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Grip of the Abyss

By mcramon

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall713.7339
Fun1513.3038
Innovation1833.1238
Theme1183.7038
Graphics104.3838
Audio533.7638
Humor1392.7931
Mood803.7537

Comments

ntmalichi 2025-04-07 05:42

Got 256 :) (If I was him I would have just accepted my fate)

gaudy 2025-04-07 13:34

at first I didn't understand what to do, but as soon as I realized the game opened up and pulled me in for a few runs, very beautiful art and great sounds respect

kryakikrya 2025-04-07 13:36

Perfect game. All aspects are well done: unusual gameplay, good graphics and sounds. 10/10 Снимок экрана 2025-04-07 163521.png

busisen 2025-04-07 13:49

poor guy is just destined to die. bro needs to work on his repair skills

got a solid 268. nice entry! I like the problem of figuring out the best pathing to solve the problems showing up. graphics are 10/10

jiri-hysek 2025-04-07 16:14

Latest score 189. Not much, but it was an honest work :) I like the visuals and overall mood, walking could be a little faster/fluent, though. But it was nice, relaxing... at least at the beginning. Then everything went bad... :D

threegoldeneggs 2025-04-07 19:05

I love the graphics and you really start feeling the stress as you go deeper and everything starts breaking haha

unreference 2025-04-07 19:39

Looks great, plays well, and sounds good. Difficulty ramps up really fast but takes a while to get there and I wish there was a bit more of an indicator that you're getting deeper (the ship falling apart helps but a depth indicator or some diegetic effect would be cool).

ps: two tries and got 220

onngd 2025-04-07 23:34

amogus, is that you? cool reference, good implementation, awesome!

freamdev 2025-04-08 06:19

Pretty fun game, I very much enjoyed the hectic "just keep things runing" feeling. Maybe beacaus it reminded me how we do things at work :smile:

I wish there was a way to see your progress before dying, like the outside changing a little, or a distance gauge you could use.

dzejpi 2025-04-08 18:16

I got 200 meters deep. Hopefully not that bad, especially considering the fact that I wasn't that sure if I was doing everything correctly.

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I really love the design of the submarine of the game over screen, it absolutely kicks ass! Great sound effects, and graphics look very nice too. Maybe I would welcome more explanation, but on the other hand, it's also part of the fun to figure things out. And it's gonna be the for the best that I will never be in charge of submarine.

dnp 2025-04-09 09:59

Fun game with great pixel art. I think it would be better if everything was sped up just a bit to really increase the frantic nature.

texugo 2025-04-09 12:22

The game started and I was like "Oh, this is manageable", and the CHAOS and everything going down at once. Great game, love the art!

duke-ua 2025-04-09 17:21

I absolutely loved how the game starts off easy and then quickly ramps up the chaos as oxygen runs low and systems fail. I was in a fun kind of panic trying to keep everything together! Amazing job capturing that feeling of desperation!

follusior 2025-04-09 17:22

Scored more than 227 points. The game was hooked, the graphon was cool, but I really missed making some background music, it was pretty boring without it

mcramon 2025-04-09 17:39

Thanks everyone for the thoughs and feedback! There are a few aspects i knew i needed to work on, such as lack of music, no progress indication, better tutorial, but unfortunately I ran out of time. Thank you all for playing!

mtnbonez 2025-04-09 17:45

Really like the graphics! Took me a minute to realize I needed to move the oxygen supply around, I thought it was endlessly working for a bit haha.

raynorr 2025-04-09 18:19

The graphics are really beautiful, it lacks a small score counter to know where we are ;)

nsadie 2025-04-09 19:27

The graphics are really nice, but for some reason the scaling is really weird on my pc, making it really hard to see. Screenshot 2025-04-09 212535.png

mizaless 2025-04-09 20:15

Очень классный арт. Хорошие звуки и атмосфера. Немного не хватило геймплея и истории. Отличная работа!)

python-b5 2025-04-09 21:14

Loved the building tension in this. It started out almost mindlessly easy, but eventually became close to impossible. I ended up with a score of 251 - I'm sure I could have done a little better, but I'm not confident it would have been possible to continue on much further. Things were going wrong a lot faster than my walk speed would allow me to fix them. In that way, I don't think this game works very well as a high-score chaser... but as a standalone experience, I quite enjoyed it. Good work.

xpoho 2025-04-10 11:35

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I wonder why my protagonist is so slow? Maybe he is sleepy ^_^

Good work1 Nice art, I love it.

teamofey-izorsky 2025-04-10 16:21

Хорошая игра, пиксель арт на высоте

justcore 2025-04-11 12:54

The gameplay is pretty simple. I really liked all the metallic sounds, they are really satisfying! As for the electric sound and the alarm sound - they came off a bit annoying and maybe too loud. Overall, nice game!

thomz12 2025-04-19 11:18

Very nice game! It started of very slow which sometimes left me wondering what to do. The graphics are very well done!

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Good job!