Var'alith by Akuirako


Var’alith
You tried to fool a demon, you lost. They want five living human as a sacrifice, without that, your soul alone will be enough. You will have to manipulate the people that you meet, give them what they want without making any mistake, otherwise you will not be able to offer them as sacrifices.
Will you make the right choices to win the game ?
| Windows | https://akuirako.itch.io/varalith |
| HTML5 (web) | https://akuirako.itch.io/varalith |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/43/varalith |
Ratings
| Overall | 179th | 3.833⭐ | 38🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 409th | 3.389⭐ | 38🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 229th | 3.569⭐ | 38🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 226th | 3.903⭐ | 38🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 91th | 4.347⭐ | 38🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 279th | 3.485⭐ | 36🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 101th | 3.972⭐ | 38🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 38🗳️ | 35🗨️ |
Unfortunately it seems to be quite buggy. At certain points (different each time I restart) the game would stuck when I put the card down and no longer progress. One of the times I got infinite gold, but also can't progress.
Is it possible to go around the bug by enlarging the area that's just the first card by a few more pixels (by moving the other one lower down?) so that it would be easier to not miss? If there's no way to move the first card to the top layer...
Now as for the game itself, I really like the pixel art and the mood it has, you can just feel the growing tension as you run out of time. :) If you find some solution/workaround to the known bug, I think it will be a really impressive game!
that's one of my first games ever on unity (i'm more of a graphist), and i must admit this bug is wht ruins it all for me. i think i'll study what you said and try to improve it !
@ynneblack Thank you very much! It's nice to see that the mood is working. :)
There are a few bugs but the game is very well done! I liked it.
@riyroo thanks for your feedback ! we'll take it in consideration.
@fluffi thank you ! i think the post-processing was kinda hard on the "hope" card, and it must depend on your computer screen too.
i've updated the game ! now you should be able to play it without any bug, but please keep me updated if you tried it again ! :)
Very solid game and fun enough to make you keep trying until you figure out all the people.
I feel as though the game could've benefitted from some random generation (if the deck were also larger). I don't think it works when seeded, but if it were to work with randomness you would also need more encounter cards so the same businessman doesn't appear three times in one playthrough.
I do like the idea of the game. Choosing which resource to sacrifice in every encounter certainly has some intrigue to it. But I'm just not a fan with how simple it gets once you've memorised the sequence. Because as it stands, once I die, there's nothing to stop me from getting back to where I died save for a couple of minutes of time and a few clicks because I know what to do already.