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I looove this game. 9,5/10 hits all my cravings

Only thing i hate is the rails. They are pretty much essential, so its okay that the upgrade is expensive, but maybe make the rails themselves cheaper? I think rails should be saved between runs, buying them raising max rail amount, and if you die, it just "collects" the rails.

Controls feels clunky-sticky with both keyboard and mouse. Maybe more focus on mouse pointing would be great.

Took me about 5 hours of passive distracted play to get the excavator. The ores are rare and underpriced. The diagonal mine marking would be great, but again mostly mouse related. 

The points of interest seem very scarse.

But love it. Just vibing. Hope to see more and probably gona buy it on steam.

Just a little bit more content. It can stay hard and grindy, but just more exploration and upgrades. Maybe ground or wall material hints or tells or something. Really excited for this one. Game of my dreams. You're in for gold here.

Its good, but at rose stage sunstones stopped appearing on the field. Probably some weird way max objects are defined.

normal mode is pretty fun, though of course tiger lilly ability is meh. Multiple times the whole field started with no seeds with abilities, which is mathematically curious.

Overall. Pretty good though needs polish and content. Never felt that i'm actually snowballing into something amazing.

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Really fun. Nice and simple. Would love it if there was more content but its perfect ss it is.

Gj

On second map went down and 3 events before running into a dead end where it seemed like i'd be able to pass.

But else pretty fun

ahahah, now i know why you hid the bigger fields. The ai has no clue what its doing some times xD

On the second screen i matched every ai move and it proceeded to destroy me for 80 moves. For a moment i thought maybe its the famous "dev took over the game" moment, but the it switched from snowballing to attack and it all fell as i was able to snowball myself. The dynamoc is very weird. Its hard to lose the initiative, but once you lose it, you're done as threats always need to be responded to. The hexagonal tic-tak-toe video taked about it. You can be responding to threats untill you have enough pieces on the inside to start sending threats of your own. The tactic does not have room for dynamic responses.

Nope. I believe i accidentally solved the first. Tried a few times but get running into 51. Most i had was 56 but the endscreen kinda prevents you from analysing the board. The challenges is a great idea, like chess exercise in a complicated state, but desperately needs explanation and maybe a "the intended solution is 5 moves away" kind of deal. One can argue about how much control i have over the board, but for me I just send it without much strategy, since complicated board states like 1-2-1-2-1  have the obvious middle 1, but it all will depend on the rest of the board, launching flank attacks or maybe collecting om the side to protect corners. Its fun. Its complicated. But its a bit too complicated for me.

The initial threat issue... i believe there's no "fits all" solution. I think theres a video about "why hexagonal tik-tac-toe won't work" that explores the initial threat problem, but there are no solutions there i believe. I think you don't need to solve the flaw of the mechanic, but you might want to solve the player going in with a complete solution.

1) blocked squares - the initial blocked centre is good, but il lasts for 1 turn, not enough to prevent the player 1 from creating the first threat. Maybe multiple starting block patterns for 5 turns that prevent from using one solution. For example a checkerboard for 5 turns pattern will prevent player 1 from making a 2-1 construct on his third turn. Needs to be explored since player 2 will be able to put a threat. Maybe random cells unblocked gradually after turn 5.

2) player 2 getting a +2 on his first turn will prevent a one square

3) interest points (flat x2 cell or maybe every 5 turns it gives something. Or a cell that can be accesed (stabilised?) for a limited time and then it becomes innaccesable, or even becomes a x0 cell, voiding any operations done to it. Same can be done to some blocks on the edge of the screen, allowing risky plays.

4) random starting +- peppered in. Iffy about it as its just sort of a challenge map with a solution, but could be explored.

5) as i mentioned, abilities. The simplest i can think of is once a game being able to spend your turn to flip the value on one of the blocks, so if enemy accumulated a large number or accidentally cascaded into a large number, you could take advantage of that once, flipping a -9 into a +9. Maybe allowed on blocks >5. That would create a pressure to control the numbers and avoid accidentally creating cascades or avoid preparing big bully number attacks. Surely that can be explored to create baits or a person with better game knowledge setting up cascade laucher to make a big number and then crush the enemy's ability right away with another cascade.

