Nice game, I like the platforming mechanics!

very nice game! It was very polished the controls felt smooth and i really liked the interactable water shader! Although i cant see that much how the gameplay implements the theme. Everything else was spot on though!

What can i say? Amazing game, the artstyle is very nice, i love how everything fits toghter nicely, and the liquid dynamics are so smooth its unbelievable! Visual storytelling and fx are on point, A bit short but that's ok for a jam, it leaves the player wanting more! great, great, work, congratulations!

Graphics and atmosphere are spectacular. I found moving in the water more fun than on land, I would try to expand on this feature and make a full game out of it.

Amazing atmosphere, polish and sound design. The part were you are being chased gave me some serious Limbo vibes. The player controls felt a bit sluggish during the exploration parts. Overall amazing little game.

"I'll try out a few games before bed", he said.

"That should help me sleep", he said.

The claustrophobic feel of this has definitely woken me up a tad, but it was worth it. I love the atmosphere :D

First think to say, the atmosphere was feelable, sound, pure black and white design, smooth controls, a really good plateformer for a one man jam entry. +1 for the drilling machine animation. But unstable is only for the unstable cave due to mining it's a bit light for me, but for everithing else, Well done !

Great job for the game in 3 days! Really loved the water and animations. Also nice cutscenes. But didn't understand how it relates with a topic of jam ^^' Anyway, really good entry.

Very Limbo-like, great stuff. The only thing that bothered me a little was the wall jump controls - it would be nice if it just took the last key you kit instead of locking up when both A and D are pressed. Very atmospheric, well done.

This is super cool, very atmoshperic and of course reminds of limbo. The only thing that threw me off was the death sound, I think a soulless squish would have served better. Other than that this is awesome, the gameplay feels solid, the urgency of the insect chasing you works perfectly. Really well done!

I love the mood of the game a lot. Monochromatic map and sound of dropping water made me totally in to this game. How about more maps with underwater systems?

I have to say that while basic, the graphics were so artistically done even while being very basic and so I gave you high points in the graphics category for that alone. The mood from the graphics and audio together were very well done and the sound effects particularly for the drill machine sounded awesome and menacing. Great job overall.

Extremely atmospheric and enjoyable movement, and I really like the way you told a story without using any lines of dialog. Allowing the player to swim around in the water for a few seconds before having the "villan" break in was a really nice touch. Excellent job!

Slugcat has lost her feet, now is only a slug 😮

This game had great atmosphere with the vector graphics and eerie soundscape!
Surprisingly deep controls for a three button game.
If this became a full lenght game, I would gladly play it :)

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Thank you all for the kind words, feedback and for checking out the game!

Loving the graphics and animations

I loved the graphics and the sound, the controls I did not like that much.

The level of polish in this is inspiring, especially considering it's pretty much all pretty simple shapes in black and white. The walljump mechanic is nice. However I'd say that the floor feels a little bit too sticky, like it takes a lot of effort to jump everywhere. Great mood though.

I was legitimately terrified of that giant mosquito. Moving around felt amazing, I don't know how you managed to make animations and movement so smooth but it felt amazing to play. Would gladly buy this if you decided to release a longer version in the future. Idk, the general vibes and atmosphere was just really really good. My favorite entry that I have played so far.

Very nice game, the graphics and sound were amazing and I really liked the underwater movement. There was quite a bit of tension too especially when you were getting chased by the bug. The only problem too me was the controls on land seemed a bit hard to use and would be a bit better if you used some sort of rolling physics or something a bit more bouncy before you suddenly stick. Great game overall though and I would love to see some more development to the story!

My only complaint is where is the rest of it?

Brilliant atmosphere.

Some jump buffer would've been nice.

Was good, pretty scary ("run for your life!") and dark. Giant drill was interesting, and story was interesting. Reminds like the Limbo and other atmospheric B&W or dark schemed games. Was good experience to play into end. I was hoping a more interesting end, while the game start took my whole interest to see what happens to next. The graphics are rough, but the shades have been set well. Nice game indeed! Like the atmosphere (even it is dark) while it's well made and the character is a kinda the "slimy", not "cutie", and the underground world is all brutal survival for everyone each day, and on each time you don't eat and even on that time you do eat.

really impressive! The realization and the mood are crazy.

Well played, super polished

Ahhhhh!!!!!!! The sound design and the dark aesthetic of the game was so good and immersive that I got too scared to finish the game :( However, I really liked the JUICY movement of the water, the mechanics of the little tadpole jumping and sticking to surfaces! Such a great submission!

Wow it is so beautifull ! The atmosphere works perfectly !

I loved this! What a great little game! Easy to pick up and was creepy and interesting immediately. Good audio and use of the limited palette and animations. Awesome Jam Game!

Wow what a beautiful game. It was cute and scary! That fly was awesome and the audio when moving was perfect. I don't know how you did the water but I'm impressed! I gotta say, it's the first entry that got me emotionally involved. Good work!

I also really like that the intro let's you figure out the controls, very polished entry!

Hi! Really liked this!

In terms of constructive feedback, would agree with some commenters above that the ending felt maybe a little inconclusive, I kinda expected something else to happen - completely understandable given the tight time though. And would also agree that the "unstable" topic could have been stronger.

Loved the graphics, the mood and the controls. The monster thingy was genuinely very creepy :)

Incredible that you created this in three days. My only wish would be a longer version :)

Great mood and visual style!

