I wanted to push the main change out quickly after launching last week but it didn't quite work out that way. Oh well.

The amount of improved accessibility giving the player control of the game's speed compared to the amount of work to implement makes me wonder why anyone wouldn't include it in all singleplayer games that involve any level of dexterity or physical skill. Heck, multiplayer games too. The one hitch I ran into was increasing the duration of some highly synced sound queues to compensate without affecting the pitch, which Unity doesn't make easy. Wasn't too hard to figure out though and I'm considering making a tutorial or maybe even a simple asset to help people achieve this. The audio quality suffers a small amount but for this purpose it's fine.

Play around with the slider!

If somehow you find the game too easy, you can make it harder by making it faster. Honestly the game might even play best at something around 75% speed. No shame in changing it.

New Update (1/3/22):

-New "Game Speed" slider - slow the game down to 50% speed or up to 150% speed, find the difficulty that feels right to you!

-Visual overhaul - bug prompted me to make my own tileset, so I did. Also shaders and outlines, everywhere. I think the game is much cleaner and clearer now. Enemies no longer juggle their weapons around wildly. 

-Added a bunch of polish all around, new sounds, especially in the UI.

-Added the Forker, an enemy that tries to hunt you down with a unique fire pattern.

-Can now also use Backspace to pause, which should avoid the problem of Escape jumping you out of the window. 

-Implemented object pooling, which smooths out any possible performance hitches. Possibly some bugs introduced here, would love to know if anyone encounters anything!

-A bunch of stat value tweaking, and the most "major" gameplay update here - running into an enemy now kills the enemy and guarantees a skeleton spawn. This introduces a totally different way to approach the game.