Very strong entry. I like it :)
Graphics, Sounds and Music <3
Also the concept is lovely.
Thanks for the game

Cool! Graphics and music are really polished!

overall this is a great game simply amazing. Art, audio and the mood are all very refined and everything else just adds to the over all feel of the game

I'd say my only issue with the game, is that there's so much info to go through, and only a tiny space to do it. When you have a large screen, it can feel a bit frustrating sorting through all the tiny tabs when you know they could fit on the screen.

That said, I enjoyed it quite a bit! I was blown away by the graphics, the mood is chill, and the concept is really unique. I feel like I can see a bit of inspiration from Papers, Please. Documents are fun! :D

The art is really awesome, and the sounds/music fit quite well. The concept is also pretty entertaining.

I wish the interface was a little easier to sort through. I had a hard time organizing the matches because you can only view one screen at a time and you have to keep clicking CV when changing monsters to see their description. It would have been easier if you could view two items at once (job and CV) or click through the monsters while the CV window stays up.

I really like it. The graphics are exceptional, the little juicy touches are amazing, the music, the humour is spot on, it's all pretty great.

BUT.

The game's doesn't draw me in - it could be solved by tutorialising, or chunking down the game into more manageable bits to start, maybe. As it stands, what's there is an overwhelming pile of stuff to figure out and understand.

Why Papers Please was a great game was because (well besides that it's not a jam game, of course) it was TIMED, which limited the amount of stuff the player could focus on (by design), which means there isn't a ton of stuff. Your game gets around that by removing the time constraint, but then I just feel like it's a huge chore.

I look forward to seeing this evolve, it's really interesting :)

The art style is just... perfect!
We can always count on you to make one of the most beautiful games here!

Good luck!

Great concept well executed.

Amazing art, music and sound and well polished.

Interesting unique concept with some of the best graphics I've come across so far this Ludum dare. Another strong entry.

Awesome art and game concept. It's really polished too.

Amazing feel and world, this game has an immense amount of polish and it shows. I wish there was more effort put towards improving the game aspect: as it stands there is an insane amount of attention that is required to make good choices, and it's incredibly annoying to have to open the CV of each applicant after clicking their face, especially with the slow going animations between each one. That being said, it's only annoying because I am in a rush to get to the meat of the gameplay, which is compelling and fun. If the game started with 1 job and ramped up slower the game would have held my attention for much longer.

The game is gorgeous and well presented. Congrats on the entry!

This is fantastic, bravo Ellian! Such mood, and worldbuilding! The random generation works so well! So much stuff for three days, bravo!

Haha! This is a very well made game! What a wonderful graphic and music! The sounds are really nice, too. That smack when you sign a job contract. Great! Well done and a lot of fun!

Very cool! I love it :)

Music&Sound are really nice. Very clean entry. Art is beautiful. It becomes boring after second turn but still.. Good job!

Yup, this was super fun and funny, and the graphics look awesome. My only thing is to second what wg_phancock said: it would be nice to be able to look at more information at one time. But really excellent in any case!

Great game. I love it.
I almost didn't give it a try because I though there's too much text to read but that ended up being one of the most fun parts of the game.
I found it annoying that if I have the CV opened and I change the candidate I have to click the CV button again. I wish I could quickly go through CV's faster. I don't have all day :)
I reminds me a little bit of Papers, Please. In that gave you had the option of keeping more things opened on the desk. Here you have to keep toggling between CVs, job descriptions, and employers... It's hard to stay focused.

Excellent game overall. All the clues are there if you're willing to consider all the flavor text.

Art and music is excellent, idea is really cool, just great, really great job.

Kind of Paper, Please! of demons. Fun game :)

Great entry. Window size is a little small... but everything else is perfect. Congratulations!

The gameplay is really overwhelming and hard to figure out. Also a bit too slow-paced (I get that you can set the pace yourself) because it took me so long to make a good connection, eventually actually not getting a good connection... Had a 100% one time though, but most of my sollutions only had less than 50%
Other than that the graphics are of absolutely outstanding quality, super fun take on the theme and the audio is really nice as well :)

I love the polished "intro" credits! It makes such a good 1st impression.

Very original game style.

Wonderful art - such great pixel goodness, and a styling design aesthetic.

The sounds are perfect: never annoying.

The extra "juice" for things like 100% match! Affinity and the wax seals are so cool.

Hard to find a category which doesn't deserve 5 stars ;)
I think everything has been said already, it's a really cool concept and it's perfectly executed. Congrats!

Man, this is such a polished and fun entry! Congratulations!
I think sometimes there's no perfect match for each job offer, so I it's a bit up to your luck whether you have good candidates, which in the end affects your score.
Anyway, it's a really amazing entry and easily one of my favorites so far. Good job!

Wow, really impressive stuff Ellian! Kudos! The juiciness in the menus makes them really satisfying to click around in :D

What an awesome entry! It manages to feel very "papers please" without really lifting anything from it! I sometimes had no idea what I was doing, it felt like I was missing some key point of info. In a post-jam version I would look into fixing the mouse overlap stuff, sometimes I'd click near the left of the screen and the help screen would appear, and if my cursor overlapped a couple of options at the bottom it would sometimes choose the one in the back instead of the front. These are TINY gripes tho, amazing work!!!!

