The Forest Below by raphy
The Forest Below is a pixel art experience with a minimalist gameplay.
Protect the ancient Monolith to keep the forest alive! 🌲
Move with arrows. Run with shift, use the spirits following you with space.
The evil demons will ignore you but if they destroy the monolith, you lose.
Made in 48h by Raphaël Sfeir :)
Ratings
| Overall | 812th | 3.659⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 1622th | 3.13⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 1370th | 3.217⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 995th | 3.761⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 132th | 4.457⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 131th | 4.087⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 14th | 4.523⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 26🗳️ | 20🗨️ |
You might want to add that there's a Linux version on the Ludum Dare page since currently you can only see that on the itch page. I really appreciate that you made a Linux version.
It would have been nice to have maybe more unit types and more tactical choices during the game.
Cute game. Although the mood was pretty solid, I am not sure that the gameplay fit it very well. In some ways it is a tower defense game without the strategy or much of the challenge.
The gameplay itself felt a bit lacking. It feels meditative though, especially watching your trees grow around you :) - that might be what you were going for! The guardian themselves seemed not to stray far from their trees often, even those that were the attacking kind. As a result, there was not much attacking of the enemy monolith going on unless you started planting your trees close to the red forest.
Very nice jam job overall.