Shadows in the Circuits
The city is breaking. Systems meant to manage power, traffic, and water have begun to behave… strangely. As a field engineer for Central Operations, it's your job to dive into the heart of the network and restore order, one corrupted AI at a time.
Each facility brings you face to face with malfunctioning machines: some are confused, others hostile, and a few seem to know more than they should. Balance their systems, piece together fractured personalities, and explore a world where technology has taken on a life of its own.
But as you dig deeper, patterns begin to emerge. Something, or someone, is behind the glitches. And not everything wants to be fixed.
📌 Features:
- Narrative-driven gameplay
- Play as different characters
- A cast of unique, glitchy AI characters, some helpful, others... less so
- Puyo Puyo game with an AI opponent with varying levels of difficulty
🕹️ Controls
- Arrow Keys / WASD to move
- Enter to interact
📣 Credits
- Created by Dormouse
- Submission for Game-like Jam - Puyo Puyo
Comments
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The blocks look so tasty!!! The visuals are so fluid and fun and everything is so cohesive. Incredible work with the AI opponent. Really awesome game.
Incredible submission!!
There's a story, there's enemy AI, there's a nice soundtrack -- This is complete! Great work!
Wow, this feels like complete game! the AI was competent and I loved the story element. Just needed sound effects for spinning and touchdown.
dang, this is like crazy polished for a month long jam. this is super impressive!!! the visuals are fun, and the ai was amazingly done. my only gripe is sometimes the animations felt like they delayed my ability to have fast inputs, but the only reason i bring that up is because the rest of the game was so stellar. great job!
For anyone struggling with the later levels, the same beginner strats as the puyo puyo game in Yakuza 6 work here.
Hold down and right, until the 3 rightmost columns fill up, then try and match in the third column, throwing unwanted puyos into the first and second column. You either lose very quickly, or get lucky and cause a massive cascade and win. It usually takes 3 or 4 attempts, and you can practice on the vending machine in the main office.
This game is very polished and the AI is very well done.
Incredible that this was put together in a month! The AI was quite tough and I had fun with it :)
Great work!
Very impressive to put this together :)
I gave up on the aqua machine thing bc it was too hard lol, rlly well made tho
Managed to beat the story mode!! It was rly difficult at the house but it just shows how good the ai is!
I'm stunned at the amount of polish this has for a gamejam! The story is pretty well-written, the environments look great, the music is nice and not too intrusive.
The most impressive part? The AI! It's genuinely though to play against, and I failed the last few levels quite a few times before I could clear them. Massive kudos.