Gemporium: A Cute Mining Sim

Love this game! It's really cute and the initial the looming dread of the amount of debt and the expectation of time management honestly feels kind of overwhelming at first as you get your bearings but its a really fun game once you get the hang of it! Though I would love a patch to help fix where your cursor starts when selling gems, since I have a 2 monitor set up and play games on the left every time I go to the shop to sell gems my cursor actually starts on the edge of the right monitor so the moment I go into the shop I have to click back into the game to start selling. This isn't a huge deal but with an emphasis on trying to make the most out of every moment and trying to watch something on the 2nd monitor it is a little annoying(and funny) that I almost always accidently pause what I'm watching but out of panic tab back into the game to get to selling, and only until I come back to the shop the next day do I accidently unpause it.

First off: this is a very cute indie game. I did enjoy my time with it. However, I do have a couple of things I would feel remiss in not commenting on to future buyers - this is a short experience - there is very little for character interaction. Characters talk at each other, and there's cute scenes, but no narrative choices at all - the UI is. Really rough. I'm not sure if this is the dev's first game or not but I felt like I was fighting the UI half the time. Your place in menus doesn't save, so when you're in the serving customers minigame, you continually have to keep scrolling each time back to your place to get the gem for the next customer. There's no way to see what you have for gems during the nighttime, which isn't part of the timed day. so you have to memorize how much of each gem you have to make decisionsn (like for the bats). There are two ways to format the menu for gems (it's a big list) but neither is really helpful, and I would have really appreciated some filters (filtering out non-refined gems during the selling section, for example) In general, this is a fine game with a few painpoints. I did encounter a few glitches (I think the trigger for the DLC got buried under a bunch of phone calls from the pet rock and I'm unsure if I can even access the DLC, a few lag spikes, etc) I am saying all this with the hope the devs can read it and improve in the future. I don't think it's a bad game, but I will say the devs should look into UI design for the future to avoid a lot of issues.