What Lurks Below
Posted April 11, 2025. Updated April 11, 2025. Played 3409 times for a total of 3244 hours.
description
Gloomhollow
October 18th, 1881
Moments before calamity.
What Lurks Below is a semi-active incremental game that takes you deep into the depths below Old Gloomhollow. Can you discover what lurks below?
This is a short 30 minute experience made for a game jam. We hope you enjoy! :)
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Wow, this was really cool. I loved it! I would love to see a longer version of this, with more mechanics and prestige layers and everything, maybe even developing a full story. But if that does happen, please make the ending boom in production slower, since it's fun, but not really suitable for a longer incremental game. I would reccomend to explore the story further and expand the game before the gate, and to then implement some sort of prestige mechanic to develop the story even further. Overall, I loved it and see great potential :)
such a delightful little gamejam idle!! the art, theming, and writing are to die for, and i thought the idea of mixing a sort of slow-burn horror into an incremental game was both very unique and felt very natural. it only took about half an hour, so give it a go!
I got the final ending very goofy but you need the chapel to be max or close. The gate should slowly open and there should be a rain of red from the chapel
The circle in the collector's instructions made me think I had to drag a circle around the sparks themselves ... instead of just holding the mouse button over the collector. There was probably a better symbol that could be used to indicate holding the button down.
Not bad, until the gate. There's more space below it, so it seems like there's more to the game. It looks like the icon for Souls, and they seem to flow down to it, so I expected that something would happen when a certain Souls total was reached. 10,000? Still nothing, and there was nothing else to do but let the game idle by this point. Much later, I gave up at 100,000
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This is such a lovely little game! The atmosphere is great, the music and sounds are lovely, and the gameplay/progression is nice!
A fun little game. I hope more is added.
very nice! I love the atmosphere.
Neat little game jam incremental, would love to see a longer / more fleshed out version of this with the same excellent theming / vibe.
Really good so far, I just wish there was a way to respec a few upgrades and a way to save.