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Also crashing, no lag, 32GB
Save data isn't getting wiped, even keep the xp for the fish, but no gold.
Seemingly levelling up the zone makes it implode, as zone xp is not salvaged.

Good to start, don't like the ending segment of kind of University and beyond
Would also like some more information about what anything actually does

*Also for Growth to not entirely rely on Tax - In real life the money doesn't just disappear if the government doesn't seize it, civilians are still using it to progress - economically, population/welfare, some degree of science in their specific fields etc, and would be military too if allowed

*Addendum - Lost general at one point, was unable to get a new one, all military options were locked from me.
Seems to happen when (particularly on high speed) multiple heads of state die at once, only allowing you to recruit 1 of 2 back.

"30 barracks"
Takes turns to spawn units - 5 turns for a commoner, 3 for a recruit
Turns mean they get stronger. 8 pages of units die, seemingly without killing one enemy.

If someone like her is a good person, they're generally really nice to meet
Unfortunately rare to come across them, and sort of unlikely to know if you did, but often a good time

Milestone perks (40% health, 40 flat damage) helped most, but eventually they are just stronger than you can ever be
Difficulty scaling sounds like a very strange bug

I would have to assume so because I don't believe that would be possible against what I faced, but I also haven't heard of difficulty scaling (of all things) being different across different systems (Windows 11, Chrome, to be clear)

I'd start losing goblins by about the third battle, of course they don't respawn so losing more than 1 per battle means you're weaker than how you went into the fight.
Even with full perks, pyromancers, 30 odd barracks and high level spells - fights quickly became completely one sided (for them) and unwinnable in the traditional sense

You can beat a hard tile if it's lvl 2 adjacent to you - that should give you a boost for a little while, but ultimately can only be beaten with exploits

Could spend 10 minutes debunking this but will simply say - No, they will bend you over, you are a helpless duckling in a cruel and vicious world
You may be able to clear more tiles, but never all

Have you actually finished it yourself to be saying this? Presuming no

Beat the game. With that being said, there is no way you're even remotely beating it with intended methods.

Cost creep is wank, and watchtower vision (which is very very important) should not be gated behind the rng of fossils
Many other things to say, but generally a good game. Needs some love but has potential, good luck

Hey it's very easy to sequence break the game and brick it.
I was stuck on 'explore more planets' for about 200 years in game time before giving up and restarting.

Not too much game
Once it spins fast enough or covers enough area, and you can passively generate energy, it's just free

Interest is a nice mechanic for going endless, but at it's price and strength it will never matter while you're still trying to survive and you're actively spending money to do so

Yeah, kind of not much difficulty, at all, but not sure what there is to do about that

Supplies gave chems (never get rare chems), Scrap gave plates for whatever reason, Tech gave wires

Seems like a pretty bad game?
Next to no clue what just about anything does, weather is meaningless because you can't play around it (staying inside doesn't slow decay, scavenge is too long to take advantage of loot etc) even with airlock this doesn't change
Some wires got randomly eaten at some point? Which is a pain because I both needed them and they're hard to get - didn't make anything, they just went away
No clue what base did, water purifier and food synth seemed to do nothing

No faster than when first starting the game, kind of just a waste of time
If these buildable and features actually did something, I would ask for more tooltips - as it is, genuinely not sure they have a function to begin with

Also when you fullscreen the game, the actual game elements don't adjust to the screen size so it stays tiny and you have to zoom your browser

Until hunger, hadn't even noticed the main kraken itself

Anyway, lot of ghost particles whether that be scrap or fish- I'm not sure if they got collected or if I was robbed of the kill
If you rage too early the screen doesn't zoom out properly
Pretty sure both issues are rage related

Nice little demo, good luck with dev

Could do with less particles, kind of expected the middle pile to move (isn't too interactive elsewise), and a little sad there's no ending or secret upgrade or anything

Shame you can't save the sun, feels like you could get ahead of it's growth and cap it's rate out so that it stops

Quaint little game, froze at one point fairly early on (nothing I particularly did) but yeah, good luck and thanks for putting this little free version out there