Some things require new mechanics, some just extend the initial central square blocked mechanic. Up to you with what dirrection you wish to take it. 

I personally have a strong feeling against "solved games" because my favourite childhood game was Mancala and this brings me back to it. If only it wasn't solved one could still enjoy it. If you haven't played it, there are a few online, you might want to try it, it has a lot of similar mechanics with cascading and setting up the board for the enemy or baiting them.

One of the issues of a solved game is the "complete information". I think it would be a different game mode, but a fog of war would be fun to explore, both players starring in one of the corners and blocked from seeing the other half of the screen, not knowing what the other player is building (or maybe where the other player's walls are and how they utilise them in their offence/defence)

Oooooh! I'll try the larger maps! WHY did you hide them from me!!! XD

Anyway. I hate puzzles, i like stategy games. I want to play it as a strategy game against complex bots. This game gets me thinking and i like it.

Good job.

You place them and then you sorta need to click one of the arrows

Pretty fun. Well made. A lot of "you can't mine it yet" but generally playable and well paced. Didnt like the boss since pickaxes basically don't do damage and most of the times the boss uses unavoidable "jump on you" attacks.

Else. 9/10. Jank fun.

This game has an inherited flaw where the one who creates a "threat" first takes the game's pace. This is easily tested in hard bots. You can go for 1x3. If you feel that the oponent has not responded to your 1x2 threat. You can try for 2x2. If the threat was stopped, you can still do a 1x3 and try from there, but you're already better off focusing on stopping your oponent from creating a threat.

Its a very fun concept, but the flaw is that its basically a solved game, you either know the solution or you dont. For example the second challenge. You basically can't solve it on your own without a solution. And there are no hints.

You would be better off making the whole challenges thing into a tutorial with explanations. Right now i'm after the bots, but hard bot is easily beaten if you just go for early attack, because else its takes the first threat and then the game is solved unless there are multiple mistakes.

A varried map with walls or more cells or with random +1 cells or a 1v1v1 or single use abilities would be perfect for this.

The ui needs work. No idea how to get from game end screen to main menu.

Overall. Very good and pretty addictive, but needs a "game"

Yeah. Its a good game. I'd personally ask for a music or sound button. Else i had to tab out when answering  frequent work calls.

I've beat the demo. The demo end screen is not english.

The graveyard is a scam, till the very end, you always get more in the forest. The big souls are difficult to chase even with max speed. Maybe make big souls 40 (80) making them more lucrative. The graveyard is more difficult to walk around, so feels like a more proper reward for the skill.

I didn't get the plants. I grow them. They grow up with no berries. I collect them but nothing happens.

The max lattern is hard to understand where the circle is. Maybe add just a tiny circle for it to be a bit clearer, but its not a big issue.

When you spawn, you can go down to infinity. Maybe a barrier just out of the screen. Feels a tiny bit jank. I loved that you can go out of the hub forrest though. 

The balance felt fine. Best strategy is to focus the conversion amount. Really wanted a soul catching speed upgrade, but thats fine as well. I guess thats the unimplemented lvl5 upgrades near the tree?

Kept getting stuck on terrain in both maps. Wish you could just... "dash" through it with spacebar or something to catch up with an escaping soul or big soul.

The multiple portal places on the map are very good and pleasant animation. Too bad they dont do anything. Maybe stepping on a portal gives a few seconds speed boots or something?

Over all. Very very good. ⁹/10 so far, if you keep adding content. 

Got softlocked in the portal by skipping the text and going to enchanted forest for the third time. Refreshesh helped

Old glove upgrade increases the debuff. Am i missing something...? are you well? Who hurt you?

Its super fun and i love the visual. But the balance is off. Its super grindy, and mana bomb and mini bosses upgrades is a debuf. Mana bomb eats energy and does less for it while it takes the same time to finish the animation as it would have taken to mine it yourself, giving no benefit. And minibosses just soften you up before the boss. Especially emerald 2, snakes just spam 40% of your hp.

I want to love it, but this game bites. Its easier to to restart and skip the debuff upgrades untill later on when maybe the super grindy battle tree is unlocked more.

After making a compound the range changes so you "have to" move it. The one move limitation seems like a huge pointless handicap rng since you don have control what atoms you get. You're already handicapped with reroll costs and the difficulty spike is qute heavy. Wave 5 everything works. Wave 6 new enemy nothing works anymore. And you're at full saturation. Just not fun, i keep losing to rng.

