Cauldron

Amazing game with a cute story and incredibly satisfying progression

very cute, expansive and love accessibility options. thank you for your hard work on the game! personally treated it like an idler and got the satisfaction I wanted out of the game but it offers versatile game modes and aspects. Lots to customize in terms of game mode. Only aspect that left me unsatisfied was the characters felt a little flat in the initial playthrough.

Hidden gem unearthed thanks to SteamDB that looks cute, has a mixture of genres, fun lil characters, super satisfying incremental progression that's not 2 hours long like most incremental games, offers lots of upgrades that spike as you put in enough time and finish different playthroughs, keeping things exciting and worthwhile for the entire ride. Just try the demo, it took me 6 hours to complete. Fantastic, unmatched bar for a demo, and a proper way of introducing a player to the gameplay loop without setting up false expectations. The full game has more grind (with there being 6 game mods that you complete on one profile), more unlocks, more spikes that make the score multipliers skyrocket, some battles in which you actually have to think about the team compositions to win. There are also wholesome skits and story bits, although once you unlock all of them in a couple of playthroughs - all that's left is the short dialogue in different endings. Still very nice, makes the game even more interesting. Is that a JRPG I'm playing all of a sudden? And now we're in a completely idle mode? Now we're strategizing around elemental affinities and item builds? Sweet, much needed changes of pace, so much variety while keeping it simple and digestible. Also, 56 hours is insane for incremental standards, end of story. Even if the 2 hours you spend in some top active incremental might be great, and let's even grant that it can have way more satisfying progression than Cauldron does, the amount of achievements to grind and boxes to check in this game is massive for the standards, and it's a great ride through and through, which FOR THIS PRICE??? - Incredible. What a steal, holy There's an upcoming spinoff as well, I'm almost fully convinced that it's gonna just be more good time. It's getting promoted to the top 10 position in my wishlist for sure.

TLDR: Mixed review, recommended for the dev's effort, but second thoughts are advised. 6/10 incremental game that's actually more creative than dopamine-slop but has some rough edges. The game is creative to combine multiple minigames with a somewhat interesting team-building rpg together with an incremental idler formula. However all the minigames kick start too slowly before you got at least a few upgrades and will feel sluggish at the first few minutes of play. The turn-based battle is interesting but at some point it gets really repetitive, and the games knows itself well enough to introduce automated team-building and auto-battle pretty early on. Beating the game for the first time takes roughly 15 hours, then there are 5 more challenge game modes, and 100% achievements takes roughly short of 40 hours with mostly idle time in the end. Unfortunately in my opinion the extra game modes are basically some artificial requirements for more idling and hardly present any new content nor challenges. Everything past the initial 20 hours are purely repeated chores. Some other caveats: 1. No autoskip watched cutscene. 2. No instant dialogues text. 3. Awkward overworld control: Can't interact with stuff while on broom, can't immediately ride broom after dialogues or interactions. 4. Idle income has a storage limit that requires you to come back and manually upgrade the said limit from time to time. Some suggestions: 1. Auto-skip (watched) dialogue 2. Auto equip after unlocking items 3. Auto-purchase minigame upgrades 4. Automatic cauldron upgrade

Conseguí todos los logros y solo puedo decir que es un juegazo, el concepto de tener perfiles en los cuales cada partida que hay puedan mejorarse entre sí, es una idea muy buena, recomiendo mil veces este juego, un incremental que se sale de lo común e innova, jueguenlo y conprenlo

Very cute incremental game, fun rpg mechanics, and definitely great for casual players. The 100% isn't very difficult (although the last few grinding achievements are annoying,) and I think the skits/story could've been expanded on a bit more, and the ending [spoiler]"it was all a dream always feels incredibly disappointing, but Cauldron does it in a slightly better way? Most "it was all a dream" ends up negating the journey, making it feel pointless, This was done in a more elegant way, but it still feels a little bad.[/spoiler] Overall, a wonderful game, absolutely recommend, and I hope we get more games within this universe, because the world building and character development that IS there, is quite nice.

This game is the king of all incremental games. If you like that style of game, then this is a must own. Only downside is that you won't find anything else like it.