[h3][b]Time Played:[/b][/h3]
7.2 Hours (All Achievments, Maxed upgrades.)
[h3][b]Last Played:[/b][/h3]
1st of September, 2026
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Though 2 updates the day I started this (31st of August, 2026) launched Allumeria still being too loud to play in places meant I had to find something else to play.
That something else was this.
[h3][b]Yay:[/b][/h3]
+ Simple to play.
+ Plenty of upgrades.
+ Prestiging happens on a level-basis, rather than you needing to wipe the slate clean, and restart every time. I really wish more games would question why other incremental games do that, and assess if it's a completely-outdated, micro-managing aspect that makes the non-prestige skill levelling feel pointless, as it completely-does for me.
+ Real feeling of progress.
+ I could hear the game fine, with nothing being inaudible, nor ear-piercingly loud/imbalanced.
+ The combination of low-impact gameplay, and laid-back music made it rather relaxing to me.
+ Your abilities add some nice chains to things, later on.
+ They thank you for playing the game.
[h3][b]Meh:[/b][/h3]
~ The art was a bit too utilitarian/oppressive-looking for my tastes, with the “bright red on dark grey” giving me “dystopic hellscape vibes.
~ This also meant the rather relaxing music was not-at-all fitting to me.
~ For those, like me, that prefer to save and max things in one fell, delayed-swoop, and choose delayed gratification, you basically have to spend points at-first.
~ Different enemies exist, but didn't meaningfully-change any aspect of the game for me.
[h3][b]Nay:[/b][/h3]
- The core gameplay is essentially waving your mouse around until you needn't even do that, and unlike Keep on Mining! the other “short” incremental game I delved into, no additional layers are added that keep the dopamine flowing.
- No true idle mode exists, either, meaning you rather need to have it open/be waving your mouse about.
- Sometimes, sessions go for literal tens of minutes without much interaction occurring.
- The ability to collect bits at-range plateaued way too early for my tastes.
- No “Instantly-collect all dropped items” skills exists.
- ...meaning no true “set and forget” mode is present, requiring you to either crash the game with the amount of uncollected items on-screen, or otherwise tab back in while absorbed in something else to keep going.
- This also leads to numerous things being wasted, as the playfield isn't sucked in on death in-favour of you looking at all you should have gotten behind the game-over screen.
- You cannot see your total items until any given session/round ends, when the lower left of the screen is blank. I feel this would have given some sense of accomplishment, and made the various attempts less-monotonous, or at least adding a nice “big number keeps going up”.
- Many, many of the “skills” are only bridges to the end with no effect other than spending a prestige point.
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[h3][b]Verdict:[/b][/h3]
I wish I had played this before Keep on Mining!, as that would have been a welcome improvement over this, which. Nothing pushed it below the middling category, no, but nothing elevated it to the “favoured” section either.
Thus, because I write these to record my own thoughts, and allow readers to make informed purchasing decisions from them, I can say some may enjoy this, others not.
As for me, this was not favoured, but not disliked either, so until/if a neutral option is added, this is a thumbs down.
[h3][b]Placed in:[/b][/h3]
4: Mundanely-Middling.
