Edge of Entropy

by eupde
Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.42
Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.81
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.30
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.44
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.14
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.53
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.62
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.44
A charming, rogue-like puzzle strategy game where you play Ell the Elementalist, attempting to power up the Elemental Islands to create a new universe. Be careful! The more you move around the islands, the more entropy is generated in the Chaos Cat’s belly, until he throws shards of entropy at your islands undoing your hard work.
Earn fortune, power your islands, create a universe, and watch out for that cat!!
Genres: puzzle, strategy

Comments24

SlimmerBurger
SlimmerBurger4 Oct 2021, 23:21
Pretty strange game, but it was really good, especially the art!!
Chikentear
Chikentear4 Oct 2021, 23:28
Yes, this game is a little strange, but quite complete, with some pretty cool visuals and a lot of work on detail! I wish our games had gone this far! Well done to you!
Dylen4 Oct 2021, 23:30
Not my type of game, but the art and setting are amazing
ache games4 Oct 2021, 23:31
In my opinion, you could add more animation to you character.
Bauke Regnerus
Bauke Regnerus4 Oct 2021, 23:34
Well done on the graphics and presentation! It's a weird game and it took me some time before I kinda understand-ish what was going on. XD
Maxathon
Maxathon4 Oct 2021, 23:42
Took me a few minutes to understand what was happening enough to make progress. Very creative and nice witchy vibe.
LiviusLycurgus4 Oct 2021, 23:43
Love the visuals! Having to strategize on the fly is fun.
3mpty
3mpty5 Oct 2021, 02:51
I really love the art and sound design of this game, the character design of the cat is great and I really like the concept of growing these planes of reality, unfortunately the RNG based nature of the game mechanics gets a little tedious and watching animations play out takes a long time which makes the game pretty frustrating to actually play.
cerieyele
cerieyele5 Oct 2021, 04:47
Really challenging, with unique style and good lore
nardandas
nardandas5 Oct 2021, 04:48
The art was really nice, and the music set the mood really well. I just found the gameplay kind of unengaging. I didn't find a lot of like, important, hard decisions in the game, where I thought maybe that would've been fun.
nshbae5 Oct 2021, 07:48
I really like the artwork and watching elemental world grow. But I still wonder what does the symbol means at the belly of the cat?
Math-s5 Oct 2021, 17:53
Love the art and the game is really interesting. Great job !!
lucasvb
lucasvb6 Oct 2021, 17:52
Great art and sound/music design, but it's a rather complex game, if not rather confusing. It feels like it would be really interesting and more compelling if given a bit more time and fleshign out the dynamics.

But I loved the lore and worldbuilding, and it's very intriguing! I'd definitely want to see what you folks would achieve with it given more time available.
pvp
pvp6 Oct 2021, 20:04
It was hard to get into but when it clicked it was a fun experience. Audio and art are amazing nice work.
potkirland
potkirland7 Oct 2021, 03:10
i wish i could get what was happening it is a real good looking game art is fantastic but i cant seem to grasp why do i succeed or fail all in all good work :thumbsup:
SkallyWags7 Oct 2021, 05:17
As others have said, the audiovisual aesthetic really sells this game. The art is great, but the music is especially fitting and sets a particular mood that this game has, making the game feel that much more cohesive.
The gameplay is hard to get into simply because text tutorials are really ineffective in general, and that criticism has nothing to do with your game or implementation specifically.
Clearly there are a lot of mechanics to explain, and you have limited time, so I understand that designing more active, well-paced tutorials would eat up a lot of time. But I think at the end of the day it would be worth it to either come up with tutorials that require players to perform actions in game in order to teach them, or simplify the mechanics, or both.
Another simple change would be to leave a shortened form of the tutorial information on screen as you play the game, so players don't have to remember everything they read.
That being said, I thought the text and presentation of the tutorials was actually really beautiful, which again goes in line with the great audiovisual aesthetic you have going on here.
Anyway, I rambled on enough, good job team!
LDJam user 156819
LDJam user 1568197 Oct 2021, 23:30
I enjoyed the vibe of the game. Initially, the RNG punished me several times before I really understood how I could make a difference to the outcome of each run, but then things went better, I got more upgrade money, and it gave me a much better chance at fighting off the Chaos Cat. Could probably use a few tweaks to the RNG here and there, or to the game's feedback, so that there are more opportunities for the player to make meaningful choices, but overall a fun experience!
NPr0nn
NPr0nn8 Oct 2021, 20:37
Not exactly the type of game i usually play, but damm the visuals are cool, great work ^^
LDJam user 250426
LDJam user 2504269 Oct 2021, 03:18
I'm glad I stuck around to the end and figured it out, it was really cool! it's fun trying to come up with different strategies and coming to understand the mechanics
XariusExcl
XariusExcl10 Oct 2021, 10:33
I'm impressed as to how complex the game can become! audio and art are very well done and the mood is set right, I'm still a bit confused as to what to do to win (or give myself a better fighting chance :laughing:) : It would really do with a more visual tutorial along with the lore text (It took me some time to see the HP of each Elemental island for example)

Clever take to use entropy as the source of instability!
ColeSlaughter
ColeSlaughter11 Oct 2021, 00:03
Thanks for submitting your game to stream!

This one was a little confusing at first, but once I got the hang of it I had a great time eventually getting to the win-screen! This game also has fantastic visuals and audio to boot, y'all should be proud!
xlambein
xlambein17 Oct 2021, 07:34
As a lot of people have said, I liked the graphics, audio and general mood a lot! But unfortunately I just really couldn't get into the game. The rules were hard to grasp, I found it difficult to understand the point of some of the gameplay mechanics, and the extremely random nature of the game made it a lot less fun for me.

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