Alchemist's Garden

Okay, so I'm a little torn with this game. I found it really fun, until I didn't, first run before prestige is quite enjoyable, but then it gradually becomes a grind and not an enjoyable one. It becomes a hard slog, just repeating the same thing over and over and then some more. With the only real job being to get more shards, to get the prestige upgrades needed to finish the game. The premise of the game is fairly simple, clear the area, get the ingredients and any decorations that are there and the occasional shard which shows up. Simple enough, except you have a limited forage area, which changes as you upgrade it, add to that, each new area is slightly harder to forage than the last. At one point, upgrading actually makes your forage area worse than it was, which is frustrating. I get the feeling the developer added bits on near the end of the game, simply to make the game a little bit longer. I don't feel it needed it, the extra prestige's needed just felt like a grind and got pretty frustrating. The game at 3-4 hours would have been perfectly fine for the price. Pushing it over 5 hours, which it takes if your being thorough, just felt like it didn't need that extra. So, would I actually recommend the game... Yes, I would, because for the price, it's a decent enough way to spend some time. I did the game in one session. If I can do over, I'd probably do it in 3 or 4 sessions over a couple of days, it wouldn't have felt like such a grind that way, I suspect. I do love incremental games and I am happy that I've got another to 100% completion, all achievements, done, and finished. But as said, this one felt like hard work from the first prestige to the end of the game. I am normally happy to have completed a game, but with this one, is was more a case of thank goodness that is over, a sense of relief, rather than pleasure. So yes, I would recommend it, but rather than a full recommend, it would be more a case of "worth a look"...