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Thanks for playing and good feedback. Lots to think about.

>ceiling bug
It occured when enemies died in the clouds. The bounce is just so the player doesn't stay in the floor or ceiling for too long.

>bullet visual viriety
Actually bullets are color coded. More red = more damage, but it's impossible to notice without staring at barrier display when hit. Also differences between yellow orange and red are probably too subtle. I'll work on that and I think I'll add damage pop ups for player.

>last 2
Till now I was so focused on all the technical stuff to get this off the ground that I forgot to work on the personality of this game. It's very bland now.

I was considering girl planes, but I couldn't come with anything cool looking and then I saw some anon was making something like that already, but in 3d so I dropped the idea (that was long ago, I don't think he finished that game).

Now that you reminded me of this I'm concidering it again. I always wanted to have a main character and that could be it. I'll see if I can come up with a character design that I like. 

Thanks for playing and feedback.

I'll try that idea with down arrow. Until now I avoided using it, because I wanted to have only thrust/no thurst, but maybe it'll have a positive effect on that "hard to react in time" problem a lot of people are having.

Thanks for playing and good feedback.

Characters look really good.

That thing where you tint the sprite with colors works in shadowy environments, but at the start where they're presumably in a well lit building, the orange tint looks bad. Makes characters look too dark.

37:40, 45:07, 46:36 Text gets added, but it disappears between additions. Looks like an error

21:08 aliasing looks bad

I like reading it. I thought I'd quit somewhere in the middle, but I ended up reading the whole thing.
Here's what I remember from the story (may be in wrong order):

1. There are carbons and silicons (who are not robots). Carbons built silicons to be slaves, but they rebelled and carbons are losing.
2. MC is on some secret mission to do something. He encounters Anastasia by pure chance while looking for uranium in the area. MC starts thinking about the past.
3. He remembers his friends, especially Anastasia who was taken away by the state to train her/experiment on her.
4. MC and his friends build some secret base, because they plan to run away, while vaguely alluding that he and his friends are neither carbons or silcons.
5. Some military ladies talk about creating hi-iq carbons from genes of smartest people (that's our guys).
   
6. The carbon g-man says they'll make peace with silicons by giving mc and his buddies to silicons as part of the deal.
7. We get flashback within a flashback to the past when MC was a kid and g-man gave him the disk with stolen tech and info on Napoleon.
8. We're switching to seeing life of Napoelon and his 2 daughters who are also science experiments at creating germanium life forms.
9. We're back to kid MC who swears to become life long anti-silicon racist. Also tech for creating germanium life forms was on that disk, and his dad uses it to create him and Anastasia (it seems I've gotten something wrong here)
10. MC, dad and Anastasia get on the ship with silicon spy. Dad dies while trying to do something with help of Anastasia (not sure what he was trying to do)
11. We see Anastasia get taken away by the g-man after the funeral.
12. We jump back to the level 1 flash back, of MC explaining to his friends they need to run away because they're [title drop].
13. The end of the demo.

Pretty good tutorial, but it's very easy to skip forward without reading what's written. I played tutorial 2 times because something I was doing caused tutorial to progress, while I wasn't done with reading the text.

Some bullets are hard to see on some backgrounds. For example at 8:44 the background is very bright, in shades of yellows and greens, same as enemy bullets. On some spots bullets almost disappear. Maybe each alien type could have a list of backgrounds that work well with their color to not change them?

Lack of clear info at the start. First I get to pick a country (where each has a different bonus) and then select one of the planes, which are also grouped by country. Do they also have country bonus?

There should be info about stats of the planes. It's obvious each has different speed and guns, but do they also have different hp and ramming damage?

I didn't feel compelled to use rockets or bombs. I got used to machine guns and decided to just stick with them.

Enemy numbers and patterns are mostly ok, but 2 times I got so swarmed with blue aliens I feel like it's impossible to kill them and dodge all the bullets.

That boss fight was pretty good, I liked it.

Font doesn't have all the signs needed to display other languages properly.

