Idle Space Shooter

A Nodebuster copy but made without an understanding of what makes incremental games formula fun (or games in general). Feels very unpolished, lacks clarity & detail, no anticipation or reason to keep going, upgrades, are boring, cost too much. Run feel so repetitive and is design in a way that makes upgrades not feel impactful or needed as much as they should, some outright feeling unless. Every design choice feels surface level. It looks, sounds, and plays like something built from asset packs with no insight into player motivation or pacing.

Worst game ever. And I mean it. Not an idle game. Not even a game. I don't know what this thing is, but run away. It will kill you. And your family.

Idle Space Shooter isn't what it says on the tin. It isn't something you'd call Idle. The game starts where you are manually shooting enemies with a reticle that automatically fires ever second. Shooting spaceships that spawn similar to Asteroids. Each enemy drops 15 common currency which is used to upgrade and extend runs. Each time you invest your currency into the skill tree itself you incrementally get stronger and more resources. The first couple of runs are incredibly slow where you barely can buy anything at all. Maybe one damage upgrade or something to increase the length of the run. After you reach the first 100 second mark. You fight the first boss that drops 1 'rare' currency which is used to purchase 'extra' damage upgrades. On paper this sounds like a good investment. However, these upgrades when fully upgraded only do 125 damage and barely make a dent in the enemies. Going to down the time extension tree gives you more resources (which makes runs more interesting by a little) so instead of 1 enemy giving you 15 currency it gives you a whopping 120. As for the rare currency upgrade increases the amount from 1 currency to 6-8. It's a required investment opportunity if you want to accelerate your progress. Okay, by now you've beaten your first or second boss. You are making 80,000 to 200,000 per a run and investing as much money into the tree as possible. You start speeding up your progression to overdrive. Investing all this skill nodes. And then you reach the final boss. And kill it. You feel like there might be an end screen and you see... The game looping from level 0 again. It's disappointing. No prestige system to make runs longer. Nothing to say you've experienced the whole game loop. It's an unfinished game. That needs more content. I probably will not put any more time into this game after posting this review. I hope this criticism helps give enough information to potential buyers and gives the developer a chance to make the game better down the line.

forgot I opened the game on the side screen

Its quite good, progression in the beginning is a bit slow, i would also appreciate it very much if there were some sort of visual effect for the base attack since it seems super slow and its not clear how it works, overall a good start to what i think is a very pleasing game. Good work, also after a very long time on Steam, over 10 years, this is my first review because i wanted to support this indie developer.

They way you have to click the mouse before you can move the cross-hair at the start of an encounter feels very jank. The pricing for the upgrades on the upgrade tree means that most of the time there is only one rational option for the next upgrade, because it's the only one you are going to be able to afford, so it doesn't feel like you're really being given much choice. Needs waifus.

i fw with the soundtrack heavily.

Game has nice mechanics as a idler game but there are lots to improve

这个游戏基本上是抄袭的 Nodebuster 但抄太差劲了

This is a fun and colorful game that is worth playing. However, it is pretty difficult. I enjoyed playing it.