Horripilant

its just so peak

very sane clicker

Horripilant is not a game I like. It is an expression of the developer that you can call artistic, weird, crazy, psychedelic with some touches of horror and a deeper message about the cycle of life. My experience is a game where you solve puzzles, sometimes beyond the reach of the game screen, but is mostly a trial-by-clicker adventure. You are guided through the story with a few hints given in dialog by strange objects who have a face. I got stuck several times because the world wasn’t believable, which made the puzzles illogical. In particular, I found the lack of alternative solution dissappointing and frustrating. (spoiler about how the game/story mechanic works) [spoiler]For example: “Hint: Something sees your eyes.” I tried to hide my eyes by placing my cursor over the tiny eyes in the knight mask, but that did not count.[/spoiler] Horror elements don’t go beyond the image on the homepage. I also found it difficult to empathizes with the knight (you). It is simply a big mask with tiny eyes and it remains completely non-functional throughout the game. The lack of immersion diminished any impact the ending might have. Between the puzzles, Horripilant is a very poor incremental grinder game. You click on a tree (or stone or metal chunk) to get resources. You upgrade a few sets of gear with +x% and grind by means of an auto-battler through some repeating monsters to get meat. Meat is used to increase the wood/stone/metal capacity (and to buy a pet that hardly makes any difference). And the grinding cycle repeats. You can reborn to convert crystals you obtain besides the meat from killing monsters to level up… or better said make the next grind longer by increasing resource income grow by x2 or x3. That’s it. Almost no interaction between grind and story except for a few passages where you need x amount of resources to proceed and that you magically find story items when passing monster level 450 or 600, and one or two exceptions (spoiler for when getting stuck with a ghost: [spoiler]Consumables have a few uses outside fighting monsters.[/spoiler]). Horripilant has a few ideas, for example how it deals with auto-clickers. Apart from that it was a waste of my time staring at a tree till hitting 10 billion wood for the 30ths time (and it is not that I don't like incremental games).

never have I downloaded an idle game and played it for 25 hours straight to beat it. ts so peak.

Probably my favorite incrimentel/idle game I've played. It has some fun puzzles and an excelent atmosphere.

Extremely good ♥♥♥♥. Never felt like a puzzle was too unreasonable, and the idle resource management gameplay was fantastically enjoyable. Can't recommend it enough.

almost an idle but cool story and art