Softlocked myself by backtracking and havin not enough hp to move through a visited square.

wait, some numbers appear in the pause menu. first playground i got 144. after i xxx one time it turned 216. it might be the final xxx score! It must be. i guess the only ones one can miss are the ones in both mazes. As Lu says in the middle of the game, she might add it to the game as points to collect. I wondered if they will appear anywhere.

Saw the first scene on instagram but went in blind. One thing i don't get... How such a seemingly personal story can resonate with another person across the world so hard. Somehow this does not feel like a game but how i live my life. This kind of life might seem like a horror game from outside, and it would have been, if it wasn't actually so functional.

Hard to describe the feelings i got after finishin the game. But it was definately fun.

Love it. Very inspirational. Got the bad ending, the good ending. Not sure if i need to search for something else, but i loved it so far. Thank you for sharing this! 

No clue so far, got 17735, but the second playthrough is different and i didn't get a number.

Ahaha the tree explodes. Adorable. Good game

confused about crosstalk tooltip. total unit coutn? squirel count?

Estimated value at high numbers make the whole UI jitter. Mostly because Estimated value jumps around x2 value because of the con artist it seems.

started over and I bruteforced about 48 medals on first prestiege. But basically the amout of medals per run does not change, but the prices go higher.

Also there are like scaleable prestiege upgrades, like speed and such, and amount upgrades, like starter money. And their values are sorta making you choose between something that will save you a ... 

Prestiege resets music and sfx mute.

I think mouse automation tied to squirels is freaking geniuos and i love it.

2 hours for 50 medals of grinding... squirel upgrade is 200 medals???? O_O

Perfect crime upgrade (0,0% -> 0,0%) ????

At the start of a new run old bags of money sit there until mouse brings new bag.

All i could notice. Yeah, even with good automation its still super grindy. That's not inherently baaad, you need to stretch gameplay someway. But this is kinda too stingy, yeah. Its progressively harder to get more medals, but the start is so slow that and the progress is still grindy that you might as well grind for an hour to have at least some medals for some upgrades.

Yeah. all medal prices need to be devided by 10, but the medals received need to be be less after 30 to discourage people from clingling to a run and be motivated to prestiege, but at least have something to spend the medals.

That's all i caught. I think it just needs more mechanics variety, but of course its not that easy to make them.

As I said, the game is pretty fun right now, just my experience that even with an autoclicker its too hard to earn enough prestegie to go anywhere, no matter if you prestiege often or hold on before prestieging.

Didn't notice that the mouse automation is 10 medals. Grabbed the 25 medal upgrade, but its just a speed boost. Not worth it in my opinion. Still a good game, just the balance...

Was having fun but the presteige goals and prices are kinda too high and my finger got tired. I saw that there's a 25 medal mouse upgrade, but i'm at 11 and my finger is kinda numb already. Having to click 6k times with some of it being 60% chance kinda makes this game innaccessable. Maybe some moderate automation earlier? 1 mouse auto with prestiege for more? I like that its active, but its not balanced to be active. With 15 mice and smokescreen you cant even click fast enough to send them, but you can't progress if you don't click, making it different from a cookie clicker.

Just my feedback.

I enjoy the style, but the balance and upgrade variety could be improved.

8/10

That's fine!

It feels nice and is definately enjoyable. No major issues except the fringe cases, the objects have a pleasant bounce, the whole stack didn't explode and the art is perfectly pleasant to the eye. Love the colour scheme. Good job

After mirror knight next lvl endurance kit 4 restores 4 while endurance kit 2 restores 5. Kinda weird. Its more like i have an uncomon lvl 1 and i'm looking at a common lvl 2. Same with heavy ring. Lvl 2 is same as lvl 4.

Battle hymn and scrying orb. One is just superior to the other.

Warg venom useless on its own since it needs higher maximum attack. Same with night's tale. Not sure if it works as intended. Medicine? With every loop you get more and more of this trash in your loot table. I skip 7/10 chests. Skipping a chest could at least give something and not be a waste of a torch. Exploration beyond having a good set is punished. Same with full heal at max hp, maybe at least overheal 1? +1 max hp would seem to break the game probably, but the rescue villagers full healing when full is just ugh. First time i got a max armor villager, i was like "well thats freaking better"

Blitzclaw hunter quest does not work for some reason. Maybe blitzclaw 3 isnt on the list.

