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The audio I *did* hear was really nice though. Good job :)","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1036410,"author_name":"ColourArc","author_uid":"colourarc","epoch":1713217810,"text":"Nice visual style and fun to play. I know you said you ran out of time but I thought there was a good variety of different stuff to summon.\n\nMy only real complaint was that it felt to me like you should collect souls\/graves by running into them rather than pressing a button to pick them up. That's how it is in many other games in this style I could think of, but I'm sure you had a reason for doing it differently.","format":"md","likes":3,"spam":"N"},{"id":1036499,"author_name":"Mantsje","author_uid":"mantsje","epoch":1713219036,"text":"Wow! what an awesome game, it's so complete I got dragged completely into it. The chill vibes the music give are really different from the stress of playing the game :)\n\nMaybe you can check out our game as well (Soon to be published) it's in a very similar niche!","format":"md","likes":3,"spam":"N"},{"id":1038244,"author_name":"Katelyn Trout","author_uid":"katelyn-trout","epoch":1713234292,"text":"Vibes are so good. I think I would prefer to just be able to walk over to pick up souls rather than using E, but thats just me. Overall great entry! ","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1038251,"author_name":"Adam Konig","author_uid":"adam-konig","epoch":1713234328,"text":"Solid entry very polished, I think it would be more enjoyable to just run over graves to collect the spirits then to keep pressing E. Overall though great tension and fun gameplay\n","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1040628,"author_name":"LDJam user 389319","author_uid":"389319","epoch":1713255414,"text":"I love it. 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Aside from that, very fun overall!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1057345,"author_name":"unless games","author_uid":"unless-games","epoch":1713386684,"text":"Nice game with a chill and somewhat bitter vibe (us being the last one and fighting till the end).\n\nWhile the tutorial crow is nicely implemented it would be better to not have to wait for it each run.\n\nInteraction could be done with Space or mouse instead of E.\n\nAt the end it'd be nice to see how far you got.\n\nSolid entry nevertheless!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1066344,"author_name":"Maxthedoom","author_uid":"maxthedoom","epoch":1713603765,"text":"Cute and fun game! The only criticism I'd have is that, your time survived does not show up after you die, and given how much you need to run and collect graves, the E key can be a bit awkward to pick up a lot of graves while moving.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1071328,"author_name":"Spexxilove","author_uid":"spexxilove","epoch":1713820062,"text":"cool core gameplay, and great visuals ! charm in the game.\nit devolves very quickly into spamming E and clicking cars towards the end. it didn't really feel like I'm making big choices when summoning units.\n\nnice entry ^^","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1072436,"author_name":"Baluj","author_uid":"baluj","epoch":1713910998,"text":"I like the concept, I feel like the difficulty increases very quickly but it's a good game. Good job!","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1072483,"author_name":"EmilAlix","author_uid":"emilalix","epoch":1713915871,"text":"Very nice game! Comprehensive and fun to play, kudos to the visuals and level design. The controls are easy to pick up with a well-integrated tutorial.\nGood job !","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1072799,"author_name":"LDJam user 243193","author_uid":"243193","epoch":1713960107,"text":"Nice portal defense game. 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