Squish ! by Starlex3000
So, you want to wrangle slimes? Just know this: they're cute, they're elemental, and they're utterly dependent on you.
COLLECT: An ever-growing family of adorable, needy blobs!
BEFRIEND: Because friendship is literally the difference between life and death.
PANIC: When the sun goes down and you realize you forgot about Gary, the lonely water slime. Is it cold tonight? Oh no.
SURVIVE: The crushing guilt of being a neglectful slime keeper. Good luck.
| Link | https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UhsRs_WQl1Fb2-LbEFK_p80xUp0rQgjy/view?usp=drive_link |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/58/squish |
Ratings
| Overall | 730th | 2.85⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 734th | 2.525⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 655th | 2.737⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 643th | 3.158⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 322th | 3.825⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 376th | 3.2⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 360th | 3.083⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 570th | 3.25⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 32🗳️ | 16🗨️ |

Good job on the submission!
Really, really hard game to be honest! But it is so cute and lovely, you did a great job, my friends ^_^
I couldn't figure out how to feed them, so they kept dying from hunger (I think). I planted the berry slime on a farm next to others, but it didn't help. There doesn't seem to be an option to harvest any food from it. Also, I built a house and put some slimes inside, but they still were cold. After the pink slime died I got softlocked, since I couldn't tame any new ones.
When a slime dies, it seems that its station can't be taken by another. I.e. my woodcutter died, I tamed another, but it couldn't stand on the stump where the other woodcutter slime used to be. Same for the berry slime and the pink slime. And I couldn't build new stations because the builder was already busy with a half-finished mine (which I couldn't cancel).
Hope this feedback won't discourage you! I enjoyed the game despite everything, and overall it would be extremely fun if some UX issues were fixed and it was clearer what to do! If you release an update I'd love to give this game another try.

Also bonus axe:

(Yes it now lives up here!)

Also, I was just exploring around and somehow unlocked the ugly barnacle ending where everyone died, haha.
I hope you'll fix that in the future, because this game has a future ;) Good luck!
By the way, if you like games with a slightly quirky atmosphere, you might want to check out our game too 🥴