GETTING KEYS IS SUCH A DRAG. Really wish they'd be lootable. You start with no keys, why have locked doors on first level. I found a shopkeeper on lvl4 eventually with cheap keys.

Difficulty spike makes items non, optional. Gorgona makes speed  only builds useless, mimics force you to get max hp. Mending x3 is pretty much forced. I was doing fine with momentum snowball but eventually enemies kinda oneshot 15hp.

Easy to get stuck with a 3 way skeleton dungeon.

Having to go grab all the quests again every time you get noitad is a bit lame. Forgot to do that multiple times even for good runs.

Skeletons's slash looks like a shield.

Mirror knight battle resets your animatiom speed for some weird reason.

Other than that...

The game is pretty great actually. I wish there was more enemies, but the encounters be more avoidable. Visual style is delicious and varied enough. Permanent max upgrades with start with deeper leves would be great. More quests more everything. At the moment it feels kinda samey for 11 levels. But thats not terible. 9/10. Lots of love felt in this. Thank you!

Super nice style. But the perks kinda didn't work. Had backstab but it knocked back the enemy instead. Walked into the enemy with the candy but didn't seem to do anything but waste a turn. Shield is a must it seems, no other way to heal and the damage is uavoidable from stage 1.

Would really spice things up if you can select what the second coin should be, right now push-tank is the only survivable build. Tried the backstab swap but really doesn't have enough mobility. Paperclip too hard to set up.

But enjoyable still. Gj.

This is so weird...

First i made 4 ships. Realised i dont have money for the fifth one. Removed all the ships... and got only about 70% of credits back.

So restarted the game. Fine, be that way. Made 5 cruisers against 2 heavy cruisers... 1 ship survived. 400 credits? I'm down 1000 credits from this battle

Restart. I guess i'm just unlucky?

Lets go 1 cruiser 3 heavy cruisers. Full spend. No way can i lose. And the enemy just keeps focus firing my ships one by one.

Lost. Lost. Lost...

1 won... ok. Misclicked "new game" out of habbit.

Ok. 4 v 4,  my heavy cruiser has 280 hp. their heavy cruiser has a shield and 784hp.

Game is just unfair.

Also "slower attack" is a tad confusing. Attacks later. It still attacks the same amout as the smaller weapon. More than that. Enemy often attacks first anyway, destroying my ships before they can fire a shot.

Only viable strategy is to save for the biggest ship, because you will lose 30% of the battles to pure randomness anyway, might as well try to go the the next battle with a good ship. Because the starter money is all you get, the rewards won't even get you cannon fodder. Smaller ships are less optimal.

Could use a speed setting on the battle to solve it quicker.

Pretty upset with the game. Its not terrible but the balance is pretty infuriating.

You can't stack triangles, silly!

Got to 195.4m by building two towers and dumping triangles in between them. First the squares started shifting-squeezing eachother out. As though square is same weight as the rectangle, so its 2 times more dense.

I missclicked and put a triangle on one of the towers so continued with one.

Then the crane stopped giving me pieces.

Overall good prototype but needs spice.

Oh, reset game "yes reset please" button does not do anything.

Nice game. I didn't like that i have to guess which random floaty thing gives something which does not so i ended up clicking everything frantically. Maybe a faint blue glow or something would help to communicate that its not a dud.

The trivia messenger keeps popping the UI up and down. Especially noticable on Xenon where it just flickers up and down while rushing through the messages.

Also once the extra ships are fully upgraded, might as well move the buttons to the very bottom or remove them all together to save space on the screen.  A screen full of depleted buttons is terrible.

'Ship 2 - fully upgraded!" Thats all it needs.

The floating scraps sometimes spawn on top of each other, to the "ripe" one cant be clicked because the unripe one is in the way. Make the unripe ones back a layer maybe?

Molecule mode is somewhat underwhelming. Maybe recipes should be independent from the currently assigned ships. Sure it takes away the guesswork, but its useless in the endgame anyway.

