There's a lot to dislike about this game. Bad translation, laggy engine, clunky UI, fixed window size, reported crashes when paired with full screen apps, not a lot of player choice, generally poor balancing, and very surface level idle mechanics. Even so, I completed the game, yeah, got every achievement. Here's how it went, first 15 hours were fine honestly. Putting aside the quality, it's still a fine formula. I was playing it alongside other games or podcasts as you do. And was decently engaged in it. Building up my resources, learning the mechanics through steam forums and guides. At the end of that first 15 hours, I was making about 10K silver each payout. With this, I pushed Dragon's lair to 29, and began my operation. Buying Electric Rod's from the store every 50K silver, for insane profit! Before I knew it, I was swimming in red wine, and gold coins. And of course, I was overlapping the operation with leveling up my creatures. And within about 3 hours, I had all my building upgrades and creatures maxed out. So you may be wondering why I have far more than 18 hours? Welllll, that's where my fun with the game ended. See, The rest of my playtime, was just idling for the absurd amount of silver needed for 50 Sky Babylon. To my dismay, there isn't a clever way to grind silver. You can't upgrade buildings past level 3, you can't exchange your excess gold coins. Meaning, at this point in the game, gold is completely worthless. There's the Spree, that gives silver, and it drops from Dragon's lair 30-38. Even drops alongside Electric Rod 35-38, but like, don't even bother. Spree only gives you anywhere from 1-888 coins. An amount so small, you won't even feel it, even in multiples. You could be optimistic and say "every bit helps." But honestly, upgrading Lair to level 35 is way too much of an investment already, especially for such a measly reward. Not to mention the Spree is competing with a bunch of other drops, so enjoy all that worthless Ginseng. Honestly, I found it more worth just selling all my Lairs and Gift Houses. Which is still a drop in the bucket, but better than keeping them for nothing. So that's that, the only thing I could do was, leave the game open for about 24 hours. Only tabbing in whenever a Babylon level became available. See... Incremental progress is supposed to make the grind engaging in a haha-number-go-boom kinda way. But this was just the Sahara desert. The diminishing returns on investment is so wildly unbalanced, that any tangibly satisfying progress flatlined at 20 hours. There are tons of incremental idle games on steam. Palladise Island is not horrible, but still, it's like one of the last ones you should bother with. If you are an enthusiast of the genre, and need to play this, there is fun to be had. It's clunky and laggy, but the creatures look fine, the music is alright, and the first 15 hours are somewhat enjoyable. I just wouldn't recommend it to the average gamer. And to the adhd gamer looking for a multitasking game to be a companion to their main games. There are so many better options out there, of which won't crash when you play another game in full screen.
