Aeons of Rebirth

Normally, I only write a review when I’ve earned all achievements in a game, when the game completely blows me away, or—as in this case—when I have something important to say. I actually advise against buying it. Five euros or dollars are too much for the tiny amount of content the game offers.

The gameplay is linear, just as you’d expect from this type of game, which isn’t inherently bad, but there are no special mechanics, no large tech tree, and no real variety of enemies. You play a round, and as soon as you earn points—here called Dark Matter—you reset and invest them into upgrades so that your next run, which plays exactly the same as the previous one, starts with more resources and better planets.

So far, so acceptable—if only there weren’t so few upgrades. There are about 37 in total, and that’s it. Once you have them all, the game is basically over. I finished the story in under two hours and then had to play the endless mode for the remaining achievements. And oh boy, it truly lives up to its name… it goes on forever. No wonder the ‘hidden achievements’ sit at around 0.1% of players.

I let the game run for two nights straight and made no progress because resource generation slows down more and more. The game simply isn’t designed for that many planets or such heavy calculations. With every additional spawn, the game slows down and performance collapses.

To me, it feels like the developers don’t want players to refund the game and instead artificially stretch the ‘content’. Anyone who isn’t willing to let the game run for days—or maybe weeks—just for a few trophies, stressing their PC while barely making progress, should NOT buy it.

I actually love small games like this, but this one is a complete disappointment. I hope the developer(s) will address and fix these issues. For example, they could drastically reduce upgrade costs, stop increasing them after a certain point, or reintroduce the tech tree in endless mode with expanded bonuses. If that happens, I’d be willing to update my review. Until then, this is where I stand.

Beat the game in 2 hours with literally AFKing to eat dinner

Endless mode doesn't allow rebirth so had to start over for remaining achievements

Way too little content for $5, if you actively play it you could probably get all achievements in under an hour

It's a very straightforward sort of almost mobile-game sort of thing. It's not really reasonable to call it strategy, all you do is click things to upgrade them to produce more resources to click other things. It's a bit like a clicker game, like cookie clicker.

That said it's got an interesting sort of tone and the upgrades at least feel fun. I think it's priced pretty reasonably for what you get.