So much polish! Very well done!

jumping from CV to CV is a bit tedious, aside from this, the game is great and incredibly polished

I liked this a lot! I would say the difficulty curve could be probably lowered a bit on Day 1, but overall this is a very cool game. :)

Wow! This game is so polished! Amazing entry!
I'm really impressed with that intro. It setup the expectations really high... and the game delivered!
The audio greatly enhanced the mood. All the different paper sfx are pretty cool!

I must admit, though, that it's quite slow... and a bad choice to play at 10 P.M. (and I was already sleepy...). XD

I was able to complete 2 days, handling one 100% match job in each day. I'll be sure to come back to this later!

Great job!

Once again a very strong entry, no doubt top 100! Great work!

Amazing work done here. Love everything about this!

Well polished, awesome entry!

Beautiful graphics, awesome game. I included it in part 9 of my Ludum Dare 33 Compilation video series, if you would like to take a look :) https://youtu.be/L1fCW_I8xho

Great game. Loved the interface. Everything there was nice and clean.

Very good looking and original game. There is a lot of depth to it.
I just think there is too much information at once, feels too much like a boring job.

Solid game, strong pixel art and animations as well as music and sound. Only thing is the amount of effort required to navigate the interface; I wish the monsters would come in one after the other so I wouldn't have to manually select one to view next, then open and flip through the jobs one by one. I know that is influenced from Papers, Please, but as others have mentioned maybe introducing more mechanics further into the game will make it easier to draw players in.

Overall, a fantastic and polished job. Very well done.

Would have been nice to be able to see the character and CV at the same time. Or even if the CV window stayed open when you changed applicants instead of having to re-open it. As it is I didn't feel much reward for my actions and I didn't remember the characters without having their names and faces side by side.

All together though great entry.

Fantastic entry! Love that bureaucratic paperwork mood!

Very strong in all areas! "Window" management is a bit tedious until you get used to it but once you have figured out your workflow it's a fun little game.

Nice and funny game ! It feels good to be on the right side of the CV :)
I was somehow confused by the amount of labels and infos, but i managed to beat it using only CV and JOBS tabs in the end ; reading all the infos was fun and far less boring than I expected at first.
Nice visuals, i like this palette and artstyle. Good job :)

This is probably one of the best entries I have seen! The graphics are lovely and so is the music. The concept is great and reminds me much of Papers, please! only less stressful. Keeping the game in one room would have gotten boring but the randomization turns this otherwise lazy design into something spectacularly engaging! Especially with the fact some of the qualities were very vague so you had no clue if you were interpreting it right. It really made me feel like a detective! Amazingly well made!

Nice idea and quality graphics! Everything feels slick and polished. I'd say it's a little hard to keep track of the tabs and all the info. It's also difficult to figure out what's going on and how the info given relates to the jobs.

Man, oh man is this some gorgeous pixel art. This game is stunningly well presented.
Unfortunately, I found the gameplay a bit lackluster. Choosing monsters based on their explicitly listed skills rarely feels like much more than fitting round pegs into round holes, and choosing monsters based on their hidden skills feels like guesswork with almost no proper explanation as to what to look for.
I also found a couple of UI quirks that really detracted from my experience. The first is that switching between character's CVs required one too many clicks. If a CV is already up when I switch between two potential employees, it would be convenient to have the new CV pop up automatically. My second issue is that the "offer job" button is very easy to miss. The color choice makes it look more like a watermark that only exists for visual style than a button which can be interacted with.
I really wish I could be more positive about your entry, as it has an incredible amount of charm, style, and personality, but it just feels like more thought needs to go into the mechanics before this can be a really worthwhile experience.

Made it about 6 days in before all the dark lords died, whoops...

Very creative entry, but swapping between monsters and CVs got quite old when you have to click 3 times every time. The sound design and art are fantastic, I think you've done an amazing job pulling all together. Very strong entry, great work! :D

Great concept and development! Loved the graphics too. Really cool entry, good job!

Intriguing game! Reminds me a bit of Papers, Please.

So much polish! I really like this entry, beautiful and amusing. Could be more challenging, but whatever!

Strong entry! I really like the art style! Adding some time constraint could improve the challenge. Good job ! ;)

This is so clever, i love it. Only suggestion would be to spread out the amount of information, it starts pretty overwhelming right off the bat. Great job!

The only thing I could complain about is the teeny-tiny window :)

Very good game with excellent graphics! Was a bit hard to figure out qualities, but was still great to play!

Awesome!! Really polished and nice. My two complaints are: 1 The CV tab has to be reopened over and over, 2 There isn't much to keep me playing and engaged, gameplay needs some tweaks. That being said, although the systems were a bit tricky to figure out at first, there was a lot of depth to them. overall great!

The game is really nice! A lot of information to consider though, this is a game to be played slowly and with a lot of attention, constantly switching between different documents. The graphics and the music are great. Really polished!