Oh boy

- Difficulty ramps too fast for someone who doesn't already know the contents of the game (eg any amount of learning or discovery will quite quickly lead to a lost run)
- If an enemy is sitting on the tower, a villager coming back with a resource doesn't always get credit for depositing a resource before going off to fight. This is really bad with lumberjacks and such where you probably only have one at the time
- Game randomly froze, idk why, before first shield ghost
- Fullscreen would be nice? Itch should have a default option for it but you may want to move the steam plug as the button pops up in the bottom right also
- Rmb to move instead of mmb?
- Still not entirely clear on the balancing but it does seem quite harsh, you don't really have time to ever wait for upgrades, seems to want you to balloon your options, only buy low cost things, but this then loses so much time rolling, offences are lacking (can't build up synergies) and a lot of gathering time is wasted (plus the lost resources mentioned before) *Meteor+training seemed to be the answer, meteor killed last dragon, training mobbed large spider, pretty close to death by spider - Arrows are too expensive
- If going for higher cost upgrades, wheat trade pretty quick starts becoming a hinderance, needing to save up wheat but half your income has gone to gold instead, no way to undo, can't afford to just buy more wheat etc

Using the health cheat, it was still pretty slow and tedious
Imagine it would be miserable without it

Not a good prestige system and scaling (skill cost, lvl up cost) is too harsh

Literally strength! The reason why that isn't just 10 power or +0.01x power is beyond me
Even the things which are perfectly completely set up for it, just do.. nothing
Let alone 'confidence'

Needs balance, prestige generation could be a bit kinder, there's a lot of bullshit dead ends, thought the ghost would be more helpful than he is (such as being able to do two things at once, or saving a copy of your previous queue of actions to do - also a pain that it stops after the first enemy and you have to find the head to restart it), would be good if auto complete had the number of completions/max at the top of the screen

A lot of the stats are just useless? Venom, strength, flight, fear - it gives the wrongful impression there's more to do than there is which is just aggravating and leaves a sour taste, whether post game trying to finish it out or still in the process of exploring chasing down the wings path

Barrier techs being a time sink that is never improved is pretty sad. Perhaps they would not be so bad if we had more prestige resources to spend on things like mana or power but alas that's not the case - aside from future patches, is there any reason to actually restrict our prestige? If this was possibly a one and done before it got so popular, it seems insane to have hundreds and hundreds of prestige levels available, when a 15 or 20 minute run gets you like.. one point, maybe one and a half, if you don't botch it and waste half an hour

Yeah, it's an ok game, needs some work, good luck
Would probably check out chapter 2 but do hope additional content to be more fleshed out than this

Tough game, couldn't get past like 88%, bottom left refuses to submit
(*Up to 97%, still rough. A tiny bit more time or a little less counter aggression and it'd be so much more free)

Could do with fullscreen (itch has a default option for it you should enable), as well as like an upgrade history to see which ones you have and just more information in general if you continue to develop it
Nice time, just wish I could have beaten it (without spending a lot longer to figure out what's going wrong)

- Better to invest in runners more, such as survivability. 'Cost investment is larger' vs 'runners getting more expensive' directly clash with each other. At the point where I feel I have enough materials to supply them, it would be a better purchase for me to dive into lasers to augment falling debris destruction
I haven't tested but I assume the early buy would be competing for space with Runners+ARLTS? Fairly certain that combo would be cheaper and stronger than bulls still, sadly

- Yeet is messy, that's probably the biggest reason. How much it leaves in the air (adding to aggressive reclaiming issue more), how much less efficient it as at collecting. Runners move faster than ore can be thrown, and they throw it over less distance - the travel time of the (yeeted) ore is longer (it feels) than the 'rest time' of the normal runners. If just running back is better (as you say too) then the 'Yeet' aspect of the upgrade, is a downgrade vs just the more capacity. Guzzler does help even things out (at more cost) but imo it's still behind normal runners

Too much air, too many collisions
They pick up twice as much yes.. for the same amount to be collected, meaning it just takes more time. On paper they're better, in practice..
Fully upgraded runners, without Gorilla arms, have in my experience delivered more ore back home faster

Oh boy, so..

