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I admit, you got me with the ornatekey site directed from reddit. I solved it by looking at source. What was the intended solution?

It's a nice simple little game. I enjoyed it for a few minutes.

Suggestions:

Adding a "phase" track that shows when you/opponent plays character/support would be helpful, especially as there are cards that trigger on specific phases.

Some symbols on the cards do not scale well, and look very different when the cards are enlarged/small. Consider symbols with less detail, or alternate simplified versions for when the card is shrunk.

The color of the character cards are the most readable part, but AFAIK don't affect game play. While matching lore is cool, consider using color to help the symbols be more readable.

I tried it again. The balance is better, but still very bad.

Bugs:

You can't expand past some point. Clicking to expand to some areas simply doesn't work. This doesn't make any sense. I suspect this was vibe coded.

One cycle, selecting attack brought up an empty screen. The only option was to go to the next phase, ending the attack.

Balance:

I like the idea of being able to use workers to redraw, but the whole thing is incoherent. Things don't scale, cost/price is all over the place., the game falls apart after playing a bit.

Overall:

There's some interesting things here, but it feels like a vibe coded mess.  I expect a obsequious chatbot response from the uploader.

web version is buggy and oddly balanced:

opening chest causes non-stop confetti.

The game is basically over if you have a day without producing food. (which is totally likely given that you don't start with food producing buildings)

Cursed Blown-up Amphibians

Last level was really well done. Great blend of enemies, and balancing. Perfect for what it is.

Thanks for the rules explanation. This explains a lot.

I read a lot of board game rules, and to me, there still seems to be some confusion between "Green card in the deck" and "Green card draws". If I understand correctly, you have 3 Green Steel ledger/Green card draws at the start, and each subsequent turn you gain Green Steel ledger/Green card draws based on unused blue steel (plus unused green steel)?

You start with a pool of 4 green cards in the green card deck, and you can get more via parlor upgrades. I assume this doesn't get you more green steel ledger/ draws.

The carousel seems slightly wonky when you have more "Green Steel ledger" than green cards, but it seems it just shuffles the green discard? This also messes with the blue card that is based on cards in the discard.

As such the benefits to getting more green cards in the green card deck doesn't really increase your ability to build track, just changes the distribution of green card bonuses?

Some parts of the rules I could not figure out from the rulebook:

How much green steel do you get at the start of your turn?

Why would you ever increase the number of green cards?

What is the order of operations when laying track? 

I think the wiki rulebook needs to have more "algorithmic" descriptions of resolving each action.

Otherwise, really neat solo game.

A major bug with worker movement playing on browser with mouse and keyboard.

When you move a worker to a new space and not build anything, I assume when you click on another worker, the old worker should change to "moved" while the next worker should "take focus". Instead, the next worker becomes "moved" while focus is stuck on the first worker.

There's a strange tension with this game. On the one hand, I like how there is a risk/reward tension with plant selection and planting (should I gamble where the fungus will spread? Should I buy the safe lily?)

On the other hand, since it's quite obvious that crystalids have the most point density (puffball surrounded by 4 bells is impractical), so getting a high score boils down to RNG if you get enough crystalids in the market once you can afford them.

I enjoyed this game enough that I grinded until I got a 3x crystalid in shop 4, then I bought nothing but shovels and fertilizers and more crystalids, for a final score of 255 + 10 = 265 high score.

I think this game would function really well as a "roll and write", where everyone gets the same unknown order of plants and garden layout, 

Anyways. Really lovely game, and great execution.

Fun little game to figure out.

12 days first try. 9 days second try

Once each worker digs up about 100$, start buying coffee (around once you hit copper)

AFTER buying upgrades at the end of the day, buy as many coffees as you have workers to get an extra "day".

More resource spawns can sidetrack your miners. Also rock and iron end up being the limiting resource for more dig power.

Me too, lost in the void.

I looked into it and figured it out. It was mostly on my side. If the save game (that triggers on completing the tutorial) fails, when you enter the "real game" it spawns the tutorial box.

Probably a very niche bug, which only triggers for people who won't be able to save their game anyways.

P.S. I really enjoy these historical simulation board-gamey games.

Bug? the final tutorial message box keeps reappearing and preventing me from playing. I'm on the browser version via chrome. 

Edit. Was a problem on my side. Thanks to the dev for looking into it.

Really cool. Games as commentary at its finest.

One question? Can you target auto research after Gen3? it's stuck on autonomous capabilities, and once its maxed, it doesn't do other research.

nice little game. Not sure if bug, but some friends can't seem to be triggered twice in a row. 

I guess it may be triggering a friend that is already triggered, then the friend waves and undoes the trigger.

Really fun game. Neat idea for needing to "flip flop" instead of just att/def growth.

First try: 1347; pickaxe at (26,15), didn't realize double and reverse were pickup consumables, Went into final room with fire, then reversed for win.

