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Unstable Caves

By notime4games

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall2113.6025
Fun1833.6025
Innovation1943.5625
Theme1084.0625
Graphics1193.8725
Humor3152.5019
Mood4222.7522

Comments

picttarge 2021-10-04 01:12

Starts simple, gets tricky fast! Good game, could use some sound to improve the mood/humour aspect (an almighty crash of rock) :smiley:

matthew-roelle 2021-10-04 02:10

Well done! Great puzzle game, kind of reminded me of boulder dash lol.

rogual 2021-10-04 14:37

Nice! I like this kind of thing, grid-based puzzle games.

Might be nice if you could use the same button to pickup/drop things, rather than having one button per object type.

And I wasn't quite sure what the rules were about when exactly rocks would fall. I guess that does fit the theme, but for some reason when a game is on a strict grid I expect it to have really rigid, legible mechanics. But I suppose there's no reason it should.

Speaking of the theme, this is a really nice interpretation of it.

Although I did have some criticisms, I found they didn't really affect my experience of the game that much and ended up rating it highly.

barrier 2021-10-08 08:53

Very nice game! Great graphics! The puzzles could get interesting if you had more time to do more levels.

zeilanda 2021-10-17 21:18

Good puzzle, reminded 90s) Convenient control, but maybe will be better to use axe with another button, than move. Thank you for this game!

taboo-chris 2021-10-17 21:40

Super fun to play! I had a small bug on the display of the number of ladder .

spudboy 2021-10-17 21:41

It's really unfortunate that you ran out of time on this. With a few more levels and a little more polish (animations or at least looking left 😛) this could be really good I think.

I will say, it's a little unclear how exactly the supporting systems work. I was usually not quite sure specifically which blocks would fall when I mined a tile or removed a support.

Overall, good start.

pkenney 2021-10-18 20:11

Really cool set of systems that I bet create some fun puzzles, it's too bad you didn't get further since I would have loved to play some more. I liked what was here, cool systems, a nice underground vibe that the art really sells. Nice work, despite not really getting it to a complete experience.

ruruie 2021-10-19 21:35

This is a nice little puzzle game. Could've done with sounds - any sounds at all and I think a single unified interact button would've been enough for removing any object. I actually got stuck not far in!

2kah 2021-10-19 21:38

Shows a lot of promise! I enjoyed the level that was there :)

foresherd 2021-10-19 22:12

I enjoyed the interpretation! The few puzzles there were were fun to figure out. The mechanics of how blocks fell when not supported did seem a bit hard to predict, though that seemed more like buggy edge-cases than unclear design. Overall I enjoyed my time with the game!

grumpy-gecko 2021-10-20 04:53

I liked the puzzle design and quite enjoyed the art! The last finished puzzle sure ramped up the difficulty, was a bit lost until I realized you started out with two ladders. As others have said the ladder number would sometimes display the wrong value and having one pick-up button for objects would've been great. But had a lot of fun playing, thanks for the game! :D

geckoo1337 2021-10-20 19:14

Interesting gameplay with a clean visual. It fits with the theme. Controls work well as expected. I had fun playing. You made a solid entry. Well done ++

criobite 2021-10-20 19:29

This is an awesome little puzzle game! It uses a very simple mechanic but it makes for some great challenges. Congrats!

erikengineengineer 2021-10-20 19:38

Nice Game!

m1nus 2021-10-20 19:46

That was such a good gameplay, it reminded me of Lode Runner, and the art is so nice!

lychee 2021-10-20 19:59

Cool puzzle idea, I had trouble figuring out to do them when they got more complicated. The systems seemed to be good, the only issue I found was if I picked up ladders sometimes the UI wouldn't show how many I have correctly. Solid entry though!