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Playtest note, from morphydorph (the Today, I'm Going Ghost Hunting entry) This game is a nice casual game. maybe too casual for me because it's really easy, after wave 6 you basically can just take a nap. doesn't really provide a challenge after that. 
And the Relics (are they called that) can you skip them? or is it an intended feature. it's annoying that you have to give up a good relic for a bad one. and the Sound effects were good. but some of them are WAY too loud. (The Wizard Tower.....)  And the Music and SFX sliders don't work.

From a first playthrough. The game feels really slow. the rate at which you gain relics and dices makes it grueling to get really into the game. enemies are also really tedious to fight, watching the counter slowly add up points while i doze off to sleep. each item you buy doesn't really have that much Impact on your score. i know you need a lot of them to make crazy chain reactions but by that point i would have probably been playing for 2 hours.

The main point i have is to make the game feel Faster. and make items more impactful. each time i go into battle i want it to "Feel" different. also the dices having Health is very weird imo.

Sorry if i was a little rough, Hope my feedback helps you improve the game.

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Well, after the previous commenter suggested that. I changed the controls from pressing Space to The left and right Mouse buttons. Is it still that inconvenient? Also are the controls not being responsive because your game isn't running smoothly. I'll look into some optimizations i guess. thanks for the short review.

Sorry about that :(. The problem is now fixed.

Hi thank you for the Review. the gameplay i saw really helped me identify the issues.

I saw you fat finger the backpack quite a lot of times. maybe I'll add a windup so you have to hold the key to open it.
you talked about the blaster swapping being on the right click. and i totally agree. i did not think of that at first.

The GUI can be edited in the settings with UI scaling and UI transparency. i can add more features like the one you suggested

for the music. yeah it's kind of scummy. the leitmotif is just used way often. maybe i can make it a bit more subtle.
enemies dealing high damage is intentional. but i can reduce the damage for now.

yes there are items that increase it's speed / distance. the dash is pretty much required for bosses and evading high damage. it does not give you invincibility when dashing.
dashing through doors is a hidden mechanic. but i can put it in the tutorial later on

Thank you so so so much for playing my game!!! i got a lot of feedback from watching you play. (There was supposed to be a tutorial lol) and i will be using that to improve on my game. 

Thank you for the review.

I feel the game is kind of leaning towards a target demographic rather than most people. The swapping of Tools need a bit to get used to but maybe i could make the ghost get revealed faster than normal. or bind the tool swapping to the Left-Right mouse buttons.

The stat icons being a mystery is kind of intentional. kind of a discovery-esque game. some people like it some people don't. but i'll add some text saying what they do

And the shop thing. i did make a tutorial for it. but did the tutorial not play for you? i'll maybe go check that. you are supposed to press Q when near a glowing item to put it in your backpack.

Pretty nice puzzle game. Nothing really outstanding it's just a puzzle game. maybe a bit more effects to spice the game up a bit and maybe make the placing of cats more satisfying. I feel it gets boring really quickly. it's like a mobile game you play when you have nothing else to do. maybe that's what you're going for.

Where is the dating in this game? or did i not play enough to reach that point. 

I want to be able to hide the UI and add some music too.

I had trouble with understanding the game at first. But i seemed to figure it out. i think it introduces so many things to the player at once it feels overwhelming. 

In my opinion i think the deck size should be reduced a bit. and the mechanics introduced at a smoother pace to ease the player into the gameplay. 

 I didn't really understand the customer mechanic, the global thing or the coin thing all too well. 

I got to the boss and died cause my coins were sucked away by the wine modifier thing. and it feels pretty luck based, or can you actually time the slot machine to get what you want. 

 I think it would be better with more game events, tiles and a more straight forward gameplay system. of course this is just the Demo so I'm think asking a bit too much. 

 This is just my experience though so don't take anything too seriously. i don't really play deck builders all that much. A pretty Solid game overall😍💕🥰.

Thanks for playing. While the puzzles aren't intentionally the main focus of the game. I'll keep in mind of adding more things to discover for yourself in the future. instead of telling the player what they do.

I'll fix that. thank you for the playing

Thought it would be hard to understand. but i learned everything pretty quickly. pretty unique game of typing commands. but the time limit is really "forced in" in my opinion. if its a puzzle game it shouldn't be about speed. wish there were more commands and more ways of utilization. but that's far to ambitious for a 4 day jam so i get that. I had a decent amount of fun. Overall a great game.

