Kopernicus: Incremental Suffering Demo

I stumbled upon this game thanks to a YouTuber friend; it features the "body horror" style I really love.

The pixel art is incredibly detailed, managing to render the entire game using just an 8-bit aesthetic and a two-color palette. Almost every type of character death has an animation—some even have two variations. (However, my friend is colorblind and struggles to distinguish between colors like orange and red. I hope you might consider adding some color-adjustment options; for instance, the game *Wild Dogs* offers different color schemes.)

Just when I thought this was merely a *Crimsonland*-style game, I discovered it actually includes a mining mini-game! There’s even a "BAD Cheese" mouse in the bottom-right corner, plus the "Tiger E" mini-game!

A few suggestions regarding game balance:

The early game feels a bit tedious; for the first three nights, I was basically scraping together just enough money for upgrades while constantly facing "suffocation" deaths. Once I unlocked "Burning floor" and "Bird Guardian," however, I could easily turn the tables on those "Big Heads" and "Poop Monsters."

My recommendation: Add a few extra days of combat progression to smooth out the difficulty curve.

Enemies can attack from off-screen, which led to me getting ambushed multiple times—especially during skirmishes with bats, where I’d get hit by enemies outside my view. The bottom-left corner, in particular, has a significant blind spot.

The first boss that really challenged me was the "Breeding Father," because I had to maneuver behind him to burn his three heads—it felt like I couldn't aim my weapon high enough. This forced me into the blind spot. (Of course, as I leveled up, I could just trade hits and outlast him, but that wasn't exactly the playstyle I enjoyed.)

Wanted to find fellow incremental devs to support and these might be the best vibes I've encountered in an incremental game, like ever. Had a lot of fun with it and really liked seeing the enemy portraits and cutscenes (though I did start to get fatigued on the night 1 enemy kill screen, maybe some way to add sfx/vfx variation?). I can't say enough about the aesthetics, really awesome pixel art and sound design throughout. 

I'm used to more retro games so I happily pushed through some of the friction of night 1, but could see others getting frustrated without a bit quicker initial progression. Was a bit confused on why the oxygen meter was dithered sometime? Also, took me a second to realize that the white parts I was leaving behind were from reloading. Those confused me at first because they look like pickups. 

Really solid though, looking forward to the full game!

Absolutely Phenomenal Game! That first night is a bit rough. But after that it's nothing but addicting greatness. This has the same charm that made me love Loop Hero, that classic arcade aesthetic combined with a tight gameplay loop and crunchy sound design. Spot on. And the little animations/sounds you can find? Cherry on top. Can't wait to get my hands on the steam version.