The game is overly esoteric and confusing, and really needed a more in depth tutorial. I often couldn't tell if the game was bugged, my character was too weak, or if I was somehow doing things wrong in a game where combat is near automatic.
Because it was so hard to tell what does what, many of the upgrades feel extremely unimpactful. As far as I could gather, the blue upgrades, which are upgraded based on a currency that generates automatically over time, (the rate of generation can be upgraded with another currency, but it cannot be directly gathered) are the most important ones, basically giving you a chance to activate various powerups when you kill an enemy. A few of these powerups are actually extremely impactful, to the point where if your average run will kill 2 enemies, if you get a good powerup you could easily be killing 10 or more. However, it is RNG on getting the good powerups, and outside of having them, your character feels anemic.
The yellow upgrades, which come from a currency dropped by enemies, increase your basic stats. It is possible to see the effects of these in action somewhat, but the enemies are so strong that even after many upgrades you will still only be going from 1 enemy killed per round to 2.
Finally, the red upgrades are bought with a currency that you get for directly killing enemies, and beyond the easy to understand economy upgrade, all seem to either be near useless or actively detrimental. While I would like to believe that upgrading "Enemy Health" would make enemies spawn with less health rather than more health, the icon of the upgrade implies the latter, and I never was able to tell if it had any affect on the former.
I can only assume that the gameplay is bugged as well, as at the start it is explained that killing enemies will increase your size (which naturally decreases with every attack), but that doesn't happen every time. Furthermore, sometimes you kill an enemy and it just drops nothing, with no explanation. Often both of these things happen at the same time, which cripples your run and leads to you making next to no progress at all.
If nothing else, I at least had a better user experience than the guy who wrote the other review, and my game fortunately did not crash or have any weird UI issues. Unfortunately, everything else he said about the game is absolutely true!
It was a very poor first impression, and the combination of the ambiguous progression combined with the bugs did not compel me to stick around. I gave it a try because I am a big fan of the incremental genre and wanted to try everything, but it seems that there was good reason this one hasn't caught on to the world at large.
