Secret of The Deep Forest

Overall★★★★★★★★★★4.06
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.94
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.94
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.81
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.67
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.42
Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.50
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.75
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Comments12

LDJam user 4075247 Apr 2025, 13:20
Gameplay is nice, easy to understand but maybe lacks a little bit of features, which is understandable. Graphics and sounds are way too simple, i am not sure 3D is necessary for this game. Overall the game is pretty decent, and i liked the theme interpretation of going deeper into the forest, however graphics and sound design pull it back. Decent job anyway!
ImmortalFox
ImmortalFox7 Apr 2025, 15:12
Game is nice. Pretty easy. I thought the AI of enemies is a bit easy too. Graphics are not bad! Sounds are not bad as well, but lack of music actually.. would be better with easy tracks :) Good project!
unima90007 Apr 2025, 15:17
My last bandit betrayed his friends and then went insane. 10/10
kiv7 Apr 2025, 18:27
I want to play it on steam. So elegant and so deep!
grid96
grid967 Apr 2025, 22:43
Very interesting kind of game board! Did you connect all those nodes manually or are they generated?

I kinda ditched my group right away and just ran past everyone with my five moves guy. Didn't know how to progress beyond day 10 though. Do I need to beat all the enemies there?
deniskazantsev
deniskazantsevauthor8 Apr 2025, 07:59
@grid96 nodes are generated with Poisson-Disc algorithm.
Level 10 is final custom level and you need to beat all enemies there. Nevertheless you can continue the game after :)
NiceKot
NiceKot8 Apr 2025, 17:23
Amazing concept and implementation. Love it very much.

Though I didn't understood that you have to move all 4 characters to the end tiles before pressing escape and left with only one guy after level 1.

Game became a bit easy as I easily finished to lvl 11 with this one dude. I think if enemies actually blocked you and you couldn't just run over them, it would be much more challenging.

But as it is, truly great!
deniskazantsev
deniskazantsevauthor9 Apr 2025, 08:14
@nicekot thank you for feedback!
Escaping first level with not whole team is by design to teach player the mechanic :) Not time for tutorials!

As for overall balancing, it's really not perfect as didn't had enough time to playtest during developing. I will definitely address this in post LD version.
DiscoFish
DiscoFish10 Apr 2025, 03:10
Lovelygame! Amazing art style, simple but interesting gameplay. Great work!
Eugenik
Eugenik14 Apr 2025, 09:38
That was amazing!.
caffeinetrip
caffeinetrip15 Apr 2025, 20:48
interesting design and gameplay. good job!!! 5/5 shrecks
Harmadillo16 Apr 2025, 17:24
Great game. Graphics are simple and clear. I like the little arenas and the randomized characters. For the events between levels it would be nice to have a choice or interact with them in some way. Showing the health of each character(like the action points) would be nice.

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