The First Million

Fun roguelike deckbuilder, challenging at first, but forgiving enough that it gives you some leeway to experiment and still win, which is a huge positive for me and keeps you coming back for another run. The game will require some fine-tuning as there's a few builds that are extremely powerful, so as you near the high-tier difficulties you might find yourself searching for that one card that will completely change the run, as there's a lot of RNG. However the dev is super active in the discord and some nice QoL updates have already come through. 100% worth the money.

公式化指数，公式化长期投资，放弃大脑回归直觉还是可以的

Good game , the full name is "The first million is the hardest" and it doesn't lie, everything is hard before you unlock all cards and even understand some synergy, but once you get the hang of it everything is super fast , I've 100% (and prestige 100%) the game in 30H , short but good game.

Quite a fun little game for the price, has me coming back.

Fun game. Played for a few hours, passed the $2 million mark. I'll probably come back in a few months and play a few more rounds and come back a few months after that.

I'll put this at a slightly positive because I don't think it's BAD exactly, but it needs work. I really like the concept, but it seems like the balance needs a pass: so many of the strategies require getting the exact right cards at the exact right time and only barely work if they do hit, and I suspect many of the strategies are just ultimately doomed. There's this idea of "oh man if I get X Y and Z I can set up a super cool synergy" and then you won't get the cards in time, or you'll get it but it can't scale up in time and you lose to the timer. The runs feel about the right length, and the scaling makes sense, so maybe the base tick rate of cards just needs to be faster so that the builds can do their thing in the allotted time. I don't mind the meta-progression, but the upgrades feel kind of anemic: you're spending 1-2 runs of silver to go from 2% crit chance to 3, which isn't exactly going to do anything crazy. Maybe tying back into the idea of the strategies not really working, but it feels punishing to unlock cards and dilute the pool for stuff that is much worse than what you'd otherwise be doing. Progressing should never feel like a downgrade, and the fact that blocking cards is a meta-progression thing kind of illustrates the problem: you could get a lot of silver worth of card blocks if you just strategically identified the best cards and didn't do unlocks once you had them.

I dont understand people who cant seem to win or think that a 20% nerf on your last played "highest producing card" forces you to play another tactic. With a few tricks you have almost unlimited time / money, i.e you can break the game, consistently. I found it fun and enjoyable.

Nice little incremental card optimization game with a decent free demo to show you how it plays. Unlike a lot of other reviews, I found that it wasn't really grindy at all: There are several builds that can consistently win runs (and this is without simply getting infinite time to make money through a set of good synergies). A nice little "win penalty" on one of the Asset cards you used to win your last run with is a nice little encouragement to mix up your strategies at least a little between games, and it's fun trying to beat all the little challenges to unlock stuff. It does need to be said though: You need to be careful about unlocking cards before you build a good banlist, or each unlocked card might make the game [b]harder[/b] by making it harder to get the synergies you want. The dev's definitely made it harder to fall into this newb trap by giving you 5 free bans when you start and making card costs scale, but beware because you can still kinda "brick" your save if you don't focus on upgrades, too.