▼ Not recommended
4 hrs
So it's fine for the first 15 minutes, however as the game goes on it's pretty clear that it's not thought out very well. I'll break down why with 3 key points, focusing on the "levelling system" which is a huge joke, the upgrade tree, and trying to make sense of the decisions that were made in general.
-LEVELLING SYSTEM
There is a levelling system that contributes exactly NOTHING to the gameplay what-so-ever. You level up and do more damage, and all of the rocks also scale in health. So it all balances out completely and you never do more damage and all new rock types stay exactly as difficult to break. New tiers of pickaxe are completely useless, the levelling system adds nothing. Nothing ever takes less hits to break. 0/10 for this "feature"
-UPGRADES
There is a huge tree of upgrades and towards the end it just becomes a complete slog to get through. Almost all useful mining related upgrades are gotten incredibly early on so you reach maximum capacity in true dps barely halfway through. Sure the number goes up due to the levelling, but again that number scales perfectly with rock health. Every rock will always take the same exact amounts to hit. Excluding some 1% faster swing upgrades that are insanely expensive later on. They really don't offer much in the way of idle upgrades for your main source of gathering for being an idle game. All other production areas were fine with their idle upgrades because they didn't need much.
-WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?
ALSO speaking of upgrades, some just don't make any sense at all! There is a path to do the blacksmith or the jeweler. If you do the blacksmith gems only give coins, and the jeweler gives coins and xp, but as I explain xp is COMPLETELY USELESS! So the jeweler has no point at all. There's achievements to get the jeweler and blacksmith, which lock each other out, among other choices as well, which forces the player to do multiple playthroughs through the slog for achievement hunting purposes. It could have very easily have been "get the jeweler OR the blacksmith" as an achievement. I also think it's weird that there's an option to have multiple recipes and then have no option at all to go between them. I think this is just very poor explanation of what the recipe upgrade is. Maybe they forgot to add the feature in? There are so many magnet upgrades for your range to pick things up (that doesn't affect gems or artifacts for some reason?) But also many upgrades for the porters which act as your idle gathering units. Both of these things have late game high resource costing upgrades, one does not take priority over the other or seem to try to phase the other out at any point. They require the same exact currency to buy. The porters do not collect gems or artifacts. Gems and artifacts are completely unaffected by gathering upgrades. It's all just kinda crammed in there. The massive cannon is doodoo. I have no real critique of it, it sucks and the upgrades are bad. It's very silly it's just completely maxed out early on and so many upgrades later on rely on the first resource to get, with such an incredibly limited ability to collect. I think this may just be an artificial choke point meant to lazily stretch out the play time. ALSO there's an upgrade for infinite storage space that's just attached to a +5000 storage space upgrade which is barely more expensive at all than the other. And the storage space only affects the first resource for no reason what so ever. This is also gained very early on. [EDIT] Because I forgot to mention, the artifact collector is also COMPLETELY USELESS. The artifacts all say +x% BUT THAT DOES NOTHING. IT DOES NOTHING. I am fully convinced this game is largely AI generated. So much does not make sense, so little is explained, there are too many things that lead to NOTHING. THAT DO NOTHING. BOO.
I'd say the whole game is pretty poorly thought out, and really does not have much content at all. You pretty much see all that it has to offer about 45 minutes in and then there's just extra upgrades there for no reason at all with no end goal. While pushing through this slog you get barely any true upgrade to your ability to mine your main resources meaning it feels exactly the same as the numbers go higher and higher. You barely get to upgrade your ability to play the game actively AT ALL, and you barely get to upgrade your ability to play the game passively AT ALL. boring. I give it a couple bonus points for looking a little cute. 2/10
-LEVELLING SYSTEM
There is a levelling system that contributes exactly NOTHING to the gameplay what-so-ever. You level up and do more damage, and all of the rocks also scale in health. So it all balances out completely and you never do more damage and all new rock types stay exactly as difficult to break. New tiers of pickaxe are completely useless, the levelling system adds nothing. Nothing ever takes less hits to break. 0/10 for this "feature"
-UPGRADES
There is a huge tree of upgrades and towards the end it just becomes a complete slog to get through. Almost all useful mining related upgrades are gotten incredibly early on so you reach maximum capacity in true dps barely halfway through. Sure the number goes up due to the levelling, but again that number scales perfectly with rock health. Every rock will always take the same exact amounts to hit. Excluding some 1% faster swing upgrades that are insanely expensive later on. They really don't offer much in the way of idle upgrades for your main source of gathering for being an idle game. All other production areas were fine with their idle upgrades because they didn't need much.
-WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?
ALSO speaking of upgrades, some just don't make any sense at all! There is a path to do the blacksmith or the jeweler. If you do the blacksmith gems only give coins, and the jeweler gives coins and xp, but as I explain xp is COMPLETELY USELESS! So the jeweler has no point at all. There's achievements to get the jeweler and blacksmith, which lock each other out, among other choices as well, which forces the player to do multiple playthroughs through the slog for achievement hunting purposes. It could have very easily have been "get the jeweler OR the blacksmith" as an achievement. I also think it's weird that there's an option to have multiple recipes and then have no option at all to go between them. I think this is just very poor explanation of what the recipe upgrade is. Maybe they forgot to add the feature in? There are so many magnet upgrades for your range to pick things up (that doesn't affect gems or artifacts for some reason?) But also many upgrades for the porters which act as your idle gathering units. Both of these things have late game high resource costing upgrades, one does not take priority over the other or seem to try to phase the other out at any point. They require the same exact currency to buy. The porters do not collect gems or artifacts. Gems and artifacts are completely unaffected by gathering upgrades. It's all just kinda crammed in there. The massive cannon is doodoo. I have no real critique of it, it sucks and the upgrades are bad. It's very silly it's just completely maxed out early on and so many upgrades later on rely on the first resource to get, with such an incredibly limited ability to collect. I think this may just be an artificial choke point meant to lazily stretch out the play time. ALSO there's an upgrade for infinite storage space that's just attached to a +5000 storage space upgrade which is barely more expensive at all than the other. And the storage space only affects the first resource for no reason what so ever. This is also gained very early on. [EDIT] Because I forgot to mention, the artifact collector is also COMPLETELY USELESS. The artifacts all say +x% BUT THAT DOES NOTHING. IT DOES NOTHING. I am fully convinced this game is largely AI generated. So much does not make sense, so little is explained, there are too many things that lead to NOTHING. THAT DO NOTHING. BOO.
I'd say the whole game is pretty poorly thought out, and really does not have much content at all. You pretty much see all that it has to offer about 45 minutes in and then there's just extra upgrades there for no reason at all with no end goal. While pushing through this slog you get barely any true upgrade to your ability to mine your main resources meaning it feels exactly the same as the numbers go higher and higher. You barely get to upgrade your ability to play the game actively AT ALL, and you barely get to upgrade your ability to play the game passively AT ALL. boring. I give it a couple bonus points for looking a little cute. 2/10
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