Watched previous gameplay for comparison and it looks much better. Those new animation make the game feel good.

Shield icon having x2 sized pixel doesn't look good.

Did you consider adding upgrade refund? At some point I was wondering if it wouldn't be better to not upgrade Priest's damage so I fight enemies a bit longer and farm more rage on the Warrior.

The game is either easier, faster or I just got lucky with potion drops, because I got to the Archer earlier than last time.

Nice progress.

Got to wave 8, 3800 points.  Not bad for a single playthrough. That exhaustion mechanic makes the game more engaging than if it was just shooting and moving.

I almost never play this genre so I can't comment on gameplay, but I had fun until that last level where didn't know what to do.

The visuals and sounds are very good.

At 42:50 I quit to menu by accident and something broke because none of the buttons did anything. Had to restart the game.

When I returned to level 4 I didn't have rocket launcher when starting, when previously I had it everytime.

At 53:30 I fall below the map.

Warning: terrible gameplay ahead. There are pauses and cuts, because I go offscreen to write down my thoughts.

This is my 2nd time playing, but it doesn't feel any easier. I think this game would be great if I watched a Youtuber play it for an hour before trying myself.

There's severe lack of "numbers go up" feeling, even though numbers suppousedly go up constantly.

For example, heroes: as I'm writing this I'm not sure if heroes have levels. Just checked, and they do. This seems like an important part of the game, but it's very easy to miss. Do they gain stats, skills or something? Does it matter?

Another example: raid gets finished. What did I gain? No idea, I know I got some cash and items, but that information is gone the moment raid is completed. It would be nice to see what we got, or how many enemies we killed, how much exp we got.

There are tons of inconvinences that add unnecessary complexity.
For example crafting: Guide window has better crafting than dedicated Crafting window. Big icons with names, which I can select and then press a button to craft them. Even so, it still doesn't display how many resources I have, and how many items I can craft. Also item icons look like buttons. This is fine in Guide because items are actually recipe buttons. But below, items in 'NEEDS' also look like buttons, meanwhile the actual button for crafting doesn't look like it's usable at first glance.

I feel the game underneath is great. I love the aesthetic and the idea, but I don't get how to play it. Later in the gameplay I just send raids without any thoughts, because I assume you can't go wrong with that.

At the end doing that quest with boss at The Coast felt, like the only time in the game where I understood what I'm doing, because it was obvious what I need to do:

• Boss is strong
• Send all part members, give them best items to maximize victory chance
• If I lose I need better items (and level but I didn't know it existed at the time)

To be clear, I'm not saying the game is too complex and to dumb it down. I just have this feeling like I don't get enough info to truly get what's going on and make informed decisions. Like the "YOU DID GOOD / BAD" feedback is hidden behind million clicks and hover over tooltips.

Pressing LMB in main menu, triggers the selected button even if I'm not pointing at it. When I was doing something on 2nd screen and returned to the game by clicking on the game window, it triggered the start button.

Shooting very close to walls doesn't explode the bullet on the wall, more like behind it. I had to walk away to hit enemy that was right next to me which feels like an error.

I don't understand what's the purpose of walking during combat. It just punishes player for touching the ground.

New spider biome looks nice. I like the pyramid aesthetic. The enemies didn't feel fun to fight though. They require a lot of caution which slows down the game, and even then it feels impossible to clean up those jumping enemies and web slinging spiders without getting hit, especially if they're both present at the same time. At 38:30 I'm trying to bait the spider into more favorable position because I can't shoot him when he's up in the corner due to that bullet collision issue. It's tedious.

Idk something about axe makes it feel like the weakest weapon currently. I think it's supposed to be the opposite of that falling bomb, in terms of hitting only from player height and up, but it's hard to aim. Did it work like that in the previous version? I feel like it was stronger back then. 
I'm writing this later, after rewatching the recording: I didn't realize axe can cut the web while I was playing. Now I feel like axe is best weapon for spiders.

Some levels feel impossible, I'm not sure if it's due to unlucky rng or because I failed at managing the enemy count and they snowball out of control.

