A Game About Feeding A Black Hole

This game has made me realize something about incremental games: they are the gaming equivalent of a daily cup of coffee. I just need my little incremental fix and then I'm good for a little bit. Sure they're only a few dollars and it seems like a nice treat at the time but then you find yourself lining up every day and they've started to get expensive. Heck, they've become an expense in themselves. The soundtrack is fantastic. No complaints there. I accidentally left the game open while doing other things and just vibed to it. It's really good. The gameplay itself is serviceable. It doesn't do anything new. It's comfortable. It's your daily fix. The one complaint I have is with the skill tree. It's too boring and linear, as if the devs intended you to play it one certain way instead of it being a customizable experience. Want to focus on lightning instead of lasers? Too bad, you upgrade what the game lets you upgrade. The skill tree does look huge but it follows a set path. This seems to be a problem with a lot of the developer's games. In the end you follow the predetermined route the devs want you to follow like you're following GPS instructions, instead of exploring and customizing your experience. Your game shouldn't even have a skill tree if you're just going to do it like that. What interested me the most about it though were the different gameplay types. Only have a few minutes? Try roguelike mode. Want to push yourself? There's a speedrun mode. Don't really care and just want to smash rocks to the amazing soundtrack? Zen mode. The extra modes almost doubled the length of my playtime, and I greatly enjoyed them, especially ones that added entirely new mechanics not present in the main game. More of that part please, devs. I feel like that's your strong suit.