Refence

It seems like people are really confused about what this game is meant to be. I'm about 22 hours in right now and feel like I have a good grasp of what it's trying to do. First and foremost: this is an [b]idler[/b]. I feel that when most people think idlers, they just think of literal progress bars moving at different rates of speed. The fact that this game has some "active" components thrown at you from the beginning of the game sets people up to expect that it's "more clicker / active" than it's meant to be- and it doesn't help that there [i]is[/i] an active playstyle possible here - so when progress begins taking forever, they close and refund the game before they get to the true "idle" part. The entire game is you unlocking skills in the skill tree to add QoL to idling - speeding up gameplay, adding additional waves, more passive currency gain, auto choose character skills and wave rewards, literally setting priorities on auto-picks, etc. Again, make no mistake: [b]this is an idle game[/b]. It can take anywhere between 30 minutes to up to 2 hours to get enough currency for a single upgrade. Your ultimate goal is to unlock enough skills to play as perfectly idle as possible and there are many things to unlock to aid you in this. The [b]actual[/b] bad things in this game seem to be: - Random difficulty spikes (the final boss in all levels is just ridiculously difficult compared to everything else) - Hero balance is simply not there. Some are absolutely mandatory to have in order to not fail in the first 5 waves, others you never hope to draw at any point. - Costs for upgrades, especially the QoL stuff, [i]could[/i] be dropped a little bit. Out of the gate, aside from a handful of "starter perks", everything you want to progress towards can take up to 5 hours to unlock [b]per perk[/b] if you try to rush them. - The town system is insanely bland. 5 buildings to continuously upgrade which grant you barely noticeble (5%) passive upgrades for the tower defense side of the game. Heroes also keep walking on top of them so you have to wait for them to move before you can click on them. - A daily (24h) refresh of tasks to accomplish to get some upgrade currency boosts - but for a single player, offline idle game.....why is it on a daily cooldown? It'd make more sense if this were a "bounty system" as opposed to sending heroes off on "quests" for 5-30 minutes and then boom, you get your reward. This system just makes no sense at all. There's more I can complain about, nit-picky stuff, but after close to a full day of playing now, it's keeping me hooked enough to "see where this is going". I also feel like the price is very appropriate for what you're getting here - if you get it on a deeper sale, this may as well just be free for the amount of content you're getting. I'm just leaving this on in the background while I play other games or watch sports which, at the end of the day, is all we ask from Idle games.