Orc Incremental

So this is a game that I like, but I think it has some serious problems to it, even though I recommend it. I don't think it has any unpatched bugs or anything like that though, at least none that I've run into, it seems to work fine as intended. The first thing about it is that this is basically an idle game, you have orcs that are on a warpath and they kill stuff and you get money, there isn't really a story or anything, it's mostly just vibes. If you go into this expecting an idle game about upgrading your orcs to smash through elves and humans faster you'll probably have a good time. Now the criticisms of it: Totem balance is way off, you can have totems that will heal allies for 10% of their health if 3 different totems trigger, and ones that can basically max out stacks of rage on dragons, one of the best is a totem that reflects damage in a big area every 5th hit done on a fighter. However you also just have a lot of garbage, totems can give fighters rage when a spellcaster dies, except your fighters all move out in front and there are better ways to give them rage, there are a lot of totems(more than you'd expect from the way the game is balanced frankly) but so many of them are incredibly situational. Unit balance is kinda weird, shamans and witch doctors make sense, dragons are the best unit, even orc fighters and warg riders have a point. Then you have chieftains, assassins and juggernauts. You'd think a chieftain would be good, but they gain NO BONUSES FROM ANY UPGRADE IN THE GAME, they are a unit that is designed to have a bonus when it dies and maybe a minor right click effect. While your other units will have 2k+ health your chieften will be stuck at what they start with until the end of time. Assassins are actually all right but they have AI problems, see they can attack from stealth, crit and do area damage, sounds great, but what oftentimes happens is they get so much rage speed bonus that they attack, jitter around for a second or two and then re stealth to attack again. Their AI makes them worse than they should be, I don't know what could be done to fix them. Juggernauts IMO are the worst unit in the game, it's a unit that goes towards the enemy and explodes, in theory to break the frontline. The problem is that the frontline tends to be peasants, you don't need to break the frontline of peasants, they're peasants, it's a waste of space that blows up on easily killable units. On top of that enemies can randomly become enraged and run at you much faster, so oftentimes it will literally just blow up a SINGLE peasant. Utterly useless, it should probably set the ground on fire or spray out plumes of fire when it explodes or something, even then there are rounds when the enemy just comes in a big long line so it's even more useless than it sounds. Finally the draw system is a bit weird for how this game works, they have worked to patch it so you don't get the same thing by re-rolling, once you can get different rarities and traits there is a good amount of build potential, but you're more or less stuck with what the game hands you. Each roll costs more and more money, this isn't so much a problem with "I can't get past level (BLANK)" it's more you could have a build focusing around dragons, that has trouble getting online with dragons. I think this game is overall good, the developers seem to listen to the community pretty well, provided you go into this game knowing what to expect(an idle game) then you can have a good amount of fun with it. It's like popcorn, it's really nice to see when you've got a good rage build together and your orcs and dragons are running mach 5 on a warpath and healing up because of totems. IMO I think the game could use a few more units in some categories, maybe fire catapults, some other type of creature(dragons are currently the only creature), fixes for the assassin at high rage speed. Basically I like this game and I kinda want more stuff, I think it could also use a bit more replayability somehow, in theory that's what the random card draw is for but the game isn't well balanced enough for totems and units and chieftens for that to be satisfying to restart.