Necrotic Harvest

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.29
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.19
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.22
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.42
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.40
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.70
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.23
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Play as Anubis and harvest the souls of the deceased through the art of embalming.

Play on itch.io

Instructions


The goal of the game is to guide and help Anubis embalm the dead to collect their souls.

Use your mouse to define Anubis actions (you can define an unlimited number of actions, Anubis will perform them in order).

To score points, you will have to take the mummified dead to the sacred hotel of souls.

Be careful, not all the dead are entitled to the same treatment, check the list of actions to perform by hovering over them.

Controls


ActionControl
Add action to queueLeft click
Clear action queueRight click
Pause menuEsc

Screenshots



How to play


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Tools


Game engineUnity
C# ScriptsJetBrains Rider
DrawingProCreate
MusicGarageBand
Tags: #2d
Genres: action

Comments27

LDJam user 2792339 Jan 2023, 03:09
Great audio and visuals, and pretty easy to pick up as well! :)
Horda9 Jan 2023, 03:09
You did a really good job on art and music! Gameplay is good too, chaining orders great addition to it, though it is easy to miss a click from time to time and ruin the complete routing. I don't know if it is part of the game but it is kinda frustrating. It could be just me playung bad!
Nice job anyway, I liked it !
TheJookerful
TheJookerfulauthor9 Jan 2023, 18:11
Thanks you all for nice comments ! :)

@horda No it's not really part of gameplay but I didn't find the time to fix that, I added the "hover effect" before the end but I think it's not enough... :/
FoxWindler9 Jan 2023, 18:49
Nice audio, thank you)
LDJam user 2874249 Jan 2023, 18:55
Great work! The music is great, and I liked the gameplay mechanics. One thing I would have liked to have seen is to be able to hover over someone I'm carrying and see the list of actions for the corpse. When I was frantically trying to do everything, I'd sometimes forget what I was supposed to do with the person I just picked up. Being able to see the list of actions while I was holding them would have saved me a couple clicks. But that's an overall minor complaint in an otherwise well done compo game!
shahinm9 Jan 2023, 21:59
Good job with the music and graphics! I like the idea with mummifying to harvest the souls :)
Fnkee10 Jan 2023, 00:49
Pretty art, sweet gameplay, great music, and a neat queuing system - good job on this! At first I only got 30-50 points each run - when I started queuing up actions though, I managed to accumulate more points! 82 in the end :smiley:
jamdong1510 Jan 2023, 07:10
this game was so fun!!! it took me a practice round to understood how to play, and once i did, i got superrr into it. queue'ing up the actions and watching anubis execute them was really satisfying. it was also cool that there is a strategy to this game that you discover after a few rounds. i just wish the game was longer or that there was an endless mode because i think i could literally play this for hours, haha. great entry!! would appreciate your feedback on our game as well :)
TheJookerful
TheJookerfulauthor10 Jan 2023, 16:14
@the3rdhunter At the beginning I put an indication at the bottom of the screen which indicated the steps of the dead which we were carrying, but I found that too confusing, so I decided to remove it, I perhaps should have kept it ^^'

@jamdong15 There was a "Zen mode" who remove the timer ! ;)

Thanks all I appreciate your comments, I will try your games and give you feedback too ;)
feor
feor11 Jan 2023, 05:49
I didn't realize Anubis did all that work by himself!

This is a really creative interpretation of the theme and I liked that.

The gameplay was a bit too simple to be interesting for long to me, but I think it could be improved in simple ways, like maybe making it turn based and giving the corpses different score values?You only have so many beds, and each turn you'd have to decide how you're going to prioritize the corpses to get the highest score. That'd give the game a bit more thinking (it's all about clicking fast right now it seems to me).

Good work on the visuals and the music especially, it's pretty intricate for a compo game.
LDJam user 278827
LDJam user 27882711 Jan 2023, 08:03
cool interpretation of the theme
the queuing system was really well excecuted
profan
profan12 Jan 2023, 00:05
This is a really smooth little game and god damn the music is just perfect, getting it out this smoothly for the compo is really cool! It took me a bit to realise what I actually needed to do, but the demo mode helped (and so did the gif on this page, and the fact that there was a demo mode ingame is already impressive) and then I was busy mummifying :D

It was also nice that you could easily switch bodies with whoever was already on a station without any heroics, the controls generally just did what I expected (once I knew what to do with them at least).

Really cool :)

"To Anubis whose work is the care of the dead, I offer my praise."
Nikolaj
Nikolaj12 Jan 2023, 01:51
neat, love the art style!
Mastoast
Mastoast14 Jan 2023, 10:33
It's a fun game well done

The feature of queuing actions and limited number of table really force you to plan your actions
, and constantly check for corresponding signs. The empty table is a also good idea, it really helps in some tricky situations.

I feel like you could exploit the concept even more by putting more tables, but having the delay of mummification increase a little, because currently in some situations it's quicker to chain actions for a single corpse
LDJam user 014 Jan 2023, 16:02
I like the concept ! It's difficult and it's really necessary to have a certain reflexion to win.
The music and the art are nice.
Good work !
Sibi
Sibi14 Jan 2023, 16:08
Interesting concept and nice take on the theme. The controls were sometimes a bit fiddly. Would be great if the symbols were always shown so I don't have to mouse over them all the time.
LDJam user 246128
LDJam user 24612814 Jan 2023, 16:31
Cute and grim at the same time. Well executed gameplay, nice music, nice art.

Well done!
Simone14 Jan 2023, 21:36
Nice idea and nice music! =)
HolySparks
HolySparks14 Jan 2023, 21:47
The music is ominous and fits so well!
I got the hang at it while playing, a solid learning curve there.
Good game!
Adrien Tremblay15 Jan 2023, 05:42
Nice simple game. Graphics and music are great
Mololo
Mololo15 Jan 2023, 12:01
Such a fun game, I enjoyed it. The music was great as well and I love the queueing mechanism, it added a lot to the experience. Great game. Good job!
amarokczukay
amarokczukay15 Jan 2023, 13:39
great idea, i like the kind of art you went for!

it was a bit hard for me, i only achieve to get 26 points.

i was a bit surprised sometimes because i was sure i was at 2/3 actions, and it looks like it completed anyway?

nice and original entry, good work!
grid96
grid9620 Jan 2023, 12:59
very nice theme and fitting audio! I like the interpretation of harvest :) I didn't really have any idea on what to do in the beginning, but I was quite excited when I finally figured it out and was trying to do everything as fast as possible. i felt like just having 1 or 2 bodies at the same time was more productive. maybe some longer procedures would be nice and a progress bar accordingly :)
thomasward
thomasward20 Jan 2023, 20:22
At first I had a hard time figuring out what to do, but after a few seconds I got the idea and got 36 points. In the second attemp I got 58, so not that bad. The game is quite fun and satysfying. The audio stands out for a compo game. The interperation of the theme is also really fitting -- much better then all other "soul harvesting" games. Overall, a really strong entry, congratulations!
Rincs
Rincs26 Jan 2023, 17:26
Pretty fun and a cool take on the "reaper" take of the harvesting theme. Loved the Egyptian theming too!! :D
Hawkin
Hawkin27 Jan 2023, 02:24
What a perfectly sized game! I loved that the whole style made it feel like it was painted on papyrus. Perfect for the Egyptian theme! The sounds nicely filled out the game, and I think if you added a specific sound for each station, it would really perfect it!

The fact that I could chain instructions made the flow of the game excellent. I felt like I was in pure concentration mode, trying to push myself further to keep track of many tables at once. And I felt like I could have improved more and more! Here was my best after 3 runs :)

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