouse remains available.

It's hard to know under what circumstance that 'ON' might toggle back to a number again. That persistent fear leads to over-harvesting by a cautious player.

... ok, I hope you understand what I'm getting at.

Despite the 'simple' geometry, I can see a fair amount of attention to detail is part of this development.

Love the game. I recall playing it back when it was "Out of Light" many many months ago (felt like it was years ago by now.) Completed my collection of cards, crafted my shop upgrades and tool upgrades, filling up my inventory of each item, and leveling my skills... now if only I could feed my exorbitant supply of items to the lighthouse somehow.

Does this game run well on low end devices? because i want to play this on my piece of ewaste lol

Excellent game so far!

• Top notch aesthetics (graphics style, level design, HUD)
• Nice progression
• Many interesting original mechanics / upgrades

Notes:

• Processing skill description claims it improves efficiency but not in any way I noticed except speed (which is mentioned separately), conversion rate and quantity stays fixed (10:1 or 1:10) as levels increase
• At the processors, you can do a "big insert" which doesn't seem to do much
• Processing is probably the weakest mechanic currently (mashing / holding a button and doing nothing else)
• Hidden-floating-point item quantities were sometimes confusing - if a vendor requested 260 sand, sometimes making exactly 260 sand was not sufficient
• At some point I managed to turn on the light a bit without clearing shiny objects, but couldn't reproduce this again
• Haven't found the second "fog" card or even what it is about, not sure I ever encountered it at all
• Haven't found a use for clapping but appreciate the feature either way
• The first time I lost all HP I thought the light part of the right side of the health bar was a crack (to indicate max HP was reduced, like is Hollow Knight etc.) but it's actually a spinning gear in the background

do not change a thing

hi, i finished all the game (including buy all the items, find all the card, also all the leggendary one), i want to ask you how can i save a local copy of my game save? Unfortunately i played here on browser, and with out account. For the recommendation, i suggest you to introduce more mechanics, besides just making new flors, because after a few floor, it feel ripetitive.  I think that is a good idea to introduce the mechanic that you can produce the decomposed material starting from looting, even with the big action's one (big chopping, big smaking, etc...) because using the smith's machinery feel boring. I hope you'll introduce a lots more mechanics and add all the zone closed from now in the v 0.8. In conclusion i say that is a good game, good job.

what r all the cards for world

I cant find the last card in forest

I found the treehouse and bunker

rly fun game btw could spend hours absorbed on this

how do I use climbing gloves

what sthe second card for terarium

Game is pretty fun and I found it nice to just brainlessly grinding and exploring but.. I cant find the resource uncommon cube I don't know whether you have to use the compactor or expander or even find it. I've unlocked the fourth floor but deliberately held back to try to find, without success. It's very confusing (to me at least). 

I super enjoyed this. I didn't expect to play the whole thing but I did over the course of a couple days. I have some nit-picky things to mention and then a bigger thing I noticed. Starting with the small stuff:

• The pickup you get from the puzzle in the terrarium is kinda annoying, and I imagine I would have wanted it disabled if I had gotten it early on in my play through.

• It's confusing trying to go down back to a previous level since I could never really figure out which way the lever had to be flipped to let me descend the stairs. They would be blocked off and I could never figure out what position to flip it.

• I was able to get into the storage area using the bamboo set of tools, which the game made it seem I wasn't supposed to be able to do because I kept getting the dialogue box that mentioned using a different or better tool.

• When you ascend the stairs after just unlocking a new level, the window on that new level will show the old level outside. This might be intention but it didn't feel like it.

