Cradle of the Dark Brood

Took me about 30 hours to complete the game at a relaxed pace exploring, and it was great! I enjoyed the story, and how it unfolded as you and your brood advanced. The gameplay power loop was fun. Overall I had a lot of fun and to me it was certainly worth the $4.99.

Rather lovely and well-paced incremental game with pretty decent mechanics and thought put into it. The story is okay, but at least there's a story and lore and all that. Automation comes about when you need it to, and pretty much everything can be automated after enough time. It's fairly short for an incremental, but I feel I got more than my money's worth, and it doesn't outstay its welcome. My one complaint is that a really need feature opens up right before the game ends, and I beat the game without being able to explore it much organically. Depending on how you focus your prestiges, you might be able to unlock it earlier to make it more useful to your run, but I wish I had more time to really see its impact. One thing I'd love is a proper infinite mode of infinitely scaling difficulty that lets you stress and test your build, and push as long as you want.

I like it. Stable, smooth and the mechanics make sense. Fun incremental, idler game to have in the background. Real sense of progression and the theme is great.

There's about two days of content in this interesting combination of incremental mechanics woven together with a lightweight story. The mechanics are novel, and combine in interesting ways, but the execution feels like it robs some of the gameplay significance from them. For an example, you breed your creatures, selecting them based on 5 different stats that improve with each generation and affect the creature in different ways to make them suitable for different tasks. This sounds cool, but any thoughts of specializing on certain roles as a gameplay mechanic is immediately undercut by the fact that you kinda need all five equally for independent requirements, so there's no way that having high intelligence meaningfully compensates for a shortfall of dexterity. You just need to be good at everything. Specialization isn't rewarded. Then in fairly short order you automate selecting for higher stats, and that just looks at sum total stats, so you can't even specialize if you wanted. So the five numbers really just collapse down to the average power number, the importance of stats for different roles pretty much disappears into meaninglessness, and brute-forcing generations becomes the dominant solution by far. Similarly there's a sort of biological tech tree later in the form of evolution. Each species gives different bonuses to each of the five traits, plus a general purpose one. There's no real point in picking one over the others. You can choose one at a time and they retain passive unlocks, so you just go through them all one at a time until you've unlocked everything. There's no strategy to the choice, it's just "more is better" again. The two areas where there is some decision-making are the prestige choice between order and chaos, that makes a meaningful difference in how you play in the mid-game, although again it's mostly an order of unlocks thing and once you've maxed out either chaos or order the other side completes very rapidly due to scaling - which nicely removes some grind. The other area is the base layout tetris, where despite my earlier statements about not being able to specialize towards different stats does actually let you apply a fair focus on those things if you wanted. There's just no real reason to, and a balanced approach seems best. Flipping between a breeding layout and a combat layout can help in the mid-game, but by the late game you can afford to just have everything you need. All in all, I had fun, and it was worth the price, so it's a recommendation if you like innovative incrementals. I do feel that it could have been more, if some of the systems weren't undercutting each other quite so much.

Достаточно неплохой идлер за приемлемую цену , проходится в районе 30-35 часов на 100%. Самое сложное как и в любом идлере пережить первые 4 часа, дальше игра начинает набирать темп.Под конец уже на режиме авто-битва проходим все локации чтобы набрать нужные скилл пойнты и пройти ласт локу ( 100 миллионов урона). В основном большую половину ( да и почти всю) мы занимаемся скрещиванием наших монстров ради более сильных видов. Советую качать ветку corrupted creation когда откроете , она даст сильный буст нашим воинам, после того как вложите очки в неё , пройдите вновь возвышение чтобы увидеть результат ибо под конец игры скрещивание мало дают преимуществ. Не советую качать chaotic acceptance выше 2х-3 в начале, ибо она дальше будет есть тысячи очков , а давать мало плюсов, а также deffered collapse выше 20, если вы не прошли игру, да это повышает сильно шансы на улучшение существ, но вам придётся очень долго ждать скрещивания существ. да и что 200 ур или 1000 ур дают одни и те-же характеристики при скрещивание, ибо они имеют лимит и завязаны на других скиллах (( мутации( максимум 70) и общий кап характеристик - chaotic recreation)) и .... Дальше открывается божественность и новые монстры ( одни собирают сокровища и дают бусты, другие изучают новые способности) и так далее. В ветке божественности можно будет открыть множество полезных вещей например уменьшить сильно размер карты чтобы быстрее её проходить. Ну а дальше сами разберётесь , ибо я и так уже почти всё описал :D

A fine game, has bugs, needs balancing and the story seems to be written by AI. But the game is ok.

Bello! un pò complicato all'inizio ma poi si automatizza il tutto e diventa piè facile! consigliato al 100%

nice idle game it is quite active at start but you can get auto options as progessing the game it is very challenging and funny

Very fun game the concept is neat and while it might not give you exactly what your expecting it gives you some very suprsingly cool things

Игра короткая для idle, маловариативная, а оптимизация очень слабая. Мой компьютер несколько нагревается и даже слегка подтормаживает в конце... Ничего принципиального, но для столь простой игры это недопустимо Ну и при этом цена... Конечно цена копеечная, но для такой поделки и этого много