Timely Death
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Timely-Death is an intriguing card-based survival puzzle game that unfolds in a post-apocalyptic setting.
As you step into this haunted realm, you awaken as an enigmatic entity driven by a thirst for power and curiosity. Your journey will lead you to explore the intricacies of this mysterious world, unravel its well-concealed truths and secrets, and master its unique laws. Along the way, you'll harness the power of secret spells and skills to confront the challenges that lie ahead. Immerse yourself in a captivating adventure that promises to keep you engaged and intrigued from start to finish.
Objectives
Find the 4 scattered relics in the game's multiple scenarios and repair the Rubik's Cube to travel to the year 2043.
Do what you want and try to survive.
Tips:
- Each action consumes different amounts of time and affect stats.
- When FOOD, WATER, and HOPE reach 0, your SOUL drop. (Monster attacks directly reduce your SOUL).
- Pay attention to the card descriptions as they are crucial for crafting and solving puzzles.
- The game may start slow and pose some challenges, but hang in there and try to craft advanced items to improve your chances of survival.
How To Play:
- Drag cards onto each other to interact.
For example, dragging "Explore" onto "Research Core" allows you to find materials to aid your survival.
Dragging "Meat" onto "Campfire" lets you cook food for sustenance.
- Click on cards to view their descriptions, including their uses, usage limits, and types.
- Use the TAB key to access the map.
- Press SHIFT + left mouse button to drag card piles.
Team:
Producer: /Project Leader：Z-Liu
Art: LI
Programming: Source、MeiZhe
Game design: YYYYobo、Z-Liu、Cui
It is a student project. Tell us what you think!
Comments
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how do i bring an organism into the apartment?
Very interesting, but sometimes the UI is unclear. For example, how can I use an umbrella to protect against rain? Somehow not with the use card...
I think if I find certain recipes, I shouldn't have to remember them all and tediously go through them again when I forget
Loved it!!!!!!!!!!
This game deserves a lot more recognition! I love the atmosphere you were able to create without relying heavily on graphics <3
感觉还挺好玩的，不过可以修一下bug吗？什么用石头砸老鼠竟然还会让石头消失。合成的材料必定被消耗可以改一下吧？那个合成消耗品被消耗也就算了，为啥我的高级火堆的做玻璃刀消失。工具合成也不看次数，直接消失。
bug多也至少做个读存档，省的碰到恶性bug直接毁档。
非常好的游戏，通关了（如果跳到2043年算的话
contact you via email?
lilurx80@163.com
Seriously this game is amazing and I don't understand why it's not more popular!
发现一个bug。
当物品在背包里时，用另一个物品拖动到这个包里物品上，这个物品会跳出来到桌面。此时无论是使用，还是探索，都无效。
即使把他放回背包再拿出来，也无效。
但是存档读档以后，就恢复正常了
猫会无限偷东西的bug需要修一下
Really funny card game.I can see how Cultist Simulator influent you.It shows an amazing way to combine CS and surviving.Thank you , all the developers.
My "Explore" function, just... disapeared?
I tried to explore dagger but game lagged, then "Explore" disapeared.
Fix it please :(
Sorry to hear that, we will fix this bug as soon as possible, please try to save and return to the menu and then enter again, maybe this will work.
I mean, this is the most fun card game I have played this year. It looked like a survival-themed game, so I clicked. the kitten always steals my food.....fine, I can accept that. I'm still exploring, it's fun so far, I like it!
Been playing for a bit now. As a tip, farm materials in the "Perimeter area" or "Outer Area". It's the best spot to farm loot from what I can tell, (mainly because it only takes 20min to explore unlike other locations)
You can farm like 80 soul shards pretty easily from the Bone Corpses (from the corpses degrading from time), you can get food easily from cooking the mice (attracted by the corpses), and you can easily get dozens of advanced metal essences and metal essences from the train wrecks (taken apart via metal essence axe, which is: (pure metal essence + stick = enhanced axe, use workshop -> enhanced axe + 2 charcoal + pure metal essence))
So it's very easy to get all the glass, metal, sticks, and soul essence.
After that you can easily deal with all enemies and stuff, the only things you need left are soulvines and other plants from park that's pretty easy to farm with the massive supplies you can farm.
Genius! You have discovered an excellent strategy！！
I'm having a lot of fun with this, there's a really cool ambience to it. I have run into a couple of potential game-breakers though:
My attempt to explore the lab brings up a 'Dawn breaksFunctional Flashlight' error. Though the bar fills, no time passes, and no stuff is revealed. Which means I can't get the cube piece here.
(EDIT: I found a workaround - it turns out it can't be searched while there's a flashlight on the table. Not sure why, but I just put it back in my bag and I can explore it now)
Also, the park has a tendency to fill up with frogs, which deal over 100 damage as soon as you go in.
"Dawn breaksFunctional Flashlight" is just a glitch, you need the (working flashlight w/ battery) flashlight in your bag (bottom inventory bar) in order to use explor on the Lab. It's intentional, but the original game is in Chinese I think, so the flavor text is poorly translated.
Thank you for your understanding. The problem with flashlights is actually to make players pay attention to the backpack function. And we do not have more time for text translation, so we rely on AI translation, which resulted in some errors.
What did you do to get that many frogs??? I just slaughter everything as soon as they spawn, so I very rarely deal with even 2 frogs. I think the biggest issue I've ever had was 2 bears, I never to allow more enemies enter an area before I kill the previous ones.
Maybe no need to defeat the bears? Think about Winnie-the-Pooh
In fact, frogs can reproduce, so be careful with tadpoles
So far things I found out that are useful:
bottle + water source (rain,ditch, etc.) = dirty water
dirty water + rain = large jug of dirty water
wood stick + wood stick = firestarter,
firestarter + wood = campfire,
campfire + small mouse (or meat) = cooked meat
campfire + large jug dirty water = purified water
If you frag "Use" on the corpse, you would get a funny comment. Try it %)
Enjoying the game, it's quite unique!
Anybody find a use for ashes yet?
edit: found out (ashes + water) = healing powder
Audio: Good
Graphics: Good and self-consistent (so it's decently immersive)
(Fortunately full-screen-mode makes this a nonissue) Requires game-testing. Does not detect window size properly, suspected cause is when you moved it to itch.io but didn't check if it works after:
Thx！We are aware of this issue and will adjust it soon。
Very fast response time, you fixed it just 2 hours after I mentioned it, wow!!!
So far I enjoy it very much!
Thank you for pointing it out. It is fixed now :)