Amazing aesthetics. You really nailed the Inscryption vibe, especially with those snappy camera movements. The scanned NPC models were a perfect choice. I liked the highlight effect for selecting items and fingers, although it was sometimes hard to see on NPC’s fingers, particularly their thumbs.

As others have said, the rules were confusing at first, although it did become intuitive eventually. I realize this would be a lot to do in 7 days, but it could benefit from some tutorialization. Perhaps a lesson from the dealer themself.

An input prompt for moving the camera would have been helpful. Also, I would have liked the camera to move over to the NPCs while they were taking their turns, or at least zoom in a bit. It was hard to see what was going on and that really added to the difficulty of understanding the rules.

In my oppinion, there’s two items that should be rarer (I might have just gotten very lucky). One is the sewing needle - it makes the game last longer than it feels like it should. The other is the eye hook - I feel it takes away from the suspense. Another option you might want to consider is giving the player a stock of items to start and not giving them any new ones later.

Lastly, I think the game needs something to ramp up the drama over time. Maybe a periodical “up the ante”. Not entirely sure how this would work though.

All that being said, this was one of my favorite entries in the jam so far. Really great job!

That was charming! I ended up winning, but losing almost all of my fingers. No more programming for me, I guess.

Very impressive work, both in terms of presentation and gameplay. I liked the atmosphere and an unusual visual shader, which made everything look a bit like claymation. Everything from font to meaty sound effects oozes style and atmosphere; the game is very aesthetically coherent. Very cool snappy camera movement, and good work on conveying all the information through the environment! I got some strong Inscryption vibes while playing, although the gameplay itself lacked a bit in drama, for my taste. I felt like it is always an optimal strategy to go safe, preserve as many fingers as you can for as long as you can, and just wait until the AI makes enough mistakes and loses all the fingers (this is how I won, anyway). Maybe the issue was in the overabundance of very powerful bonuses (ring of protection, especially felt like OP to me, since it essentially allows you to lose with no consequences). 

Nevertheless, I still had a blast playing through your game! Thank you for sharing this experience :)

Incredible visually and really interesting concept. I also struggled a little to understand how to play at first, but I found it mysterious and fun to understand wtf was going on lol Love the setting and atmosphere.

I have to agree that it sometimes relies too much on RNG, and I'm usually super unlucky :( But I really appreciate the rules and the concept, truly well thought and really original take.

Congrats! Amazing submission

Okay. Start with the evidence, the game is reaaally pretty, love the vibe, love the ennemie's models (inspired by the "Bocca della Verità" maybe ?), love the sound design. 

But like others in the comments, the rules was the problem for me. And yet i think i undertstand them. But I see two times on opponents loose a dice duel with me, and they never chopped his fingers. I'm so perplexe. 

I would try the game again if a new version comes out, it really has potential. 

Really cool game! I love the aesthetics and 3D models. The gameplay felt like a cool twist on Buckshot Roulette.  I was able to win but it took quite a bit of back and forth. If you are going to continue working on the game I think an animation speed toggle and an action log would go a long way. 

Really nice game that reminds me Inscryption with Buckshot Roulette, the run is very long, I don't undertand why sometimes the ennemies take more than one shot on their fingers? Also, is it possible to win, I eliminated 1 of them but after I just had 1 or 2 scor at the dice? And what is the interest of the Hook? And the smasher?

Took me few tries to get hang of it, and then a really long suffocating back and forth to win, but got the upper hand. Really neat game, like my only real nitpick is that it was super hard to get what was going on at first, even if I tried my best to actually read, but once you get into a 1v1 position it becomes lot easier to actually learn whats going on. I feel that the game is slightly too reliant on rng, BUT I suspect this is purely because I had to watch my only opponent get 3 threats and needles with 0 fingers cut, while I was there sitting with only 6 fingers. I did end up winning, and it felt good and fun, so; What do I know, the game feel works \o/ Ambience was nice and style really consistent with the vibe. (Also props for having an Unreal game which actually didn't set my GPU on fire.)

Great work on this! I can see this being developed further even, but works just perfectly like this.

really creative visuals, definitely love that style. gameplay is interesting but really hard to follow what to do, i also didnt know the tutorial paper was there until i ran into a bug where i couldnt choose a finger.

really great stuff, love the buckshot roulette inspo

Love the wooden players. Very cool concept!

Really cool game! Big fan of the models for the player's opponents in particular