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Ludum Dare #59jam

Final Caw

by allen-antoine
Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.28
Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.97
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.39
Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.97
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.08
Mood★★★★★★★★★★4.08
This is a Sci-fi RPG Horror game where you piece together what has happened to the passenger ship, the Athena.

Description:

You are sent on a rescue mission to save passengers from the Athena, but this won’t be a straightforward mission. Something corrupt, something ominous is lurking in the void of space. As your ship, the Angelfish, gets ever closer, you find scattered escape pods with survivors who tell the tale of what has happened on the Athena. You might have to make difficult choices throughout this voyage, which could lead to you losing your sanity or worse…

Controls:

Movement: W,A,S,D

Rotate Character: Mouse Cursor

Interaction: Left click (LMB)

Pause Menu: Esc
Tags: #game jam, #horror, #ludum-dare-59, #meaningful choices, #no ai, #rescue, #retro, #sci-fi, #signal, #space
Genres: adventure
Tools: Blender, Clip Studio Paint, Substance Painter & designer, Unreal Engine

Comments17

II-P
II-P21 Apr 2026, 15:19
That was a vibe! Maybe, the most atmospheric game I've played so far. Really enjoyed the visuals too! Ahhh, that ps1 style
TheJester3221 Apr 2026, 18:21
art is pretty good, reminds me of Disco Elysium
Tay Elenberg21 Apr 2026, 18:31
Cool game, i like characters art its very beautiful. background is very noisy and made it difficult to navigate the game
gooooood job!
Derek Glennon
Derek Glennon22 Apr 2026, 01:21
Sadly it seemed like my mouse/keyboard input wasn't working with the game so I wasn't able to play :( I art and music seemed very pretty from the opening screen though haha
HadMatter0022 Apr 2026, 01:31
The writing in this is really good! After beating the game once, it got me curious about other endings so I replayed to see what would happen.
Gecko64
Gecko6422 Apr 2026, 13:07
Fun game to decide many different peoples fate, and loved the art and atmosphere. Good job!
Theg
Theg22 Apr 2026, 17:55
great atmosphere and provocative decisions! on the first screen the mouse cursor wasn't visible but i definiely enjoyed this one
UniOwl
UniOwl22 Apr 2026, 18:03
Cool space atmosphere, a reminder of a danger of unknown deep space. Got a few bugs: invisible cursor (managed to start a game via Tab + Enter), accidentally left map borders and died xd. Also it's probably better to restart the game rather than force quit. Also it's cool that you've managed to draw that much different characters!
banan_dev22 Apr 2026, 18:58
cool concept\story
ugly_robot
ugly_robot23 Apr 2026, 16:42
Gorgeous, moody game! Took me a few tries to realize blue lights were fuel pickups (as the yellow lights are, I think, just atmosphere?) but once I did, I could finally explore!
Fantastic art - greatly enjoyed seeing all your wonderful illustrations and flying about to check out the cool space backgrounds. Great stuff!
Aster2425 Apr 2026, 03:31
Immaculate vibes! The soundtrack was excellent and the portraits very evocative. I loved the design of the little ships too. I replayed to find out what would happen at zero health and zero sanity, but I couldn't figure out how to get to max corruption. Was that possible?
Anna Tateson26 Apr 2026, 21:21
@aster24 Thanks for playing and feedback! The music is by Joel Steudler (linked on the Itch page)! It is possible to get max corruption, but taking the First Officer and the Doctor on board will help reduce corruption, so you'll have to avoid that. We only had one chance to do a packaged build before the jam finished (turns out I didn't have the right SDK installed), so we didn't test a lot of stuff before then, but now we have a chance to tweak some of these variables and fix some bugs, so feedback is appreciated!
VenomousMouse28 Apr 2026, 13:04
Very nice art style. I like both 2d and 3d. And good story.
Le Don
Le Don1 May 2026, 09:40
This is a good game! Really like the atmosphere and those characters. I also appreciate that there was enough fuel and the difficulty seemed to be just fine.
Aster242 May 2026, 21:36
@anna-tateson Thanks for the tip! I'm glad I was able to see the corruption ending as well - the art associated with the events/interactions is very cool.
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