There's less hp drops, I think. It makes the game harder, but getting rid of that bomb spamming playstyle I used last time feels like a right choice.

I enjoy playing it, but the difficulty curve is a cliff. You have to thug it out at the start and try again and again until you get good.

Thanks for playing and the recording. You caught some bugs I didn't know about.

The screen-clear, seems too strong currently. It's mean to be a beginner plane perk that gives a new player free kills, to propel him forward. And for stronger player it offers kamikaze attack if he has spare lives.

But now I think it might not be good for new players to relay on this gimmick, because it doesn't teach them how to play properly. I think I might move this to some plane that's unlocked later into the game.

Thanks for playing.  What mission did you reach during the game? Did you die even once?

The idea is ammo is unlimited, but you need to stop shooting to regenerate. I might have overcorrected and made the game too easy this time.

The UI cropping is probably WebGL issue. Did you play in full screen?

New enemies, new weapon, first try at having hand crafted enemy compositions. For the first time I feel like the game is in playable state.

Default Controls:
Flyin: Arrows
Shootin: Z
Usin skill: Spacebar
Pause: Tab (because WebGL)

You may change to mouse or gamepad.
Pad is untested and I'd appreciate any feedback on it.

- Walking being slower than flying and take off not being instant (there seems to be quick albeit noticable acceleration) felt like unnecesary distraction. Very annoying when I realize my character is not where I though it would be because I touched the ground.

- I couldn't get used to not being able to change direction in focus (hold shift). I get why it's like that, but I thought it's inconvenient.

- Got stuck in empty rooms a few times. 03:20, 06:03

- I enjoyed the music in combat and store. It could use another track in stage select, maybe some calmer version of combat music.

- Enemies spawning on me was annyoing. Spawn cue could be longer so there's more time to get away.

- Pick up weapons: axe and dash feel strong and fun to use, but that spiky bomb feels lame in comparison. It just falls down and has small explosion.

- I have no idea what the flying pet does beside reacting to me. If he doesn't do anything that's cool too, because his animations looks very funny.

At the start game is very overwhelming. Avoiding damage felt impossible with bullets coming from every direction and enemies chasing me.

At some point I realized since I'll lose hp anyway, it's better to use the bomb that costs some life in order to deal with everything. This changed my playstyle from trying to avoid damage to choosing to lose it deliberately, by flying directly into dense clumps of enemies and clearing them with bombs and then finishing the rest with the gun. This is when I started having fun, because finally felt I know what I'm doing.

Though I think this might not be intended, because this playstyle relies on getting a lot of +1 ups to not lose.

- It's way faster to zoom in than zoom out.

-Music does not loop.

-03:55 I place lizard guy on a wolf guy, and he steals his portrait (and deletes him?)

-Card grab sound is too loud and samey, could have different grab and place sfx.

It feels too early to talk about gameplay. Visuals and music are very comfy. Your drawings look better at this scale, the card portraits look neat.

Default controls:
WASD - flyin
Z - shootin
You can switch to mouse or pad controls in settings. Pad controls might be weird, there are 2 modes, because I don't know what's more natural for games like these.

Known issue:
Enemies (sometimes?) don't respawn when they die due to floor or ceiling.

What's new:
There's audio now, new sprites, some unfinished upgrades. This is the first time I feel it's in playable state, thought there isn't much content.

If you have the means, please test playing with gamepad and leave feedback how it works.

I must've forgotten to write a comment, but I played this last demo and finished it. The game is fun this time too. I'd probably play more if the demo was longer.

• I like sort of hands off tutorial during first runs.
• Priest's heal icon should become disabled when she can't cast it.
• High-yield priest currency (redish orbs) and hunter currency (spiky red orbs) might be too similar. After I defeated the 2nd boss, I looted some red orbs and unlocked ranger. When I went to his upgrade page, I saw that ranger uses red orbs as currency, but I had 0 despite picking up some red orbs. Now I understand it was probably higher-yield priest currency, but initially I thought there was some error and ranger currency was not registered because they're both circle shaped and have similar color.
• Visuals vary in quality and could be better. For example in screenshot with snake people, snake guys looks noticeably better than the heroes. Maybe it just newer assets. Also some sprites have outlines and some don't.
• Icons sometimes go crazy when you mouse them over. Most of the times they wiggle normally, but sometimes they rotate super fast.

