Nightfall by Rongo Matane 2025-10-11T12:50:36Z ♥ 3
Another masterpiece
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → Users → Retrific
| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Hu | Mo | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 60 | Old Tech | Phone Frenzy | jam | ||||||||||
| 2025 | 58 | Collector | Fruit Flyer | jam | 667 | 3.05 | 3.00 | 3.40 | 3.48 | 3.28 | 2.89 | 2.79 | ||
| 2024 | 55 | Summoning | Tug Of Slime | jam | 149 | 4.03 | 4.00 | 3.27 | 4.37 | 4.19 | 3.19 | 3.93 | ||
| 2023 | 53 | Delivery | Planet Xpress | jam | 390 | 3.75 | 3.77 | 3.75 | 4.23 | 4.15 | 3.02 | 3.64 |
Retrific leaves an average of 16.5 feedback comments each event.
By far the best game I've played so far. AAA sound design, cool art, unique concept, great balancing and polish. Truly incredible work, not just for a jam game but in general. It worked so well and the opponent with their comments was just great to play against. Challenging but not too hard. Sometimes it was difficult to tell what was going on or what the next move would bring but it wasnt really any issue. Usually I dont like board games but I had a great time with this one. It's like chess but better.
Did you use AI for the voice acting? And libraries for the sounds? Or was everything done from scratch with actual voice acting?
Where is the key >.<
Very cool game. I managed to get it done with 5 seconds left. Nice artstyle and UI, fun gameplay. Not much to critize. Great job!
This game is hilariously realistic. I can tell someone on the team has worked in IT. The art and gameplay might not be the best but the humor is a clear 5/5 lol. Also great music choice that fits the humor perfectly.
Damn thats a good submission right here. Looks great, feels very polished and sounds great too. Just a bit too much time pressure for my taste is the only thing I can criticize.
I love this concept! It's a bit too hard imo because the crystals kept getting destroyed so quickly but the concept is great and watching that society grow is also very fun. You should flesh this out some more, it has a lot of potential.
The art is great and I like the idea of summoning minions to fight for you, but the movement and combat does not quite live up that and the minions were also not that useful since I was able to fight for myself.
Damn this is good. Love the mechanic that you can get a lot of different weapons based on what you decide to craft together. I just wish I wouldnt need to waste items because i can only carry two spare items. They also get used up pretty quickly.
Anyway, crazy amount of content for a gamejam game, nice artstyle where everything goes well together and a lot of potential. One of the best games I've played so far. And you even added a cool intro (I love how he spins when he is sucked into the portal lol)
Crazy amount of content for a gamejam gam. Good Job!
Damn that child reading out what I type was kinda scary. Very cool tech
I did not expect this to be this cool. Serious old school GTA vibes. Sadly I kept getting arrested
Incredible artstyle. Love the animations. Probably the prettiest game I've played so far. I also like the game concept. But I felt the start was too slow to be fun. The cooldown was just too long and adding more sigils didn't make any difference until I've spend a couple of rounds saving up and grinding. But that was too tedious. I would like to see a skip button to skip the remaining preperation phase time. But again, love the visuals and with some balancing changing this could easily be a fantastic game!
I love lemmings, so I had to play this and it sure was cool. Very nice visuals. But some of the abilities are hard to read, i.e. difficult to tell what they will actually look like after use. Also clicking the cards didnt work anymore for me after I've restarted a level
I like this type of game but it crashed for me after a minute
I love me a destructible environment. Very cool game, but I did feel a bit lost. Maybe a bit too overwhelming all the buttons you need to know.
I think it's a nice game! Weird that the bullets are physical objects but the game had some interesting mechanic. I just wish the "summation" puzzles would give me a bit more options and be a bit more challenging. I liked it a lot when I had the option to prepare it in a way to get all of them touch each other at once with just a single move.
Cool idea, but there should be a restart level button and I would've loved some camera movement options so I can see whats going on behind walls etcc.
One of the prettiest game's I've seen so far and I would've liked to see more! Sadly my game completely crashed when I tried to summon the first boss and I also had some freezes during dashing, but that fixed itself after some time.
I really like the graphics and its a cool game. Just wish it had more interesting sound design. And I had an issue where I wasnt able to use a summon circle because it was too close to the screen and therefore F always made me put in the ingredient when it was not cooked yet.
Beautiful but I had problems with the HTML5 version where I was not able to see the Send order button. I think the screen at the bottom was cut off or something
Neat game. I like burger cooking games. But for some reason it kept telling me the order is wrong even though I assembled it just like it said on the order :(
Very impressive. Great atmosphere. Nice art. Even had cutscenes. It really doesnt feel like a gamejam game but like a small but full game with weeks of development time. But the controls are not for me. Or at least not for my brain lol. I bet it would be fun to play with a second player, locally on the same keyboard.
I like the idea but overall it was a bit glitchy. I was often not able to jump and the character looked very shaky when walking.
