Dwarf Eats Mountain

really loved the demo. most of the game's value can be found in the initial gameplay when you are still unlocking new upgrades and progressing through prestige tiers. gameplay loop kinda sucks once you start ascending, if you want to 100%. you still need to fill the prestige tree with 250 prestige points before you can ascend again. you could do one run to fill the prestige tree and then one 'good' run to earn lots of PP before ascending again. but this would take almost twice as long, and 10x the active gameplay as just carrying over the 'spelunkers don't die' artifact and doing one super long run with low damage, letting your spelunkers fill out your artifacts while you can play a different game that actually incentivizes interacting with the gameplay mechanics. active play past ascension 1 feels like ♥♥♥♥ because you have to go back to having almost no prestige upgrades, and you have no reason to fill out the prestige tree again because you need to reset it again and again. the only time i actually played the game with leveled up t1-5 prestige tree was before the first ascension. I still don't have the achievement for filling those first t1-5 tiers completely. requiring artifacts to get into the world spire pre-ascension 5 does suck. i got in on ascension 2 but the gameplay is so repetitive at that point that it's hard to pay enough attention to the game that you don't tab out for a few minutes and accidentally miss one of the bosses. it's easily one of the best incremental games in recent years for the first two layers of gameplay (initial and prestige). ascension is just a slog. it's worth $10 but pushing for the last achievements is really making me forget the fun I had exploring the start of the game/demo.