Die Back

by nikolaykuznetsov

co-authored: @cardinal90, @rune-drawer

Overall★★★★★★★★★★4.23

Fun★★★★★★★★★★4.05

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.70

Theme★★★★★★★★★★4.31

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.84

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.91

Mood★★★★★★★★★★4.01

WELCOME TO "DIE BACK"

Beat all the 10 opponents if you can!

You may trade your Life force for skills between the fights. Then you just relax and enjoy - the battle is automatic. Every enemy has different tactics! Be careful and use your cunning to win.

Three abilities are available for purchase before each battle. Buy by clicking on them, or roll if you want to try getting something else. Each action's price is below it. Also every ability has a tooltip with info.

You may reorder the abilities you have to change priority for spells. You may also sell them for half the price. Press fight button when you are ready. Escape opens main menu. Space pauses the fight.

The team behind Die Back is Konfa Games. We are the three guys, who released Despotism 3k, which was originally developed for LudumDare39.

Comments33

entirelyBees30 Apr 2019, 02:31

This is one of my favorite art styles I've seen in the jam! Everything from the buttons, icons, to attack animations looks so thematic, and the concept of the game is great.

Leinades30 Apr 2019, 02:31

Excellent graphics and audio! I am so bad at this game lol, I don't think I quite got how to play it.

VinegarLove30 Apr 2019, 02:31

Those are good sprite animations.
Gameplay is pretty fun, lots of different enemies and abilities.
Good work!

ejmejm30 Apr 2019, 02:35

Absolutely love the style, the game looks gorgeous

Cuppycat30 Apr 2019, 02:35

Awesome style, great execution of the selling hp idea! I'm gonna save this game to play occasionally :)

Joe Bustamante30 Apr 2019, 02:35

This was awesome! The art style and interface you guys created was really cool. Definitely took me one or two deaths before I actually figured out what was going on, but it was pretty fun! The animations and different enemy types were also really cool. Overall, really good gameplay and style - the audio was alright but didn't really lend much to the game, but other than that, I'm a huge fan.

ghost-in-the-toast30 Apr 2019, 02:39

Art style is awesome! Very good game!

brklipel30 Apr 2019, 02:40

It1s hard but with 2 or 3 times I canned arrive for. A beautiful game.

Chambre1930 Apr 2019, 02:40

Love the art style and the gameplay was great. Good job!

anstabo30 Apr 2019, 02:45

Amazing art direction, lots of visual content for a jam. Too bad you didn't have time to implement some feedbacks on the spell buttons, like you did for the menu. Other than that it can be very addictive ^^

Starlet30 Apr 2019, 02:52

Okay, I'm in love with this!! The graphics?? AMAZING!!! The music, interface, everything!!!

Edusrmt30 Apr 2019, 03:12

It's just amazing! The graphics are stunning and the gameplay is very enjoyable. Nice work!

jerrtato30 Apr 2019, 04:12

OK this is the first Ludum Dare game of 44 I am playing and I have been sitting here for 45 minutes trying to win. I can't quite do it so I'm moving forward. Your game has an incredible, and I daresay insane amount of potential!

khaoz-fang30 Apr 2019, 04:19

Love the art style, though gameplay itself is nothing uncommon.

zampi30 Apr 2019, 05:06

Impressive. I want to buy it :D

MicroIce30 Apr 2019, 05:35

Incredible game. Art, music, systems. Truly elegant!

Nekorio30 Apr 2019, 11:09

one of the best art style / animation feeling I've seen ! good job

dusterherz30 Apr 2019, 11:25

The game is super pretty and simple but it works super well ! I was already thinking of strategies to solve it like a puzzle.

I have two (really minor) complains :
* I was just a little bit boring waiting for the mob to fight, maybe it wasn't enough quick ? Or it need some action to get some bonus ?
* Also I'm not a fan on the music. I don't have the feeling it matches with the game design.

It has a big potential and I'm seeing me already playing this type of game during my home to job traffic !

NandoN30 Apr 2019, 11:52

Best art style I've seen so far

MateusBoga30 Apr 2019, 14:49

I'm in love with the artstyle o-o Amazing entry all throughout!

neowhoru30 Apr 2019, 15:10

Very great Art - and great idea. Loved to play it.

Dumivid30 Apr 2019, 16:11

For its casual look, the game is much harder than I anticipated. All that can be said about the game was already said (impressive graphics and audio). The only thing that its a little bit off is game balance, you somewhat can't understand from the very beginning if you have some advantage over opponents or not (and random dmg amplifiers make the situation even worse). Overall, a very solid entry. Keep it up, guys!

Adam Clayden30 Apr 2019, 17:15

Art style is amazing. The drag to sell mechanic didn't really see any play for a while so maybe introduce that earlier on? Really nice graphics though!

siryakko30 Apr 2019, 21:10

This one is really amazing, just rework the music and it will be a perfect entry :D

turbogros30 Apr 2019, 21:18

One of my favourite so far. I really dig the graphics and the animation. The gameplay is simple yet quickly addictive, i played it ten times !
I really liked the music too. Great job !

Philarmon30 Apr 2019, 23:59

Lovely! Nice artwork and sound, it fits well together. All in all a nice and polished game

TaqoShaq1 May 2019, 04:27

Wow, all of theme comments about the art style and polish are definitely deserved!
One bit of feedback I have is that it would maybe add a bit more strategy satisfaction if, while you were buying your next upgrades, you had *some* information about your next opponent. Thus, one could make a slightly more informed strategic decision about whether to play it safe with what you have or gamble for a better powerup. Maybe just one or two of their abilities. However, one could just memorize the ten different fights so this feedback is more relevant if you end up implementing a larger set of semi-randomized encounters in the future.

FilipCZ1 May 2019, 16:07

It took me a while, but i won. Super addicting.

EdevJogos1 May 2019, 18:28

Amazing art style and gameplay, found myself trying to beat the game again, and again, quite addictive.

AitalVasilev2 May 2019, 11:51

Great entry! Possibly the first one that actually felt like a challenging and complete game. Incredibly addicting, I actually took the time to beat it. Absolutely loved the graphics and the art style. The balance was quite good, a few of the foes were phenomenal and had a lot of personality in their movesets and designs. Great job guys, keep it up!
Only one tiny bug though: after a few attempts my guy had a constant visual effect of being stunned even though he wasn't. Other than that, everything was perfect!

JamesOliverMusic2 May 2019, 18:49

Very well designed visually, it looks incredible. Your colour choices/graphic design come together so well. Good choice of music. I think you could definitely take this game a lot further, but the 'spending health for upgrades' element doesn't seem very logical, but does fit the theme of course. I would get rid of that and turn this into a badass fighting/strategy game, or some form of RPG :)

firellon2 May 2019, 19:54

Hey, that was quite an addictive gameplay! Very well done!
Still trying to find which combo does the best....

Yeees! Made it!

With 4 level of stun, poison, fury, vampirism (health + mana), regeneration (health+mana), attack, crit chancee, health steal (-120 health at once, wow)

dreevna3 May 2019, 23:48

Great addictive completed game!

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