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Canned by Nanaschi1984

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made by Nanaschi1984 for Ludum Dare 58 (JAM)

Feel free to leave any feedback I'd be happy to read it! WASD - walk, Shift - run, E - pick up, Space jump, C - crouch

“You wake up. The light flickers. The air tastes like metal and soup.”

CANNED is a slow, atmospheric survival micro-horror about collecting cans in a decaying underground bunker. Each day, you scavenge, count, and deposit your precious canned “nutrition” into a humming fridge to earn another day of rest. The lights never stop flickering. The walls whisper efficiency slogans. The cans — well, they hum back sometimes.

🧠 What Awaits You Collect to Survive Cans are everything: food, currency, sanity. The more you find, the longer you live. Miss your quota — and things get strange.

Fear of Light The brighter it gets, the faster your sanity slips. Hide in the dark. Learn to love the hum.

Voices in the Tin Dynamic text events react to your state — calm, hungry, insane — and whisper strange fragments of thought.

Absurd Corporate Logic Sleep to “earn” another shift. Your monitor tracks survival efficiency. The fridge is your manager.

Slow Madness The bunker reshapes itself each morning. Posters change. Lights fail. You begin to forget how many cans you’ve eaten.

⚙️ Features Minimalist first-person exploration

Sanity & light mechanics

Randomized text fragments and inner monologues

Sound design focused on hums, flickers, and metallic echoes

Hand-crafted, low-poly, industrial aesthetic

Complete controller & keyboard support

💬 Developer Note CANNED started as a small experiment about monotony, isolation, and the way survival routines consume us. It became a dark comedy about purpose — and soup.

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Link https://nanaschi.itch.io/canned
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/58/canned

Ratings

Given 16🗳️ 25🗨️

Feedback

DiscJokk
Oct 08th · 18:51 UTC
The mood is awesome, there is much work put into the graphics, I can tell. The text massages that appear on screen while playing is hilarious. The mouse sensitivity on mac-safari was a tad bit too sensitive and scrolling was a little tricky, but otherwise a great mood setter.
Pegasus
Oct 08th · 18:56 UTC
Interesting one for sure, I felt it get a little monotonous and the controls switching mechanic, whilst novel at first, did become a bit annoying. I think the sensitivity was ridiculously high which made navigating quite difficult also. Nevertheless the eerie vibe was really cool and I liked the art style.
LDJam user 373998
Oct 08th · 19:14 UTC
It's a good level with textures and furniture and that alone is such an accomplishment. I think the sound loop was a good atmosphere. Your mouse sensitivity is very much too high. I can't even turn my mouse down low enough DPI to play comfortably, but I played uncomfortably anyway.

It took me a long time to notice I was even standing in a black area because they're invisible from the inside. And even with your nice sanity bar animations I still didn't realize what was going on until I was thoroughly stuck in the cafeteria and wondering "how is this so broken??", turns out the controls being incorrect was actually the intended punishment for standing in the place I was standing.

The environmental text boxes: I liked this method of adding writing / narration to the game. I might have missed a few as I was wondering around too fast. It's a nice extra layer of details.

Overall: Pretty OK
I think many people will not be able to play with the mouse sensitivity so high, though.
Surfa
Oct 08th · 20:30 UTC
I like the atmosphere and graphics. I also felt like the gameplay was a little confusing. I could not get past 26 cans on the second 'day'. It might have just been me but I could not find anymore in the canteen etc...

I did think it was an interesting entry overall.
🎤 Nanaschi1984
Oct 09th · 07:15 UTC
@mortusnegat Thanks for playing! Hotfixed the mouse sensitivity to be not such a lightning speed :D
🎤 Nanaschi1984
Oct 09th · 07:16 UTC
@surfa the secret is inside canteen somewhere maybe :D Thanks for playing!
Daniel123
Oct 09th · 15:58 UTC
The mood of the game is great. I believe a background music would be better. By the way, do you use ai for creating the sentences. It feels a little weird when reading the context.
🎤 Nanaschi1984
Oct 09th · 16:11 UTC
@daniel123 some part of it only which was trained on original texts. Thanks for playing the game. The audio indeed could be improved :D
Nnnnneeeedddd
Oct 10th · 16:11 UTC
Ctrl didn't work for crouch, all other controls worked, anyone else get this issue?
TungGD
Oct 10th · 18:58 UTC
In the game it says Ctrl for crouching, but it's actually C. I accidentally closed the browser multiple times before finding the real crouch button. The game is interesting, but the control is a bit disorienting for me.
Disvent
Oct 10th · 19:22 UTC
Really cool atmosphere - the ambient background sound alone creates a great sense of dread.
I wasn’t a fan of the inverted controls though; I couldn’t quite figure out what triggers them.
The text messages at the bottom were a bit hard to read - they move quickly and look pretty small on my 2560×1440 monitor.
But any good horror game lives through its atmosphere - and this one nails it.
Great work!
Aes1
Oct 10th · 19:40 UTC
This game was really good I really like the low poly textures and along with the mood it reminded me of presentable liberty which is pretty crazy that you managed to spark that mood and interesting aesthetic in a short amount of time, thanks for making something cool!
🎤 Nanaschi1984
Oct 11th · 05:38 UTC
@tunggd @nnnnneeeedddd I will hot fix it inside the game indeed C is for crouching as per description

@disvent @aes1 Thanks for trying out our game and experiencing the feel we were trying to convey <3
Stingdragon
Oct 11th · 18:30 UTC
That direction shift is so confusing and stressful when you try to dodge out of the darkness! Well done.
YibiRabbit007
Oct 13th · 12:15 UTC
Bug report: number error of collected , like @tunggd @nnnnneeeedddd said , down body need press C key

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Timo5034
Oct 13th · 13:30 UTC
Heyy, another PSX style game :D You really nailed the assets, they look very PSX style
🎤 Nanaschi1984
Oct 13th · 19:21 UTC
@yibirabbit007 these are collected in the fridge :) It always says so when you try to sleep with insufficient amount of them
YibiRabbit007
Oct 14th · 01:40 UTC
@nanaschi1984 Okay, I will try find other ways. But number locked true like a bug (:o
ljol3
Oct 14th · 02:13 UTC
What a twist ending!

There really was something with the going insane inner dialogue
snesgaard
Oct 17th · 19:30 UTC
I love PSX graphics. Very spooky atmosphere, good job!
WetBurritoSupreme
Oct 21st · 03:44 UTC
Great environment in this game, and the sound design really sold it! I think some polish on the meters would be good, it was hard to tell if I got affected or what was going on when the meters topped out. Otherwise really well done! Thanks!