Very cool! I love these kind of games. And this is very well done for a jam game. But there are too many different resources, buildings and units that I have no idea what they are good for or how I get them lol
Hey, this is very well made for a jam game and while I did need your screenshots with instructions to understand everything once I got it it was fun, just a bit too difficult. Maybe some slightly better feedback on whats happening would be good because sometimes I think I won a match when I thought I lost it. Overall it was just too difficult to complete and I felt like my deck was getting worse instead of better the further I got, lol.
But overall one of the best entries I've played so far. Played it for quite a while
While I do like the idea and visuals I have to agree with others that 30 seconds doing the challenges is a little too long to enjoy, it gets pretty exhausting after 10 seconds.
Nice little game! Worked well for me, but I was able to keep going forever on the right side of the road. Not sure why but there was no car coming in on that lane.
Cool concept and nice art. Found a bug though, after my first day the item on the desk did not disappear and the next day I had two items on top each other, one half packaged, and even after sending out the new item the previous one still stuck around.
Very impressive destruction model! I found it very hard to shoot back though. My cannon was not able to fire high enough. Cool concept
Great game. Extremely polished and clean, and the audio is just next-level. Voice-acting in a game jam game? Incredible! Also love the art and UI. Just wish I could do the upgrading on my own or at least know when and where I get what upgrade next.
I like the concept and that the controls are how they are, its a fun challenge. But I got stuck in a bush and resetting did not move me out of the bush :( And the blue thrusters arent quite doing what I would expect them to do. But still a pretty cool proof of concept and very moody!
I like this a lot! The graphics are very nice and its easy to understand and fun. The seagul could move smarter imo but there should be some time to react to its attack. Right now I never have to dig in and its better to avoid the seagul by simply moving out of line.
Looks very cool and smooth. The cart mechanic reminds me a lot of Valheim. The controls are not that great though or at least my character didnt really want to do what I told him. Maybe the attack cooldown is just way too long? Extremely impressive for a 72h game though.
Quite some nonesense happening on that remote island. But its some very cool tech and a solid PoC! Also very funny sometimes
Not quite sure whats going on but it looks clean and doesnt crash
Very cool. I think the inspiration is obvious but you cant deny that its a pretty solid execution. Overall surprisingly polished and I love the effects. The only thing I didnt like was the health of the enemies. Sometimes they have way too much health, sometimes they go down immediatly.
I love this! The art style is very polished and pretty and the controls are tight af. I love that you have leaderboards integrated. My favorite game of all so far! Cannot believe this was done in 72h. Dont have anything to critique other than it took me a minute to understand whats going on. I will play it some more.
I think its a neat concept! Couldve used some more particle effects or something maybe and zooming in and out is a bit glitchy but a nice feature to have. Other than that a solid game.
The controls are tight af and the graphics are very nice. The sound also very nice. Very very cool and smooth game. Might be the best top down car steering I've seen so far. But it's pretty hard anyway.
Very cool! Reminds me a lot of my own game lol. We basically had the same idea, just that yours has way more pixelse and a tutorial haha. Very solid execution! Love the thruster visuals! One thing I wouldve liked to see is a more dynamic camera though. I wouldve used this as a reference if I had known about it.
I like the idea and really wanted to drive around and deliver stuff but steering is very hard. I assume thats a feature? :D Being inconsiderate and everything. Still I wouldve preferred it to be able to steer correctly. Overall not too bad though and impressively detailed world with AI drivers, even though they also seem to struggle with the controls hahaha
Love this idea and how you executed it. Workes very well! Its fun to find the right house based on the hints and the mini game to steer the baby to hole. I just wish there was a way to steer the baby back when you overshot your target.
Neat and fun game. I like the concept and the realistic building layout lol. I sure felt like an actual parcel carrier. The cam was a bit too shaky for my taste and sometimes felt a bit glitchy, but tother than that a solid entry.
I like how one joke was randomly in german. I wonder how you came up with all the jokes. Very fun but also very hard to dodge, read jokes and deliver jokes all at the same time.
Is it intended that on day 2 it doesnt really progress despite pressing R over and over again and there is a robot appearing and disappearing on the box dancing?
LD60 — Old Tech (15)
Snakia by Wendel Scardua 2026-10-24T15:36:33Z ♥ 1
You nailed the visuals. Looks great. A bit annoying that you have to basically double-press the direction you want to go and then also confirm it, but you can get used to it.
PLEASE DONT SCRAP ME by mircal 2026-10-24T11:52:04Z ♥ 0
Wow what a beautiful and smooth game. I really want to play more. Check my robot that crushed them all.
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I just wish I could change the robot personality on the fly though, because what items I get influence what I want the robot to behave like. In the end I chose the self-aware one and then it was easy.
Otherwise great game though. I cant believe this is a gamejam entry. Crazy polished art and interface
The Last Thaw by Ausstein 2026-10-24T11:39:39Z ♥ 1
A solid game with some outstanding graphics. But the "old tech" really felt more like futuristic tech lol. Quite impressive for a gamejam game.
Floppy Quest by LaBicorne 2026-10-23T21:07:56Z ♥ 1
What a lovely game. You guys clearly enjoyed making this a lot. I can practically feel your inspiration and motivation. I enjoyed it a lot and the pace was great up to the tetris part, where I simply wasnt able to figure out how to solve the light puzzle.
