Starvester

cute little clicker game, using megastructures and advanced tech to grow ur mining outpost into a civilization

Good

For the first few hours I was very confused about why this game has such mixed reviews as I was having a lot of fun and really enjoying myself, but the longer I played the more the flaws become less endearing rough edges and start actively working against the game, and I can see how they would get completely off putting for some people. I'm giving it a thumb ups as I have enjoyed my time playing it, and I don't personally think any of the issues mentioned below affected me enough that it would put me off recommending the game. It's a game that's clearly had a lot of thought put into making a variety of mechanics and world building, and while it's the most complex version of an incremental I've played recently I enjoyed playing something that required me to be a bit more actively thinking about how I was managing things. But there are definitely flaws. It doesn't seem to be well optimised as it had my gaming laptop fan going like it was running a AAA game, the prestige system isn't well balanced for where it drops you back to so gets a bit frustrating having to work back up to a stable solar system each time, and there are so many different ideas and mechanics in the game that by the end it was starting to feel like a chore having to run around trying to figure out how to chain boosters to speed up what I was trying to gather at that point.