Xenosensory

Xenosensory felt like Wack-A-Mole to me. I'm not really a twitch player, and timed games generally rub me the wrong way. It's tagged as an idler, but I disagree, it's a clicker...meh

Short but sweet, and super fun!

Fun incremental with a distinct artstyle

Have really mixed feelings on that one. The vibe is alright, decently cool even, the gameplay is an okay "toy" for a few minutes. But ultimately it feels more like someone just started up an engine for the first time and made their very first project. Not what we've come to expect from this dev. The gameplay is mostly filled with the illusion of content. Pretty devoid of purpose and feeling more like a child's toy to wave around. I feel like the game could have been interesting if genuine thoughtful gameplay had gone into it. The most fun i've had was looking for the apples, and it's nothing incredible either. It passes time, but you won't actually have genuine fun with it. It's also just over the refund window in terms of game lenght, not that it would feel right to refund a small project that admittedly doesn't overpromise anything, but i leave it just as information for future buyers to know better what they might be getting into.

Extremely boring game. Even for the price, its not actually FUN. You just click play, hover vaguely over the enemies, then repeat. You'd THINK the idea is to maximize convict escapes before running out with enemies ramping up over time or something, but that's not the case; not only do you lose if convicts die too much, but you also lose "energy" when you kill anything. So even if you are doing well, the runs end within like 1 min or less. You can equip actives and a passive, but there's nothing at all on the ui to remind you what you brought or if its been used so far. Maybe because its all single use and boring. A lot of it are things you just use the moment a run starts as basically another passive. Or things which kill maybe 5 enemies and then... its done. These skills are not on cooldowns; they're one per run each. Since you always end a run regardless of how well you do and can always just click start again, there's no real reason to care to try and use these tactically. The lack of any loss state, any way to extend runs to a reasonable degree, any reason to care at all if I'm doing well or not makes this an incredibly basic and boring experience. The skill tree, passives and actives all don't help this, with a massive portion just being "get more exp". "get more exp if you use this skill" (so that's just a passive I need to remember to use), "get more exp on killing Y enemy" (who cares? I can just start a new run to kill more anyways???), "get more exp at the start of every run" (tons of these, you can legit just lose intentionally and restart and you'll STILL be making progress lol), "get exp if you pay exp on this node" (??? blatant padding AND subject to RNG in how much you get for which exp) The skill tree is also terrible to navigate. Its seemingly just randomly thrown together with no thought for the users experience. If I want to upgrade marines, the ONLY fun upgrades in the game (they spawn at the start of the map and fight for you), those are... wherever they are. Top left, 30 upgrades away? In a cluster on the right? Left of that, but like 20 paces to the left? There are upgrades JUST to be able to see further into this mess so the dev KNOWS its bad. No search funtion, no color coding, just a giant mess of samey symbols you scan through to find the one you want OR much more likely you just span click until out of resources because nothing matters in this game. The gadgets and passives are similar. I don't even know which ones I unlocked are new. I don't care enough to look. They're all weak and fundamentally don't matter, so who cares? The price explains the mediocrity of this

As good as the "Alien vs Predator" movies: We're glad someone did it, but truthfully it gets pointless, confusing, repetitive by the end. By the middle of the game, all is already unlocked, and the action becomes so chaotic, the screen so full of movement, that is pointless to continue looking/playing. I hope Xenosensory 2 fixes this.