Desktop Defender

I am very, very on the fence about giving this a thumbs up or thumbs down. But at the end of the day, it does do what it says on the tin, so I'm giving it a thumbs up. However, this is a very, very hard recommendation. The good: - It does what it says on the tin! It's a little idle game that shoots little guys as they come in. Progression is on the shorter side, but still satisfying. - Out of all the games like this I've played, this is the easiest to move around the desktop. Usually moving these to where you want them is a *huge* pain. - Some weapon upgrades feel really good to get and watch! The bad: - All the tabs seem, poorly named/arranged to me? I've finally got them all straight as I'm nearing 100% achievement completion. - Speaking of, a minor thing, I don't think the weapons/armory tabs need to be separate. - For a game you're supposed to minimally interact with, having to go into levels to accept every level up reward feels. Tedious. - While some of the weapons do feel like good upgrades, a handful of them feel like downgrades that you farm for the kill achievement with and hope to never see them again. The ugly: - The loot system. Everything about it feels, frustrating. There's no good way to compare it to what you have. Scrolling over what you have seems to show you what it would do if you got another. The balancing on them is, iffy at best. Visually a lot of them are very hard to read, and don't have any consistent theme. (IE, the same upgrade of a higher tier will have two completely unrelated icons with zero similarities) A lot of items seem weirdly overpowered while others have odd trade offs that make them feel horrible to get, especially early on when your loot slots are limited. Speaking of, limited slots feels real bad until you get far enough and then you're getting better loot anyway so the trade offs feel more worth it. But worst of all? There's no simple way to clear loot. You can't do anything to instantly remove one, or a button to sell all of them at once. So want to get rid of all the loot cluttering the screen? Gotta click and sell each one individually. and if you hit the small max amount on screen, you just, don't get anymore. Just, every single thing about this system makes it far more hands on than I'd want for a thing like this. - As I mentioned earlier, you have to individually accept every level up, but what makes this even more infuriating is that it feels like it tries to zip you to your lowest level unlock you need to select. I say *tries*, because it fails to do so every time and is about 10+ levels too high. So every time you need to accept new levels, you also have to scroll up a few pages to get to it. And for a thing that already feels like it should be automatic, it's that much more irritating to do. In the end, I do not think I'll continue with this game any further now that I've given it a long enough shot to nab all the achievements, but it DOES do what it sets out to do well enough. I hope other folks enjoy this more than I did!