Hey Mist, sorry you had a rough time with the game! As I've mentioned to other reviewers those troublesome carts have a nerf for it's health and speed ready to go for the next update so they shouldn't be able to blow past defenses as easily.

There was an attempt to make fast moving enemies that were supposed to make it less viable to camp at the spawn point like the carts themselves and enemies like the yellow Fasts and the green Diamonds, but it's clear other enemies like the white Ghosts and the blue Jumpers even with their unique movements still get hit pretty badly. I did have an idea where the Ghosts could already start in their Sneak state where they move faster and are invulnerable and the Jumpers could have a starting jump after spawning that moves them further than their usual jumps so they can at least have an attempt to spring ahead defenses right next to the spawn areas.

 One tactic I had in mind to defeat the carts and other fast enemies were the Knife Blocks set by the dishwasher, but I think I had some folks say the Knife Blocks just don't do enough damage and so I'm gonna try to buff them after seeing what exactly is causing them to feel like they don't work that well.

I can make it so that the cart's tutorial box doesn't move with the cart after it's spawned, that can be done in time for the next update!

The "l33t" speak is actually based off of early 2000's songs that replace words  like "to" and "for" with number variants as a sort of flavoring, such as S.F.M.P.'s "Try 2 Luv. U" and Naoki's "Brilliant 2U". The game's UI is inspired by this era as well, often called "Y2K" style. If this kind of flavoring is clearly not favored by players, I'm open to revert it back to "normal english".

There's plenty of core issues with the game that I think I'm starting see more clearly with all of the reviews and playthroughs I've checked out, a lot of feedback has helped for sure and it'll pave the way to shake this game's issues off, so thanks again for your honest input it helps a lot!

Heyo! I really like the idea of allowing the scroll wheel to select an appliance! I'll also look into the rest of these suggestions and critiques. I think for the first level with the tutorials I can try extending the amount of time between the first few rounds to give the player a bit more breathing room to learn how things work. Thank you to Ryan and Nick for trying out the game!!

Yo hythrain! Oh how I waited for this review!!

First things first: Carts are getting nerfed, I totally didn't test them enough LOL Lots of other reviewers have been saying very similar critiques, I'll be doing the impossible and fix those four-wheeled son-of-a-guns.

I can look into making the Knife Blocks better, I definitely wanted them to be viable so I'm all for fixing them up. Do you think it's purely the fact they don't put out enough damage? Do you think they need something interesting like the chance of laying a single pile that's stronger than the rest (like a single pile of red knives acting as a critical hit?), or do you think it's something more mechanical like how long it takes for the knife piles to be put out, etc?

I can also look into rebalancing the HP increase speed as the rounds go on, if it seems like enemies get tougher just a bit too fast I can always tune it easily, no problemo.

I'm so happy to hear you were genuinely hyped to play this... like of all games to be excited for it was Crazy Kitchen, that's... crazy! What an honor, thanks for playing!! 

Aye thanks so much for playing!! Something came up the day you went live so I didn't get the chance to come visit, but I did get to watch the entire playthrough. So happy to hear you had a good time!

I had fun trying to figure out fun ways to keep the maps feeling fresh and got inspired to add scenarios like the different game modes from Bloons TD 6 and the scenarios from strategy games like Roller Coaster Tycoon.

I do have a nerf on the carts on both their HP and their speed ready for the next update, but I also see that having multiple carts spawned in a row is pretty brutal so I'll be changing that so the two are plenty spaced off. If this is still too difficult I can always push the rounds with multiple carts to be later too. Things should feel like they gradually get harder so I'll continue to work on balancing stuff!

Endless mode does technically exist it's just not very obvious atm, if you beat a level and you play it again, it should change the target round to beat text into "record" during gameplay and you'll keep defending until the pantry is out of tasty snacks. I can look into making this more clear!

Thanks again for streaming and reviewing the game!!

Thanks for giving the game a shot! I also noticed that "active" tower defense games aren't too common so I decided to cross that with a character switching game. I can look into seeing what mechanics need a bit more explanation, I'll be looking at others' gameplay footage and see what mechanics players get confused with the most. I haven't heard of Citywars so I gave that a look, seems interesting! Reminds me of games like Dungeon Defenders haha. For the level before the economy stage, I can look into making it a bit easier, like I mentioned before I'll study some other player's playthrough of it to see specifically what's making it so much harder than the last levels, whether it be the track length/design, the general difficulty, etc. Thanks for playing!!

Hey vmeezo! I watched your playthrough of my game, thanks a ton for streaming it, I took some notes to answer a few things mentioned in the stream:

At 1:14:48 the Diamond enemy wasn't regaining it's health for the next layer, which is a glitch, but that has already been fixed and will appear on the next version everyone can play.

At 1:18:00 you talk about how while controlling the Fridge it feels a bit weaker than if you just don't control it, and since the Fridge did get nerfed a few months ago, I can look into slightly buffing it again since I may have overnerfed it (it usually takes a few tries before the balance is perfect haha) The goal is to make sure each main Appliance feels equal and viable to use, just a bit more handy than others in certian situations, so I will look into this!

At 1:19:33 there's mention of the characters not having any animations, I got plans to get the baddies fully animated, so that will be added to the game eventually.

I'm planning on adding effects for things like when the Big Bois explode into 10 Basics at At 1:24:12, I image that it goes "boom" a few times while they're being spawned haha.

The Diamonds like at 1:24:55 do have 3 layers to them, so I have them start slower and get faster each layer, if they feel annoying to fight, I can try making the first 2 layers even slower so it feels a bit more balanced. Maybe I could do something where after breaking the 1st/2nd layer, they pause for a moment before speeding back up again, giving a unique feel to how they traverse the track versus if they were just reskinned Basics (pink guys) that just have more health. I always like the idea of giving each enemy type unique traits, but never with the intention to annoy the player.

I mentioned to Paladin Ecko this already but I have plans to nerf the Cart enemies since they seem to usually get way further than most enemies ever get, even if they're meant to be harder, I think I need to slow them down LOL

Thanks for giving the game a shot, even if you're not the biggest fan of tower defense games, that means a lot to me!