• You can climb the buildings in the city and jump down into the top of the lighthouse. Not that there's much there since the game is still in development, but I figured this sort of spoils any mystery or surprise about "what is up there"

• Adding rewards/upgrades that effect the resource collecting mechanics to the "oddities" and weird areas in levels would have encouraged me to look around and explore more, particularly in the early game. If I had found something in the tree house that made my axe swing just a tiny bit faster or something like that, I would have explored more as I collected resources in hopes to find more things that help me. 
• Fleshing some of the areas out a little more in a way that is story telling would also have been more engaging. The ruins in the terrarium are a good example of what i'm talking about. It ties into the story by depicting the damage of the floods which you hear about from the smither. I was hoping to find more stuff like that to help paint some more understanding of the world.
• Adding little hints/references to other areas would be a pretty low stakes way to also make things more cohesive. For example, adding an apple to the bunker area would have made me feel like I had discovered something, since I had seen (or likely will see soon) the apples on the ground in the forest. Something to connect the dots and help the player feel like they are making discoveries that tie into eachother, even if just loosely.
  

That's a ton of feedback and ideas but ultimately I have more good things to say than bad! It's clear a lot of thought and care has been put in, it really shows. It's super fun and surprisingly few bugs with some neat polish/details in places. Figuring out what the "peakaboo" was felt super cool, and the first time I turned the furnace off was a fun and tense moment. Thank you for letting us play your game and leave feedback, letting strangers pick apart and give feedback on something you've poured a ton of work into can be stressful lol, so it's cool you're so open to receiving it. I hope your game continues to get more traction. If you're ever looking for a hand, i'm an artist and a programmer and would love to get involved for the fun of it!

I feel the processing is kind of boring, I think it would be nice for upgrading processing skill to give upgrades in bobs shop for maybe more resource gain per process

After trying everything possible in this game, just to try and get the most fun out of it, I decided to walk to the abandoned buildings on the factory horizon, and to my surprise, they have collisions. The invisible walls are just far away, but they still exist. I'm really looking forward to seeing what the future worlds of this game will be like...

PS: I recorded myself trying to jump over the invisible wall, but it didn't work. I guess I was too hopeful that there would be another enigmatic secret in this game, like the girl in the barrel.

Please keep updating the game! I've loved every moment playing it over the last two days.

I'm loving the game so far and I can see it has really good bones. It really scratches that incremental itch plus a good mix of weirdness. I did some modding of the game to fix a few of these issues for myself while playing, so I think a lot of them are pretty reasonable.

I think this game has a lot going for it and I hope you continue to expand it! 

Compacting/Expanding is Tedious

• The button push and the jump don't have a delay to them so you can't actually chain hits.
• The button push is very tedious. Even with higher level tools and charged hit it still takes two hits.

Night Time Takes Too Long for Valuable Resources

• It seems to be roughly 10 minutes until the legendary tier spawns. 
• Spawns seem inconsistent. In the forest or terrarium, for example, it is highly dense so there are a lot of valuable spawns. In factories they seem few and far between. I suspect this has more to do with density than anything. 

Enemy Spawns Seem Inconsistent 

• I know there is a third enemy called "peakaboo", but I've encountered it once in my entire run. 
• The Walker is more confusing than anything. It took me forever to realize it was a "enemy" and I just thought I was having collision issues.
• Redman is more fleshed out, but his damage seems inconsistent and dying doesn't seem to really have a negative effect besides resetting the long night cycle. 

Inventory is Inaccessible and Overflows

• The inventory list overflows the screen. Resolution: 1920 x 1080. 

Controls Don't Show Full Mapping

• I, K, T, U, and L are all mapped to specific pause menu sections but the controls menu does not show these. 

Menu Icons Overflow the Frame

• Items, Tools, and Upgrades all have icons that overflow the frame and get cut off. 

Cards Opened Simultaneously Overlap

• If you open two cards at once they overlap and you can't read either on open. 

Misc. Improvement Suggestions

• A HUD tooltip for how many mats are needed for Bob and Smithy would be great.
• An open all button for cards. 
• Toggle/Hold selector for sprint and crouch. 
• Earlier access to autoclick. 
• HUD sizing.
• Tool tips on secrets to be found? It was kind of a pain to figure out which levels had secrets and which did not. 
• More music. 
• Increased risk/reward ratio of night. 
• More weirdness!