The king is dead, long live the king!

Game is really great. Mechanics are working as well. Graphics and sound are minimalistic, but nice too. Good job!

I see one problem - balance. After third king death I started to feel bored, because I can't buy upgrades. I got ~150 gold per run, but upgrades don't give much power to grow my income. I think orcs must drop gold depends on kings age.

Love games with metaprogression elements! The idea is short but sweet. Well done!

Art is nice and I like the aspect of upgrading on new turns. Movement is buttery. It wasn't really intuitive on how to get food since it looked like tools from the bookshelf, took me a couple games of running around to figure it out. Good job!

This game was super fun. I liked that there were multiple valid ways to control the game (I found arrow keys + f/g worked best for me.) Fits the theme really well, especially with the upgrades letting you delay the inevitable even further.

The core game loop here is very satisfying, and I had a lot of fun playing this. Great job!

I wish that there was a way to interrupt progress of cooking/filling the bucket, though, as I felt completely helpless as the goblins ran past me. :smile: I'm not sure how much that would impact the balance, but having the progress bars restart at 0 every time you interrupt them might fix that.

The only other suggestion I have is to consider using some pixel fonts. There are some really nice ones out there, and the default Sans Serif font really stands out against the rest of the visuals.

The game was fun for a while, but then just started to feel like a chore, and not in the way it literally is XD. I enjoyed the idea, the balancing act of all the different meters was a good way to keep the player from doing the same thing repeatedly.

Absolutely amazing game.
The gameplay art and audio all fit together so nicely.
I really like the simplistic mechanics, its very fun.
I do agree with @kurakurture about the balancing thingy also, I'm not really a fan of the water eventually running out.
I guess it does make the death of the king more "Inevitable" but I don't think a hard cap was necessary.
Other than those 2 little thingies, this is just an fantastic gamejam game.

Fun game, inspired by Quill18 per chance? Great job!

Really fun! The upgrades really add a lot of replayability and I love the art. I think the only thing I noticed that felt off was how expensive all the upgrades were

I really loved it! The art was cute and I found the balance of the health statuses engaging. However, I believe when the king's thirst and hunger hit zero he stayed alive until the health bar hit zero

Great graphics and good idea :).

the only suggest I have is maybe make the map small or the initial gameplay a little bit faster!

Good job :D

Thanks you all for the feedback, I've uploaded a new version which reduces the cost of all upgrades and increases the amount of gold dropped based on the king's current age.

Pretty fun and challenging to try and manage everything at once, really keeps you busy

I'm really impressed with this game! the art is really good and it's a unique implementation of the theme.

This was pretty impressed, at first i though this was just an micro management but it get way more in depth with the upgrade system.

A bit hard to understand, but fun when you get the hang of it.

Thanks for playing and providing feedback :smile:

pretty well made, solid concept, and cute graphics, and I really enjoyed it!
Cheers Arend

Pretty funny idea! I wa trying to save the king as best I could :smile:. I would like to be able to change the item in my hand with left mouse click, it would be easier.
Thanks for this funny game!

Really loved it! (Maybe biased, I built a much worse version of this game a few LD's back called Feed Me!) Very much enjoyed the progression of the gold and buffs to abilities. Movement was ace and I felt it was v clear what objects/tools you had / what your goals were.

It took me a minute to figure out how to cook and get water. Once I had it the game was neat though. Good submission. Only bug I found was that the game doesn't actually pause when you press pause.

Awesome game! Super well polished! Pixel art is beautiful. The in-game mechanics are fun and the music is super nice! 97 years, not a bad age to die. Great job with the game.

Nice idea and art, feels polished
From second try made it till 91 =)

A bit hard to understand.