eugenik 2026-04-20 22:14
Very good mood, love the atmosphere and clever gameplay.
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD59 → Jester’s Vesper
By stisdan and
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 72 | 4.10 | 92 | |
| Fun | 34 | 4.15 | 93 | |
| Innovation | 398 | 3.42 | 92 | |
| Theme | 784 | 2.57 | 92 | |
| Graphics | 76 | 4.47 | 94 | |
| Audio | 1 | |||
| Mood | 64 | 4.28 | 93 |
Very good mood, love the atmosphere and clever gameplay.
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As a Balatro enjoyer, I absolutely love this game! The art style is amazing as well, and the game feels very polished.
Great job on this incredible entry!
The animation is sooo smooth
on this day.. i become a Jester-core. STYLISH! thanks for the experience!
I really love this game, gameplay is addictive, graphics look amazing and music sounds so cool. I wasn't familiar with the genre but once i understood how pairs work the game went smoothly
The game concept is really intriguing. I like the dice mechanics. Took me a while to figure out that I could hover the moon to see the multipliers - Maybe its worth repeating those on this jam page? The artworks are really pretty! Some animations when the enemy hits you would have been nice, since as it is I kinda didn't notice at first that I was losing HP, but I understand very well from personal experience that its hectic at the end of a game jam and you don't have time for all the finishing touches. Really interesting iteration of this sort of Slay the Spire-like design. Really cool and very pretty to look at! :smile:
I love gambling!! Kind of reminded me of Balatro in a (good) way. Could have a little bit more synergy and absurd combinations just for fun, but the balancing was done well already! Also the artstyle is super endearing!
DICES!!!! very atmospheric art and cool combo mech also
astonishing art! great style and design!love the texture! the mechanism is quite easy to understand, love throwing the dice. the game looks delicate, well done!!
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Well done! Very interesting game concept. Moreover, the game graphics are stunning! The background music suits this game so well it creates very special mood. I really enjoyed the game, however I'm not a fan of this kind of games.
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This is so cool. My time is 15:06. Music and arts go so wonderfully together. I had some ideas like this myself, but this is far beyond of my dummy ideas. Good luck.
The graphics are beautiful, the gameplay is engaging, and it was a lot of fun to play.
I enjoyed the game sooo much. Love it fully. That was time of a real JESTER FESTER I must say! The balatro mechanics with DND dices works pretty good and the overall setting is just great! (even though the jam theme is absent)
amazing art style
Incredible art, responsive design elements, great sound, and an overall cool concept I finished the game in 10:07 I also like that there are hints for all the elements, even if you don’t notice them right away However, I feel like the game doesn’t quite match the theme
Incredible animation so smooth and satisfying
really great work, I’d love to see a full release!! also, I feel like instead of poker-style combinations, it might work better to just aim for the highest possible number, just my thoughts :)
Outstanding entry, I wish I have a full version on itch or Steam.
Yoooo visual peak cinema!!! I really loved the gameplay loop — it’s fantastic!
Pretty good idea, reminded me of Balatro, and the visual style is superb.
really nice visuals and idea
It looks nice and the concept is interesting. But I didn't really enjoy putting together combinations of numbers; it would be better to earn points in a different way.
Либо баг, либо я не понял как работает добавление кубика в колоду. Я нажимал, но ничего не происходило. А так рогалик норм, даже какие-то синергии прослеживались, но тема совсем мимо.
This should absolutely be expanded, its so polished and stylistic is above so many levels.
Also, real good when you get a good reroll. Loving it!
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Reminds me a similar game on the leagues of legends launcher x) Really cool and beautiful art and music, good job :D
Game is so good! Really fun to play. But the visuals are just stunning. Such good drawings. Music was so well fitting as well. Gameplay was intuitive and flowed really well. Thanks for the experience!
Nice and easy-to-grasp compact Balatro-like. I had a great time with it, and the stylish art really ties the whole experience together.
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Took me a little while to really understand what was happening. Once I got the hang of it, I fully enjoyed it. Music, artwork, and gameplay fit nicely together.
The visuals are amazing—I really love it
非常有趣，整体也融合得很好，我喜欢这种复古带有一点怪诞的感觉！
very fun, loved the style and the music!
very cool art style and addictive gameplay! the combination of dice as poker chips is a very interesting idea.
im not quite sure how the game relates to the jam theme, other than the "send signal" button x) but still, a good, polished game.
i also think i encountered a small bug: the enemy had 0 HP, but he didn't die. i'm also sharing my results (ignore the time, I was AFK).photo_2026-04-22_16-13-32.jpgphoto_2026-04-22_16-10-24.jpg
The animation is so fluid, and the sounds of the dice are so pleasant, you just want to see them every time, and the mechanics are so simple but so interesting, ABSOLUTE CINEMA
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The visuals and sounds are great. I also really liked the idea of artifacts being part of your armor set
Really great game. The style is immaculate? and the sound design. Cheffs kiss.
Super cool game, amazing art and addicting gameplay loop!!
I really liked the idea, it's like Balatro with faceted cubes, and I loves the drawing style, it's very cool
Very addictive! The art is beautiful, and the roguelike elements add extra interest. This game has strong potential. Excellent work!
Sprite-0001.png Just a goated game. Obviously very Balatro-like, and not that much to do with "Signal" besides saying it on the button, but just so polished and a great all around experience. Its a little too luck depended at the moment maybe since you cant really choose to play a three of a kind if you dont roll it even when your whole build is about it.
But yea great job, art and presentation is also just top notch.
Great game, I didn't immediately realize there was a poker system involved. There's room for metastrategy, where it's better to stick with the big cube option with a minimal hand.
screenshot-20260424-103858.png This is an absolutely fantastic game. Its gameplay design is undoubtedly its greatest highlight. It perfectly combines dice mechanics with build-building elements, bringing strong randomness and rich diversity through dice rolls, which greatly boosts the game's replayability. Besides, its soundtrack and visuals are both cinematic ，absolutely top-tier!
The design of the music and animation is excellent.
I really liked the visuals and the music gives the game a some kind of a theatrical vibe. Gameplay was also well done!
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It was a pleasure to enjoy classical music, everything was done at a high altitude. The only thing is that you didn't have enough vivid health reaction, sometimes you forget about it at all.
I won! Reminiscent of Dice with Death — what's the utility of the d20s? For a while I thought that the total value of the dice was affecting damage, but as far as I could tell, it was just the different "hands."
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Fun and addictive game! It took me some time to mouse over the moon to get exact calculations details.
WOW Great visual and sooo fun gameplay and very polish game, i love this! also cool animation, music choice and characters design! everything in this game are great. GREAT JOB!Screenshot_20260427_074513.pngScreenshot_20260427_072707.png
Здорово, очень красиво. Механика простая и понятная.
As the other people mentioned, the graphics and the UI look fantastic. The character designs are also very good.
Having more impact, when the player gets hit and looses HP, would be a nice addition.
What I really liked is the "health bar" of the enemies. The less HP they have, the redder they become. I really like that detail. :)
Really interesting dice + poker rule gameplay.
Looks good, but doesn't provide a challenge.
Balatro meets poker dice! Epic. Just epic. Managed to win with 1 artifact :D
Prob one of my favorite games of the jam, I enjoyed it a lot and cleared it so quickly meaning that it's fast pace gave it a lot of replay-ability.