IDLE_DIRECTIVE

Initially, it's great, but it fails to stick the landing. It's also one of the handful of unique idle games trying something different. The game forces you to prestige and do the same thing again. There's not enough item interaction to make this more interesting. No means to manipulate resources. Only a handful of adjacency bonuses. There's no spice on the meat. The cardinal sin that left me leaving a negative review is the repair timers. You'll have to wait, with no other recourse, to repair the main objective. There's no way to dump resources to speed the timer up. You can reduce the wait time by spending prestige currency. Idle games are not about waiting. They are about reducing the waiting through puzzle-like mechanics and/or resource management. Tasks are fetch-quest tier. Locations are only different in what items they drop, nothing else. Lore is sparse and locked behind "Visit this type of location 20 times." Why not incorporate the lore into quests or unique item drops? Feels like the game has a few bones, a bit of meat, and no spice. You can eat it for a few hours but you'll be starving.

balanced, elegant, fun!

awesome idle game

The game is great! very fun. The only gripe I have is that I really wish there was some way to upgrade the material storage container. 25 is too limiting late-game. Additionally, being able to mirror parts would be nice instead of just rotating. but the storage container limit is far more important. Without it, you can't really idle. Now, that could be helped slightly if you could add a filter to the storages that would hold even if empty. But still... really good game.

One of the best short incremental games I've played in a long while, the tetris inventory is fun to play with and there's a decent selection of builds to play with! Highly recommended if you like incremental games, though fair warning, the game is pretty active in the first two runs!

This is my first negavite review, I think. Main, that sucks. This game is awesome. Awesome idea, the grid is awesome, the action menu reminds be of games I really like. The gameplay loop even isn't bad. The issue is that it has nothing to offer. I've played the demo, it was harder and some content was locked behind the paid version. Had I know that the locked content was bigger capacity and a VERY small prestige tree, I wouldn't have bought it. The goal of the game is to repair terminals. There is no difference between them, all the do is force a prestige, the gameplay stays the same. The traders are the same, the items are the same... If you want to experience the paid version, just play the demo, go to sleep, reset your save when you wake up and do it again 3 times. The prestige bonus is barely noticeable. There is no reason to prestige at all before you reach the terminal of each zone - if anything it actively stops your progress, unless you need some crucial unlock which you more likely than not never have to upgrade again. The traders are also the same. 4 "factions" that have a sentence or two of story, sell useless garbage that you can just find somewhere except the biggest battery. The only difference is a sprite they use. You can get all the items before you even repair the first terminal. The only thing that changes is how fast you get them back later. Again, awesome game. But there is no content to pay for. Just play the demo and pretend it's the full game.

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