Soak 'Em Out by Cruise Elroy

It's raining cats and dogs out there... or should we say "raining ON cats and dogs"?
Overview
Soak 'Em Out is an endless score attack game that takes heavy influence from the Game & Watch Gallery series. You play as Tina, a cat trying to catch a bus that unfortunately is taking an unusually long time to arrive. To make matters worse, a big storm is brewing! With no true shelter nearby and only an umbrella to take cover with, how long are you able to delay the inevitable before getting soaked out?
Controls
Move: WASD or Arrow Keys
Toggle Umbrella Position: Space Bar, Z, or X
Tips
- Deflect droplets to delay the storm. If a droplet hits the ground, the precipitation meter will fill up faster.
- Waterfalls cannot be blocked by any means. They have to be avoided.
- After certain point thresholds, a sunflower seed will appear. Get it to the pot and something good will happen!
Ratings
| Overall | 3th | 4.344⭐ | 50🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 9th | 4.271⭐ | 50🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 136th | 3.708⭐ | 50🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 131th | 3.99⭐ | 50🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 4th | 4.625⭐ | 50🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 2th | 4.457⭐ | 49🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 49th | 3.894⭐ | 49🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 18th | 4.213⭐ | 49🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 21🗳️ | 10🗨️ |
Great work.
Found the game on the frontpage of Newgrounds! Congrats!
Amazing style, really sets the mood as a Nes game, incredible.
Addictive and fun, music is perfect.
My score: 157
Love the simple control scheme and gameplay feedback via art and sound, so it's easy to understand without a big text wall!
Great example of how to scope a ludum dare game and then knock it out of the park with polish!
Pros:
- Great and addictive gameplay loop
- Clear objectives that you learn from try and error (not in a bad way!)
- Great design for the level and the actual idea behind it (Meow!)
- That being said, I'm a sucker for pixel art anyway...
- Color palette feels really warm and enjoying, even though the game is about a very rainy day. Great achievement here
- Nicely done difficulty steepness
- Great visual/audio sound ques for incoming danger
- Soundtrack and music greatly complements the gameplay
Cons:
- I believe the car hitbox is rather unfair, but maybe it's just me not understanding the flow of it fully. Sometimes, I put the umbrella when car is already on screen and then it's 50/50 whether I get a penalty or not.
I loved it overall. A very solid and well-scoped entry. Excellent job!
Love the Music & Sounds,
Love the gameplay.
Loved how actions would overlap assuring the incoming storm and preventing the game from being too easy.
Great work!
The game felt a bit slow and tedious at times. I would make it grow more challenging a bit faster, with faster change between modes and lower point thresholds.
Also this would work great on mobile if you are thinking about exporting it...
420 haha. This is really good game. Fun gameplay, nice soundtrack.
I really love how the graphics looks, everything is very polished : the rain effect, the cars, the city skyline background, the dark effect, the rain drops, and of course the audio, everything ! Nice job, congrats!
Simple, beautiful and totally polished! It looks like an old console game, not only in aesthetics, but in spirit!
Amazing! The most complete for me so far in the LD 50!
It's on my favorites list of all LDs.
Congratulations!
the music, sound effects, idea and graphics are all so adorable and it fits together nicely
and the game is very addicting
the music, sound effects, idea and graphics are all so adorable and it fits together nicely
and the game is very addicting
Good job and congratulations!
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