I like these short and easy games. It could be better with some Effects when an enemy gets hit/killed and a health bar too. and more variety. maybe the map could change every 20 seconds.

After playing for a bit i somehow made 5x the money i started with. honestly i don't even know what i was doing most of the time. That's probably on me for not knowing how the stocks worked. i wish the money in game wouldn't just increase passively. makes it hard to see the progress and the impact you've made. i love the core concept tho. has alot of potential.

Simple game. Sometimes the food get thrown to the fat bird before i can grab it though. Fun concept but could use more mechanics.

So cool! 😍 glad you enjoyed it.

Game is very interesting

Great game. The mechanic of the timer as the health bar becomes obsolete due to the number of enemies. you can't really "die" if you just run into one big enemy and then spam click over and over. also wish there was more to the game.

Could use a tutorial. i hate reading. not my type of game.

Thanks for playing. The goal is to survive for the longest time possible and beating your highscores. by  disposing marbles in the colored boxes. if too many marbles are left undisposed you will die.

I love me a Gooooood puzzle game. Wish there were more mechanics. but overall a very Solid game. i had alot of fun

Really great game. Any physics destruction related game will always be fun. Although i wish the game scaled faster. getting upgrades don't really leave that much of an impact. maybe reduce the cost of the upgrades down. or make them alot more impactful. Music went crazy tho

Nice game. nothing really bad about it but also nothing really outstanding. Art style is very unique cause almost every 2d game in this jam is Pixel art.

Very simple game with a simple premise with simple gameplay that is easy to understand. not really much else the itch.io page was cool tho

Really Like the game. i like that you have to manage alot of things at once. but it Gets kind of repetitive after a bit.

Love the game. very relaxing.it feels kind of luck based to hope for the bumpers to spawn in the correct positions. to counteract this you just have to buy 1 multiplier bumper and then just keep hitting that one bumper to get crazy scores. game could use a bit more variety in the upgrades but Overall a good fun game

Really weird game. love the art style. but the movement needs some time to get used to cause its diagonal ( maybe a click to move feature could be nice ). the exploring feels really luck reliant on you finding food and heath.( i think the vision range could be expanded a bit more ). also the upgrades feel very underwhelming.( maybe make them more impactful ). Overall i like it but i could be improved Upon.

The desert sand could use a bit of yellow. idk if its a skill issue on my part but the Targets were Really hard to dodge. and it just locks on to you once you've touched them. I like the art and the audio tho.

Love the Art. Gameplay was a bit rough for me. It feels too reliant on luck. you'd have to reset the game a whole lot to get a run going. and the Rolling a 1 loses you a roll is very weird (it shouldn't imo because a 1 roll can snowball into higher tally's). i think it would be better if you give players more starting rolls (maybe 5) so it isn't too reliant on luck. Overall the concept was really good but the gameplay Could be improved on.

The fast paced nature of it was done pretty well. but dying by the timer only really matters within the first 10 seconds. after that its just survival.  wish the countdown mechanic could be expanded a Bit more tho.

Good art good concept good music. It's wayy too slow of a game for me tho. and maybe a little too long for a jam submission?

The metronome produces cash automatically every beat and You also get a bit of cash from defeating enemies too! that's probably the reason. thanks for commenting

For your first attempt at making game. this was really well executed. the artwork is good. and the gameplay is unique. but it gets kind of repetitive after a while. 

7.4/10 solar pannels

The art is really good ofc. but the gameplay is a bit lacking. Wish there was a tutorial on teaching you how to play the game instead of reading it. the gameplay loop is very confusing for me too.

7.014 /10 money

This reminds me of the Deltarune chapter 4 thing with the echoes and stuff. Really trippy though and hard to play.

Gameplay feels Really slow and just swimming around collecting chest that give minimal stat boosts doesn't make for exciting gameplay and The lack of audio makes it very boring too.

if i can make changes to the game i would've made the chest upgrades more impactful like maybe 15% or 20% per upgrade and increase the amount of enemies at the minimum. Great attempt though. Hope you improve in the Future and achieve your Dreams

4.3/10 scores

I like the crab... wish there were more upgrades... and enemies... and crab... it gets kinda boring once you discover all the upgrades. other survivor games are fast paced and have alot of screen clutter to keep the players hooked and stuff. still a fine submission

 6.85/10 Fish sticks

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