This is an insane amount of content for a week! However, the more content a game has the harder it gets to teach it all to a player in an understandable way. I found that I kept forgetting what a lot of things did after the tutorial and had to click all the buttons to find what I was looking for.
I really tried to beat this game but after 5 attempts of all my buildings instantly being destroyed no matter what I try and upgrade first, I had to quit. My money kept getting stuck at 50k or 100k and was unable to do anything but wait. Maybe I just suck at strategy games since I never play them.
This game has a perfect fitting soundtrack. It is not distracting at all and is actually kind of calming for what is happening lol. The art also isn't terrible. Everything is readable and you can fully understand what everything is without having to take time to think about it. This is exactly what you want with art so good job on that!
Centrifuges are also a unique take on the theme that I have not seen much of. I think you did a good job! I wish you luck with the rest of this rating period!
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Thank you for playing, and gosh I actually feel terrible that you gave it five tries. The tuning is all over the place and it's extremely difficult if one doesn't understand all the systems; and as you've pointed on, the content / tutorialisatation is a balance I haven't gotten right with the amount I shoehorned in.
You essentially have to go full economic, and air defence investment and not touch anything else while you get that developed. Because when you start building other infrastructure including centrifuges, Yankistan thematically would be getting quite uncomfortable at that point and hits you with the full might of the military industrial complex. This is certainly a case where realism is not helpful for the player!
I'm glad you didn't mind my programmer art! It's not really my thing, but I decided to roll with it anyway lol. I'm also happy to hear your like the theme interpretation.
Thank you again for spending so much time with this, I really appreciate it and I'm genuinely apologetic (and unlike your apology to me, this one is justified!), the game is tuned far too hard for the level of understanding needed to complete it easily. There's a lot of lessons in here for me and I'm grateful for your time and wonderful feedback.