The game works fine under proton for the first few hours but then starts to lag. It's like 60 -> 5 fps lag. And the worst thing is that the save is located in the registry and there is no steam cloud. Basically, it's impossible to move the game from proton to windows. I really like this game, but it's just unplayable for me

the game is not bad , its even good you could say. you are a sentient drill that cracks planets and gets upgrades , pretty chill gameplay .

but this mfker is unfinished in the endgame aspect . and by that i mean you can propably finish this in 1-2 hours including ALL achievements... well actuali theres 1 thats really ♥♥♥♥♥ up and extends the time by another like 14 hours even with automation (autoclicker) and that is to break 10 mfking milion blocks , to give you idea theres like few hundred on a level and you will break like third if you automate .

i broke 4 000 cores (basicali level completions , with all upgrades and scaling 1 level is like 1-10 sec depending on planets prestige) and the last achievement for that is 500 cores .
theres blocks achievements and you will propably not reach even 1 milion broken blocks by the time you finish the game, now this dev just fking eyeballed it and typed random numbers for these achievements , the blocks achievements go up to 30 damn milion , luckili the steam achievemnt only needs 10... btw the dev said hes going to fix the number to make it easier... that was 2 years ago .

so unless he died he just left (if you just left may you stub your toe on hard object like once every 2 weeks , no serious injury just like pain for few dozen minutes)

so yeah if you dont care about steam achievements (and ingame ones) this is like 30min-2h adventure depending how you rush things and optimize so its pretty good until you get grinding the achievements which makes it 2/10 game but its like 7/10 if you just finish the last level and quit.

I'd give a mixed review score if I could, but this is Steam. Since the game has a "Very Positive" rating now, I'll do negative to balance it out.

The game took me 10 hours. Of that, about 70% felt like a slow manual grind, 20% was the kind of explosive gameplay you see in the trailer, and 10% was slamming the prestige button every few seconds to finish off the skill tree so I could do the final level.

There were some UI quirks where buttons in the skill tree that should have been clickable were not, at least until I clicked several other buttons first, and then it worked. A minor problem but it happened frequently.

The farming mechanic added (for me) late in the game felt pointless. I used it to get a few masteries for resources I'd neglected, but otherwise I'm sure I could have done the same by just doing a few prestiges for the respective planet. Similarly, the challenge mechanic for each planet was kind of unintuitive, and when I did figure out, couldn't seem to get any value from it. Better off just doing more runs on basic mode and prestiging than messing around with challenges. Similarly, the shiny blocks were more of a hazard than a benefit, so a weird thing to have in the skill tree.

If the power had ramped up a bit earlier in the game so the progress was smoothed out, this would be a solid game. As it stands, I got through the midgame out of obligation rather than excitement.