Rock Crusher

Honestly, I can't recommend this game as is. I watched a youtuber play it and was wondering why they stopped playing it early. I understand now. Honestly the progression system is not good. I agree with another review in that this is not a casual laid back type. You don't really get major enjoyment from it, no major background music to spur you on, not really much except the prospect to go further in your skill tree hoping for something that will get you further.

The problem is even with you destroying more with more skills unlocked, the progress slows very quickly. You have this massive leap for instance only a couple depths in from millions - billions, which...isn't too horrible, but its the high billions and trillions where you begin to go "oh...this is going to feel monotonous to play through isnt it?" And it truly does become that. I have played similar games to this where you have the same leap in funds to get skills. However, the difference between them is it's more a "looks like a hard leap" in those games, wheras in this game it actually is.

You have two trees. The skill tree and a tree where you can trade the resources for higher exchanges for dollars. The first tree for instance goes from like $1 per, to $2.5, $4, and so on per amount of resources needed to upgrade the selling value. And using it does help, but...not as much as youd think as you get further along

Higher crusher damage, laser, health, etc, you'd think would get you further. Nope, only so far. You can max out a TON of those skills, get to the next depth, and your back to square one. Better, you run out of health per drill on a rock, which means the next depth you get to your health empties fast, so your scrambling to get more health. It sounds like something remedied well in a game like this but...it honestly is a slog

It honestly just gets boring and annoying to go back in. That I think is the big problem with this game. I see others reviewing saying it was fantastic but...I honestly have to wonder if they're bots. I'm on depth 5, and it has become boring as hell. You can check my games, I have a good few more of these games, all ranging from pretty decent to absolutely fantastic with this model. This game is just not good.

I honestly regret buying this. It's not a lot, but it's honestly not worth it. Would rather save my money for one of the other casuals. I'm here for good laid back fun. This honestly just left me feeling like I was at a job. Spending time for little back.

I enjoyed it, it was an ok game, but I can't recommend it for the price.

The game is very repetitive, progress feels fairly slow and only seems to ramp up fast when you're basicly done anyways.

I'd say wait for a heavy discount and it'd be worth it.

Mostly middling gameplay. The large upgrade tree is nice, but the additional helpers/features intended to help come far too late or are initially too weak to have any real impact. A lot of the upgrades are also quite marginal, so of course there are so many (you need to buy so many just to make things a little easier!).

At no point can you really sit back and take it easy, and the gameplay loop necessitates some form of micromanaging to hopefully make enough money to buy an upgrade (and often you will not, even playing a round optimally).

Not sure I'd recommend this, especially at its price point. It's not -bad-, but it's also not fun.