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Counterweight

By mmm1008fm

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Percentile
CategoryRankScoreCountLD60Ever
Overall30
Fun30
Innovation30
Theme30
Graphics30
Audio30
Mood29

Comments

yorze 2026-10-19 05:42 ♥ 1

I think all the effort you put into the art really paid off—I enjoyed the visuals so much while playing! The balancing mechanic works really well with the elevator-raising mechanic, and the way they are presented makes everything feel very intuitive.

lucky-racoon 2026-10-19 05:50 ♥ 1

Good game. It was very creative and had a surprising twist ending; I liked it. It was a little overwhelming at first though, because there was a lot packed into a small display. It took me a minute to catch on, but once I did, it was fun.

chuckeles 2026-10-19 11:37 ♥ 1

The visuals and the sounds are amazing. The game has great coherent atmosphere. The gameplay is also interesting and unique. Unfortunately, there's a lot happening on the screen at a time and sometimes I was overwhelmed, sometimes I felt like randomly pressing buttons and the game was playing itself. I did manage to go through 3 levels... I think? At that point it looked like new mechanics were thrown in randomly and game was progressing on its own and I had no idea what was happening. 😆 But still, it was a really enjoyable experience.

nikitastarostin 2026-10-19 16:25 ♥ 1

The animation is great, the visual style is pleasant, and the levels are varied and enjoyable! At first, I wasn’t entirely sure what was going on, but then I figured it out, and I thought the idea was cool :)

tweekus 2026-10-19 18:18 ♥ 1

Wow, the art is awesome. Cool idea! I managed to beat the level by completely ignoring all the humans :D

s1l3nt-l4mb 2026-10-19 22:26 ♥ 1

i took me a while to understend what`s going on, but the art style is mind blowing!

fullmontis 2026-10-19 23:20 ♥ 1

The visual style and sound design is impressive! I found it a bit crowded visually though and it wasn't very intuitive to understand what was going on, even after doing the tutorial.

lera 2026-10-20 09:03 ♥ 1

I love this visual style

designernap 2026-10-20 10:18 ♥ 1

Really great entry. Looks superb and plays well. Very nice visual choices and style behind this.

eugenik 2026-10-20 16:18 ♥ 1

I really enjoyed the atmosphere you built around the lift. The delicate timing needed to precisely manage the water weight is a great tension builder, and achieving that perfect balance to control the ascent feels very mechanically satisfying.

fifut 2026-10-20 18:13 ♥ 1

This game is one of the pleasant surprises of this Ludum Dare. I'm a fan of those old machines that ran without a motor 👍

The ending is surprising

gora 2026-10-20 18:49 ♥ 1

Игра супер интересное управление с помощью рычагов и прожектора мне понравилось, а также звук и сама стилистика игры

nikiroz 2026-10-20 19:58 ♥ 1

Such a unique game! I really like the art style.

tapochek 2026-10-20 22:37 ♥ 1

Visual nice, I like it, but game very hard. Sorry, but i don`t understand guide in start

mmm1008fm 2026-10-21 08:27 ♥ 0

Aaaand a huge update! To play new version visit [my site](https://coolguy.live/ld60/?utm_source=ldjam&utm_medium=description&utm_campaign=ld60). To play compo version visit Itch

Now there's 2 endings!

aashen 2026-10-21 08:46 ♥ 1

Interesting idea and nice visuals, so far my total favourite of this LD, keep it up man!

wo-ri-gou-le 2026-10-21 13:56 ♥ 1

It is so well made, especially the graphics and all kinds of details, but the gameplay goes bit to harsh and I don't really understood clearly every bit of what was going on, it is nice to include a tutorial ( again its so well made with so much content) but still.

dashvirus 2026-10-21 17:33 ♥ 1

Graphics are truely stunning, sound design is here, there's a tutorial, the game is original, but as man,y other said, I felt a bit overwhelmed by eveyrthing going on at the same time and couldn't understand easily what I was supposed to or what I was not doing well. Yet it's a huge work and the animations, the mechanics and the art make it a nice project gg !

perovic2018 2026-10-23 22:31 ♥ 0

Очень круто

darkshadow 2026-10-25 20:55 ♥ 0

I don't think the Obra Din style 2-bit minimal pallet works here, the HUD is too noisy and I couldn't tell what was going on everything was occurring too fast, text displayed too fast. The amount the mouse had to be dragged compared to the lever wasn't clear I'm glad it had to be moved more as in theory that would give more granular control unlike the tiny controls.