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Secret of The Deep Forest

By deniskazantsev

Percentile
CategoryRankScoreCountLD57Ever
Overall224.062090.294.6
Fun233.942089.293.1
Innovation363.942088.692.4
Theme913.812060.873.0
Graphics1093.672050.364.1
Audio1143.422042.463.9
Humor483.502075.180.3
Mood823.752064.581.9

Comments

mcramon 2025-04-07 13:20 ♥ 1

Gameplay is nice, easy to understand but maybe lacks a little bit of features, which is understandable. Graphics and sounds are way too simple, i am not sure 3D is necessary for this game. Overall the game is pretty decent, and i liked the theme interpretation of going deeper into the forest, however graphics and sound design pull it back. Decent job anyway!

immortalfox 2025-04-07 15:12 ♥ 1

Game is nice. Pretty easy. I thought the AI of enemies is a bit easy too. Graphics are not bad! Sounds are not bad as well, but lack of music actually.. would be better with easy tracks :) Good project!

unima9000 2025-04-07 15:17 ♥ 1

My last bandit betrayed his friends and then went insane. 10/10

kiv 2025-04-07 18:27 ♥ 1

I want to play it on steam. So elegant and so deep!

grid96 2025-04-07 22:43 ♥ 1

Very interesting kind of game board! Did you connect all those nodes manually or are they generated?

I kinda ditched my group right away and just ran past everyone with my five moves guy. Didn't know how to progress beyond day 10 though. Do I need to beat all the enemies there?

deniskazantsev 2025-04-08 07:59 ♥ 0

@grid96 nodes are generated with Poisson-Disc algorithm. Level 10 is final custom level and you need to beat all enemies there. Nevertheless you can continue the game after :)

nicekot 2025-04-08 17:23 ♥ 1

Amazing concept and implementation. Love it very much.

Though I didn't understood that you have to move all 4 characters to the end tiles before pressing escape and left with only one guy after level 1.

Game became a bit easy as I easily finished to lvl 11 with this one dude. I think if enemies actually blocked you and you couldn't just run over them, it would be much more challenging.

But as it is, truly great!

deniskazantsev 2025-04-09 08:14 ♥ 1

@nicekot thank you for feedback! Escaping first level with not whole team is by design to teach player the mechanic :) Not time for tutorials!

As for overall balancing, it's really not perfect as didn't had enough time to playtest during developing. I will definitely address this in post LD version.

discofish 2025-04-10 03:10 ♥ 1

Lovelygame! Amazing art style, simple but interesting gameplay. Great work!

eugenik 2025-04-14 09:38 ♥ 1

That was amazing!.

caffeinetrip 2025-04-15 20:48 ♥ 1

interesting design and gameplay. good job!!! 5/5 shrecks

harmadillo 2025-04-16 17:24 ♥ 1

Great game. Graphics are simple and clear. I like the little arenas and the randomized characters. For the events between levels it would be nice to have a choice or interact with them in some way. Showing the health of each character(like the action points) would be nice.