Personally, I think some of the puzzles in Slime Dungeon are a bit obtuse, I had to look at the guide to get past quite a few of them. It could just be a skill issue on my end tho.

Hmmm, I think that's fair, I can't really expect everyone to have the same frame of reference as it were

A guide for Xenospermia might be nice at some point.

I've been contemplating this lately; Slime Dungeon has a guide so a guide for Xenospermia could help increase people's interest / player retention (I feel like that game's less popular than Slime Dungeon)

As someone who try’s to play the demos every once in a while it does become hard to know what to do in the beginning, beyond just throwing the pc at every screen until something happens.

So I think that an issue is kind of one of design focus? I play a lot of similar style games and I find that generally the games that have a pretty singular and clear idea of what they want to do and how they want to do it generally run better as a system. Like Slime Dungeon always felt like it wasn't quite clear if the focus was on the puzzles, or the more swishy adventure stuff.

The writing is absolutely on point, but it can be hard to get into when suddenly you have to swap gears in your brain completely to approach new bits. Didn't really play Xeno much yet though!

I think that makes sense. Personally I don't quite agree, since yeah the puzzle to other-gameplay ratio/density is higher than a lot of RPGs (just cuz the game is really short lol), none of them are particularly necessary to progress except for the rainbow slime dealy. Puzzles will always be a hit and miss thing since everyone's frame of reference is different. But I think the counterfactual wherein Slime Dungeon has no/only one puzzle is just a flatter/worse game :thinking:

(Given, in that counterfactual maybe the combat system would be more complicated, but I wouldn't really want to add more tbh, I feel it already has enough bells and whistles for the single-character portion, so making it more complicated would make it overbearing once the player has 3+ characters and so on)

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