great game!!! really polished concept, clean art and design! played through with straight-s except the last one! (wonder how one get a perfect game on that one)
The victory animation, level select screen and the selector spotlight for picking a factory all have beautiful style.
The rewind effect looks amazing.
The puzzle difficulty is spot on, with easy puzzles never outstaying their welcome and with hard puzzles tough but manageable.
The connection between the last five or six levels really makes it feel like it's building to a climax.
The rank system makes for a really fun optimisation.
About the only things that didn't feel intuitive were around scenarios where there's no move available, e.g. being unable to drive to a blocked factory or the finicky details of the radio tower, and I think they only stand out because the rest of the game makes everything so clear and obvious.
I think level 34 was the only one where I felt like I was just brute-forcing all the options. For whatever reason I just found it very hard to reason about even though I understood the mechanics.
Think I played up to about level 30 optimising for S rank as I went, then began to leave levels to come back for later. I really enjoyed the increasingly oppressive atmosphere through the end of the game, the way the roads full of police linked up between levels, and especially the final two-parter level made for a great sense of building up to a final victory. I particularly enjoyed optimising the last level - it's great when it finally clicks in place.
The amount of polish and love put into this game is amazing. Well done, and thank you. Definitely one of my favourite Pico 8 games!
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great game!!! really polished concept, clean art and design! played through with straight-s except the last one! (wonder how one get a perfect game on that one)
thank you for making this!
umm hello? based department?
Wow! Every bit of this game is so tightly cohesive in terms of narrative/mechanics/vibe. It's really impressive. And the music is a bop.
Hi! We played your game on stream and really enjoyed it!
This is wonderful! So many things to love.
About the only things that didn't feel intuitive were around scenarios where there's no move available, e.g. being unable to drive to a blocked factory or the finicky details of the radio tower, and I think they only stand out because the rest of the game makes everything so clear and obvious.
I think level 34 was the only one where I felt like I was just brute-forcing all the options. For whatever reason I just found it very hard to reason about even though I understood the mechanics.
Think I played up to about level 30 optimising for S rank as I went, then began to leave levels to come back for later. I really enjoyed the increasingly oppressive atmosphere through the end of the game, the way the roads full of police linked up between levels, and especially the final two-parter level made for a great sense of building up to a final victory. I particularly enjoyed optimising the last level - it's great when it finally clicks in place.
The amount of polish and love put into this game is amazing. Well done, and thank you. Definitely one of my favourite Pico 8 games!