Played again to reach the room and see minigun and I encountered some issues this time.

• Tooltip could use some offset so it doesn't cover the item we're mousing over.
• At 9:03 I got into shotgun ammo debt. Plus there's some issue with ammo display, because debt became visible only after switching to another weapon and back to shotgun again.
• At 11:22 larva centaur gets stuck. I think it may have something to do with the enviro, because initially 1st from the left centaur got stuck, and after spawning new centaurs (11:30), 3rd one is stuck. Later they behave normally.
• At 15:11 I tried to throw 2 grenades, but only 1 gets thrown. After that left-click wouldn't do anything, I'm trying to throw again but nothing is happening. Switching to empty weapons and back to grenades did not fix the issue. Started working normally after equipping flamethrower with some ammo. Also some issue with run animation despite standing in place.

• 7:25 Crash when loading new map after defeating audience
• 7:55 I loaded the game despite never saving (is there auto save?), and woke up near campfire
• 9:00 Not a crash, I just alt+f4'ed the game. not being able to quit mid-fight is very inconvenient
• 15:10 Caltrops aiming colliding with characters is super annoying
• 12:13 In settings when I went to resolution and pressed Z, it didn't switch to resolution selection.
• 27:35 That name gag made me laugh
• 29:00 can't talk with barmaid to get ale (it seems I got it from Mosca, but I don't recall game ever telling me that)
• 30:38 2nd crash when loading again (generally it seems game crashes when loading when not in main menu)
• 32:30 nun talks as if Katrina is with me, same with Modest later.
• 50:40 You can heal enemies with first aid. He has a helmet on so I guess it makes sense if Alexander is pouring the potion on himself
• 55:40 I died, loaded back, but enemies I died to were gone (also I had 1 less potion I think)
• 56:50 It's really hard to see in narrow tunnels. I'd be nice if front walls would hide like how fog of war disappears when entering a room, 
• 1:01:20 During big pseudoscorpion's turn something happened, and from now on camera was black when following him
• 1:07:15 Hit myself despite game telling me I'll hit an enemy
• 1:10:20 After emerging from tunnels, camera is stuck in close up until I reset it by leaving a building
• 1:14:10 Pig's dialogue mark is in the wrong place
• 1:18:00 Got stuck
• Dialogue beeping feels late. Whole text is on the screen and there's still beeping.
• I appreciate animals making noises when you interact with them.
• The rng on attacks was killing me inside. I feel like I don't really understand combat, because I have no idea what causes the hit chance to go higher or lower.
• Game really needs some tutorial on skills. I tried equipping some skills, but I don't understand why some are available and why some aren't. Also information that there are polearms skills at all. I thought I made a mistake by picking spear instead of a sword (I picked it on my own, I didn't see your post reccomending it)

"The demo ends when exiting the jail." Jail?! I assume that's the quest with Modest, but I thought it's not playable because it was supposed to happen after sun down.

That's a really big location. How populated with content do you plan for it to be?

Beside constant missing during combat I liked the demo. I really enjoy your writing, even when it's just talking with random npcs about sheep herding. Seems this is set before Afterlife Gladiator, so that'll be interesting, I'm waiting for more.

I think demo should have a stronger cliff hanger as an ending. Currently I'm not even sure what's the significance of what Teresa did. Was it even a big deal? Did Teresa start some chain of events? Did something change about the island or people? Did she attract attention of mysterious forces or something? Whatever happened feels too vague to leave me wondering what's gonna happen next.

The graphics look very pretty and well made. The sprite animations during VN parts look nice and dynamic. Everything feels very polished and high quality.

