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The game is very polished, it really makes you think you're on a windows 95 computer, with clippo and easter eggs, really well done. AMAZING job there.

However, the gameplay is a bit bland, you only have clicks, to get clicks to upgrade clicks. I know all incrementals are basically that, but most of them hide it behind different and/or meaningful upgrades. For instance, you could focus on file copy, while you copy files to a different destination you'd get two currencies, KB copied and amount of files copied. And with that you can buy larger files or different types of files, or faster copy times with upgrades to your 56k modem. Maybe, since you made a nostalgic game, you could add nostalgic references, like 14kbps modem, 28bps modem, 56k, dsl... Maybe you could buy/install old programs to help you, like Kazaa or eDonkey to help you copy files in the background.

The generators don't really resonate with the game, maybe I'm missing something about the quantum cosmic generators, I don't understand what they mean in the context of this game. As I said, I'd probably replace them with file transfer applications or other nostalgic references.

So in summary, you worked so hard in this nostalgic game and actually made it into a Win95 experience, super polished, 10/10 on visuals and experience, but I'd make the generators and upgrades more meaningful in this nostalgic context and add a bit more objectives or currencies to it's not "all the same". But as I said, amazing job with the aesthetics! Keep it up!

Hi! Thanks for the review, I've been trying to figure it out how to progress and make this an idle game with not that common narrative of just endless repetitive progress, and u actually have give me a really good idea! The game right now is just a demo to bring people attention to it, but the official game will have more of lot contents to take away that morbid gameplay that we have right now. About the cosmic things, our upgrades are procedural generated, so it is based in a random selection of words, and after each prestige, u go to a different "era", with cosmic being the first one, it would change wallpapers and things like that, but that was the original idea, now its shifting in a different direction!

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Exactly. I mean, you're going for the nostalgic element, so I'd fully lean into that. Bring back old windows media player, and winamp (maybe it increases productivity while listening to music) and old school applications so people can say "oh! remember when we used that one??". You can ask chatGPT which ones were the most popular applications on Win95.

Solitaire maybe? as a side quest? And you know what would be REALLY SICK? That the player can execute Doom (maybe just as a video or GIF of a gameplay, not the game itself) or another game, and every time the gameplay finishes you add a bonus to something, productivity or enjoyment. Sort of the same you're doing with the Copy-file Window, just play a gif.

Maybe enjoyment as a mechanic, it will decrease over time and you have to play doom or play a video on Windows Media Player to increase it back to green levels, otherwise you'd be penalized with slow productivity.

I know, I'm just brainstorming here, but you can do so much with the base you have that I'm excited to see what you finally come up with.

Anyways, good luck with your project!

I just added doom to the game! Check it out later

Awesome!!