This is clearly Gnorp pilled. But its not Gnorp fun. Whereas Gnorp has charming presentation, interesting upgrades and a simple core looping system, this has... none of that.
The presentation is bland. Your guys have no personality, the music is boring, all descriptions are all just "thing does X". Its so boring.
The core gameplay just does not feel well designed. Your goal is to throw items to the right. You can do this yourself, except when you can't; it just stops working at some point for no apparent reason.
How you do this is by making your little dudes and waiting for them to move ♥♥♥♥. However;
You can't control where your guys actually want to move. And buildings will create trash for no apparent reason despite that not being their purpose. The lowest level, near worthless trash, but your guys will STILL run after it obsessively. This leads to tons of wasted time.
The primary building for making cash is the factory. You make it.You stick dudes in it... that's it. There's no synergy with other buildings, no units beyond the basic guy, etc. Best you can do is put the compressor next to it and catapult next to that so they can all suck each other off, but the sucking is weaker than your moms.
Buiildings lose durability over time, giving you a yellow resource when they break. Unless you put another building next to them and man it. But then how do you get the yellow stuff? I dunno. Same for the mode which turns this mechanic off.
All this means is every so often you remake the same building.
Also, most buildings feel pointless, as even with a maxed house, you simply do not have enough guys to pick up all the trah being produced and EVERY building needs to be filled and grows in number needed when leveled. You're better off ignoring some of them and leaving people on the floor.
You also need to unlock buildings, passive bonuses, etc via a skill tree. Game does not signpost this. Hope you notice it.
Similarly, there's a training building you can find in that tree. Hope you find it; theress no indication this exists beyond finding it.
Once you get this, you can train your guys to move faster, carry more, break rocksfaster, etc; very important. HOw do you run it? You click level up and add guys, just like everything else. *yawn*.,
Very important building I didn't even know was a thing for like 3 avalanches.
Avalanches themselves happen when you fill the hole. They break all your buildings, but do not give the yellow reward. So you just spam remake everything. and now its no longer close to yellow break This is fun... how? You can turn this to just doing 30% damage in the skill tree. If you find the right node. Which is in no way signposted.
Skill tree also costs a mix of cash, RP (research points, gained by, you guessed it, mass upgrading a building, putting peoplle in it and ignoring it), yellow (breaks), blue (avalanches) and red (stupid) resources seemingly at random. So its very common to be stuck until the next avalanche or similar.
The RED ones, apparently, you gain via doing minigames the game briefly mentions in the help menu but does not adequately explain, state give you these red things, state its once per building or state HOW to do the minigames. How do you do them? You alt tab out and read the steam guide.
THESE are used to summon portals to do some ♥♥♥♥ I did not care enough about to find out. Apparently its tied to a good ending. In a world with 0 hint of lore or character. Who cares?
This is a fairly bad, consistently poorly designed game that isn't fun enough to want to actively interact with, but the breaking mechanic and the fact buildings can get blocked if they make too much trash to keep up with (why? I don't know, because fun is bad?), your guys can die (when and how? Dunno. Just buy the upgrade to turn this off) and buildings break and need rebuilding and the need to break rocks to gain more spaces to place anything (again, why, I don't know) and minigames all mean the game wants you to be actively interacting with it; its an idle game that refuses to let you idle and an active game that's less fun than the average idle game.
The choices made here are baffling. Why is the skill tree such a mess? Why is so much so poorly explained (we can add clouds being clickable for resources to the list; game just tells you you get +5% clouds or similar), why isn't training room something we're actively directed to? Why does basically every building just boil down to sticking guys in it and ignoring it, when our pool of guys is so limited even maxed?
