Fantastic art style with a fun, cozy little loop. I played for about 15 days before taking a break to rate/leave my feedback. During my time with the game so far, I found my stress melting away as I hunted for new fossils with each new day. The loop was easy to understand and I liked the progression system, but I wanted more tension or for the loop to evolve or somehow change as I continued to collect more and more fossils. Overall it's really nice, and I LOVE the behind-the-scenes footage y'all shared on the game page as well.  

Some thoughts on potential improvements:

• I feel like your hit boxes for player interactions were a little too generous at times—on several occasions I accidentally found myself triggering my home base/unexpectedly ending my day, once right after starting a new day even. This applied to digging up spots on the beach, too, where it felt like I should have been a little closer to the digging spot before I'd be able to check for a fossil.
• The audio is pleasing, but the background music loop is a little repetitive after several days in a row. You've got great ambient SFX already going  in the background, and I'd be curious to see how your game would be experienced differently if you relied less on having a constant BGM loop and instead only played the music at key transitions. Alternatively more variation in tracks would help, too!

WAAA this game is so cute and cozy! I really love the artstyle with the fossils and character, the UI was super clean as well! Love the fossil hunting gameplay and having the puzzle mode on top of that is crazy!! I love puzzle games like these, so this was such a lovely treat. All the little bonuses to the bag collection and upgrades were great as well! The music was very charming and cute as well, I was wondering if their music was completely free for people to use (with crediting of course), or did you ask for permission? 

Such a great game overall, congratulations to everyone on the team! 

Well polished cute and cozy game!  Who doesn't like strolling along a beach?  Nice usage of the palette in many places.  Cool inventory mechanic and tons of fossils to collect.  Comfy music to bop along to and enjoy the days recreation.  I like the theme since I've been rockhounding on beaches recently haha

Holy polish, Big fan of the art style and UI work!

Wow, this is the most polished game I’ve seen so far!! As a jam entry, this couldn’t get any better. Everything already feels really balanced, from the weather changes, to the amount of time you spend digging, to the transition between the days. It all makes for a very natural sense of progression.

Amazing game. Nothing else to say other than this should be on steam

This game has top tier UI for any game, not just game jam games. Fantastic job on that!

The animations and sounds and design were all good too. It seemed especially stable and bug free. 

I lost track of time, trying to decide how to optimize how many new things to get per the weather. And after I figured out you get optimal points for neatly filling the bag, I did that every time. 

The core loop is great and could be developed more by having some sort of tension in deciding what sorts of sand piles you want to dig up, or if there was some conflict to avoid at the beach. 

The meta loop was excellent with the upgrades, which of course could always be more balanced with time and testing. 

I think the hook or goal of the whole experience could be a little stronger, (such as paying back your loans in Animal Crossing, or escaping your hellish home in Hades) 

I'm telling you these three things in case you make something bigger from this, which I kind of hope you do. 

I had to stop "early" (after a half an hour) and I was curious if there was an end game or ending, or a set amount of levels? (I noticed the calendar) 

I was fun trying to pack the fossils as optimally as possible, reminded me of playing Talos's Principle which I also enjoyed greatly. The entire game is really well-polished with stuff like UI animation and footprint trail. There's also lots of upgrades that I can research on. The weather system also adds a bit of variety to the gameplay.

Also tried the puzzle mode which was very fun.

For some reason the music becomes choppy when moving around, not sure if you aware of it. I'm using it on microsoft edge if that helps. Also I think using scrollwheel to rotate the pieces would be nice.

This one is just awesome. Having an extra puzzle mode ON TOP of the regular game in a jam is insane (I 3 star-ed all 15 levels of the puzzle after getting all the fossils lol)
The art is great and I'm a big fan of having a button that does nothing but play a lil animation to mash while I walk back to the tent lol
The puzzle mechanics were nothing new/unique, but a really well-polished execution of them, great job!

Such a good game. The animation and the art style blows my mind.

If I ever make a game HALF this good, I would die in peace!

Really incredible art direction, and execution. You all are rock-stars!

Thanks for sharing the Behind the Scenes too, I loved those and learned a few things from it!

Genuinely a masterclass of good game design. A few of the bigger notes I took:

• The upgrades preemptively counter what the player could perceive as "frustration" or "tedium" towards the end game. I.e. when the player is tracking down the last few rare fossils, the upgrades they've purchased over the whole game make getting those specific fossils easier via more bag space, double-drops, increased rarity, and QOL boosts like faster move and dig speed. REALLY good design choices there. 
• Really appreciated how the collection log lists what weather your missing fossils are available in, so once I had all the fog fossils collected, I knew I could head back once I got my bag full for upgrade points (instead of checking every drop on that level hoping for a rare that wasn't possible to drop).
• The perfect pack bonus was *chefs kiss*, perfect. Not so OP that it was unbalanced, but enough of a benefit that it naturally encourages the player to interact even more indepth with the bag sorting puzzle mechanic. Again, great design choice. 

Other misc observations I had, really nice use of the color palette in your art. You managed to look unique and distinct even from the other games using the same palette, which takes skill. And while the number of controls looked a bit intimidating just reading from the description, once in-game they're perfectly intuitive. I did run into a few little momentary freezes & audio stutters on the performance side, but we're working with web builds so that's pretty expected. 

Overall, really well done!