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Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.54

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.48

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.21

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.04

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.18

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.66

Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.96

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.30

Premise

You are a vampire who has decided to move away from the hustle and bustle of the Big Garlic Clove and moved out into the country. Its a great place, and you can even raise animals for your... particular dietary restrictions. Theres just one problem: all those animals make a lot of noise, and the neighbors are nosey. Fill up your silo with enough blood to last the winter before your you draw too much attention to win

Gameplay

Click on the plots of land to start growing an animal! Baby animals cost blood to buy and fully grown animals can be harvested for blood. Some animals make a lot of noise when you harvest them, which increases your suspicion. Finding the balance is key but remember: neighbors naturally get more suspicious over time, so you cant play it too safe

Controls

Click on the plots of land to start growing an animal
Change what animal you want to buy by clicking the different icons in the shop up at the top
Click on an animal that is done growing to harvest

Winning

Fill up your blood silo to win!

Losing

If you fill up your suspicion bar you lose. Your suspicion bar fills over time, so watch out

Comments1

LDJam user 3524909 Oct 2024, 18:05

I loved the sound effects, they were hilarious! Someone mentioned balance, but I wonder if it would help to have a score aside from just a win-lose condition? That way you could have a secondary condition where you have to find the best strategy to make the most points.

I tried playing through the game with chickens-only, pigs-only, cows-only (plus two pigs), and a mixed strategy:

- An all-chicken strategy doesn't work at all. The 2 net blood doesn't deliver nearly fast enough to keep up with the gradual suspicious increase. However, the Chickens seem potentially useful for maxing out the early game, when you can't fill all the pins with pigs or cows.

- The all-pig strategy just barely worked. I bought the two upgrades, and made sure not to replant my pigs when the suspicion got around 80%, and I won with about 96% suspicion.

- The all-cow strategy (plus two pigs to pay for the cow) worked a lot better than all-pigs. I bought all three upgrades, and ended the game with only around 75% suspicion.

- For the mixed strategy, I was able to get the suspicion level down to 68% for the win, by starting with a pair of pigs, then a second pair of pigs, then adding cows as fast as I could (and also buying one upgrade). Ended the game with one cow and a pig to just barely reach 500 blood.

Seems like the ideal strategy for lowest suspicion is to start with pigs, transition early to cows, and then use some mix at the very end to reach 100% blood with as little margin as possible. Not sure if there's a different strategy you'd use if you're going for speed rather than suspicion, maybe all-pigs?

I guess all that to say, the game was balanced enough to have possible reasons you'd use each of the animals (maybe excepting the chicken).