HarvesTile by Wieczny
You woke up suddenly on a large field of wheat. Sickle in your hand, you remembered your exit from afterworld. This sickle... It demands souls. Fill it.
Harvestile is a simple strategy/card game in which, as a Reaper, you need to harvest 1000 souls from towns on the map! To do so you have to place buildings around towns that will weaken or strengthen them. This will either speed up or slow down the process. Beware! If you harvest too much, you might destroy a town and you won't get any souls from it. Destroying all towns before reaching 1000 souls will count as a loss! Take your time and have fun reaping!!
HOW TO PLAY - WASD to move camera - LMB to select card & place buildings - RMB to re-roll a card
| Link | https://jamesboink.itch.io/harvestile |
| Link | https://jamesboink.itch.io/harvestile |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/52/harvestile |
Ratings
| Overall | 210th | 3.786⭐ | 37🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 283th | 3.571⭐ | 37🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 150th | 3.714⭐ | 37🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 70th | 4.271⭐ | 37🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 212th | 4.043⭐ | 37🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 190th | 3.657⭐ | 37🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 468th | 2.727⭐ | 35🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 242th | 3.706⭐ | 36🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 60🗳️ | 47🗨️ |
I would say early on it's pretty difficult till you learn what you're doing. I'd recommend turning the tutorial into 'guided' actions the first time around if you continue this!
Too much information at the start for me.
Realy good, a little difficult and complicated (it took me several tries anyway).
A very good job, well done to you!
It was difficult to tell how much damage a town was going to take tho, I just kinda had to guess how many debuffs to apply so the town would actually take damage from the harvest. if these values were more clear I may have understood how to play a little sooner but still super fun!
it was an incredible game! i've had so much fun i had to refrain myself from playing it all night! i wish there was an endless mode because i didn't want to stop at 1000 souls haha
there are some minor things that could be improved, but they were nothing compared to all the good things! art is nice, idea is super clever and original, the fact that the map is randomly generated is awesome and makes me want to play again and again!
great job!
PS:happy to see i'm the one giving you your 20th rating :D
Usually I am turned off by so many rules and text for a game, but I stuck it out and read up on my goals and what I was trying to do.
There was a bit of discovery on trying to balance +/- cards on the board, but on my 2nd run I got the hang of it!
Finished the game and was really having a lot of fun. Well done!
Imo when the night falls, everything becomes too dark, can't see anything at all.
Nice job
- Unfortunately i couldn't figure out how to control what towns are harvested. He only automatically harvested the first town visible and upgrading that one with a bank made the reaper not harvest at all... despite playing the sound. I thought placing the reapers tile next to new towns might add them to the harvest, but no.
The game looks great and I like the idea of keeping the balance of harvesting enough but not too much. Good job :thumbsup: