Criticality

Gameplay revolves around shooting balls with neutrons, which is just a fancy name for bullets. When balls end up close to one another, they trigger satisfying chain explosions, but your real objective is collecting the experience they leave behind. Every bit of experience fills your level bar, eventually rewarding you with an upgrade point. There is no traditional currency. Instead, upgrades are purchased with upgrade points, and each new level requires more experience than the last. The upgrade tree follows a familiar formula, starting with a single upgrade that branches into several others. While you can see where each path leads, the actual upgrade stays hidden until you unlock the current node. With plenty of branching options, you are free to focus on whatever playstyle suits you best. Unlike most incremental games, every individual upgrade can only be purchased once. The same upgrade can appear elsewhere in the tree, though, so progression is more about gradually improving your overall power than unlocking flashy new abilities. Expect bonuses such as firing more shots per round, extending round duration, increasing your chance to earn double experience, or strengthening the magnet that pulls in experience orbs, which otherwise have to be collected manually. Your main goal is to gather enough experience to reach higher ranks and unlock new stages. Each stage increases the amount of experience you earn from every popped ball, making future runs more rewarding. You can make steady progress through regular gameplay, but sooner or later you will want to prestige to unlock a whole new layer of progression. Prestiging resets all of your purchased upgrades, but any stages you have unlocked remain available, allowing you to jump back into higher experience gains much sooner. In return, you receive a new currency used for permanent upgrades that carry over between runs. These upgrades include higher experience gains, increased prestige currency, an idle mode, and auto collect, letting the game play itself while you simply check in from time to time to spend your upgrade points. The game has a nice sense of progression and keeps introducing new mechanics as you move forward. Later on, you unlock a rocket lab that adds its own offline resource system along with upgrades that feed back into the main game. Eventually, everything builds toward several different endings that require some dedication to reach. Even so, the game respects your time, so seeing everything does not turn into a grind that takes days.

I would not consider this a "short" game by any means, but I would consider it amazing! Took me a whole 24 hours to 100% this stunning incremental and I would do it again just for the story and alternate endings. Well worth the price and the visuals were amazing.

nice game !

Great game, relatively short, and satisfying.

Fun incremental game about nuclear reaction.

Jogo relaxante e fácil de zerar :) recomendo

I had fun. I am a sucker for Inc/Idle games and saw a popular YTer play this one. I did not "100%" it as in all acheivs, but i did get all milestones in games. I like but am confused by the Idle mode. I mostly beat this game while playing, with the few times i stepped outside or did some chores and enabled Idle mode. Other than restarting the run, i didnt see much. But, if you want a "big number get bigger" with out the number... This is a good one! Break atoms which break other atoms... And there is even CHAIN LIGHTNING (though it does not do much really...). Again.. fun enough game. I got my money's worth.