Idle Spiral

[Game received for free. This is a free to play game.] Recommended: No. The TL;DR: This is not an incremental game about growing the spiral. It starts as that, but is badly balanced, and the spiral becomes trivial. The entire game's focus changes to something unrelated to that spiral, unrelated to the incremental game of "make the radius bigger". The vast majority of the game is a "battle" game, where you are training up to fight nastier and nastier opponents. Early on, the best rewards improve your spiral growth, until the spiral is trivial and unimportant; after that, the best rewards improve your ability to fight. While there is still one major unlock that I have not gotten (there is space for one more entry in the help system, my last entry is for "loot and theory"), it does not change that this game is not about what is on the surface, and what is there ... just feels uninteresting to me. Now for some details. The "increase the spiral" part of the game has several prestige steps. The last of these -- Tornado -- is the major reset; all other progress is reset, and you get about a 2.5% improvement in everything. The target for the first Tornado is 1 billion (e9); each tornado after that is a fixed e3 harder. Yet your growth improves by a percentage with each reset; you can take a partial tornado for a partial percentage growth (without actually gaining the major upgrade for the full reset), to make things easier. And you get all sorts of upgrades along the way to make your growth even easier. Vastly easier. By the time I reached tornado 45, they had become trivial. At 50, I'm not even slowing down when I reach the next tornado. The "spiral" -- the speed of the drawing point grows, and as you get bigger, you become circles rather than spirals -- the faster you rotate around, the faster you grow, and there are a lot of mini-prestiges that improve your stats and speed up that circling until there is no longer a spiral, just a growing circle. Trying to even make interesting patterns becomes pointless/impossible. Again: The difficulty of the major progress reset increases by e3 each time; your growth increases by a minimum of about 2-3% each time, and realistically I have a minimum of +7.5e5%, plus another +6e3%, plus another per-prestige bonus, and that's just to the delta-R; there's another e9% to e10% bonus on all the factors that add up to the delta R, and several other bonuses that increase delta R. So R no longer becomes a challenge. And the entire game is battle, not the advertised "incremental game with drawing pretty patterns as one of the things you can do."