Reviews for Forest Shack ( Prototype )

[trout66]

very cool to look at, very frustrating hit box detection, seems unbeatable. this is another game like Fall For Greed - https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/798891 - that I want to love because of the aesthetic but the barrier of unexplained mechanics is keeping me from it.

The first 5-6 times I played this the 'tutorial' never happened so I was plying blind. On another playthrough now and the bandage and snipe mechanics were explained. Putting controls and an explanation of mechanics in the game description would help a lot.

HatiValcoran responds:

You must have accidentally died to the two starting rats on your first attempt, which caused you to spawn into the third night (I made this adjustment so players didn't have to replay the tutorial every time they died.)

This is a potential issue I considered while I made the adjustment, but didn't actually solve due to a lack of time before the deadline.

I'll fix it for 1.0.1 along with the bow collision detection in the merchant. I'll also add a description of the controls and mechanics in the game description, silly mistake that I didn't.

Thank you for your review, trout66.

I am fleshing out the update as I reply to you, and it will be out in the next hour. Also I promise you this, the game is beatable! I made sure of it before release.

(But I definitely need to improve its balance and difficulty curve.)

[Crowmanhunter]

Very spooky and very fun. The sound effects were did wonders to add to the atmosphere. Only big criticism is the game is very tiny on PC. Not sure if this game was made with something other than PC in mind? For something that has two high detail precision mechanics, being able to see is a little important to the core gameplay.
Otherwise, good first step into game making.

HatiValcoran responds:

I tried to make the player able to dynamically change the resolution, but unfortunately due to deficiencies on the engine's HTML5 export it isn't possible without breaking the user interface.

Just zoom in on the website with control+Mouse-wheel if you would like to increase the size!

And thank you.

[Wolfdude898]

Its a pretty good game, i like the art style and the game play but i wish it didnt take so long to activate the heal and to seem to have alot of delay. Overall its a great game

[Atomicblast2998]

If you're struggling with the game like i was here's a tip, in the beginning try to save your gold and only buy bandages/heal when you really need it so that you can buy the better bow as soon as possible because if you die on your first fight with the "demonic deer" you'll restart back to the beginning of the night phase but you'll still have the better bow, which will help you on your first fight with the "demonic deer" so you'll just have to keep healing and buying bandages, also prioritize healing over attacking, never risk trying to attack with low heath because the character will not attack if the enemy is attacking and the enemy can and probably will kill you first

[Axethrower]

I'd prefer to kill the human things for money. Otherwise fine.

HatiValcoran responds:

You'll have more chances to kill humanoids in Forest Shack 2!