Ludum Dare #57compo

Depth of Mind

by funbanan

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.75

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.56

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.18

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.01

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.76

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.38

Humor★★★★★★★★★★1.50

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.49

Depth of Mind is a tactical roguelike where you lead a team of mental operatives into the fractured consciousness of a critical subject.

Uncover the truth hidden deep within the mind, but be warned: the deeper you go, the more unstable reality becomes.

Turn-Based Tactical Combat
Use positioning, synergy, and powerful abilities to outmaneuver hostile mental projections.

Squad of Specialists
Build your team from a diverse cast of operatives, each with unique skills and roles

CHANGE LOG:

fixed bug with freezing game, when 2 teammates choose same target

fixed bug when no chips will spawn after battle

reduced damage of enemy "anxiety" from 3 to 2

Tags: #deck building, #horror, #jrpg, #roguelike, #roguelite, #surreal, #turn-based

Genres: card game

Tools: Aseprite, Audacity, Godot

Comments54

Clintor246 Apr 2025, 06:37

For the time given to create a game, this is a nice turn based RPG. I do think the difficulty progression is a bit steep, but it was fun to play.

JavaSaurus6 Apr 2025, 14:52

Waaaaaaw-eeeee... This is a lot of complexity for such a short dev-cycle. Crazy cool! I had to go over it a couple of times before actually feeling like I got a good grasp of what was going on, but still, nice, simple and clean. Thank you for making this !

LDJam user 3962697 Apr 2025, 04:32

very nice! the graphics and sound design are awesome!

LDJam user 3017117 Apr 2025, 04:51

Really interesting take on the theme, this was a lot of fun to play.

gsoutz7 Apr 2025, 10:20

i had fun, nice transitions.

Vladcfg7 Apr 2025, 14:40

A simple, yet no less captivating game with its own engaging visual style. I’d also like to highlight the beautiful effect that somewhat reminds me of old televisions =-)

p3tition7 Apr 2025, 16:00

You can make interesting combinations and attack queues, I thought I'd made a completely win-win until they killed healer.

yohadams7 Apr 2025, 16:17

Great art! Simple but very nice to look at

av_shustov7 Apr 2025, 17:52

Nice visuals

SHAKIROVICH7 Apr 2025, 18:09

Good & polished game, I like the art-style and sound design, even though theme is used more as a narrative rather than a gameplay, only issue is balance can be hard sometimes, and I encountered one bug once at the beginning of the game, during first round after defeating one enemy, game was working, but didnt continue, I restarted it and it worked well. Good job.

d-demetori7 Apr 2025, 19:41

Nice game! it was fun for me when i buffed guy with "attack all" + "repeat action" and killed everything :D

Clare_Chan17387 Apr 2025, 22:27

Really pretty and plays really well. I ran into a little bug where if I attacked an enemy that died that turn already the game froze and I couldn't continue but other than that, the game was pretty cool and fun.

Alva Peng8 Apr 2025, 06:26

Love the gameplay and the visual ❤

GARYglhf8 Apr 2025, 07:02

Здорово. Особенно понравилось лечить врагов.)

Shiheuan8 Apr 2025, 10:33

When the target of the attack vanished prematurely, it got stuck.

LDJam user 4107508 Apr 2025, 10:37

Really polished. The balance was kinda weird, and the game broke when an action has to be performed on a character that has already died, but still pretty impressive to pull off just for 2 days. Good job :)

FunBananauthor8 Apr 2025, 13:22

@clare-chan1738, @juno-menager,@shiheuan, @shakirovich Fixed this stupid bag so I hope It will not affect your rating

Clare_Chan17388 Apr 2025, 13:34

@funbanan Tbf my rating was already really high because I think this has lots of potential and felt nice to play but thanks for updating it!

mr_mesmer8 Apr 2025, 13:42

good game, mechanics was clearly understanding with good tooltips. Works as I wish.

Artel8 Apr 2025, 14:32

A very simple game — after playing so many others, I didn’t feel like diving into complex mechanics, so I really enjoyed this one.

Haokai XU 19998 Apr 2025, 15:49

Really cool game! The final game is so clean, I just downloaded you source code, hope I can learn from your design and implementation.

Teamofey Izorsky8 Apr 2025, 16:18

Nice roguelike. Made a couple tries.

NinjaCatz8 Apr 2025, 17:51

Простые и приятные механики и визуал. Моб, похожий на скелета (и бьет всех по два раза), и два червяка снесли мою команду за два хода :skull: Прикольный мини-рогалик!

protzz8 Apr 2025, 19:50

Love the visual, good job!

Nazgulx9 Apr 2025, 07:17

Really simple yet well executed idea. With some more balancing to keep the strategy intense in the game, I believe this could really turn into something!