The gameplay is really absorbing, especially the puzzles. I got all stars on both levels. The ability to undo during puzzles makes it really fun and spares a lot of annoyance. Can't say much about timed challenges because I don't feel skilled enough yet to enjoy them properly.

It'd be more convenient if exiting a puzzle opened the page of that puzzle. After completing level 2 I still had some stars to earn on level 1 so I had to manually return to page 1 each time. I imagine in full game with more levels, having to click through multiple page could get annoying.

This version is for testing behind the scene systems because I'm still struggling with stuff like going between combat and menus, saving, or how items and upgrades are handled.

The gore is very fun. Sfx are weak, but the explosion of blood and massacred corpse flying back really sells the power of the shotgun on its own.

At 4:50 I tried to detonate the gas tank and it didn't react (or maybe I just missed).

Not much survival horror gameplay yet to comment on, tons of good looking assets though. At some point I realized there's no point in running around, but I kept going because I wanted to see everything.

It's not clear that "Esc" button in pet evolution tree screen is a button. To me it seemed like a prompt to press Escape on keyboard, and when that didn't work I didn't know what to do.

I was using keyboard and mouse. I saw someone else's gameplay and they used the slope of the column to launch off to the side, so I think it was more due to my wrong technique rather than controls.

I figured out why camera feels choppy. It's not due to collision. It's because camera moves and rotates at different frame rates.
See video. Camera rotation happens every 2nd frame, while movement happens on every frame.

Everything looks so much better now.

The fishing pole and characters you can have short conversations with between missions is nice addition.

Really like that javelin savages are not just canon fodder. They're the most common enemy, but they never stop being dangerous, due to predictive aim.

Usually I hate it when there's no auto-reload, but seeing trigger pull animation on pistol somehow makes it satisfying instead. Like in an action movie, especially after rapid firing. I still hate it for other weapons. I think every weapon should have an animation for trigger pull without ammo, with visible trigger if possible.

Some medkits hidden in outhouses were clipping through walls and accessible without destroying the outhouse.

I sadly have to admit I don't miss the boat that much. I understand it's probably hard to make it work. F for boat.

First time playing it so I didn't know the possible moves, but they all came to me naturally based on map layout (except the last one, couldn't figure that out on my own). Good level design for teaching how to play.

This gap in rocks looks like an access to a secret area. 

Sometimes camera is really choppy. I think it might be happening when it colliders with the terrain? I don't think it's visible in the video because it's 30fps.

Why are small bones made out of weird neon energy, and big bones are normal?

Brown slabs textures in the building, next to mouse, look weird. Like they're too big compared to other things and lack detail. And windows look like they're supposed to form an arch, but they're squares.

Character model, textures, sfx and animations are super good. Very cute.

I see. AOE warning made me assume you can't parry that.

Played in browser. I didn't encounter any errors.

Transitions between scenes are very rough. Like instead of moving, I'm teleporting to new places (and time?). One moment we're at the ship, next we're suddenly at ruins. They're loading stuff onto the truck and then we're on an elevator to nomad town? Are ruins and nomad town in the same place? How much times passed between ruins at night and elevator?

I assume some of this is due to early development (like transition between ship and ruins), but with the transition between ruins and nomad town I'm not sure.

Could use a skip button, even if just for testing, because I wanted to return to parts that confused me and check if I wasn't paying enough attention and just missed the info that'd clue me in.

Tooltip for lore words is a very good idea.

Dunno what to think of story yet, I'm certainly a little intrigued because I wanted to keep reading when I got to the end. I like that we're controlling a character that seems to have a lot of back story that I don't know about and find out through dialogue choices.

I played again today and I retract what I said about auto-attacking and cooldowns. With melee and parry combat was much better.

What hit me at 32:20 after boss is already dead? Is there some poison effect or something?

Pretty good. Attaching gameplay recording at the bottom.

Supposedly there are elemental combinations, but I know this only because I read your Steam page. Of course I noticed element icons on enemies and I assumed, each element has some special effect, but nothing I saw during gameplay looked like elements interacting with each other.
To clarify, element interactions were not self-evident to me. In fact I thought the opposite, I only ever saw 1 element icon at a time on enemies and I though elemental effects override each other. Due to this on my 2nd playthrough initially I tried to have fire only spells, because I thought it's better to have 1 element instead of flipping between many with each skill.

