Antivirus PROTOCOL

I had hopes for Antivirus PROTOCOL to become more interesting than the demo I played a couple months ago. The full release still feels like a demo.

The skill tree is nearly a straight line requiring level completion to continue with no interesting choices to make. The gameplay loop has three stages. You start by hovering directly over enemies. Then you kite green enemies. Then you look for blue enemies along the edge. There's only one boss shared across every 15 levels, and there's no other real way to approach the game with its limited system.

There are a couple levels that are huge walls due to bad scaling. All other games I've played like this allow you to go back to a previous level, but this Antivirus PROTOCOL locks you into the new level. So, you end up spending several minutes grinding a handful of enemies until you build enough currency to finally get back into the linear progression.

Honestly, I just can't find any reason I would recommend this game to someone.

Although, I enjoy playing this game. However, I cannot recommend this game due to its faulty advertising and incorrect tagging.

The store page currently features tags that fundamentally misrepresent the experience:
This is NOT a clicker game. There is no rapid clicking mechanic required for progression.
This is NOT an idle game. The game cannot be left running passively; it demands continuous, active decision making, monitoring, and strategic resource allocation.

Mislabeling the game as a clicker or idle is a major disservice to both the developer and the consumer. Players seeking a relaxing, low-input background game will be frustrated by the high level of required engagement, leading to negative reviews that fail to reflect the quality of the actual gameplay.

You're lookin at it, you know it's not all that original but it's still got *the look*. it don't got the sauce though.

typically you can grind in these games to make the number big enough to steam roll the content or just go from level to level with as much skill as you'd like and the latter seems to be the point with the whole "no replaying levels" gimmick. Unfortunately all it turns into is hitting a brick wall halfway through trying to numbers the boss' health to zero to be able to progress on the skill tree, the whole time collecting enough resources to max out all the new upgrades after finally beating the boss...and then getting stuck on the next boss again. There's like ten games exactly like this one if you haven't played them that are way better. If you have played them all and are looking for the next one, it might not be this one.