alphabetasoup 2025-04-08 03:13
Holy smokes this game is amazing! Great work! The mood you created was really cool. All the little effects and items in the background and the sound effects came together really well.
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD57 → Submerged
By trogdor-20x6
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 356 | 3.65 | 21 | |
| Fun | 548 | 3.21 | 21 | |
| Innovation | 592 | 3.02 | 21 | |
| Theme | 214 | 4.02 | 21 | |
| Graphics | 484 | 3.55 | 21 | |
| Audio | 440 | 3.15 | 21 | |
| Humor | 1 | |||
| Mood | 134 | 4.05 | 21 |
Holy smokes this game is amazing! Great work! The mood you created was really cool. All the little effects and items in the background and the sound effects came together really well.
Nice interpretation of the theme! I love the way how obstacles in stages is combined with the repression and defense showing in a family therapy, where progress in therapy also bring mechanics to go further. Love the atmosphere!!
Man, props for killing my mood D: but actually really well done, you told a great cohesive story and the gameplay elements were nice and easy to discover!
Really enjoyed this one. Liked the dynamic of following the story while navigating the sub. Glad no one killed the dog. (note there seems to be a bit of a bug that allows you to click to teleport). What a great experience great work!
@ian-mcd Oops, thought I disabled that. I had a shortcut for debug mode to allow teleporting around. Thanks for telling me!
Looks absolutely amazing! Graphics, sound, atmosphere, theme—everything's a perfect 5/5! But I couldn't get past that obstacle with different currents :(
At first I thought this was just gonna be a cute submarine game but boy was I wrong. I was really surprised by everything at first but it was a pleasant surprise with how everything went, it was really neat to see different sides of the same experience from the different family members. My main critique would have to be that the dash powerup didn't seem to have enough juice a lot of the time, and I had to slam into walls at a certain angle to get through it. Regardless of that though, really cool concept and good execution on it!
I usually don't play story focused/driven games, but you reeled me in anyways. Great narrative, and while the graphics and audio are simple, they don't distract from the main substance, being the conversations. You even got me a little bit teary eyed.
My movement did get locked out a few times, not sure what was happening but It went away after a short period. And the long against-the-current sections were a bit tricky.
Great game :)
Great game, especially amused by how the text inscriptions push the submarine back and forth. Good luck with the voting!
Nice native, i like it, good game bro! Check my game too and rate it, comrade!
That was insane!! Great job!!.
This came across as sincere and brave. Great job combining gameplay with narrative/dialogs. And narrating through perspectives from different family members as different levels was a great idea! I like how hard it is to navigate through obstacles, and how frequent it is to meet set backs; the feel of frustration and loss of progress really resonates with the theme a lot. It is never easy to express grief through creativity and art, and I think you have done it beautifully!