How To Grow a Black Hole

I want to start by saying that this game is great, I have got a lot of hours in it, I believe the contents are unique, enjoyable, and are fun to play around with. They may not be strictly "accurate" to black holes but that's not an issue lmao. It adds a form of balance which is fun to have in an idle game. I do not believe that the game was made using any form of gen ai, or using ai assisted coding. I basically read through the entirety of the discord server's messages to figure out what people were saying in a place where it would be less likely to be seen. The dev has used gen ai in the past for various things, as I'm sure a lot of people have, and ai assisted coding isn't necessarily a bad thing either way. It sucks to see so many allegations with separated evidence from the actual point at hand. If this game was coded with the assistance of ai, I think it should be disclosed. I do not believe it actually was though. I'm not against the idea of buying a game that was ai assisted, as long as I know that fact before purchasing. image/video models should not be used in creative spaces, and the dev has said this as well, but there is no proof that any of that was used here other than "gen ai has been used by the devs in the past". The fact that their portfolio was done using ai feels like it's a cheap way to try and sell yourself in a creative space. A portfolio should be hand made, cause these things take effort. Anyone trying to convince you not to get this game cause "it's ai" is being way too simple about it all. Make your own decisions. It's a good game by a solo dev, that's about it.

i dont think that the UI is made by AI, nor the game itself. the thumbs down is only because i dont like it.

After 50 hours, this game has been so much fun. It is unique to other idle games in the way it requires strategy. If you want your black hole to grow while idle, you better make sure there's no way your feeds will make it collapse. This gives you options: do you want to farm collapses to permanently strengthen your stats? You can set that up by turning on auto-buy and auto-collapse. Do you want to really grow and move up the leaderboard? There will be trial and error, but you'll figure it out. Overall, the game is a 10/10. Visuals are great and props to the developer for being so active with the community through the discord. I'm glad knowing the dev is keeping up with the feedback and working on making the game even better. How to Grow a Black Hole has been a breath of fresh air for me; I normally play competitive fps, but it's nice to have a game I can play that's not so stressful for once! Thanks Noah, great job and keep it up!

do not alt-tab this game on a Strix Halo - 8060s AMD hardware - it crashes all the time. (this kills the driver, hence kills the AI work !)

visual clutter everywhere, keeps crashing on launch. spend your money elsewhere.

There's very little actual game here beyond clicking boxes and watching a mediocre black hole animation slowly get bigger. Tedious.

Annoying to play.