I don't have a phobia of insects, but the enemy creature genuinely scared me.

R/TIHI in the best possible way. Very nearly a finished game in terms of everything but length.

Really cool, the visuals and mood were great!

Very impressive game! the atmosphere music and monsters give me anxiety :) (im bad with scary games)))

very cool :o

The frustration comes from not being able to see more! I like the "limbo" atmosphere and 2D platformer narrative mood

"The drill" is really scary and perfect on visuals, feedback and working our imagination

great job ! :D

This is amazing! Reminds me of limbo. Very well done for a jam, doing it alone.

Love it! Short, but super moody and I love the art. Lots of variety in the level design too. I especially liked the static effect you had applied here. The animations in general were great (I'm partial to the reaching tentacles for the creature art), but the sequence with the drill reaching down and scanning was really cool. Just generally polished all around. Nice work!

Of course what stroke me is the Limbo atmosphere you re-created, really nice !
Love the sounds and the graphics. Super nice entry, would love to be able to make something like this one day ! Well done !

Best game I have played so far, the unstable part could be more emphasized.

Really moody and atmospheric! It was fun jumping around and I like the added danger of the enemy in the middle of the game. Very nice visuals as well! :D

Graphically and atmospherically, this game is great. It hits those Limbo vibes.

The controls felt off to me though. At a certain point it became less about soaking in the atmosphere and more about fighting with the game to do what you want it to do. I feel like it would have benefitted from a different jump mechanic, being able to adjust your position in mid-air just felt weird. Maybe give the player a minimum sideways jump to make things more predictable or something like that.

It didn't really fit the theme at all, there were a couple of tremors but nothing really seemed "Unstable".

Amazing mood, finished and loved it. That insect sound design and procedural animations got me woken up like crazy around midnight ahah. Great job :)

The procedural animation was really cool. Great job on the graphics and the atmospheric sounds, it really adds to the entire feel of the game.

The atmosphere is great! When flying mechanical dogs (or insects?)I was shocked! When I jumped into the water, I didn't expect it was still chasing me. Fortunately, the beast in the water killed it.

I like the fact that the fish can only move by jumping! The game feels great. I especially like the detail of the spikes towards the fish, it's done very well

Great work on creating such atmospheric game in such a short time. Really liked the water physics. Something about jumping from wall to wall was off for me but maybe that's good cause that's why it felt like a good challenge when escaping from that moscuito.

I liked the game very much. She is beautiful atmospheric. Very nice animation and good sounds.

Holy. Fucking. Shit. Dude this was absolutely incredible, 72hrs?? wtf.
Honestly I absolutely love atmospheric games(Limbo, Inside) and this was just perfection in that, the sfx, the movement, the visuals, the little cutscenes and animations you blew me away dude.

Some criticism:
1. The mosquito sound when he's close to you really took me off the experience, felt very unfitting to everything you made.
2. The movement was interesting but I would prefer if there was a mix of platforming between water levels and normal ones, as the movement feels very stuck, in a sense, when you are out of the water, and that's fine except I didn't expect the whole game to be outside of the water.
3. Another thing about the movement, maybe when you are out of the water you can only jump right/left and the default would be right so you could kind of bunny hop your way through the level and get some feedback when you are timing it right.

Other than that this entry is just phenomenal! I would buy it instantly if you had it fully fleshed out and bigger, superb job!

Really impressive and good Limbo vibes !
But what's the link with the theme ?

Very cool game, I can definitely see the Limbo inspiration! Had really good mood, and thought the graphics were really neat. For me I found the movement to be a bit slow outside of the water, but that made me eager to get to the water again.

Great mood and visual, the end come to quick, I want more ;p The controls were great.
A little issues with jumping from wall or when just in the angle of a wall, the jump go in the opposite direction of the wall, and we loose a little to much controls of the character.

Woow his was one of the best I have played. The atmosphere is brilliant, graphics, controls, audio, everything is awesome.
How did you made all of this by yourself? You are super talented. I love that the game does not start at the beginning when you fail. Starting from the level that I fail makes me want to try again. It is a very successful game, congratulations :)

Хорошая игра. Умело создана гнетущая атмосфера, напряжение, переживание. Коротко и ясно. Спасибо.

Awesome! There is never enough Limbo games! Love it! Also really nicely done, animations are stunning.. and of course the mood and visuals. Just great!

Amazing game! I featured it in part five of my let's-play-series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1iYKWqClok

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH, I love the simplicity! the movement can be a bit rigid when jumping tho

Pretty cooool

This game is really amazing, especially given the time you had. I love the story, no dialog just all visual. The sound of that flying bug is unnerving. One of the best games I've played this Jam.

Really pretty. Sound design is overall really nice too, just got a bit grating with the same jumping sound over again, and the sound when taking damage was a bit jarring 😳 The art direction is solid, the noise effect adds a lot. Fantastic work overall on atmosphere and the little details in terms of particles and animations are brilliant. Unfortunately the gameplay itself felt lacking, especially the intro and outro were a bit confusing because there was so little to do during them. Nonetheless I liked it a bunch!

This game was great! Too bad I didn't find it sooner when we could still rate.

Interesting story. I included it in my Ludum Dare 49 compilation video series, if you’d like to take a look. :) https://youtu.be/BCEhcn4pHX0