Rune Tower Incremental

This is a really fun idea, but it's basically unplayable at the moment. Literally every other run I experienced a bug where when adding runes, my weapon would cause a fixed visual effect on a point on the map and my shots would stop dealing any damage, leaving no choice but to end the run.

It is NOT a TOWER DEFENSE!! It is BAD rogue-lite incremental game. Bad becasue it has no balance (no anti-block and anti-evade options), it has strange decission (every run reqirement) to press hourglass (ui button)with your lmb entire run............ You have ammo to shoot, when you out of ammo the game is over. Main problem is it has strange RNG for hit chance. Even if you have Damage x1000 more than mob's HP, it doesnt mean 1 ammo = 1 kill. Monsters in this game have unimaginable high BLOCK-rate and EVASION, which makes so stupid gameplay and RPG-part of the game as much as your tatcics becomes nothing.

Beat the game in 30 mins, not much to it. It's a good concept but over priced even at 3 bucks. You should not be able to refund a game after beating it................not saying i will (I won't) it's just there is the option to. No endless mode it ends and locks up half the time on the end screen. It's also not a tower defense it's an "AMMO" Defense meaning when you run out of ammo is when the game ends. Your tower takes no damage from the waves they just play ring around the roses with you.

very very little content. it's an interesting idea, but at this stage just feels very incomplete. Can't recommend in it's current state, but I will revisit this in the future and update this if more comes along. As it stands, save your few bucks, invest in a different incremental style.

Incremental games are known for giving players a very simple task, and sometimes they do not require any action at all. This one falls into that category. You have a tower in the middle of the screen that automatically shoots at approaching enemies, so all you really need to do is click on upgrades using the coins rewarded for each kill. Instead of a timer, a round ends when you run out of bullets, which happens very quickly during your first run. Because of that, the first upgrade you will likely buy increases the number of bullets. At this point you will also notice that the upgrade tree is very small and basic. Even though some upgrades are hidden, you can still see exactly how many upgrades exist across the entire tree. Most upgrades can also be purchased multiple times, but the limit is not displayed. The tree is divided into three branches, each containing fewer than ten upgrades and requiring its own resource. The main branch relates to the tower itself. Here you can unlock reloads, where one upgrade grants one reload per round, along with increased firing speed, higher damage, and a few other improvements. The second branch requires stones, which become available once you purchase the first upgrade in that branch. This unlocks the rune feature of the game. At the start of each round you receive a random rune, or you can choose one from three options after buying the relevant rune upgrade. Runes add special effects to the tower, such as firing at two targets at once, gaining a chance to cause explosions or stuns, and other perks. If you do not want to use a rune, you can dismantle it to receive stones for free. You earn a rune every time you defeat a boss, but you are limited by rune slots. The maximum is four, although only one slot is unlocked at the beginning. You can quickly purchase additional slots and features such as higher rune grades. A fast way to gain stones is to start a run, dismantle a rune, then immediately end the run. Repeating this process lets you collect stones very quickly. The final branch requires souls, which you obtain by defeating a wave’s boss. Each wave contains several enemy types that circle the tower. After defeating a boss, you move on to the next set of basic enemies and another boss, continuing this pattern until all waves are cleared. The soul branch is also where the game can become extremely easy. The first soul upgrade allows you to increase the starting wave so you do not have to deal with the weakest enemies. However, it is usually better to purchase this only once, since weaker bosses are easier for farming souls. Each of the three branches also includes an upgrade that increases the gain of all three resources. After purchasing these upgrades a few times, you will quickly accumulate large amounts of materials. Soul upgrades also unlock a faster speed-up mode that lets you hold a button to progress through waves more quickly, increases gold gain during speed-up, and adds extra enemies that drop more gold. Unfortunately, the game contains several bugs. For example, the auto dismantle feature does not work, so you still need to press the button manually each time. A more frustrating issue is that a run does not always end automatically when you run out of bullets. Instead, enemies will keep running around the tower indefinitely until you manually quit the run. The most serious bug occurs when the tower fires but no bullets appear. This completely stops progress beyond wave 100 because it happens every time. Overall, the game feels like a beginner level incremental experience due to the small number of upgrades, which can all be maxed out in about an hour. However, the endgame is effectively broken because progress becomes impossible even with maximum upgrades.

It's ok. You have a tower that shoots at enemies which never attack, the failure condition is running out of ammo. Between runs you buy upgrades from a tiny upgrade tree that uses a few different types of currency to make your tower better. Beating bosses gets you equippable runes which change the way the tower acts, it's very simple. Mine never looked as overpowered as the screenshots. Realistically you're going to get a few runes then hold space bar while watching something in another window, then come back when you run out of ammo to upgrade. You can manually target enemies, but everything's going to get nuked so quickly that there's no point. There's also an upgrade to get more money while speeding the game up, so you'll never really need to do anything else. The minimal micromanagement present is unnecessary & maybe even detrimental because it wastes time & reduces rewards. For a few bucks I'd recommend this. In a little over an hour and a half (which includes pausing the game to get breakfast) I think I get the point, unless there's some hidden mechanic that never popped up. I've got runes at the maximum level and most of the upgrades maxed out. The store page says bosses and adventurers open new upgrade tiers, but honestly I didn't even notice so maybe the game's deeper than I thought and I missed the more exciting stuff. I stopped playing because the last dozen or so runs ended in a bug that stopped all progression and it got a little boring. At the time of writing there's only one other review and one post on the discussions page and they're both about this bug. Still, assuming it gets updated with a fix, I'm happy enough with what we got for how cheap it is. Achievements and maybe an extra layer of prestige would be nice too. Lastly, to the dev, I get why they're the way they are, but find the cheapest artist you can and commission some pictures to replace the current rune art. They look awful. There are a ton of little 3D enemies, even something as simple as those would look nicer and fit the aesthetic a lot better.

Updated review. Its been fixed.