Criticality

Great game, love how polished the UI feels. Would like to see an improvement to the prestige tree having one long tree like this isn't a good feel even if it does look fantastic. As a dev I know its hard work doing stuff like this but maybe some kind of size scaling option or even if you stick with one size maybe it can be more of a grid. I would personally seperate purchased from available but it is nice that they move to the right when they are maxed. Overall enjoyable experience.

Gameplay revolves around shooting balls with neutrons, which is just a fancy name for bullets. When balls end up close to one another, they trigger satisfying chain explosions, but your real objective is collecting the experience they leave behind. Every bit of experience fills your level bar, eventually rewarding you with an upgrade point. There is no traditional currency. Instead, upgrades are purchased with upgrade points, and each new level requires more experience than the last. The upgrade tree follows a familiar formula, starting with a single upgrade that branches into several others. While you can see where each path leads, the actual upgrade stays hidden until you unlock the current node. With plenty of branching options, you are free to focus on whatever playstyle suits you best. Unlike most incremental games, every individual upgrade can only be purchased once. The same upgrade can appear elsewhere in the tree, though, so progression is more about gradually improving your overall power than unlocking flashy new abilities. Expect bonuses such as firing more shots per round, extending round duration, increasing your chance to earn double experience, or strengthening the magnet that pulls in experience orbs, which otherwise have to be collected manually. Your main goal is to gather enough experience to reach higher ranks and unlock new stages. Each stage increases the amount of experience you earn from every popped ball, making future runs more rewarding. You can make steady progress through regular gameplay, but sooner or later you will want to prestige to unlock a whole new layer of progression. Prestiging resets all of your purchased upgrades, but any stages you have unlocked remain available, allowing you to jump back into higher experience gains much sooner. In return, you receive a new currency used for permanent upgrades that carry over between runs. These upgrades include higher experience gains, increased prestige currency, an idle mode, and auto collect, letting the game play itself while you simply check in from time to time to spend your upgrade points. The game has a nice sense of progression and keeps introducing new mechanics as you move forward. Later on, you unlock a rocket lab that adds its own offline resource system along with upgrades that feed back into the main game. Eventually, everything builds toward several different endings that require some dedication to reach. Even so, the game respects your time, so seeing everything does not turn into a grind that takes days.