I saw there is guide, but because game seemed simple enough I decided not to read it thinking stuff would come up on it's own. Now after playing I read it and I see there tons of stuff I'd never stumble upon on accident like parrying, melee stance or mana. I quickly checked them out and they make huge difference to gameplay. There will probably be tutorial for this in later versions, but I think there should be some in your face indicator for these things, even if it's temporary for the sake of testing.

04:41 Bottom walls are hard to distinguish from the floor on this level.

The wind attack at mouse spell effect looks very weak. I know it deals damage, but it doesn't feel like it.

Cooldown indicator is sometimes hard to read on some maps with many enemies. Also cooldown displayed as a disappearing icon feels counter intuitive.

5:50 enemy stuck in the wall

When moving with keyboard I think dodging should go in the direction of mouse or last movement direction, when not currently walking.

Font is sometimes hard to read, especially when I got ultimate ability, barely understood that it's used with Y key.

Fighting requires you to constantly spam basic attack, so having to click it feels kinda pointless. Basically is there any reason to not shoot?

Control rebind applies only after going to another level.

Having 4 skills can be pretty overwhelming. I guess long cooldowns are annoying, but too short cooldowns mean you have to constantly press something. Maybe it's a build issue, and I should just pick more skills with longer cooldowns

Basic distance attack animation could be sharper. Current one's looks like the guy is reaching for salt at the dinner table. On the other hand melee attack animations look very cool.

The music overpowers all other sounds, but I like that. Though it feels like monster don't make any sound sometimes.

Very solid art style for levels, characters and effects. Feels like pre-rendered environments in Infinity Engine games. Particle effects at starting map look really nice. Really enjoyed how this game looks and sounds.

Tried C.O.R.N. for the first time, here's some gameplay:

• Really neat menu music. In general title screen looks very inviting and makes a good first impression with that camera flying over the hills.
• Camera can move while in menu.
• Toggling between commands like harvest/don't harvest should have some visible cue on the button that says what's the current state
• Can't mass deconstruct floor.
• Can't mass cancel floor construction.
• 20:20 character got stuck
• You need A LOT of trees to build anything
• Return to main menu button does not work
• Furniture should be moveable.
• Not being able to dig a cave was disappointing
• Mining rules are confusing. I couldn't mark "inside" blocks that are accessible from the top to be mined, but I could mark blocks under other blocks despite the fact the guys will never mine them.
• Nights feel really long
• I wanted to read trait descriptions but there's no tooltips.
• 40:10 can't build wooden floor under the door or beds
• Text under orders is extremely hard to read.
• guys don't sleep in beds
• I was trying to build forge which requires 4 stone, my inventory said I have 4 stone but despite that forge was never built until I mined more stone
• 58:25 i tried to deconstruct beds inside the house, but instead it deconstructed floor that was on upper floor that was meant to be invisible.
• I don't know what setting this is supposed to be seeing as we're building dirt walls using power tools, but I like how silly and cartoony it is.

Looks very advanced, but there's still too many missing features to be playable beyond building a house.

First time I'm playing Alhemickal. Here's some gameplay and things I felt strongest about.

• -I thought alchemy system will be clunky with having to juggle 6 elements, but it's really well done. Deciding how much element to use per attack is a fun mechanic. Making combinations is not annoying thanks to slowmo (unlike in Magicka), I'm curious how it holds up for 3 or more element combinations.
• -Fighting feels really dynamic, with slowmo giving time to analyze the situation and set the elements. Even when the room is full of enemies and you're left almost no hp, it never feels chaotic unlike in some games where you don't know what the fuck is going on when there's too many enemies and bullets.
• -Loading protips last too short to read them.
• -It took me like 30 minutes to understand you can have only 1 upgrade per row. I thought you first need upgrade on the left to unlock upgrade on the right.
• -59:43 I was trying to make tar and didn't understand why it's not working. Later I understood that special chemicals need to be unlocked for each new run, but it's not clear since you can see them as discovered/unlocked in the almanac.
• -Nice shoopkeeper interactivity.
• -Visuals look good, but enviros are samey.
• -Getting frozen by ice enemies feels like insta-death sentence, when there's many of them.
• -Really like the almanac. Very readable (expect for status effectiveness, no idea what that is)
• -Toxin needs more love as a unique element. I just realized I never really used it expect as a combination component.

