Let me preface this review by saying that this is a decent idle game:

• Design-wise, it does a great job of layering new mechanics without overwhelming the player with a bunch of stuff they need to micromanage and you can prestige without worrying that there are a dozen things you should've remembered to min/max first.
  
• Most importantly, it can run completely offline (theoretically, anyway--see the first bullet in the list of negatives) and at the higher levels only requires you to check in once a day or so to perform a reset and do whatever other upgrades and micromanagement are required. I absolutely hate so-called "idle" games that require more involvement than most normal games.
  
• For a solo endeavor, it's got a surprising amount of thought given to minor UX niceties, perhaps as a result of the dev's close communication with the community via Discord.
  
• Finally, a dev has the balls to make a Steam achievement for every in-game achievement. Every other game has some random subset but I. Want. All of them.

Therefore, if you like idle games, I would absolutely recommend this one--but not now. Add it to your wishlist and try it in a year, but currently there are just too many things that--if you're like me--will put a damper on your experience and slowly frustrate you. It's a singleplayer game so you lose nothing by waiting for these issues to be fixed and having a much more enjoyable time:

• Some important functionality is missing or doesn't work despite being known about for ages, all because the dev "doesn't know how" to code them even though virtually everything in an idle game is simply a math problem. You'd expect an idle game to have a "Buy Max" button on things, right? Well this one doesn't, because it was apparently very difficult to get working for the limited places that do have it. You'd expect to get offline gains, right? Well, the offline gains of one specific resource (minerals) gives you less than 10% of what you should be getting. This can be a barrier to progression unless you realize and leave the game running. Another big issue is the lack of offline mech farming--by far the most tedious part of the game--which the dev also hasn't bothered to fix for months, choosing instead to jump into working on yet another prestige layer. This means you need to babysit your PC for days on end just to progress the game properly.
  
• The game--written in JavaScript and running in Electron (why?)--is very unoptimized, constantly showing Very High power usage in Task Manager and eating up 20% of the CPU on a modern PC that runs AAA games on High without breaking a sweat. A glorified number generator with 2D graphics should not be running this poorly and I hate listening to my fans spin up because of it. Developers who aren't prepared to learn proper game optimization should just use a better engine like Unity that runs games more smoothly out of the box. You can fix this to an extent by disabling the graphics (yes, really) which also has the neat side effect of increasing your offline gains by at lot! 20%, in my case, and I find it absolutely bizarre that an idle game uses its rendering speed to determine your offline gains.
  
• There are strange restrictions and annoyances that don't seem to serve a real purpose. For example, you can't simply change areas while in a boss zone; you need to explicitly click through a confirmation to leave the zone even though there's no penalty for leaving. Restarting or moving areas also disables the UI for a short period, meaning trying to prestige (which requires you to spend a certain currency in another tab first) can take many attempts as the required buttons keep disappearing and reappearing as you blow through waves.
  
• Inconsistent, weird, or incorrect UI design and labeling is prevalent but a relatively minor issue overall. In one place, upgrades are ordered by difficulty level and then by zones within each difficulty, following your natural progression through the game and making it easy to know what's unlocked next. In another, they're ordered by zone first, then by difficulty within each zone, which is not how the game progresses and forces you to have to check several different places to know where your next upgrade is. Some upgrades will tell you in red text that the cost increases with each purchase, others don't say this but do anyway, making it a guessing game as to what will happen. There are places that say "drop chance" that should say "drop chance increase %", counters that work backwards like "58/1,000" actually meaning "you need 58 more", some glaring spelling errors ("it's" instead of "its" in a lot of places), etc. Some annoying design too like the lack of a "Claim All" button on quest rewards, meaning when you prestige and immediately complete like a hundred quests due to having juiced stats and blowing through the early areas, you have to individually claim each reward. Overall the UI is pretty okay though.

I believe the dev mentioned that this is his first project after learning JavaScript for a few months so it puts into perspective why it runs so poorly and why very basic things have taken so long to happen. Therefore I'm hopeful that as development experience is gained, the game will eventually become more polished, though I've heard from members of the community who have been around for a while that the code is so bad, refactoring is essentially impossible without just rewriting the whole game which is rather unfortunate if true. I assume what this really means is that the codebase has gotten too large and complicated for the dev to throw it into the ChatGPT Free Plan and use his 10 allotted messages to get it to fix the bugs.

TL;DR: Decent game but wait for the bugs to get fixed.

TL;DR:
A game where the developer actively listens, assists, and continuously improves based on community feedback. Free-to-play players are respected and progress at a reasonable pace compared to those who spend money on the game.

Full Review:
This game is truly special—especially considering it was created by a dedicated solo developer. The dev is incredibly active within the community, particularly on Discord, and always takes feedback and suggestions to heart. Often, it takes just a few minutes for him to reply, and sometimes he even provides previews of how a suggested feature might look in-game, with such changes frequently implemented in the next patch.

Bug reports are handled swiftly as well; the dev does his best to resolve any issues as quickly as possible. Updates and improvements are released regularly—often with less than six days between patches. At the time of this review, he is working on a major update that promises to add thousands of hours of gameplay. This isn’t due to tedious achievements or extreme grinding but rather because of the added depth that becomes available after reaching a certain point.

One of the game’s standout features is the constant acquisition of premium currency through quests and daily codes. Although the amounts seem small at first, they accumulate over time. It is even possible to eventually purchase everything in the premium shop—even ending up with extra currency. However, the game ensures that the shop cannot be fully accessed immediately; you need to reach certain milestones before new tiers unlock. This means that while paying players do have an advantage, it is never overwhelmingly dominant. For example, each supernova (the third prestige layer) provides you with premium currency rewards that increase incrementally. As a free-to-play player who has never spent any money, I never felt at a disadvantage compared to paying users (looking at you, swurr :p), and in the end, I was able to purchase the entire shop as needed.

The community is another one of the game’s strong points. Members actively support each other, whether in the Steam community or on Discord. If you ever feel stuck, don’t hesitate to ask for help—you’ll quickly find a friendly and supportive response.

Not everything is perfect, though. There are occasional bugs (I only encountered two, and they were not particularly disruptive), and some design choices may seem unusual. However, this is to be expected in an Early Access game that is continuously evolving based on player feedback. While the game currently employs AI-generated graphics, I hope that before the official 1.0 release the developer partners with an artist to give the visuals a more humanized touch. The current state is acceptable for Early Access, but there is definite room for improvement.

I used to play mostly mobile idle games and never really cared much about the genre—until I started playing this game. In my opinion, it’s excellent, and I thoroughly enjoy logging in daily to make progress. As of now, the game runs on my device for about 70–80% of the day, and I have already nearly reached the current endgame. I’m very happy to have discovered this gem.

Overall, I would rate this game an 8 out of 10.

Edit: Dev confirmed that an real Artist will rework all Graphics!

bad game