Cobes9 Apr 2025, 07:35

Love the atmosphere dude, well done! Kind of a big difficulty spike all of a sudden, but then again... I like a good puzzle ;)

Keep up the good work!

caffeinetrip9 Apr 2025, 16:49

wow, i like that simple visual and gameplay, sound design is also fye. good job bro

NoytroO9 Apr 2025, 17:14

Huge creation in a short amount of time, congrats !
Sound design is cool
Graphics are cool
Kinda simple, i'd like to have a twist in the gameplay that reminds the theme & fit out

recursor9 Apr 2025, 17:20

I would describe this as a great minimalist art style coupled with an interesting group combat mechanic with attachable upgrades as rewards. I think having an option to disable the zoom in before each action would be a nice addition, but otherwise I enjoyed it.

Velis699 Apr 2025, 18:42

Сool card strategy atmosphere! I would add some defenders and mainly focus on Heartstone and other colossus card games.

nsadie9 Apr 2025, 19:16

Nice art style, well used to stretch it a lot! Gameplay was fun, I found boosting the attack guy all the time combined with repeat actions made the fights pretty easy.

hubol9 Apr 2025, 20:09

Cool ideas here! Nice and simple aesthetics! I especially enjoyed attaching the Repeat card and Powering up ^_^

It seemed like I was unable to attach more than 3 cards to a character? But maybe I was clicking the wrong spot...

Very nice work!

FunBananauthor9 Apr 2025, 20:37

@hubol Yes, I did limit the number of chips per character for balance. Maybe I should have written about it in the game.

Flinge10 Apr 2025, 23:12

Cool game — the visuals are absolutely fantastic! My only real complaint is the movement animation — it jumps back and forth across the screen in a way that’s pretty hard on the eyes. I couldn’t get past this level (screenshot attached), since the enemies start hitting *every* target at once, dealing massive damage in a single turn.

FunBananauthor11 Apr 2025, 03:25

@flinge Yeah game have some problems with balance. This enemy was added in last hours.

gamurmakesgems11 Apr 2025, 05:52

I like it, high stakes. My healer always die from anxiety, it only barely survives when it gets HP+ which is also not enough. Managed to win cause I was given triple Power and triple Weak(2 extra actions) for my Buffer. Interesting, I always liked this type of gameplay, Graphics are cool. the fights itself are nice and strategic. Sometimes you can't do anything about the situation because RNG, and also unecessary power on power situation I thought it will level up the power lol but it's added on the action list. +1 action is OP.

Flinge11 Apr 2025, 09:18

@funbanan that's okay. Your game overall feels just right and good. It really cool

Chuckiee11 Apr 2025, 09:30

I think you applied lessons learned from the previous game jam are very well applied. I wish there was music in the background, I wonder how it'd feel if you added it since SFX are pretty well made. Aside from balance issues, which is expected from a game jam game, super well done :100:

grid9611 Apr 2025, 12:11

Fun little game, i really enjoyed stacking everthing on the attack all guy. I noticed after my first failed attempt though that there wasn't any randomness in the characters so it felt like it was very much built for that one best strategy. Would have loved to see a bit more variaty but all in all it was fun to play!

Rubel_NMB11 Apr 2025, 12:19

Cool roguelike. I tried twice but it is too hard for me. Anyway I got a lot of fun!

Alvaron11 Apr 2025, 17:59

Had fun playing it on stream. Keep it up!

ShadyShade11 Apr 2025, 18:28

Cool, fun, polished, beautiful!

Excellent job! :gift_heart:

FunBananauthor11 Apr 2025, 18:29

@alvaron thank you for playing my game on stream. It was helpful to see how player see my game. Sorry for balance issues, in future updates i will fix this

Baturinsky12 Apr 2025, 14:59

No counterplay to enemy focusing the healer.
I understand that compo leaves little time for balancing, but it means that it could be a good idea to make disbalances into each side less disrupting. For example, losing a unit because of too aggressive enemies is bad - then at least revive him at the end of the stage, so player has a chance to get back on track.

AgrMayank12 Apr 2025, 18:56

This is more fun than it looks, though beware, it does get pretty challenging over time. Getting killed by a Combo of 2x Anxiety + 2x Depression doesn't help either xD :(

I wish there was a fast forward button to skip/speed up as the animations can get repetitive pretty soon.

deadroach13 Apr 2025, 07:08

Really impressive compo! I was going strong until I became stuck in an endless loop of multiple-personality disorder induced depression where my last man standing with one power left could only stand cowering, and that's not a compliment I can give to very many games! Had fun with this one.

xpoho15 Apr 2025, 10:39

Очень здорово сделано! Достойный карточный рогалик, особенно учитывая, что ты его на Compo сделал. Не останавливайся на достигнутом ^_^

Pegasus15 Apr 2025, 15:40

Very polished, great job!

Momotiktik16 Apr 2025, 08:44

It's a fun game! I really enjoyed combos and different types of attacks for different illnesses and overall vibes. My only problem was the constant zooming in of the camera especially when all your troops repeat their action and attack all, at some point I've got legitimately dizzy O_o but aside that it's a solid and cool entry!

MaxDrago16 Apr 2025, 16:00

A very cool little game that has a lot of potential! Loved the visual style and gameplay. If there will be an opportunity to skip animation, it will be a plus!