Timber Rush

Undisclosed 100% AI slop, insulting to see AI generated pixel art. Also just not very good tbh

the art looks ai generated and is undisclosed. plus, the game stays open after you close it. i only had it open for maybe 30 minutes, but i apparently have 5.3 hours of playtime.

For the first hour or two maybe, it feels really satisfying -- great progression and momentum, you're exploring builds and buying upgrades and unlocking lumberjacks and axes and thinking "woah, this is really neat". Then it stops feeling that way. The pacing drops off, the progress slows down, the impact of each run diminishes and you're instead mostly just hoping to find that lucky set of upgrades to form a strong run that will earn you real progress amidst a slew of runs that just don't. It's not bad. But it's just alright. It gets grindy. Obviously an incremental game is meant to have a certain degree of repetition but there's a level of randomness that you don't get the tools to overcome that last for hours and it just bogs down in that space. A lot of reports of undisclosed AI usage that only further disappoint. I've played plenty of $4 or $5 dollar incremental games that are fund almost the whole way through. This one really slows down and loses it's shine after the initial flurry of momentum. I'm going to go with Not Recommended but it's not awful, just not worthy compared to the truly good games.