Cosmochoria

Cosmochoria is a surprisingly addictive little gem — what started as a quick arcade session turned into hours of jetpacking between planets, planting seeds, and fending off relentless alien waves. The core loop of terraforming planets while defending them has a zen-like quality to it, even when things get hectic, and watching a barren rock bloom to life never really gets old. Permanent upgrades carry over between runs, which gives each death a sense of progress rather than pure punishment, though the early grind can feel slow before you've unlocked a few things. The procedurally generated galaxy keeps things fresh, and there are enough secrets, NPCs, and cryptic artifacts scattered around to reward curious players. It's not without rough edges — the lack of in-run saving stings, and repetition does set in over longer sessions — but for the price, it's a charming and genuinely fun indie experience.

Dude, this game is BORRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRING Unlike all of the other reviews, I had no problem just being dropped in to it with no tutorial or whatnot. I thought the game looked cute and bought it forever ago and now im finally playing it, but yeesh this gets dull so fast. The plot is scattered around the randomly generated star systems with reckless abandon, the modifiers you can unlock are whatever, the upgrades dont make the game feel better to play, moreso they make the tedium very slightly more tolerable. You have to grind SOOOOOOOOOOO MUCHHHHHHH money, man. You need absolutely obscene amounts of money to unlock all of the upgrades, and too many of the achievements require random chance. You would have to waste like 40 hours on this game in order to max out the upgrades, which I am not doing dude. I genuinely just spawned in the achievements and was like, welp, nothing was lost! I never ever spawn in achievements from cheating unless I absolutely know there is nothing worth pursuing in a game, as I have done some diabolically evil achievements on my perfected games list without ever thinking of cheating, but this game is just mindless. Don't buy this game, get something else. the music is ok i guess....