The Legend of Pomodoro

As of 13/3/2022:
A very promising software for task/time management with gamified elements to it. It reminds me of Habitica but more story based and without features locked behind a subscription. It is clear that this is very early in access and there is lots of room for improvement (and barely any story). Very curious on how the story is going to be developed, is it going to be a small silly story or will it somehow escalate to a bigger story, has potential.

Here are some of my user stories for this as a user:

As a user
I want to have a choice of collecting the resource gathered when I stop the timer or not
So that I do not feel as though my hour of work progress amounted to no development for the town just because I decided to pause/stop it due to disturbances.

As a user
I want a better notification sound system
So that I can choose the sound effect for notification and control the volume more a more flexible manner

As a user
I want to be able to open this software without the need for Steam to be on.
So that I can open the software without the need for Steam to be on and I can be offline

Bugs I've encountered:
An invalid report, the exception's message:
[string "src/popups/report.lua"] : 127 : attempt to perform arithmetic on a nil value (field '?')
stack traceback: main.lua : 745 : in function 'popup'

This bug prevents me from seeing my report on how I have been doing.

Fun for only like a week or two.
Items/Upgrades/Crops feel poorly designed.

The crops after tomato seem to serve no purpose or any reason to exist at all.
Earnings at Max Level (Lvl 100):
Tomato: 62.5k/s
Kale: 1.6k/s
Wheat: 4.6k/s

There's a character upgrade that costs billions of tomatoes in return for a +0.00% increase.

Upgrades are few and far between, not motivating enough if you're in a slump or to get you out of one.

It's got a great premise.. gamifying the Pomodoro Technique. As somebody who struggles with focus and productivity at times, this sounded right up my alley. So, why the thumbs down?

Progression is molasses-slow, strange, and the gamification elements are light and don't really do much to motivate me. I'm what, 25 hours in by the time I wrote this review and I'm only on combat "level" 18. The upgrades you can buy only pertain to your pomos, coins, and how fast you can clear combat "levels", which again is laughably slow. Crystals come from completing tasks and prestiging, which you can't do until you get to "level" 100+. As you progress in combat, you can unlock things that increase how much of the currencies you get, but unless the game magically snowballs later it's never going to feel satisfying. I understand this is a game AND a tool, but I bought this because of the gamification aspect, and what's there is just too slow, limited and uninteresting to me.

EDIT/rant: I'm now about 50 hours in, got to combat "level" 28. A couple unlocks to minorly, and I mean minorly, increase my pomos/coins which go straight to buying more combat efficiency in grave attempt to keep up with the exponentially growing time it takes to level up. These minor crumbs of progress are unfun and meaningless. One item I unlocked is a temporary buff to give +% combat efficiency, +25 min/pop. Level 1 cost like 3k coins for 0.9%, level 2 costs 5T for 3.81%. I understand developing productivity habits is a marathon and not a sprint, but in gamification this is ridiculous and not going to motivate people well.

That said, since I bought it I will probably keep using this for the timers etc as I find the software component decent, but look elsewhere if you want a more productive/rewarding game. If you're still curious, please try the demo yourself.