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Planet Divers: XTREME Underground

By irwatts, jonathan-ray-pollard, thunnus and shadowlion

Percentile
CategoryRankScoreCountLD57Ever
Overall6753.202724.040.3
Fun7132.902719.232.0
Innovation5193.122840.047.7
Theme5333.502840.052.0
Graphics2863.962867.978.9
Audio1093.962883.391.0
Humor1823.522876.381.2
Mood5553.392838.760.8

Comments

jernskegg 2025-04-08 05:20 ♥ 3

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!

athospap 2025-04-08 21:37 ♥ 3

Love the theme! It's helldivers meets NFS: Underground! Good job

johneyd 2025-04-23 08:20 ♥ 2

Wow! Very interesting game! It looks very cool!

benjamm 2025-04-23 09:49 ♥ 5

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.

jamesdev 2025-04-23 18:50 ♥ 3

I really like how this game looks, all the effects work really well! I found the instructions and controls a little unclear however.

helen 2025-04-23 20:24 ♥ 2

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?

joror 2025-04-23 22:41 ♥ 2

Cool little diving game - the controls on keyboard were... rough. Liked the visuals and audio-cues, very immersive 😄

loiclegrosfrere 2025-04-24 09:15 ♥ 2

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! 👏

static-leap-studios 2025-04-24 16:42 ♥ 2

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!

pretendcoding 2025-04-24 21:07 ♥ 1

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.

heat 2025-04-25 09:18 ♥ 2

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!

imnotvegan 2025-04-25 09:35 ♥ 2

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.

antoine-bodin 2025-04-26 17:10 ♥ 0

Did not undertand how to control the ship, maybe a short text on the game page would help :)