Don't Let It Die

co-authored: @michael-k-im
Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.88
Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.58
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.65
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.58
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.58
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.65
Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.04
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.31
A poor (human?) creature is strapped to life support. It's up to you to nurse it and prevent it from dying, despite its constant protest. Doctors and scientists have a lot to gain from the research that will come out of your efforts. So don't let it die. Keep it alive for science!

Comments11

c4221 Apr 2020, 01:29
Absolute nightmare fuel, lmao. Liked the sound, overall pretty terrifying!
Busy Games
Busy Games23 Apr 2020, 21:39
Music was great, I liked the voice overs. I think if you added more of a challenge to keep him alive it would be more engaging. After a while I figured nothing left to do but let the poor thing die like he wanted. Creepy but I liked it. Good job.
icch_howw27 Apr 2020, 21:05
Though shall not die, shut up! I liked the graphics and the silly voice lines! Unfortunately (as far as I noticed) the game does not get any harder and gets very repetitive over time. But funny idea!
Johannimations27 Apr 2020, 21:19
I somehow couldn't do anything in this games, no input did anything to the screen. But man, Audio was Top Notch! Horribly scarry atmosphere. Really intense mood, and his voice sounded like the voice overs on the surreal entertainment channel on youtube. It fitted the theme i guess, but i must admit this is lacking of content. Somehow i also found the game humorous in some strange way XD!
Chief141
Chief14127 Apr 2020, 21:19
I really liked the concept and the graphics and music was also great.

And I recommend you increase difficult as the progress goes on.
Eran Haas29 Apr 2020, 06:03
Wonderfully terrible atmosphere!
The music/audio contributed a lot.

Seems like the gameplay could use a few more mechanics.

BTW your download link is labeled as sourcecode rather than Windows.
retrome
retrome30 Apr 2020, 16:14
Good idea, atmospheric sound effects. Game is pretty GPU-intensive and have low framerate.
jk5000
jk500030 Apr 2020, 19:26
I let him die.

I really like this kinds of indie games. I see that a lot players think that the game need some more game mechanics, and the game needs to be harder over time, but I do not agree. For me is important part of this game not the game mechanics, it is about the moral chose. Do you keeping somebody alive when they wish to die. And yes I let him die.

This is overall a really good jam game. Well done.
appix
appix1 May 2020, 17:28
The dubbing of the game is great. But it's very tiring to play
scsc12 May 2020, 10:50
Funny concept along with the voice-over, though the mechanics is sadly just as repetitive as the voice lines. If you plan to work on this post-jam, it'd be definitely worth it if you could add some variance to it using some state machine, so that "it" seems a bit more lively and moody based on some game events :) And yeah, I really dislike the forced motion blur without an option to disable it, which also makes it unplayable on low FPS.
Logsfive10 Jul 2020, 16:14
how do i ply the game

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