Rock Crusher

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.

This is one of those times when I wish Steam had a neutral option. The game is okay. A middle of the road incremental game. I do have some issues with it: - The game offers little challenge. It's not that I expect an incremental game to be challenging, but there needs to be enough to keep me occupied until the end of the level. Often that's not the case and I'm just waiting for the level to end. - The pacing of progress could be better in places. Sometimes too slow, other times too fast. - Old 'currencies' become obsolete once you unlock new ones. - As you expand your fuel tank, the levels get longer and longer. - The end of the game comes quiet suddenly. As if the dev ran out of steam by the end. - No controller support. - At the start of the game you're asked to select a special crusher. But there is only one option, and no way to unlock any other special crushers. It's as if the dev was planning to add more special crushers but never got around to it. - You can change your skin and background. Using a "preferred" skin and background gives you a very large income multiplier. However, the preferred background and skin changes every five minutes. Being forced to manually switch between skins and backgrounds is not a fun mechanic. It's annoying. - It's a long grind to defeat the first boss. You're doing the same first level over and over again until you can get enough upgrades to defeat the boss. This part is very grindy. These aren't big issues. More like annoyances. If you're a fan of incremental games and played many other ones that Steam has to offer, then give this one a try.

Game's great and the skill tree is huge. Each upgrade feels meaningful. Do pay attention to the multiplication effect of certain skins. They change and require you to change your skin to maintain the buff. I didn't realise this at first and was confused why I would occasionally get ~5x the points and then lose it. Easy 100% in 5 hours. Tip for the dev: Add an infinite upgrade tree after the skill tree is complete. For those that want to keep progressing.