Idle & Incremental Lovers recommends Slime Kingdom: Idle.
Good first game for a solo dev. First few hours are pretty enjoyable: new gameplay elements are regularly introduced. But the pacing sadly becomes slower and slower the more you progress afterwards. + Multiple gameplay layers (quests, units, equipment, crafting, upgrades...) make it an interesting game to play in the first few hours.
+ UI is clear, music and art are OK. Nothing really stands out, but it's good and clean work
+ Slimes: aren't they the best creatures in videogames? (Dunno about real life, have yet to meet one.)
+ Dev is a real gentleman and actively tried to solve some issues I had with the game.
- Passed a certain point, it takes way too much money to unlock the next quest, to the point it becomes a boring grind. A simple balancing patch could fix that.
- The "world" feature (commerce, sign treaties and go to war with neighboring lands), introduced in the late game, is a quite obscure mechanic. You feel like you don't have the data and keys to understand the impact of your choices.
- In fact, you're often left in the dark about what you need to do to unlock this or that (a new crafting recipe, a new valuable treaty or war, a new unit...). It's also unclear what some upgrades do, like upgrading job places. Due to the very slow pacing of the endgame, it's also annoying to ignore when the game will end (= what are the win conditions).
==> Overall, I'd still recommend the game, especially if you want to support a solo dev who seems to have good ideas in his bag, which is promising for future games to come.
*Slime time is the best time!*
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