But I already enjoyed the game up to that point enough to know that this is a great gamejam submission and exactly what I like to see in these jams. It's insane to think that there are 2 more bosses after this.
Also from a technical point of view a well-made game with impressive cut scenes and everything.
Great job
Hold the Line by LazyApeGames 2026-10-23T16:21:44Z ♥ 1
Obviously the wire physics are the star of the show, but everything else is also insanely polished and advanced. I cant believe this was done in less than 3 days, with physics, workday-mechanic with increasing difficulty, main menu, settings and everything. Very complex game - much more than I wouldve expected! Quite impressive. Only thing I would criticize is that I spend most of my time reading the name book and immediatly being overwhelmed by it and the incoming calls and then also struggling to find the right jack because they are numbered with both number and letters but not as I would expect it e.g. with letters left side and numbers on top.
Overall though definitely one of the better switchboard-likes :D Maybe the best "realistic" one
GEARBOUND by Ethernal Tech 2026-10-21T21:13:12Z ♥ 0
This kind of game never fails to be fun. But what I dont understand is why there are different weapons when I always only ever use one at a time. Shouldt survivor-like games have all of the weapons fire simultaneously? Either way, pretty fun and engaging. The performance was all over the place though. 10fps in one moment and buttery smooth the other for seemingly no reason.
LD60 - Switchboard Hell! by nevertoucharunningsystem 2026-10-20T16:02:36Z ♥ 0
I've played a lot of switchboard games this jam, my own game included. And this one is closest to my own submission (mostly because it's also 2D) so I feel particularly "connected" to this one and downloaded it to play, even without a web version available.
And it did work fine. And taking into account that this is your first game this is actually a surprisingly solid submission. Even with sound effects and your own art with a consistent style. Very cool and much better than what my first games looked like!
I wouldve liked to be able to turn the book page with a mouse press also and not just keyboard. (The arrow in the corner made it look like that should work but sadly it did not)
Night Shift by w3wdwa 2026-10-20T15:32:29Z ♥ 1
Another switchboard game haha nice, I guess a lot of people had the same idea (myself included) Although you added quite the twist once it became a horror walking sim or whatever that was? (Very cool, and I almost missed that part when I thought it was simply a highscore game)
Sadly I did not find any exit. In the level with the golden lever after exiting the first door there were only static doors that were locked or not interactable.
Regarding the switchboard section: This was nice and worked well once I figured out that they were telling me where they wanted to connect before actually connecting to them. I think I managed to get all of them right and in time.
Clearly this game was not quite done, since its so ambitious thats not surprising. It's basically two different games in one.
Very cool concept but not the first horror-twist I've seen on the switchboard-likes.
The Switchboard Operator by Isline 2026-10-20T15:13:37Z ♥ 0
Ah a fellow switchboard operator game. This one is not nearly as stressful as my own submission, which I like a lot. I also enjoyed this because it references London, which I visited just last week. Sadly I lost one green plug behind the panel, but I was still able to complete a workweek without issues. Still I guess it would be good to reset the cables over night. Other than that it worked great though and I had no issues figuring out what to connect where. That worked great. Cool game
Ghost Train by Koolruz 2026-10-19T23:47:47Z ♥ 1
This was way more fun than I expected (I even started a second playthrough lol). I am not a huge fan of the distortion crt fake shader, I think its a bit much in fullscreen, but other than that its a very pleasant experience. Solid balancing also and a lot of fun. I agree that the momentun is great, very satisfying. The movement felt well polished.
DeadLine by Saumchick 2026-10-19T23:21:55Z ♥ 4
Funny, this is very close to my own idea just much darker and more atmospheric, 3D and slower paced (but just as stressful anyway). But it looks great and is very moody. Feels like a much bigger game than I expected. Might as well be a proper, commercial game.
fishGrinder by Disvent 2026-10-19T23:08:55Z ♥ 0
Love the digetic design (very satisfying) and overall visuals. Very atmospheric. I wish there was more to it.
FINGERTRICK by alex-lumi 2026-10-19T23:01:00Z ♥ 1
Omg, I love the concept. But I also struggle to understand the controls. Every time I think I understood the game proves me wrong. I think this could work great though because I did fail like I am actually controling a finger skateboard. The controls go in the right direction but are not quite there yet.
Anyway, other than that the level and visuals are also outstanding. Very cool
Rental Breakdown by Tobius 2026-10-19T22:53:13Z ♥ 2
This is great! Once I understood how to actually rewind it was one of the best experiences I had this LD so far. Great atmosphere, superb visuals (seriously, this looks like its weeks of work not a few days), and of course the cat for the humor stars. A bit stressful but thats the point.
5/5
Zwillenschuss by thejackimonster 2026-10-19T22:43:57Z ♥ 1
The springy physics on the slingshot is very fun and satisfying. It was very hard to hit anything though, the camera control felt a bit off. Might be because I played this on ultrawide though.