Loving this as a huge Cookie Clicker fan.
Bit of a shame how quickly cranking becomes utterly useless, adding some more upgrades to cranking to make it worthwhile beyond the first few minutes would we cool. E.g. in Cookie Clicker, upgrades that add a percentage point of CpS to each click keep the clicking relevant throughout the entire game.
Might just be my Playdate, but I find opening and closing the menu by sheathing and unsheathing the crank to be really finicky. Sometimes I need to wait several seconds before getting any response to the input.
EDIT: The above appears to be caused by the magnets in the case interfering with the crank docking detection, when I remove the case it appears to function consistently.
Otherwise a great game, I'm having lots of fun. Beat the first boss and am looking forward to the rest.
