Toadled Classic

Toadled is an incredible simple game, the only redeeming feature of which is the cute art-style.

Briefly, Toadled places the player avatar in the middle of the screen while your mouse cursor takes the role of a cross-hair. Occasionally edible (animals, people, etc.) and inedible objects (bombs) will emerge from the edges of the screen, and you have to "shoot" the edible objects before they impact you, while avoiding shooting the inedible objects. Once you've hit enough edibles, your character grows and you progress to the next stage. In addition, coins continuously spew from the buttom of the screen, and you collect these by moving your cursor over them, which allows you to purchase various upgrades. Or to summarize, you are constantly moving your mouse around to hit coins while occasionally clicking on some, but not all, other sprites. This gets old after about 30 seconds, and the only positive is the fact that you unlock pages in a (short) comic while doing so. After about 30 minutes, you will, however, have unlocked all pages, after which the game can only offer you more of the same, dull, game-play.

Unfortunately, even this simple game-play is not well thought out: As noted above, you have to hit edibles before they hit you. However, you are not placed in the center of the screen, but rather rather somewhat in the lower middle of the screen. This results in frequent deaths from objects arriving at a steep angle from the bottom of the screen: Due to the shorter distance between you and the edge of the screen, compared to other directions, you are only given you a split second to react (mashing space to engage "slow-mo") to many objects arriving from below.

I would not recommend this game to anyone. My only reason for not refunding the game is the low price, the fact that I did play it through, and the fact that this would mean that I'd have to wait 2 hours for card drops (thanks, Valve!).

Toadled is a clicker game with a 'Katamari Damacy' vibe. Gameplay is simple: eat everything on screen that is not a bomb, and use coins to upgrade stats as you go from form to form until eventually you eat everything.

You can finish the game in half an hour or so if you upgrade smart and just keep clicking, but the game has a lot of achievements and optional challenges that expand the play time.

What I liked:
-The silly art style
-The collectible comic
-Ease of the gameplay

What I didn't like:
-The various 'avoider' things that keep getting away from the mouse and I basically could only eat with slow-mo
-The overall look of the slowmo mode. The whole background etc. disappears

Overall a good game for the price. Definitely worth spending a few playthroughs in.

Clearly designed to only be played on a mobile device. Almost no gameplay or player involvement.

Pros:

+ the artwork looks nice
+ game runs super smooth without any issues
+ comicbook pages to unlock, that also look nice
+ cheap price tagg
+ you really wanna see how the frog evolves

Cons:

- very little to do, you only click left mousebutton to eat
- basically just a wave-shooter
- no strategy
- you can rank up your stats with money, but it doesnt really matter
- frog does only change appearance and doesnt get new powers, its the same gameplay throughout the entire game
- a mobile-only port, since it has only options that would find a use on mobile devices
- collecting coins feels awkward flailing your cursor around wildly.....
- the music is generic and bland
- very short game, no replay value

I was very disappointed by the game, as it didnt offer anything interesting whatsoever. Feels like a huge waste of time without having any fun.