Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD57 → Planet Divers: XTREME Underground
By irwatts, Jonathan Ray Pollard, thunnus and ShadowLion
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 675 | 3.20 | 27 | |
| Fun | 713 | 2.90 | 27 | |
| Innovation | 519 | 3.11 | 28 | |
| Theme | 533 | 3.50 | 28 | |
| Graphics | 286 | 3.96 | 28 | |
| Audio | 109 | 3.96 | 28 | |
| Humor | 182 | 3.51 | 28 | |
| Mood | 555 | 3.38 | 28 |
The game looks very good, and sound was immersive, Unfortunatly as a Mouse/keyboard user, it was a bit unclear on how to play. Controls were visble for a gamepad, maybe a good idea for future game? Thanks for letting me play!
Love the theme! It's helldivers meets NFS: Underground! Good job
Wow! Very interesting game! It looks very cool!
I like the theme and the 3D! I also liked the particle effects. I agree with Jern the controls took me a minute to figure out.
I really like how this game looks, all the effects work really well! I found the instructions and controls a little unclear however.
I like the hyper space effects and the explosions. Sound and graphics fit well together. Maybe a score would have been nice to know how deep you've got?
Cool little diving game - the controls on keyboard were... rough. Liked the visuals and audio-cues, very immersive :smile:
Capture d'écran 2025-04-24 105707.png I'll be honest — I didn’t fully understand the controls at first. I’m using an AZERTY keyboard, which probably didn’t help (I’m honestly shocked that Unreal doesn’t support physical key position bindings 😮).
Once I opened the pause menu and saw the gamepad hints, I switched to a controller — much better!
Even then, I’m still not sure I got everything. I figured out the shield and cooling mechanics, but there’s a slot on the left that I never used and didn’t quite understand. Also, some satellites crash off-screen, so it's hard to know whether you would have managed to dodge them without using the shield.
I think full mouse control could have worked really well for this kind of gameplay!
That said — it looks great, and the sound design is super clean. Nice work! 👏
Graphics and Audio were top notch, I couldn't figure out how to control the game with mouse and keyboard though. I'm sure that and some other QOL features like a 'Quit' button would make it in if you had longer. The humor style reminded me of rick n morty, nice job!
I was lost man. I have no idea what I'm doing, I was hitting keys at random and I was able to flick a lever, but I had no idea what it was doing. I feel like the game has legs, but no eyes; we need some visual feedback on what we're doing, and some direction to do it.
Снимок экрана 2025-04-25 141358.png It's a good idea if you know how to play. It took me a while to figure out how to control the levers with the keyboard. You definitely should have done a tutorial on the game page. I got through the game using only the shield lever because I didn't understand what the other lever was for. Overall, the visuals are nice. Good job!
Good graphics of the ship and special effects!
The game needs better explanation of how to control, after I figured out the controls the game went too fast.
A good improvement for the game would be to more clearly indicate from which side the asteroid will hit.
Did not undertand how to control the ship, maybe a short text on the game page would help :)