Fortune Mill

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This is a less of a recommendation and more of a "recommendation with a bunch of qualifiers" because Fortune Mill is a strange game. I have a lot of mixed feelings about it. The game has a slick and colourful presentation, well done animations, pretty good sound design and an intuitive UI. The games themselves are hit-and-miss. They end up sitting in a bit of an awkward place where the later ones start feeling less interactive than the first ones, which ends up making them feel slower and much less memorable. The game's biggest issue is the upgrades, the vast majority are responsible for just increasing drops or giving you more tokens. They don't really feel meaningful compared to something like the Rattling Gunner upgrade, especially for the price tag they will all eventually have. This slows down progress a lot and the game starts to feel like busywork because of this...but only in your first run. New Game + introduces a shop you can use to spec and respec powerful buffs and these cut down the drudgery immensely making the game feel much more dynamic. Being able to respec (with a cooldown of roughly 1 min) meant I had to strategize on what upgrades I was going for and which games needed an income boost. This new layer of strategy was something the game desperately needed. I genuinely had more fun and had a faster run in NG+ than in normal mode because of these buffs, the increased escape requirements were rendered irrelevant very quickly. It's to the point that I see NG+ and up to be the definitive way to play this game. So I guess I recommend this game, if you have the patience for its flaws, slow parts and jank.

Me ha llevado unas 12 horas completarlo y, en general, la experiencia ha sido muy buena. Si te gustan los juegos incrementales, aquí hay una progresión muy satisfactoria. Cada nueva mecánica aporta algo diferente y las sinergias entre las distintas salas hacen que siempre tengas la sensación de estar desbloqueando algo útil. Es de esos juegos en los que empiezas diciendo "cinco minutos más" y, sin darte cuenta, llevas horas jugando. No todo es perfecto. Hay algunos momentos en los que el progreso puede sentirse un poco lento y ciertas mejoras parecen menos interesantes de lo que deberían, pero nunca llegó a hacerse pesado. Por el precio que tiene, me parece una compra muy recomendable. Si disfrutas optimizando recursos, desbloqueando automatizaciones y viendo cómo los números se disparan, Fortune Mill merece la pena.

즉발적인 쾌감을 얻기엔 그 호흡이 길고 시간을 들여 완성하기엔 그 깊이가 얕다

Great fun, and great time waster that is for sure

I am an idle game lover and this is an instant classic, right up there with cookie clicker. Each "soft reset" into a new room is a brand new game and upgrade system, solving the monotony problem in this genre. Even within each of these games are layered subsystems and minigames, all separate from eachother. The recursive and multiplicative upgrades for future rooms is a great way to divide your attention and make you balance playing in earlier rooms to maximize gains in new ones. Seriously one of the most engaging idle games I've ever played

just got all the achievements and i love this game. great time killer. Next up NG++