Very solid demo. I can't think of anything actually bad about the game even in the current state. It just needs more and content like enviros. I had good fun during that hour.

Gameplay vid: 

That last run in the video was probably the luckiest blind experience I could possibly have. First I found the portal by accident and then with only seconds left stumbled upon the last hourglass on the black hole.

• What's currently here is very solid and fun. The aesthetically this looks very nice and consistent.
• Gravity and space bending is impressive and really elevates this game.
• The gravity mechanic is also fun and makes the map infinite so you never have to stop or turn.
• Deagles requiring constant mouse clicking gets tiresome when more enemies appear.
• Because of that and because enemies clump into large groups on their own, shotgun seems like an objectively superior weapon.
• Sounds are not balanced. Start menu music is noticeably louder than main menu music. Shotgun sounds good, but deagles are too quiet.
• Pressing escape key should close the settings menu and return us from start menu to main menu.

With more guns and levels this will be really good.

Thanks for playing, and feedback.

Currently stages are selected randomly. I see this is very confusing, especially when rolling the same stage on restart. Beside downtime at the start, I should add better communication what the game is doing.

The game is meant to have some rogue-lite elements, but I'm still figuring out how they should work exactly. Current upgrades don't really have any logic to them. By next DD I'm aiming to have something that works and makes sense.

Thanks for playing and the recording. It is useful, putting aside the fact it's way too hard, you ran into few other issues I thought I had fixed.

highest kill count: 9

Anna: nun who struggles with her faith torn between commandments against killing and prospect of permanent solutions
Osheen: warrior who like fighting too much which puts him in trouble with his superiors
Modest: isekai protag, now regrets leaving family and ordinary life behind, fights to return home, probably not this but he just looks too much like a normal guy

I think this is the first time I'm seeing normal people in this world.

Gameplay vid: 

• In the shop I picked up healing potion, but I couldn't find them in the inventory or use them in combat.
• 11:25 Modest killed Osheen with his charge and the game let me use charge again.
• 37:15 Healing missed. I assume frezy did that, idk if this is intended effect.
• 41:29 Shot myself despite game saying I'll hit the enemy... but the attack healed me!?
• 45:40 Shot myself again.
• Skills really need tooltips, even in the current state. I didn't want to use any skills other than the most obvious damage dealers with highest number, because I didn't want to accidentaly use a skill that sucks. And some skills have very unobvious uses like that arrow volley healing the ally, which seems impossible to figure out through reasonable trail and error.
• Xanadu soldiers keep getting stuck on each other. This is not necessarily bad, but puts cheesing on the table. I don't know how turn order is determined, but if enemy's order was based off of proximity to player character maybe they get stuck less often.
• Could use some quick hp lookup button, like holding Ctrl or something shows hp bars over everybody's head. Currently it's hard to keep track of which enemy has lowest hp.

Gameplay recording:

• The competent foundation for the game is there, but there's little content so I don't have much to say beside fighting same enemies over and over is pretty bland. Needs more skills, items and monsters to chase the numbers going up.
• One thing that bugged me: whole time I was expecting the escape key to close inventory and character menus like in Diablo. So that's why I'm opening menu randomly from time to time.
• At the end, when returning through a portal, the game froze during loading. No idea why.
• I really like the vibe with adventurers ditching us at the beginning. I'd like to see more of that, as 'from 0 to hero' type story. Maybe we could later save asses of these guys that left us or something like that.

