Antimatter Dimensions

I decided to check this Idle game out, even though there were a fairly moderate amount of negative reviews about the game, because I decided to give these developers a chance. Boy, was I glad to have gone with my gut and check this game out. For those of you who aren't in the loop with what the negative reviews are about, I'll give a short run-down, and my replies will be in my pros and cons for this game. * This game is a miner, some negative reviews say. * This game is too boring or dull, some negative reviews say. * This game's developers are super right-wing racists, some negative reviews say. Here's my replies to these negative reviews that say this: * This game is definitely not a miner, as the amount of CPU and GPU power that this game uses on my system is very minimal, hardly ever cracking the 1GB on either statistic, ever, even in long term play sessions. I don't really understand this argument as my own evidence suggests that this is definitely not the case. * While some people might not like this game due to the fact that it's loops are fairly minimal and simplistic, the fact of the matter is that it gets much more in depth the further you get into the game, and this game is designed to be extremely grindy, even for an Idle game. I'm pretty sure that the developers even state this in their game's description. While I can understand this argument, it doesn't hold much water for me because you play these types of games while you are either doing something else, or in between doing certain things, as sort of a cool-down in between games. This game easily accomplishes that feeling with how basic it is in essence, which makes it a perfect game to cool down with or while you are doing other things. * The developers themselves have already removed the most vitriolic of things that are said in this game, and I think people need to understand that a lot of what is said in the game is more than likely meant to be satirical in nature. After all, this entire game's premise, as I understand it, is a parody of how most other idle games are, so it would make sense for everything you find in the game to be the same. Now to my actual pros and cons for this game: +Gameplay is very easy to understand, even when you get later into the game. +The content in this game will keep you content for a long time, especially if you like the entire loop this game is based off of. +All of the comments that I've seen from the developers of this game make me believe that the developers are active in participating in this game's community. +I like how this game was balanced without the need for any microtransactions, and while there are microtransactions in the game, you are by no means gated in terms of progression so that you are forced to use them. In fact, one of the other negative reviews I read stated that some images in the game were stolen from elsewhere. In my opinion, all of the images in this game look like they were hand-drawn, and as such, I see no issues arising from this. -Was not a fan of any of the audio playing in the game. The first thing I did was immediately turn off all audio in this game. I would highly recommend this for any fans of idle games, but please be warned that this game is extremely grindy and will take a long time to finish! (As a disclaimer: I have not interacted with any of the developers of this game in any way, shape, or form. All of the opinions made in this review are my own and are in no way, shape, or form influenced by the developers of this game. Due to the vitriolic nature I have seen on some of the other reviews for this game, I have disabled comments for this review in order to avoid any blowback this review might get.)

This isn't a game. What I mean by that is this program will give you nothing that a game gives: no clutch moments, no narrow escapes, and definitely no pretty graphics. Nothing like that. But what it does give, for me at least, is satisfaction. Not the satisfaction of a game well played, but the satisfaction of a garden well tended. A garden made of math. I like that.

5 months, 10 days, 1 hour, 8 minutes and 640.8 in-game hours later I have finally finished the game. Very satisfying, the numbers go up so I feel good until the number says END and then it's all over :(. Without the people behind the 41000-word wiki/guide it would have been impossible to complete the game, so shout out to them.