I got the intress and cr kept early and left it over night. Took the autoupgrade and breezed through the endgame. Which was nice since theres no new content in the endgame anyway. Just feels weird that i could have basically softlocked myself for a week if i wouldn't have picked that upgrade. To be fair theres a second chance for keep cr later, but still. I don't think keep cr is optional because from Zn and up its just nothing new. Might as well not torture the player.

Buy, anyway. Lacks final polish. But overall. I enjoyed it more than a lot of other games. Good job.

I think my biggest problem is the "i spawn in, i wait for 3 seconds for a crystal to appear somewhere". That ruins the flow you might be going for. The waiting for the world to populate with crystals.

i think all my problems would be solved if the first 5-30 or so crystals would already be there or pop up quickly. I only have 30 seconds and half of that time is me pathing through empty space to return to the ship because the crystals are still spawning but its too late for me to go for them. Could even be an early upgrade. "Scout ahead". I want to play the game like the screenshots but i'm stuck for 30 minutes playing the worlds slowest wack-a-mole.

Sorry it sounds mean, but thats what it feels like when a game wastes your time a little.

Other than that, the graphics are cute, though would love to see the 2D in the game too. Be it just simply the dog getting a bigger silly little oxygen tank or something in the upgrade menu.

Nothing catching. Good idea but amazingly baren implementation. Nothing glorious about this game and there is a distinct lack of holes. 2/10

Fun and cute, but way too short and the music is blasting. Could use settings.

The start is tedious. I'm 20 minutes in but still bring back 3 blue crystals max because how weirdly wide they spawn. Been upgrading 'more resources' all this time. Bringing 3 crystals per run and the upgrade cost is 48.... could be some better formula maybe.

Also end fetch button is under the full screen button. Could be bigger or more accessable like on the middle of the screen or spacebar.

But other than that its pretty fun.

I forgot about this for 3 days leaving 5 ships on auto-repeat. Well... i have ships bringing 17 digits every 15 seconds and all trades are with a minus mark...

So .... yeah... i think the game softlocked completely... oh well! I've been too silly, but max upgrades break the game.

Did the dailybrick in 5-6 moves... I was like... "is this it? No leaderboard, no nothing?"

Then did the random brick. Ooooh damn, 28 moves, tons of hovering, barely made it.

Its fun, but really the only thing suggesting that this stands out among other puzzle games is the competitive suggestion, but its not implemented.

I'm torn. Its a good polished well crafted game. But it lacks some spice.

Good job though. Made me write a comment.

Really would love to see the map.

"dandy peak is 17 minutes with 30% ambush? Daym. Welp... all in, boys."

Times need to be adjusted, i think, i know the 17min one is worth it, but at the same time... welll....? I mean its a decent idle game. But once you pissed off all the traders and sent all the ships, you're really just waiting.

Would love to "prepare next shipment", the one issue with auto-repeat is that it does not help with actually sending trades on routes. You either risk everything, or micromanage every 17 minutes. No good middle ground. If i could assign an amount of stuff the ships would take with them every repeat, it would be just perfect 

Got stuck and couldnt figure out whats the problem. Seems like i have video researched but cant mine video so totally stuck.

its fun though. Maybe ui scale is kinda meh, and storage is difficult to manage. But over all a fun and complex bottleneck manager.

Oh nevermind it was in media cruncher. Duh. Really cool game.

Runs 5-10 minutes? More like 5 seconds. You're expected to grab or short the stock at the start, but since not all price fluctuations are events. Never got further than first round.

Also i failed with bear raid, and next round i couldn't buy, so i assumed the relic stayed? But it wasnt there in the store. Numbers stay on screen between runs. Only way to actually reset the run is to go to the menu. Should be a big button "abandon run" Weird issues. My short always autolocks just before the pricedrop, and when i shorted, the cooldown last longer than the pricedip.

No way to play this

I assume write efficiency gives you more points for each write, unmovable handler make that your future runs have less of them on the field. So all of it comes to optimising the downtime between runs.

Not saying it contribules in any way to an engaging gameplay, but in an essence, its a solid small optimization incremental game where you optimize for the downtime between runs.

No idea how bad sector bypass works though. Seems that it processes the same speed.

Just a weird curiosity of a game.