Nebulock

Neat little incremental-lite bullet hell game It reminds me of an arcade game: pretty difficult initially but once you recognize the patterns the game simplifies a little bit. The bullet patterns have some variety and can take some getting used to and even once you know them its fun to dodge between them. It is a bit grindy (that is the incremental part) but I was able to beat hard mode in a few hours. I would have gone quicker if I had higher skill, its probably possible to beat in under an hour if you maximize your farming and upgrade paths. I have tried permadeath yet because I am not quite a glutton for punishment right now, but I will say I wish there was another layer of depth past the upgrades (or I should say, another layer of depth *to* the upgrades). In incremental games its common to have some sort of prestige option where you start over fresh with new things to try out. It seems like it would be a natural progression to have more varied enemy types and greater varieties of blocks and ship designs. For what it is, its a neat little game with a surprising amount of polish. The screenshots do not do it justice, its really quite pretty in motion, and the simple design belies a more detailed design underbelly. This game is three dollars, pretty cheap for the level of quality of game you are getting. I would love to come back to a DLC or something like that for this game. Maybe a round two. Lol.