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Chthonic Cacophony

By sebbot, puregarlic, Dylan Shumway and Jacob VanDomelen

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall5203.4428
Fun4943.3028
Innovation1923.6928
Theme5333.5028
Audio3543.4028
Humor813.9028
Mood3133.7628

Comments

juliocezar 2025-04-08 00:53

I feel really good playing this game, funny moment! Nice job friends!

velis69 2025-04-08 08:48

Philosophy top, very fun, comrades. Check our game with black humor about mind diver in cyberpunk!

jddoesdev 2025-04-08 23:51

Interesting game, but the background made gameplay extremely difficult for me and with all the assets on a web build it was slow to be able to pick up or grab words. Slightly choppy. I like the concept though. Good work.

xorfe 2025-04-08 23:51

When I first tried it, I couldn't understand it but figured out in second run. The music, SFX, and visual effects were really good. Overall, I liked it.

speedcuber25 2025-04-08 23:58

Very impressive, those background visuals look amazing! Super creative take on the theme. Especially loved the animations for the talking heads. Nice work!

nojoule 2025-04-09 11:49

I like the vibe and visuals of the game a lot! Sometimes i felt like i clicked a word when it was falling fast, but it did not register (maybe adding a slightly larger hitbox makes it feel a bit nicer). Also the game stopped, because i clicked outside the game on a link at one time lol, so mouse capture would be good.

matthewdrake 2025-04-09 15:42

Visuals are totally insane which the audio bolsters perfectly. Very impressive stuff, really cool mood and fun gameplay too!

jnur 2025-04-09 19:41

The vibes and weird vaporwave aesthetics were so fun, made the otherwise very dry concept of clicking on big words into a fun little game.

Also big props for being so dilligent in listing where you got the assets, and what you used to create the game. It's a shame that we can't rank the game's graphics

braktheman 2025-04-10 17:12

I can't tell if I'm smarter or not after playing this, but I successfully clicked on a lot of big words I can't pronounce so maybe I am a philosopher now?

Great job love the vaporwave vibes!

kartoffel-licht 2025-04-10 17:47

I became a scholar, yay : ) Only thing I that could be improved is: more gameplay. Like, add more mechanics and funny things that could happen. Everything else is really fine. I really never have seen a game like this before, so :thumbsup:

mgear 2025-04-10 19:24

nice visuals! definitely unique game idea : D

dazylude 2025-04-11 14:18

I absolutely love the absurdity of what's going here, it's amazing. Thank you for making this! Couldn't get a better title than the Orator, sadly, but will try to :)

idos 2025-04-11 20:38

Overall the game is pretty cool, the music and overall visuals are strange but that's even a plus

the3rdhunter 2025-04-12 00:14

Very cool game. The gameplay was interesting. It was challenging to remember, identify, and quickly click on the words. And the challenge felt like it ramped up pretty well as the game went on, although I felt like I was burnt more often than not by the words I needed not showing up in time. To me the real strength of this game is the aesthetic and the audio. I'm a big fan of these vapourwave visuals. The little animations on the statues are great, and the kinetic backgrounds you're flying through are sublime. This game oozes style. Great work!

surweaver 2025-04-12 07:12

I still can't get past the eighth dialogue, but I'm sooooo curious about what's in the depths :D Even though it's a background cutscene, the depth and difficulty increase are felt pretty good!

The game has a fun and simple dialogue mechanic, addictive as a clicker game :D

Although I would like the "hitboxes" of the words to be a little bigger in size, so that I can hit them normally when the dialogues are already 4-5 words long, otherwise I don't have time to read them, and I don't have time to hit them with the cursor :D

The animations, sounds, and appearance of the game (and the cursor too) are very well suited to each other and everything looks very stylish! Gorgeous entry!

borabee 2025-04-15 02:28

Very original take on the theme! I love the psychodelic vibes you went for with the visuals and audio. My brain is in a knot now after reading and trying to memorise so many big words XD

hypersomnia 2025-04-17 22:45

Omg I loooooooove your art style and how you match with the theme!!!!!!Merging philosophy with gameplay is so cooooool!!!!