The game itself is fine, but it feels somewhat unpolished and lacks a lot of the charm I was expecting. For example, the main character only speaks during the opening and closing scenes, and there are no descriptions or lore for the rooms, magic, or world, making the experience feel a bit lifeless.
There are also several accessibility/quality of life issues. None of them are major on their own, but together they add up. Many of the resource icons look very similar, making them difficult to distinguish at a glance, in your resources generation area For example, both Fire and Holy use orange-yellow color bottles, while Water and Air both use light blue bottles.
There's no way to replay completed levels, and once you finish one, the only way to gain more resources is to wait on resources generation. Technically, many level will give you enough to unlock the next level, if you are not careless with your upgrades. You can improve resource generation by merging elements on the resource screen, but the game never tells you how much each icon contribute. I also had a couple of instances where overall value appeared to go down after merging into a higher-level icon.
Unfortunately, there are no offline gains, and resources also stop accumulating if the game isn't your active window. If you happen to spend your resources on upgrades instead of immediately unlocking new towers, progression can become much slower than it feels like it should.
I can't say for certain, but many of the assets appear as though they are AI. The art style is inconsistent throughout the game. The helper characters have one distinct style, while the spell icons, resource icons, backgrounds, and interactive objects all seem to come from different visual directions.
Instead of explaining what each level of upgrade does, the game simply shows an increase in power. In reality, upgrades can improve spell cooldowns, add additional spell elements, or increase damage. The game generally suffers from a lack of communication. Costs aren't always clearly labeled—you can eventually figure out you're spending Stardust by watching your totals, but the interface doesn't make that obvious. Likewise, if you want to know what a spell does or how to activate its different effects, you have to experiment with it yourself.
Discovering mechanics on your own isn't necessarily a bad design choice, and none of the spells are especially difficult to understand. However, I think the game would benefit from explaining its systems more clearly. Even occasional dialogue from the main character or simple tooltips would go a long way toward making the game feel more engaging, giving the game more story. There were also a few times when I tried to clean an object and received, "Not enough Power" message, but the game never told me how much Power I actually needed, making it difficult to know what I should be working toward.
Finally, some other reviews mention the gacha system for collecting little critters. Personally, I found this feature underwhelming. You don't unlock it until later into the game, the artwork for the critters is quite small, and they don't have much impact on gameplay. You simply place them in fields to generate crit power which never translated to much in my playthrough. I can be a sucker for a gatcha like machinic but there is no way to browse you collection, or interact with them in any way.
Overall, the game has a solid foundation, but I wish it had done more with its ideas. I ran into some minor techinical problems such as resources going neagitive, and screen not responding in windowed mode. You also can not change the size of the screen in windowed mode. I'm honestly a bit torn because this appears to be a first release from a new developer, and it is not easy to make a game. I also did finish the game, though I kept thinking I was closer to the end/there would be more to the game then there was. Unfortunately, I find myself thinking if I had paid full price instead of picking it up on sale, I likely would have refunded it and spent my money on another idle game. I hope the developer continues improving it, because there's definitely potential here, and its a great idea/base, even if it feel short of my expectations.
