Such a good concept! I love the idea of being so greedy you'll take a bribe to instantly die :') Took me a minute to work out how to use a few items but its pretty straight forward. don't know if i was lucky but I lasted a very very long time, So I'll take that as a win. Great submission!

This reminded me of a fun tabletop game called Guillotine. I had to keep checking the notes to see what each item's effect was. However, it generally made sense, although I found the result sometimes wasn't what I was expecting. I do like that the game prevents you from using an item that will have zero result. Unfortunately, I often ended up in situations where I didn't have anything that would save me. Alas, I was unable to further delay the inevitable. Nice core game loop!

@defrag : You're absolutely right, I was inspired by the game Guillotine. :-)

Definite Guillotine vibes! Clever idea, and your sprites are very nice. It's sometimes not intuitive which cards will let you do which thing? But it's pretty fun, and the fact that you're not always able to survive for long is very on-theme with the Inevitable concept.

Pretty unique! Loved how you used the theme. Wish of course there were some animations to the card/actions other than sliding the characters around, but yeah ejoyed the game :)

I like the game mechanics. Items must be chosen wisely. Good job!

Cool Concept ! the visuals are very nice !

Some feedbacks:
The bombs make the game very easy & spawn a lot (you can basically make the game last forever). maybe make them less current or remove tem all together.
There's no scoring. That made me loose interest kinda fast since there's no challenge to reach a high score.
The use of action where not clear at first. took me a while to figure out I had to click the action then the character then the action again. (that's also a lot o click for 1 action, maybe make it a drag an drop ?)

Appart from that, that's a pretty cool game. With some balencing, a sound track & some twick here & there it could become very fun ;)

Great game concept, maybe at first it was difficult for me to handle it but then very well. Great game! By the way, are one of the sprites from Another World (Out of this World) game? They look a lot alike!

Interesting concept. Simple yet rewarding gameplay. Decent graphics.

I'm glad you wrote a manual though. Otherwise I would have had no idea what was happening.

Would have loved a score to be able to show off how long I survived.

Solid entry!

@milq Thank you! Well, yes and no. Yes, it's the guy from Another World, but no, I pixeled him myself. Nice someone recognizes that reference. :-)

@szym Yeah, the Highscore did not make it into the game and it's a compo game, so I won't add it now (at least not to the compo edition).

The actions you receive are random, so you just got lucky and was granted a few bombs, sometimes you get none and lose. Would probably be better if it was more like Tetris (at least non-ancient variants) does it: There is a set of next actions and that is shuffled, so you'll never get three bombs in a row.

Interesting game. The action icons were easy to learn. There was a little inconsistency in the way actions highlight and then who moved but was a minor issue.

It took me just a little while to understand how to play the game. Eventually after learning the game it becomes slightly luck based instead of puzzle. The concept is really simple, after some trial you get to understand the game pretty quickly. Hoped there were more cards and/or npcs. I noticed there was no sound as well, which is sad. Even a simple BGM and some sounds when clicking or switching would have been nice.

Thank you for submitting, cool concept, great work!

Was able to do better my second time around. Would be nice if there was some sort of score, otherwise it's hard to keep track of how far you got which makes it unlikely that I would play again to try and do better.

I liked that I could bribe the "not ferengi". ;-)

Really cool concept for a game! Nice pixel art.

Nice unique entry, sounds would give a lot for the atmosphere but the nice graphics really compensate.

Nice, but events are too random.