What Lurks Below
Ludum Dare 57 Entry
A semi-active incremental game where you must discover what lurks below.
This is a short 30 minute experience made for a game jam. We hope you enjoy! :)
Changelog
v1.3
- Fixed typos in upgrade flavor text
- Fixed issue where pause menu wouldn't unpause
- Fixed bug where some substance orbs would get stuck in an uncollectible state
- Fixed an issue where music would play twice on a replay
- Fixed an issue where sound effects would be stuck on after going back to the main menu
v1.2
- Fixed tutorialization hiding if you scroll
- Shows science produced in end screen
- Misc UI tweaks
v1.1
- Fixed broken pause menu
- Fixed game restart not properly resetting upgrades
- Minor tooltip text/typo tweaks
- Added UI hint that the user can scroll
- Made the first few upgrades slightly cheaper
v1.0
- Release!
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I loved the game. The atmosphere, together with the music, is what captivated me the most.
A masterpiece. Truly amazing.
So gooood! Very moody and unnerving.
just replayed it and still wondering what I was already wondering back then:
what is the condition for the thing to actually open?Like except for the infinite bucket thing I got all upgrades and stuff nonstpop flows in but the thing wiggles a bit back and forth but no clear progress in any direction visible.and it already runs for 2 hoursin the background so if it was a simple "collect x amount of Y" it would already be long achieved I guess...
REALLY good idel game like DAMN
id love it if you made a longer version thoe
I signed up just to say THANK YOU, not my sort of game normally however i enjoy it so much! Thank you for taking time to make and release this small game.
how do you even play this ??
Awesome game! really fun to play, and unlike some clicker games ive played i really never felt bored.
Hoping for more/a sequel
simple but really good the music is a banger
For those having issues with the game completing, stop extracting and just collect what has already been extracted.
how do you stop extracting?
Just stop hitting spacebar/clicking the extractor and keep gathering what has already been extracted. You will outpace the automated extraction and get there eventually. That's what worked for me.
Pretty cool! Mouse scroll goes way too far for me though.
Fantastic. Got recommended this by a friend who prefaced it with "this isn't the genre of game you like, so it's perfect for you." and my friend was not wrong. Simply fantastic.
Can confirm the game won't end, though I never made it to Situla C to trigger that particular bug. I have everything else upgraded, though, and there's simply no end as far as I can tell.
Enjoyed this! short and sweet and gave me the unearned feeling of achievement and progress for which I interact with these types of digital wallpapers.
Found a bug: if you buy Situla C, the game never ends. I have a 28 minute gameplay recording in full screen of the game just continuing indefinitely. However, when I didn't wait for Situla C a couple weeks ago, it ended just fine.
Is there anywhere we can listen to the soundtrack? The music is absolutely gorgeous but I looked everywhere and can't find the OST posted... I need this in my playlists so badly
SUPER cool! love all the pixel art and all the sounds
how do you get the gate to ope
just stop extracting and collect only,
and you will eventually get the ending
currently, the game never ends. I'm stuck with everything upgraded and the door/gate never opens for the end.
just stop extracting and collect only,
and you will eventually get the ending
really nice game. i like the lore
Nice game! I really like its pixel art
I solved the greatest mystery in this game, the situla upgrade max level is 100.
Gameplay and Critique ;)
Really cool, I enjoyed that! Would love it if there were a timer or something, would be interesting to see if I can improve my time by trying new things.
Good Game, but I really was excited to go deeper.
I left my game on for a while and it's kind of pretty!
Great job, very cool game :)
Video settings don't work. Changing them does nothing.
From the wording and due to how crystals/water flickers, I gather there's supposed to be graphics below the ground, yet my gamma-calibrated monitor shows nothing. I think the game needs a brightness adjustment.
The damn gate won't open.
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Mine doesn't open too.
Came here from Haelian :) Very nice little game!! Really liked the atmosphere and the great art style & animations!
Progression was a bit off, had moments where there was too much to wait (mostly to unlock the crystal and then the distillery), then all of a sudden becomes soooo fast, with all upgrades unlocked in a few seconds. I did not bother to wait for the game to open, as after 10 minutes of activity there seemed to be no progress and no upgrades to look for.
So I found this game from Haelian over on Youtube (I noticed in his video's comments section the devs of the game had commented so I know they've seen it).
I came over here and downloaded it.
My computer immediately detected (and thankfully successfully blocked) a TROJAN from it.
HELLO???????
P.S. And before anyone says "Oh but it might have just been a false alarm", both Windows Security AND Opera GX flagged it. And Windows Security found a specific file in the folder, LITERALLY NAMED "Trojan". So no, not a false alarm.
Hi, we are aware that Windows is flagging the executable and we're looking into it. We focus on the WebGL build for game jams and just build from Unity, zip, and publish for the other platforms. I'd be curious to see what file is in the folder called "Trojan", because I've looked through the entire zip and found no such thing.
It flagged on the .part download (basically just a tmp file in Windows) with the following: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/wdsi/threats/malware-encyclopedia-description?name=Trojan%3AScript%2FWacatac.B!ml&threatid=2147735503
It’s not at all uncommon for Windows to flag on zip archives though, and I am curious to see if it happens with a 7z, gzip, tar, or rar as well.
Honestly though, the best way to keep from false flags is to just submit it to the various AV/AM providers: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/wdsi/filesubmission for MS Defender (as an example)
To the OP for this thread: Trojan:SOMETHING does not mean it was found in a Folder named Trojan, it means that the Family of the malware is Trojan, and the “Species” of Trojan is whatever follows the colon.
.....Oh. Well, thanks for letting me know. -w-"
I downloaded the zip and gave it a scan. No threats found.
It could be from somewhere else for you so you might have to check your entire system just in case.
The issue was already solved. Turns out my computer was just flagging the file as a trojan.
Also it said it was from the game files itself, so if it actually was a virus, it wouldn't have been from somewhere else.
Thanks anyway though
Please make this game longer! It's too good!
how does the gate open
Man, I want to give you some money, this game is to good to be free, how can I do it?
Just informing: Your downloads all flag as malicious.
That was a really interesting, dark, wild ride! I love incremental games, and while there were a couple of moments where things seemed to particularly slow down, there were also several times when things skyrocketed and NUMBERS WENT UP!
This was a fantastic game, let alone that it was made in 72 hours! 😮 And you really captured the vibe via the music, sound effects, and art.
- ✨Beth
Pretty sure its soft locked...