Tower Cat-tastrophe

A submission for GMTK Game Jam 2024, with the theme Built to Scale!

You are a witch. There's a spooky tower full of monsters and you need what's at the top! But you're not good at fighting... and you just spent all your life's savings on tables, a cauldron, and a book on familiar summoning. Time to get to work!

You can summon three kinds of familiars:

1. The Fighter - self-explanatory, this familiar excels in combat and dealing damage

2. The Support - able to heal allies and best at inflicting status effects on enemies

3. The Gatherer - not much use in a fight, this familiar doesn't even have a basic attack... but they're capable of learning some support moves and can greatly increase the gold you gather in your run, and they can open chests without using any keys

On your runs, any plants you collect can be used to teach your familiars powerful skills. Use them while you have them because you can't take them with you when your familiars are defeated!

Controls:
Arrow keys to move
Hold Shift to dash
Space, Enter, Z to confirm/interact
Escape, Num 0, X to cancel/open menu
F1 opens an options menu which includes gamepad and keybindings

Game jam score, within top 50% (out of 7,640 entries):

Note: If the game freezes up while you're in the tower, please give it a minute before you close out. Sometimes it lags when a monster is respawning on-screen and I wasn't able to solve that issue before the jam ended.

This issue is solved in version 1.1 but obviously still present in the Game Jam edition, kept up for posterity.