Level Down

Made in 96 hrs for GMTK Game Jam 2026, theme: Countdown

Just a normal top-down fighting game, except instead of leveling up, you level down. Every time you kill enemies, you lose XP, causing you to become weaker over time. However, you can mitigate this by buying upgrades and extending the lifetimes of your skills − can you make it to level 0?

Credits in file available for download.

I overscoped this one and so it's missing a lot of features I intended to include, such as music and better audio, but this was all I could get in by the submission time.