Synth Rail

The art looks so fastly thrown together and at the same time fits in all so well. The gameplay feels very very fluid, responsive and satisfying! I loved this game a lot, it has lots of interesting mechanics at play :-)

I loved everything in the game! The arts, animations, music, sound effects... The healing mechanism was also interesting, and it was extremely satisfying to use!

Thank you for the great game!

This is so fun! Having the Doom 2016 style melee for a shooter like that is such a good idea. I kinda like how you can't really avoid taking damage and have to use the melee to heal. The visuals are on point too, using the melee feels super satisfying even if it's just a right click.

It's not reasonable for a jam game, but I would love to see different contextual animations for the melee for example depending on the direction and the combo amount. And also more variation in upgrades and potentially weapons, because after a while you really want more variety.

Simple but super fun and stylish

I got 21500

The game looked and sounded really nice. The stats kept things interesting and were a good use of the theme

Pretty fun game! I played through it till wave 28. After that point I was pretty much invincible with my upgrades and my understanding of the game. It's not a huge game, but what's done is done really well, so great job!

Fun game!

I failed to read the instructions (my bad) and found that it took it several playthroughs to understand exactly how melee works. But I did eventually get there (and then discovered the instructions).

Timing the melee is definitely the most interesting part of the game and very satisfying when you get 3 or more in a row. The animation and slowdown here is great. If you're planning to spend more time on this project, I'd invest in making this a more core part of the gameplay.

Choosing between the different characters is somewhat interesting. However, I found there to be so many stats and the character affects to be so marginal that I didn't care much about my choices. Rather than adjusting numeric stats, it might be interesting if each character enabled functionality that you didn't otherwise have.

Music and art were strong!

I like the vibe and the general setup of the game, but there's some issues with the controls of the game, I think. The different enemy types make each wave feel different, which is cool.

I feel like I didn't really have any control over whether or not I would take damage, since my weapon seemed to deal no knockback. I think this game could be improved by making the gun deal a small amount of knockback to enemies, so that you are able to influence when you're gonna take damage.

I also think that some indicator of how long your melee is on cooldown would be good, so that the player knows when they can do it again.

Really challenging game! I included it in my GM48 compilation video series, if you’d like to take a look. :) https://youtu.be/sv7QWHTrbUo

22.8k on my first try. Wow. Great game! Was a tad confusing at first, but I eventually figured it out.

I become a train god and I liked it. Did I get 18000 score? Yes, Did I love it? Yes. 10/10 Great game, am still playing

I think it'd be nice to see this more developed, the gameplay is fun but gets a bit stale in later waves. With a bit more time I think a smoother more fluid melee animation would do the game well, maybe have the different character sprites jump out of the train if you're gonna spend the time on it? I think with more varied upgrades to shake up gameplay and a non-infinite progression this could be really fun :)

Overall good job, plays very smoothly considering it was only made in 2 days and the art is really nice.

Nice game! controls were fast and responsive, landing long combos felt good and was overall really well balenced. The music and art were also done very well. Good job :)

Definitely a really fun experience, although the melee was a little confusing at first, but I got the hang of it quickly! Really amazing job, especially in such a short time!

Really nice game. Music, sound, graphics, gameplay, difficulty, and side effects. Everything.

Wow, great entry. Great art, gameplay, design, music, and sfx. The theme of side effects of the different passengers fit. I never figured out Evasion or Visibility though I'm sure I could if I played it enough and focused on those traits. I thought the melee for health was a nice touch, it was challenging and satisfying.

Amazing job offering a variety of controls and really well executed gameplay, smooth to play and innovative with the give-and-take aspect of recruiting new passengers on the train as you go along - nicely made with a great deal of variation as well, great job! :)

Great art and the melee guy made the game super fun to play. I wish it revolved more around that rather then the shooting.

Nice art and very good sound effects. The combo thing with the meele attack is also really fun. The only thing i would though was missing was a little more different upgrades, i really wanted to do some full fire rate build but the only one that gives it is the ninja for example. But overall a very good submission, congrats!

"But im a train, how can i melee attack?" presses melee "ooooooooooh"

super fun game, the upgrade system keeps it interesting