Chop Chains

Was waiting for the release of the final version after the demo and it did not disappoint. Very fun and satisfying progression loop. The game can be finished in one sitting, there are no need to idle for long periods. Some tips if you want to accelerate your progress : - don't be scared to reset your tree the first time, actually do it as early as you can - spec first into additional upgrades, as these will give you more points for next reset - late game what I found to absolutely wreck the game were the instant respawn forest (which procs way more often than the tooltip seem to imply, basically perma full trees forever) and the forest upgrades. At first the forest seem pretty ♥♥♥♥, but once the CD is around 0.1s and you start to earn 10k wood from it, you can just afk each reset with all skills on autolearn and the forest income will finish the game for you in less than 3min. 10/10 would recommend

Game quickly turns into a rebirth looping sim. Spend 30 minutes to grind rebirth points that you can then spend on insignificant upgrades that barely affect your next loop. Also crashed multiple times, of which the last one I couldn't even force quit the apparently still-running background instance through Steam or task manager. Props to the dev for being active and quick with resolving issues, though.

It's okay for a bit of dopamine chasing. But if really falls apart towards the end. One of the cheapest axes turns out to be the best one (giant axe) and all the expensive upgrades are basically pointless. And yes.. you can complete the skilltree and become really strong. But when you hit that point the game is long over and there is no endgame. Which is a shame because you end up feeling disappointed insteaf of enjoying all that power you built. Games like this need a good progression. Upgrades need to actually do something. More expensive upgrades should be better. You should build towards something in the end. All of this is missing.