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Review Time!

This is probably the best game I've played in this Jam so far. A simple, but addictive strategy game about killing bugs and taking over their resources. The mechanics are all intuitive and destroying nests is incredibly satisfying. Since this game is so simple, there isn't really much I can say. The game is just simple, relaxing fun.

I have two critiques, though. I don't think you should be able to die, because avoiding enemies is extremely easy, since they don't follow you at all. So you will always die for a stupid goof across what was basically a breeze. I like the idea of eating your own bugs to recover your health, but when you have so many bugs, it can be abused effortlessly.

I also think that for a simple game like that, it is just SO. LONG. I think twenty to thirty minutes would have been fine for a game like this, but it took me fifty minutes to get a thousand bugs. Because of that, the game ends up not being that replayable. If playing this game for fifty minutes straight taught me anything, is that this simple formula eventually gets old.

Despite all of this, this is a pretty enjoyable experience, and I have to say I would really like to see this worked into a full game! New types of bugs could be added, there could be game modes where bugs try harder to kill the player, and the required time to beat it could be honestly much shorter. I wish you luck with your next works!

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Thank you so much for the detailed review! Yeah we should have highlighted in the tutorial that there's a speed up button which helps a bit with the time issue. But even still, the game could definitely benefit from more depth when the goal is as high as 1000 bugs (like your suggestions of more bug types/more challenging AI).

Thanks for the feedback and glad you enjoyed it :)

There's a speed up button? Good to know, I haven't seen it mentioned anywhere.