The Last Sanctuary

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.19

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.08

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.33

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.94

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.58

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.17

Using Godot 4 I wasn't able to make a HTML5 version that works on ldjam.com or itch.io without sinking in hours and hours so the only way to play is the executables, sorry for the inconvenience.

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A puzzle/"colony sim" where you must try to accommodate endless waves of refugees on your space station after a cataclysm happened on Earth.

A timer (in the top right corner) counts down to 0 endlessly, each time it reaches 0, refugees come and your population grows. Your mission is to accommodate them with housing and by producing more food, water and oxygen ("life support").

You can zoom with the mouse wheel, and move the screen either with the arrow keys or the middle mouse button. You can destroy rooms with the bomb button (and right click to deselect the bomb tool), or add new ones by selecting the type and the shape of said room. To rotate a room, use the mouse wheel.

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Sadly I didn't have the whole weekend to myself, so I made the choice to go for the jam instead of the compo. I hope someone can have some fun with the game.

Tools: Godot

Comments17

Zerbu2 Oct 2023, 15:14

Just so you know, the HTML5 version of the game is set to private. I can still play through the downloadable version, and I'll post feedback on it once I've played it a bit.

Zerbu2 Oct 2023, 15:20

I played the game for a bit. It's pretty good, and a really creative take on the theme! I did notice one bug: if you select a building then select another, both of them get stuck to the cursor. Right clicking fixes it though.

manabreak3 Oct 2023, 13:21

Very cool take on the theme! Took me a while to figure out what I'm supposed to do, but after the light bulb moment, it was a nice little game.

Bongard223 Oct 2023, 13:31

Cool concept! For UI scaling the easy but not so great fix is change Project Settings > General > Display > Window > Stretch > Mode to Viewport. Not ideal but it will stretch the UI elements on bigger screens. The text was very difficult for me to read.

Eliyud3 Oct 2023, 13:43

It's a beautiful and creative game! I had some difficulty to understand how it works at start, but it's so good. Good job!

Sheepolution3 Oct 2023, 17:02

I like the combination of fitting shapes in a survival game. Unfortunately I didn't always understand what was going on. I understood that certain shapes allowed for food/water etc, but I didn't understand why it was that those things were suddenly needed. Also I think that sometimes I couldn't place a shape even though there was space for it, and I wasn't sure why. I like the music and graphics, and I think with some polish this could be a cool game!

Luc Magitemauthor4 Oct 2023, 07:39

Thanks everyone for your feedback :)

@sheepolution: The population grows each time the timer ends, which is why the needs grow too. But you're right it's not really clear, I'll add something about this in the description.

Daniel Grinshpon5 Oct 2023, 00:45

I like the premise and it's fun at first but I can't figure out how to place the power generator piece. It was red no matter where I tried to put it. Also there's a bug with selecting multiple pieces. The art and music is nice

HappyGamer5006 Oct 2023, 02:56

This was a cool submission. It fits the theme well. I really like games like this. there were definitively a few bugs, but nothing too major. I wish it was more clear how to play, and sometimes it feels like you can't do too much to save yourself, but cool game overall.

NicolasJL97 Oct 2023, 03:18

Nice!

NicolasJL97 Oct 2023, 03:19

Nice!

Antoine Aubert7 Oct 2023, 17:54

Funy Game, really simple design for an efficient gamaplay. Good work, especially for someone all alone

Thomas Higgins10 Oct 2023, 11:33

Groovy idea - ran into a few bugs and the pace makes it tad hard to figure out what to do but can see the base of a fun game - love a good management simulation with pressure

milq10 Oct 2023, 11:48

I have downloaded the game for Debian GNU/Linux and I get the following error:

`[...] Is the .pck file missing? [...] The associated .pck file should be renamed to match the executable name [...]`

The truth is that I would love to play The Last Sanctuary, it looks great!

anaticula12 Oct 2023, 05:53

Cool game! It took me sometime to understand the logic behind energy modules placing and it had a bug with this modules after rerestart(they stayed in places from previous attempt). But once I reran the app I managed to fill almost all station with different facilities. Also music is very nice!

kaliuresis14 Oct 2023, 03:42

I like the graphics and music! Unfortunately I ran into a lot bugs that got in the way of playing the game, such as modules not going in places they should fit after deleting, or multiple modules being selected at the same time.

Donut Team16 Oct 2023, 15:13

Cool graphics, interesting concept. Great work!

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