I don't even know how I stumbled upon this absolute masterpiece!!! I have been playing this non-stop for the past 3 days, leaving it on as I sleep and go to work, thinking about how to optimize the next loop, curious about what new things I will unlock, it's been amazing!! It's all the best parts of cute night/cute knight kingdom, autonauts, and loop hero (all games I love, this is meant to be high high praise), while managing to be less esoteric than them (also a good thing in my book, love that there is a clear goal!). I've been searching for a good idle game and this just hit all the marks perfect for me!!!
Some Bugs I've noticed while playing:
- UI issues, I know you've already seen. I'm so sad about it though since I wasn't able to figure out the Gallery nor the Trial before it happened! And now I can't play (still very fun) (Although I had planned on trying to "interact ;)" with all the monsters and then try it, but cest la vie)
- There is no Scrap in inventory/indication of how much scrap you have? I gave up on fixing the milking machine, building the stall, and making toys until late game and decided to test them again since I never figured out where I got scrap from. Still don't they decide to work sometimes and not others, and I can't tell why.
- Able to use milking machine after like 10% fixed, it did not have to be 100% fixed
- Stall glitched on me a lot, wouldn't let me build without scrap (which it does not state as a requirement in the hover over window) and sometimes I could do the actions without building it every loop; sometimes they would say I needed to build the stall first; and then other OTHER times it would say I need to build a stall first then not let me since I didn't have the scrap but then let me do the actions of the stall
- Scavenge % on Undercity never increased from 0% no matter how much I did it.
- Strip poker started to go into negative numbers and I would lose every time playing once it reached negatives. It also would only decrease when I lost underwear. This action was a little unclear, I read it as I needed to play everyone to be able to then win consistently to collect more underwear that way, but it seemed to be unreliable.
- When making cheese, the milk in inventory would often get stuck as showing one, when it was lower. It also occasionally would show other numbers when it was actually lower, but usually updated after several cheeses, issue at 1 was consistent though.
- Benefit of scavenging at 80% of locations was unclear. Same with the actions "brew potion" at the apothecary,"serve drinks" and "f*** patron" at the strip club, all unclear. Also manicuring the garden.
- Web version vs downloaded version, web version will occasionally pause (reloading the page fixes it), not great for leaving it on for long periods of time (not sure how much this matters)
Personal notes on game:
- I love this a lot, I want to stress how much I love it. The game play, the time loop, the idle ability, the exploration, the great animations and cute art, all of it is fantastic and I have enjoyed this immensely!! (even if I didn't manage to finish it!)
- maybe add a border to the map so you cant just scroll of into infinity on it? I do love the cloud effects to make sure its relatively easy to find, and again, only something some one trying to break the game would test :)
- Ability to pause in the middle of a loop and then pick back up where in the loop it was paused? I don't know a lick about coding, and so don't know how difficult that would be to add, but it was a bit awkward to to have to have an endlessly repeating task at the bottom, realize I have a lot of flux I want to use to test things, and have to add like 20 new skill increasing actions to buffer it while I got the movement set up to do the tests I wanted. I highly suggest looking at autonauts if you haven't already for the way they handle coding characters' actions.
Absolutely fabulous job! I love this and it has been what I have been looking forward to every day this week! Love ya! <3