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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Enjoyment | #792 | 3.798 | 3.798 |
| Audio | #1010 | 3.528 | 3.528 |
| Artwork | #1560 | 3.742 | 3.742 |
| Narrative | #2731 | 2.607 | 2.607 |
| Creativity | #4232 | 3.202 | 3.202 |
Ranked from 89 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does your game fit the theme?
The Room loops itself giving the play a really fun gameplay mechanic to play around with the combat system designed around it. Weapons also loop back to you.
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Ninety-Nine Studios
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Love the art, and interesting idea of being able to switch weapon mid-combat (thought it took me some time to figure it out). I would love to have the difficulty ramping up faster (Or having Hell mode, with a strong challenge from the start!)
Really satisfying combat, and the art looks great too!
Fun game ! Really easy to pick up, even without looking at the description so that's cool.
People are talking about the bow but boomerang is most op weapon :) I actually stopped playing because I just stood in the middle, smashing every ennemies too close, and half a second later the boomerang was in my hand again. So I could just smash 10 ennemies in a row if needed by spamming lmb.
I have a video screening if you want just in case. I can't share link on the comment I think.
Good job on the audio and artwork, it really has a vibe !
Thanks for the feedback, we will be making balance changes to make game more difficult.
I love the strong rock/metal vibe of this game — it really makes you want to smash everything and crush enemies with a giant hammer!
The loading screen looks super professional, and the overall experience feels really solid.
Great job!
Nice game! I like the art, and the music a lot! I think the gameplay could use a bit of revamping, seeing as there are a good amount of people on the team. Other than that, I love the whole hellish theme accompanied by the music, as well as the ability to shoot and bludgeon vile hell beings! Nice work.
Thank you very much for the feedback, we won't be changing much of a gameplay, core mechanics gon stay the same, but we are going to polish it and enhance game feel.
Hellbound is bad ass. Hope you are able to keep working on this. Already a lot of fun and the weapon variety and special moves is awesome.
Thanks for the feedback, we are actually looking forward to make little updates after the jam!
Love the visuals and the DOOM rock soundtrack. Gameplay is very smooth and felt fun to play but I will say the bow is super overpowered haha. I was wiping out enemies in a single shot and every time I tried another weapon I just felt about 10x less powerful. It's super satisfying to use but might need nerfing a little. Good job!
Yep, the bow needs lots of nerfs. I'm glad you liked the music, thanks for the review!
Loved the Dante inspired outfit, the art is really good and the music is just on point. Awesome game.
Haha, glad someone caught the reference. Thanks for the review, we appreciate it!
OK, real talk ... I thought this game was not for me ...
and OOOhh boy was i wrong, this felt amazing, the variety for a game jam is impressiv, please tell me you plan on updating this after the jam
We absolutely are. We'll add everything we planned but didn't have time for during the jam and polish the game a lot. We're glad you liked it so much!
You gave me ninety nine reasons to care
Si I did
The amount of weapons you can pick up it actually impressive for a game jam game.
A little more oomph to the demon killing and this could totally be a full blown priced game.
could you specify what you mine by oomph? the feedback is very much appriciated thank you!
Mostly polish stuff, like screen shake, particle effects, punchier and randomized sound effects, tighter controls, etc. The so called game feel. It takes many iterations to get that stuff perfect, that's why not really for game jam setting.
Look at the hotline miami for example, that's like a king of OOMPH in games. And this could totally be up there with it :)
The audio and visuals sell the satisfying demon slashing. The amount of weapons is great, but I think the bow is a bit extra strong - it decimates everything quite easily. Overall a nice demon fighting game, that could benefit from some escalating difficulty and maybe some highscore/timer.
we do already have timer and highscore in game? it shows you after death. did it just bug out for you? or was it just that u were so cracked and pro at the game you never got to see it
Oh maybe there was a bug. It's a game jam after all, i still had a lot of fun.
WOW. this feels like those old Nitrome games I played as a kid. So so fun!! It's visually amazing, the design and animations of the characters are insane. For me the most enjoyable weapon was the bow, I loved when the arrows looped at times 3 times for a sick trickshot. Easy 5 star!!
Thanks, your game is awesome too, I liked the concept. Majestic pfp btw
It was pretty fun to experiment with all the different weapons! Needs some bug fixes, but overall I really enjoyed it. It would also be really cool if enemies cold chase you by looping the screen themselves. I also liked seeing that there's an introduction, and the menus are cool!
could you specify what bugs you found?
sure:
> player can get stuck inside platforms if moving sideways and coming from below, and can't move sideways while stuck (happened with the lowest one on the left). Will un-stuck when jumping.
> I don't know if that's wanted, but having solid flying monsters means I sometimes cling to them involuntarily when jumping
> after some time the player doesn't animate anymore and just stays with its hands and feet laid out (couldn't identify a cause, but I was discarding and picking up weapons).
Hope these can help :)
Thanks for your feedback! it looks like all of them were caused by missing no friction physic materials. thanks for identifying them for us.
Really cool concept, great pixel art. slomo breaking out of chains at the start is pretty rad. Enjoyed trying out all the weapons :D
Cool weapon arsenal! Wish there were more enemies to test them on >:). Hell done!
We had 2 more enemies planned but we ran out of time TT. Thanks for the feedback (i couldn't come up with a pun)
I agree with the others about the polish, and I enjoyed the music and sound effects. But I felt it was hard to aim at flying enemies, and it was easy to cheese all enemies by just spam going the edge of the screen. I think a prediction line would have been nice for the aim, and if enemies followed you through the map edge it would make the game more challenging.
I have a low attention span and had a hard time playing longer than a minute or two. I enjoyed playing and keep at it you did a great job!
Thanks for the review! We tried to come up with solutions to make the enemies follow you through the portals, but all of them were really messy and buggy. Also a prediction line is a great idea, too bad we didn't think of that😭😭. We appreciate the review <3
This is so juicy, the combat all feels so satisfying. Great work!
pretty fun game, gets a bit too chaotic as the game goes on but i really enjoyed it
Ye thats the point to get chaotic lol, after all you are in hell, thanks for the review!
The game is so polished. I really liked the loading screens with the running knight :D
and the gameplay is really enjoyable.
Nice job
Thank you for the review!
Nice! Gave me some Towerfall vibes, so I used the bow a lot. Was very satisfying killing a whole row of demons with a single arrow. Using the melee weapons was much more of a challenge. But an awesome game! Well done!
Thanks very much for you feedback, if you didnt find out in game you can actually use special abilities that some melee weapons have (mclutchu and spear to be precise) that could make the challenge ease up.