Thank you for playing and for the video. I think I see what happened now.
During the breakthrough state, the player is supposed to click the planet core to push the transformation forward, but that interaction clearly was not communicated well enough. So you were not doing anything wrong. The game did not make the next step obvious.
I’m going to improve this in two ways: first, I’ll make the breakthrough prompt clearer so it tells players to click the planet core, and second, I’m adding a failsafe so that if the stage goal has already been reached, the player cannot get stuck there forever if the interaction is missed or the fragments do not merge correctly.
I really appreciate the report and the video. It helped me see that this is both a tutorial/communication issue and a softlock issue.
I tried it again and beat it! I'm just too weak for these 'click, upgrade, repeat' games. ^^ It was a lot of fun. The music is fantastic, though the track is a bit short, it got a little repetitive towards the end, but that doesn't detract from the game at all!
I still encountered that weird behavior (as in the video) in 2/3 of the levels, but by clicking hard enough around the planet, 'Breakthrough' eventually charged up and I could move to the next level. (Btw communication: after a few days rating games, I dont read that much anymore, so maybe it was just me doing it wrong :)...)
I also noticed two small things:
- On one upgrade it says 'Max Level', but the others say 'Level 10 Available' (shouldn't they say Max Level too?). If someone already pointed this out, feel free to ignore! :)
- When you finish the game and press 'Continue', nothing happens. But if you click 'Main Menu', the game actually continues. Even after playing another round, the 'Main Menu' button wouldn't take me back to the menu.
Great job overall! Keep working on it. A game with a very similar vibe just released a day or two ago and it seems to be quite successful right now.
