Incrempire

In it's iteration? I'd classify this game as "meh". The meta upgrade paths are surprisingly shallow given how many mechanics with which the game wants you to engage. Most game DPS will come from your cursor once to near towards the late game but there's nothing to make a player feel excited about using the cursor. The achievements are far more shallow. You don't even need to complete the game to earn all the achievements at the moment. I think there's a bug where you can just replay current levels and they count toward the "next level" board clears. The runes were a nice touch, but its just not enough to ask for $7.99 out the gate. $4.99 WITHOUT a sale is far more reasonable for the length and depth of this game.

Starts as a typical incremental game. Then introduces a secondary currency. Then a third resource. Then you finish the skill tree. Then you find yourself having to grind up equipment (runes) in order to progress. In all, the game feels incomplete and without direction. To me the biggest shock was finishing the skill tree before I was half done with world 4 (of 5?). Maybe in the future, with the roadmap, the game will improve.

It starts off well, but any sense of satisfaction disappears once you reach the forge. Auto-attacks account for about 5% of the total damage, so all that's left is using the cursor and crowd control effects. Damage towers are useless. The game is badly in need of balancing.

A good concept, but unfortunately a very poor execution. I'm generally a fan of "tower defense" incrementals, but this one completely misses the mark. While there are a few strategic mechanics that could have made a fun game, they go right out the window the moment you unlock the blacksmith. It's the most overpowered building in the game and practically mandatory. Consequently, the entire building mechanic becomes useless, serving solely to protect the blacksmith so you can upgrade your cursor. Because of this, not only does the base-building aspect become pointless, but all other passive upgrades do too. The vast majority of your damage comes entirely from your cursor, leaving you sitting there mindlessly hovering over enemies. Add to that a tedious late-game rune-farming grind. It feels like a cheap, artificial way to prolong the game and force infinite scalability. I also noticed a plethora of bugs, the achievements popped in completely wrong levels. I got the achievement for finishing the jungle in the first level of the jungle. Some abilities also don't seem to work properly as the Nova, an ability triggering when you drop below 0 health, oftentimes did not proc in a fight, ruining a run. All in all good concept, repetitive and buggy execution. Not worth the pricepoint. I'd consider it for a 4th of the current price, but not in this state.

feels like a mobile gam

This game is hella mid and I say that with love for incremental games. I beat the main game somewhere around 90 minutes. For 6 bucks(on sale) there needs to be more content, stages, and achievements. I don't want to be too harsh since the devs say they're a small team and they do have a road map to add more stuff. Gameplay-wise, everything is good until you get higher tier runes(purple and yellows) then it becomes so easy where you don't have to upgrade runes anymore as long as you slot in cursor damage upgrades. I look forward to coming back and changing my review!

This is a little under half baked. Okay premise. There are only 25 levels. You will max out your skill tree before level 25, with every single node unlocked and maxed. There aren't really any builds or strategies using the skill tree. Once you beat the 25 levels (90 minutes i'd guess) there's then hard/nightmare/midnightmare modes which continue on the same exact maps, with the same enemies. The rewards are not configured correctly for hard modes (first levels will give you around 100 gold where the last level of normal mode has like 7.5mm or something), and the only changes you can make are by upgrading "runes", which are just random stat socketing items. If you are looking for something with replayability/build creativity/challenge in any way i would not recommend.

Stop adding the idler tag if the game isn't an idler.