- Bulls. Slow, expensive, terrible capacity, horrible throughput. They have no dodge that I could easily see, meaning they're hit by so many objects that their health boost is neglected, their anti air is useless by the point you'd have them and that's if they were free. I would rather buy more runners than ever invest in bulls. I suspect half of this is how many less upgrades they have compared to runners (and again, everything about them is very very expensive for bad value). Then we get to their slow unload, not affected by speed rune or boons as far as could tell, no prestige upgrades for the time being. - They're competing for a nieche which is (much) better filled by a different unit. I had expected them to be complimentary such as shielding or pushing a lot of the ore pile, they do not fit as what they are now

- Guzzler. Airtime, it's present with even normal runners, first 2/3 of their stack gets vacuumed down, last bit feels like it's in low gravity, hung in the air a dozen seconds before finally getting pulled in and removed, let alone Gorilla arms. Most of an ore's lifetime, isn't spent on the ground, or being picked up by a runner - it's just spent falling, either from the mountain, or in collection. Possibly more of the latter.

- Gorilla Arms. 'small CD' would not change anything, if anything it might make it actively worse. The only use of that upgrade is being able to have an empty inventory pretty much at all times. I imagine just about any CD would make it so that after their first throw they fill themselves up and return, nullifying the actual boost of the upgrade. Duration of intangibility sounds fine, but I'd actually be against force for the previous point. It would instead be better to change the *angle* they throw things at, getting you more distance for the same force and not just floating in space. (They also don't need any boost when right beside the Maw) - Perhaps non-collision could be gradual? Eg a long time when level with the floor, a short time at the top of the screen, and include a gradual shift for an item depending on height. Makes it so items near the existing pile get the time they need if they stay low, and objects higher up still have the physics and collisions and hectic nature you want, a 50/50 solution

- Runners. I actually wouldn't want to see Runner speed capped, without any singular upgrade such as Pixie crack or Rhino legs, or even their fanatical gem devotion, their speed would be perfectly reasonable for the stage of the game it takes to get there. I mean hell at least one of them is a prestige only resource and the other takes a lot of development in a different building (if not also a prestige upgrade). Their speed is helpful, compensates for other upgrades increasing their rest time etc, mythril armour and such still reduces their speed (excluding Rune of Speed, which is still fine up until level 50).
I read a handful of comments down before initially posting and I didn't see any remarks about aggressive reclaiming or force in this regard. Quite honestly I can't see how force would affect it in this way. Calamities that constantly jostle the ore around, sure, but no Pickaxe or Ballista or Laser force ejecting ores

Hope it answered what you wanted

Flamers are too soul intensive, bulls feel useless, Guzzler would be good if it had full height coverage at max level (anything that passes the threshold gets collected), still think Gorilla arms is an actively bad upgrade

Runners have a bad habit at higher levels of collecting and running so fast that they tunnel their way under the pile and return to the stash with only half an inventory to the face of their long resting time - perhaps they could be given extended reach later to collect ores which have at some time been resting still but aren't directly on the floor? - particularly worried about this in terms of mythril if it gets reclaimed too

~6M DPM

It's broken, just get a black screen, reloading does nothing
Windows, Chrome

As far as i'm aware pretty much no games on the entirety of Itch do so, engine limitations and browser restrictions etc - only works alt tabbed in downloads, and plenty of indie games don't have downloads

Lowest I had was level 3, in swamp which I don't understand, and again feeding it had no effect. I remain convinced it was broken, and I now have a lvl 60 pet (as well as 'finding' a lvl 1 enemy - also thought at the time, that it was feeding which would've given pet xp, based on what I was seeing)

It wasn't until unlocking Sterling that feed began to work for example, don't even believe I could change the Pet's fight area before that but unsure

Chicken doesn't level? Feeding it does nothing, can't start fighting with it (by itself) if it can't be levelled to start with
Unless this got patched since commenting, it has changed upon unlocking the second pet (200+ levels later)

Game is significantly worse since I last played.
You did not 'fix' "Instant converge meta", you nerfed the whole game.
Instead of 210K a minute and a clear path to climb higher, i'm instead getting like 20K a minute, if you're being generous. There is no gameplay happening in this disgustingly elongated time, and no impending way to make that significantly faster, not for hours. It's disrespectful to peoples time and disengaging. Will not be continuing.

