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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Narrative | #1349 | 3.094 | 3.094 |
| Creativity | #2233 | 3.679 | 3.679 |
| Audio | #3480 | 2.868 | 2.868 |
| Artwork | #4560 | 2.849 | 2.849 |
| Enjoyment | #5329 | 2.547 | 2.547 |
Ranked from 53 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does your game fit the theme?
Time loop: Every time the player goes back up the spiral staircase, they see their past selves . Karma : Desperation in the game is a form of karma, which is the concept of good or bad things coming back to meet you. Spiral staircase: It's a looping staircase
(Optional) Please credit all assets you've used
Font used in game:
DePixel by ingoFonts: https://www.dafont.com/depixel.font
Color palette used in game:
Inspired by eris from Lospec: https://lospec.com/palette-list/eris-overcast-afternoon
All other assets were made by me
(Optional) What would you like to be called if GMTK features your game?
GoldenAppler
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I like this game! It's kind of confusing at the start but it got good later. The audio was just kind of annoying, like when you lose. All still fun though, nice! I was really burnt out from rating nearly 200 games, may not be a lot on other peoples scales but it's a LOT on mine.
Intresting take on the theme, you really explored the concept. The game had great immersion too thanks to the art style and audio. Well done!
Interesting concept. I found a few endings, but struggled to see what I was meant to do differently. I think it's a great start that could have some cool mechanics added in! Nice job :)
Holy the jump scare got me. But this was so cool! I loved the atmosphere and all the little things I can interact with!
Well made game, I have unlocked 4 endings as of now.
Thank you for voting for our game (Loop Boros).
I played a little and I think your game is very good too :)
A very cryptic game! I really enjoyed having to try lots of different things to find all the endings (I admit I would have liked a little counter somewhere to tell me how many endings I had unlocked and how many I had left to unlock. But that's just a minor detail^^). At first, of course, I just went down the stairs. But when I realised the potential of going back up... incredible! There's a lot of humour and unlikely potential!
In short, a very nice experience :D
Interesting concept. Couldn't make it past the third floor though as I kept getting killed... purely down to poor timing on my part!
Intriguing idea, however, a bit hard to understand. I kinda didn't like that I had to read the description to find out I was playing the game wrong (going up instead of down.) But I'm curious to come back later to find the other endings.
Thanks for playing! I have to apologize for the description tutorial. I ran out of time to make a lot of the explanation bits I had planned. Hope you had fun playing and exploring the game!
Really unique game. Replayed it several times to try to get all endings haha. I had to read through the description to understand what I had to do so an in-game tutorial would be nice. The art was good and the SFX were great. Great job!
Really cool take on the theme!
That was wild, that was interesting but I guess there wasn't enough time to polish it. It would be nice to see some tutorial, floor counter and maybe some ending collection/counter + explanation (not always I knew why I got a specific ending). Anyway, it's a very interesting concept and take of the theme, good job!
I also encountered a bug when sometimes The Evil Guy didn't spawn even when I had a full determination.
Nice concept, without reading instructions I was stuck in the beginning. May some indicator where am I or so would be nice.
I still wasn't sure what's going on after trying for a while, haha.
I do like the arts and the audio bits quite a lot though. It also didn't seem like it at first but it became kinda creepy afterwards.
One technical issue I ran into was that when I first press "Start" the loading was super long and for a while I only see a black screen with some UI on top so I wasn't sure if the game crashed or it was part of the game or what else was going on.
I'm a bit scared (since I don't usually play horror games)o(╥﹏╥)o
I think the creativity is excellent, and designing so many endings in such a short time for a game jam is really impressive! Good job!d(ﾟ∀ﾟd)
Cool game. Could have used some feedback for when you loop floors. At first it didn't seem that much but when you see the full game it gets really creepy. Well done.
Cool game. Could have used some feedback for when you loop floors. At first it didn't seem that much but when you see the full game it gets really creepy. Well done.
Nice game, with unique idea.
nice game, very creative concept :)
Really liked the idea! Took me a while to figure out you could go back up. Nice take on the theme, great work!