Would be fun to try to optimize it. Do you know what the maximum possible score is?

Interesting basic setup, once I understood what was going on, the maze building puzzle was quite interesting, having to build for access to cats, space to dodge, the forced tiles in order.. But also, every round I would build basically the same way... the randomly selected cat doesn't affect my choices at all.

Also, the text is completely unreadable at some resolutions. Paired with how fleeting the cat description and lack of stats, everything is confusing. A easy fix is a encyclopedia of cats and maybe bestiary with stats.

I'm not sure the cause, but I see the issue too. I was basically setting everything to autobuy, then I noticed that there were still popups telling me to upgrade my planets. Clicked through, and indeed, some planets (mills) were not fully upgraded when I had the resources

Agree with the other comments about this having a narrative arc. Great job.

Probably a bug, but building the barrier lets you infinitely "retire" to get more barriers? Although it also seems using the barriers is bad in the long run anyways.

Nice game. Simple fun. Maybe a little map RNG dependent for harder difficulties.

Small bug report: if you spam the pause button, you can quit a game before the tutorial popup ends, and this softlocks the game.

Thanks for the fix, but maybe another issue: the sacrificial temple/quetzcoatl's attack keeps following the target, creating a little swarm but doesn't "land". It's a cool visual, and if it works by doing damage every pass, then that's really cool, but I think it's just bugged.

Great game. Really love how connected all the mechanics are.

I'm not sure, if it's a bug, or I missed something, but enemies that are "killed" by a pyramid can show zero health but not die, and not be target by other towers, and still do damage.

small bug? I can build overhand buildings above empty space (once it has scrolled out from play area). Other than that, great game!

Excellent presentation, fun basic loop. Needs a year counter to let us know the goal is to finish as fast as possible.

Whew, beat it after several tries. 

Great game. The golden fabric mechanic of risk reward made the start interesting. Slowdown doesn't work that well, and I barely used it.

P.S. I never sleep, and I live in your second sock drawer. Pay up.

I really enjoy economy / escalation games. I really like the writing for the roach too.

I managed to get a perfect rating with no retries (after knowing exactly what would show up, and doing a few test runs)!

Two main pieces of feedback:

1. Make your engine deterministic, and not affected by game speed. I find myself having to slow down the game to make sure my towers hit.

2. New game after losing is too easy, and for economy / escalation defense games, when it's too easy, the player can get really sloppy and still win. Decisions no longer matter. I much prefer resetting with no (or very little) carried resources, but better information on upcoming waves.

Great job!

Does your run simply end if the navy cuts off all three islands near the bottom or all four islands near the top?

Interesting game.

Noticed a bug: There's an area around the northeast wall that's buildable, and probably not part of any district. If you build a graveyard there, you can cause the game to crash on turnover.

12 bits. lol

Needs an ending where the dragon notices its hoard is gone, flies out and sees the taxman with the gold and destroys him.

Then it would be a 10/10 experience.

What does leak less oxygen do? The oxygen leak dice (hover view) didn't change after I bought it.

I can never resist anything HoMM3. Nobody has managed to capture that magic since, and we need more people trying. Good luck.

Note: You can dupe units by drag-dropping to open the split unit menu, then clicking on an empty slot to move the unit, then confirming the position in the split unit menu. This was very funny when I met the mirror match.

Really great new take on deckbuilding.

Got 384 on my first try. Is it possible to defeat the giant octopus?

Just wanted to say, this is an amazing piece of art and design. It's just so... elegant.

My one suggestion is maybe a mulligan for the initial draw, or a way to manipulate your initial hand. The reason being, many builds snowball, so a terrible initial hand can lose you the match. Outside of the tournament, and challenge run attempts, I found myself resetting if it didn't get a good starting hand, as this felt faster than playing a middling hand. I sometimes overdid it, and tried to force a semi-rare initial hand. (optimizing the fun out of the game).

P.S. Does the efficient achievement require being in challenge mode vs casual mode?

I respect the vibes, but I was pretty upset when I got blindsided by postage change prices for packages I pre-postaged in storage. 

HOUSES

Nice fun little game.

Noticed a bug? When you purchase buildings when paused, you gain one day of production, while the day counter doesn't go up.

This means, once you get up to ~ 40 units of total production, you can pause the game and keep building without risk of danger.

Just wrinkly enough. Completed game in 20 flips

Everything was perfectly clear, except how the next room is unlocked. I optimized the start, but kept getting stuck on the next buildings not becoming available.

Nice game. Really enjoy the "hold back for better rewards" style upgrades.

Typo report: pop up for first new permit says 300 research points while other places it is 200.

Also, it got really laggy for me too, it persists even after a new permit, when you have high bonuses.

Very cute and well made.

Bug report:

In my current version, the tanks (green vehicles) don't seem to aim correctly.