Pure soul by SiluetSalat
Do you understand what a soul is? What kind of power it can grant to you? You play as "Guest from afar" - collector of souls that came from far away planet to research the true nature of soul.
Controls: Left mouse button to choose enemy you want to attack Drag and drop souls in souls spots (round) Drag and drop ablilties in souls spots (squrare) Drag and drop an ablilty on enemy to use it (you'll see a purple arrow).

| github.com | https://github.com/Siluet3656/LD58 |
| itch.io | https://siluet-salat.itch.io/pure-soul |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/58/pure-soul |
Ratings
| Overall | 133th | 3.227⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 140th | 3.091⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 96th | 3.318⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 129th | 3.409⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 86th | 3.659⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 113th | 3.095⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 133th | 2.474⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 141th | 3.048⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 26🗳️ | 12🗨️ |
It took me a few attempts to beat the last one, figuring the good configuration, but not so that it became frustrating.
I liked the visuals, especially the cool post process you added that really adds something. It's simple but does the job so well!
UX could be a bit improved:
- I found the "drag-and-release-and-click-to-drop" a bit weird. I would have expected drag-and-drop, or even a simple "click to assign to the first empty slot", since the order in slots have no impact on anything.
- Restarting when defeated shouldn't play the conversations again, and the previous configuration should be kept.
Good job!
One small bug in case you decide to update. For the souls that cost 2 points I guess to equip the game does not stop you from placing one if you dont have enough, only if you are already at the max. So I can place a 2 cost soul if I have 4/5 soul points used but not if I have 6/5
Also, it was a bit of a pain adding souls and abilities each time. Persisting those would be nice.
Thanks for the thorough feedback! Yeah, the ability mechanics turned out really bad — totally my fault. But I’m planning to release a post-jam version and fix it plus add some new stages.
п.с. На широком мониторе всё расползается и наезжает друг на друга
- At the end there were 2 ability slots, in which I could put my only ability at the same time, but only the first one worked.
- It would be nice if you were able to select target before pressing start, and if the target switched after the current target died
Also for some reason game doesn't load in firefox yet works in Chrome. Odd.