Gameplay recording:

• Have to juggle keys to exist dome from upgrade screen. It'd be more straightforward if Q was the dedicated key for quiting and dropping stuff.
• Resource rich rocks were unrecognizable at first glance on my first playthrough. It took me a while to understand that rocks I ignored actually hold iron.
• Hard on the eyes especially in full screen. Background decorations on the ground are almost as bright as mineable blocks and have similar patterns to resources or damage indication. It looks very "noisy", there's no visual gradation to how important an object might be.
• Scale seems fine in windowed mode, but in full screen everything feels way too big.
• I liked how the gun handles. It's slow, but I wasn't annoyed by it. I think the inertia makes it feel satisfyingly massive rather than slow.
• Either my mouse is broken or special dome upgrades pick themselves automatically by hovering over them for too long.
• Retrieving the upgrade from a broken dome was kinda cool and mysterious.
• There's this weird issue with OBS where the game is mirrored and rotated by 180 degrees in the recording.
  You can see my mouse is flipped in the recording because I fixed it in OBS, but on my screen it was normal. This is so bizzare, I'm not sure if it's something wrong on my end or something weird with the game.
• I feel like double-clicking the upgrade should buy it.

• Audio settings allowed me to deep fry the music if I set sliders to max.
• There's a weird graphical bug, see screenshot. Everything works normally but textures are all messed up or stretched.
  I managed to replicate it multiple times:
  1. start a game normally
  2. change window mode/full screen (doesn't matter if during game or in main menu)
  3. quit to menu
  4. start a new game
  5. bug

I'm freshly after playing Dome Keeper few days ago so my impressions are colored by it.
The gameplay itself seems good, but it felt too slow. Like I was having an unlucky run in Dome Keeper. What I mean is in DK your first iron deposit usually gives you 4 units so you quickly get an upgrade. Here you need to find 2 deposits. I ran into unbreakable blocks that forced me to change my directions very often. It's very easy for a clump of resources to plug the tunnel, something that rarely happens in DK (individual resource can get stuck but not whole pile of them).
It just feels like there are speed bumps everywhere.

Gameplay recording, first time playing this: 

• -No settings for graphics, couldn't move game to other screen
• -I broke the tutorial, see about 2:00
• -Skipping dialogue doesn't work when spamming Enter, the fade out animation replays from the beginning
• -Some hotkeys don't work, I'm pressing X to use a skill but nothing's happening
• -Skill tooltip should be over the mission setup, hard to decide who to take when I can't see their skills, see about 21:20
• -Something bad happened after one of the mission, see about 1:07:30
• I'm scanning but time seems to have stopped. the council calls me in, but otherwise no new missions appear.
• When I loaded the save to see if I can fix the issue myself, some new buildings appeared but none worked, meeting was in {0} days and time was still not moving.
At that point I could not even open a menu, even restarting the game did not fix the issue. Something is clearly wrong with the save file, because when I load earlier save (meeting in 28 days), the game looks normal and plays normally.

Dialogue system is good addition. Doesn't steal the spotlight from the gameplay, but makes the game little more interesting by explaining what's going on.

Maybe difficulty on normal is too low, but I think fresh enemies not moving makes the game extremely easy. If you eliminate the already active enemies, the new ones become sitting ducks.

I don't see why I shouldn't just use the same characters over and over again. I assume characters need to rest if they get injured, but I never got injured. This is also why I was not eager to use training as it would take my fav operatives out of the fight. I assume death and injury are meant to be more common since we can recruit so many operatives.

Selecting skills on the bottom-left feels unreliable. It seems like I clicked the icon, but the skill did not get selected? Pressing icon below character, when you hover over them feels more reliable.

I got confused with character window initially. I thought skills at the bottom are already active. Even when I later understood they're inactive I'm still not sure how to distinguish learned and unlearned skills.

Other than that, everything looks very readable and clear. 

UI and battle arena aesthetically look pretty good, but the base screen looks rough.

The game plays almost exactly like Into the Breach, which means it mostly plays well. I'd probably play longer if not for the bug at the end.