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Souls 'R Us by Aarimous

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made by Aarimous for Ludum Dare 55 (COMPO)

Souls 'R Us was made for Ludum Dare 55.

How to Play

Working for Lucifer you need to defend his summoning ritual from those pesky angels while also collecting their souls. You can use the angels souls to summon your own devils and purchase upgrades for them. Save up to 666 souls at once and you can spawn Mr. Lucifer himself... and win the game ;)

This game is a fun balance between risk/reward of saving souls to purchase upgrades at the shop. And I hear it might even crash if you make too many devils. Oh well, sometimes it's fun to be evil.

https://youtu.be/rS4INocFayE

Controls:

  • Left Click : Place the Devils/Summoning Ritual *Hover over Souls to collect them
  • Q : Summon Devils
  • W : Summon Devil Ritual
  • E : Heal Pentagram
  • R : Summon Lucifer (AKA Win Game)

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Link https://github.com/Aarimous/LD55
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/55/souls-r-us

Ratings

Overall 116th 3.684⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Fun 87th 3.711⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 272th 2.947⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Theme 67th 4.053⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 222th 3.211⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Audio 46th 3.842⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Humor 11th 4.222⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Mood 174th 3.333⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Given 34🗳️ 15🗨️

Feedback

LDJam user 251170
15. Apr 2024 · 02:10 UTC
Fun little resource management game! Watching a horde of demons walk around on the screen was very satisfying. The voice clips were fun! Game ran smoothly too. I could totally imagine this game to be expanded, but you've already mentioned this on stream yourself!

Grats on the submission, you've done it!
nickCherns
15. Apr 2024 · 02:20 UTC
Really enjoyed the 'idle' aspect of the game but I did feel like the upgrades became obsolete about mid game and felt like I could keep summoning allies without too big of a hit on my soul counter. Loved the audio clips, really gave life to the game!
Hot Noggin Studios
15. Apr 2024 · 03:23 UTC
Awesome job! The little voices are super humorous. The idle gameplay, going from just a handful to an entire horde, is also super satisfying.
Rob6566
15. Apr 2024 · 03:26 UTC
Love this! The voices are great, and there's some interesting upgrade options.
It did feel a bit easy - I didn't have to do much after the early game. A couple of things that might make it harder:
- Killing off demons between shop runs
- Making the number of angels spawned scale faster
Nice work getting this done in such a short time!
mrVentures
15. Apr 2024 · 03:41 UTC
fun game, I didnt realize how OP the summon circles were until maybe halfway through.
Iwant_Pizza
17. Apr 2024 · 20:13 UTC
The audio of this game is delightful) The gameplay is not once boring or stingy like games on a phone (some of them)
Quinn Davis
18. Apr 2024 · 20:05 UTC
Very fun to build up an army of demons. Satisfying to reach the end.
recursor
19. Apr 2024 · 18:24 UTC
Very addictive game play, but I would liked to have seen more angel types for some variety. The lack of new enemy types would have made it boring, except that it was quite satisfying to watch the little guys move in a swarm to to attack. It felt like once I reached a certain level of soul accumulation, it got real easy, but game balance is not something you can do much of in a jam. Nice job.
🎤 Aarimous
19. Apr 2024 · 23:32 UTC
@recursor I agree about the balance and I had plans for up to 4 angel types and 4 devils. But time was running out and I want to ensure it was at least fun to play. I agree about how satisfying it is for the devils to march around and kill. I think the game could have been a very fun incremental game where you chose how many angels to spawn and how many devils to spawn. Then watch the two side fight and collect the souls. Anyways, thanks for playing!
LDJam user 280707
23. Apr 2024 · 03:37 UTC
Can't hear myself think over all the voicelines. 12/10.

![demonswarm.png](///raw/388/44/z/64b76.png)

Honestly, super fun game! Definitely really easy, but I'd say too easy is much better than too hard in a game jam. I had a really fun time playing with all the upgrades. The rituals are deefinitely very overpowered; The idea of trading off immediate defensive units for more defense over a longer time is really cool, but once you have a handful of demons up, there's not much need for immediate defense, since nothing can really catch you off guard.

Also; Sound design is amazing, I love it xD

Enjoyed it a lot though! Really fun entry! ^^
shared
23. Apr 2024 · 19:58 UTC
Pretty fun entry ! Audio is a nice touch with the voice clips. Summon rituals are pretty good ! Though you end up pretty quickly with a picture like in the post above mine, and like him i like the idea of the trade off
Nazorus
23. Apr 2024 · 20:03 UTC
That was pretty fun! I love the little attention to detail like the ritual's summoning indicator or the souls squishing as you collect them. Sound effects are absolutely hilarious.

The game feels super smooth even with lots and lots of summons, there isn't really any challenge to it but it's still satisfying to just keep upgrading those devils and rituals and flood the game with an army of red little guys.

Overall this is a solid submission, kudos for doing the compo!
Gabrimer
24. Apr 2024 · 17:31 UTC
Love these games where your whole objective is to keep grinding over and over again. I honestly kinda wish the game didn't have the 666 soul cap, because that stopped me from being able to keep stacking up a lot of souls before the upgrade shop could appear haha. Really nice stuff!

![Screenshot 2024-04-24 142809.png](///raw/41f/c4/z/64c33.png)
![Screenshot 2024-04-24 142850.png](///raw/41f/c4/z/64c34.png)
Mohammed Kapiel
26. Apr 2024 · 21:58 UTC
Great game :clap: well done and pretty fun.
ChuChuGeralt
27. Apr 2024 · 20:04 UTC
It´s so silly, I love it!

![LUCIFER.png](///raw/a15/01/z/64d75.png)


As I am writing this, I am sill trying to summon lucifer, since time has gotten really slow after I oversummoned lol.
The sounds are great. With that sound design you don´t even need any backround music. It actually could have been to much.
Your game was an absolute joy to play!


![LUCIFER2.png](///raw/a15/01/z/64d76.png)
🎤 Aarimous
27. Apr 2024 · 20:54 UTC
@chuchugeralt Wow, I'm just blown away that your computer didn't blow up spawning that much. Glad you enjoyed it, the balance is all wrong, but it is just fun to play and watch the horde grow and fight. Cheers!
ajpl
27. Apr 2024 · 21:36 UTC
Really fun game! Kinda wished to have option to pick the original balance with highier dificulty :)
ps. kudos for tips in the video!
johnnysix
27. Apr 2024 · 21:40 UTC
Did a speed run :smile:

https://youtu.be/_9AC6xlGEgg

Great stuff for a compo game, plenty of options with the shop, would be cool to be able to do more with the demons, they kind had a bias for the left hand side of the screen, if you could have centroids to have them cluster around it'd be less likely for small clumps to get picked off due to lack of numbers getting into play.

Bonus points for all the dialogue / sound effect work!