Yollen

It has lots of problems, and they're obviously due to balance/progression issues that were never addressed as there was no testing phase. I'm sure the developer skipped it completely. How do I know? I'll give you a couple of examples:

1. Cooking and gathering are separate skills. You can cook a red mushroom at 15 Cooking skill level. Guess what Gathering level do you need to gather them in the first place? 75. Yep, you read it right. You need lvl 75 Gathering skill to cook something that requires lvl 15 Cooking.

2. Fishing a few stacks of Sardines (the best 'time to health and energy' ratio consumable imho) and cooking them takes several hours. Yes, it takes several hours to gather some health and energy items so you can kill something. Let's say, Green Goblins. You go through several stacks of cooked Sardines in LESS THAN A MINUTE when killing Green Goblins, and they're just an average mob. Several hours of preparation gets you less than a minute of fighting time.

3. I've gathered so much berries, cotton, katnis plants, and red mushrooms that my Gathering skill is at level 80. I can swear I also chopped thousands of Oak Trees (lvl 1 trees), but I'm at lvl 10 Woodcutting skill. And the second tree you can chop is at lvl 25. Skill progression is chaotic with one being fast, the other impossible, so there is no cohesion. It's like the developer just picked random numbers for skill levels and experience points, and never checked them again to see if they give you any progression.

I hope the developer reads this and acts on it. It is a very simple game to begin with, but with some 'good' math and actual testing, they can make it fun, and get some positive reviews. I will certainly update my review if they do so.

TLDR: I cannot recommend this game at this stage as it's incredibly unbalanced and obviously not tested at all as the problems are right in your face.

The game definitely has potential, but unfortunately is quite disappointing.

The progression does not seem thought / tested at all, it's not clear to me what's even the intended order to do things to progress.

You frequently get stuck without an obvious way to progress other than grinding out like 20+ levels. Woodcutting has no upgrade until 25. Mining has no upgrade past iron until 25. Smithing requires you to either make iron bars or steel bars, but steel bars are only used to craft pickaxes...

The things to speed up skills, like potions are significantly slower overall than just doing the skill unboosted. (ie. Catching 5 stone fish to make a mining haste potion, which will probably end up being like 5 durability, takes like 5 minutes to save just 5 seconds....)

Gathering and thieving feel completely useless, other than to be something that you idle when you go to bed. (I guess that's the point?)

Lockpicking sucks to train because of limited inventory space.

Combat sucks to train because auto eat ends up over consuming food.

Currently I'm hard stuck at the "watcher" as it requires 300 hp to defeat it, however there's no items that increase HP other than the one that the "watcher" drops... I spent some time getting 16 stone skin potions to have a total armor over 200, but armor doesn't bypass the hp requirement, so I'm pretty sure it's just impossible.

The progression is probably the most important part of an idle game, and honestly I could look past all of the basic QOL that was missing (the recent update did add the ability to rearrange your inventory lol), if the progression was good. Without good progression no QOL will help with that.

Need to increase inventory space. Far too limited and really sucks that you can continue to harvest with a full inventory and get no reward. Still enjoy the game just needs some more QOL and more interactions would be nice as well.