Unrelaxing Quacks

Fun little bullet heaven/survivors-like game. Not the most polished in the genre but it has some unique mechanics, like recovering corpses and being able to use their builds in future runs (for a price). I found out about the game from the dev's blog post about game dev in Rust. It's a good read if you're into technical stuff: https://loglog.games/blog/leaving-rust-gamedev/ Notes: - Guns feel and sound good. - Lots of action on screen. The corruption mechanic was a nice surprise. - Leaving powerups on the ground for later and then chaining them together is cool. The invincibility effect is hard to see though. - A lot of stats and numbers are hidden from the player (e.g. handgun damage up, attack speed up, health regeneration, berserk on max health). There's no list of stats on the pause menu or for items/upgrades. - Some upgrades seem underwhelming (e.g. you can use the boat for free, dash upgrades when you don't have the dash ability, there's an upgrade that increases the timer and an upgrade that decreases the timer) - The blood splatters and corpses are nice, but I feel like there could be a stronger effect on the projectile hitting the enemy. - The damage numbers (along with a lot of other UI elements) don't scale with higher resolutions and are hard to see. - I couldn't figure out how to dash for a while (right click). - No controller support and there doesn't seem to be input remapping. - Music: There's one looping track. I don't mind because I usually mute the music and listen to something else while playing these kinds of games. - Movement: The player can get stuck on objects, i.e. you're moving diagonally into a wall but your entire movement gets cancelled instead of just the part going into the wall. - Powerups and events can spawn in the water and you can't get to them. So can enemy drops but you can use the magnet to get them. - Money is a little weird. There aren't a lot of opportunities to spend money and the primary use late game seems to be the money shield item.