Another nice little game, and appreciate that they're free as well
Wish you continued success with your other works

It's actually still present when both are turned off, a rogue element so to speak

The cost scaling of the minions could be a little kinder (mostly post game, trying to cut down the whole forest and it's 30K for one little guy)
Cool game, nice short experience so thank you for that

And even when you're off making big successful games as i'm sure this will be, another nice little experience would always be looked forward to

Good luck with the game

The thing is though this isn't an arcade machine, you can't just pay to skip the game over, it doesn't even feel like a failure it's far more akin to a tape getting corrupted at the climax - again it's not like you and your lineage were destroyed, there was no finality in it (which there shouldn't be just based on her choice alone), just simply that the divine didn't feel like it and that's it - the forest didn't eat you, your kingdom didn't fall apart to pirates, and the peasantry didn't rise up - you're still there chugging along, it's only that the curtain was pulled on it

Yes I understood that choices can be reversed, this is the only way to even get out of your chronicle, and looked at some alternate text throughout the game.

I believe it's fair to say that most people play these kind of games to live out their own stories. You can't go back and revert something at chapter 3 for better stats (even if you could) because it may drastically affect something later, for example the Dowager surviving and bringing some misguided youths before you leaning more into the Iconoclast arc

'30' is hardly the high mark the game implied for making it through but even so by the start of chapter 7 that may not have been possible for me for I don't even remember why at this point but something tanked my dignity hard, as like a reasonable choice I would have made anyway

I was playing on Normal. I don't mind failure at all, can enjoy a casual playthrough as much as something Kaizo where the world wants you dead.
Again ultimately this is a story game, a player goes through it to experience their story, the consequences of our choices as the character. You cannot just rewind every 5 seconds and pick the most beneficial choice in the moment because then you aren't playing your story, you're either playing someone elses, or just trying to abuse mechanical design. I could abuse a game to shit for the purpose of getting an intended ending, but that's not what anyone is here for
The 'Bad' ending is no ending at all, not even for the character, it's just disconnecting the player for nothing - you say the original allowed you to pay to carry on past it anyway, but at least there would have been that option. It could've been a horrid ending for all I care (in line with the existing game, not original writing just for the sake of it) but it'd still be an ending for the character. A player shouldn't be treated like that in a standalone and dismissing hours

So having run through the game, i'm not entirely sure where more prosperous solutions could have arisen, things were getting better but of course too late. (The choices for my stats and situations simply didn't come up it seems)
Whilst I perhaps may have expected failure of a sort, it was both from a cause I had not expected (a lower ranking trouble) and an entirely unsatisfying ending
The loose threads of my story were not resolved in any way, I was not permitted to hunt my greatest opposition, there was no tying together of any of my activities

Even if the Divine does not decide to come, an epilogue is badly badly needed. Discussing the benefits and failings, fates left undecided - you're asked to invest in characters and then scorned.

I would have said it's a good game. It was interesting, a nice world, a tale I wanted to see through in my own way. And I was denied that.
Simply put it has left rather a bitter taste in my mouth where otherwise I would have been happy to explore the world more. A shame. A real shame.
Not the shame of Seralut. Just a poor bloody disappointing shame.

Would presume not free? Wouldn't been keen to make an account regardless but good to know it's an option

Obviously there's like nothing here to comment on
But at the very least there is zero need for all the dead space on the display (centralise visual assets) and speed things up for now, it's just wasting and disrespecting people's time

It feels a little bullshit that you can immediately be neutered
They always go second to you and if they have spikes that is a very large advantage, always preferable to going first