Fun

Handholdy, Buggy, and just overall a really straightforward experience of a game. The depth is there, I will admit...but getting to that point is a fairly straightforward grind.

Start a run, sleep through the first handful of waves, hope you find one good perk, die because the game outscales you to the point where you physically can't win as your stats are just too low, go back to menu, start again, get yelled at to look at stuff you don't have or care about, get prevented from playing until you open and close the perk screen like ten times, start a new run, get told "no" when you try to buy something because the developer thinks you're incapable of rational thought, and then grind again until your stats go up again, and die and grind until you have enough stats. After that, winning is a matter of course, not challenge.

It's just too basic, too handholdy, too buggy (I've had the shop straight up softlock me multiple times, preventing doing anything but alt+F4-ing out of the game and losing my run.), and once you get over the idea of discovering different weapon types, it falls off quickly.

Also, not being able to disable the constant popups preventing doing things like buying weapons or slots because the developer thinks you're too stupid to make informed decisions? Not a fan. Not a fan at all. Makes me wish I hadn't sadly gotten busy in life and didn't realize that the game holds your hand the entire way through. Dev says it stops after the intro....except it doesn't and continues doing that when you're like 20 waves in so.....


Edit: so it seems there's a bug with the beginner popups, as even after clearing the "intro" run, those popups still appear....even when you have the biomass to buy a slot+weapon.

So....yeah, IDK, I guess the developer is the jester award on this review because this game is fun, but it is very buggy, and I guess it's easier to just laugh off feedback than take it legitimately.