Orb of Creation

Didn't like it at all. Not what I expected or it took too long to get there.

I can understand some of the pushback with the 1.0 release and bad reviews. There are areas that feel more constricted compared to the alpha. I played the alpha version a lot, but stopped for about a year waiting for the 1.0 release. I'll admit, things seemed to drag a bit in 1.0, and I stopped playing after a couple hours, disappointed. A week later, decided to give another shot and am now immersed once again. If this was the version used for alpha, I think the negative reviews would be a lot less. Recommended.

This game took up a lot of my life for a while. I liked it a lot. I never played before 1.0 so the progression change didn't affect how I feel. This game was a great time waster I had it running on my other monitor while working through other things/watching videos and it definitely generated some sweet dopamine juice. The NG+ part was great IMO, I feel like I could have kept going forever if I had more achievements to farm.

I have mixed feelings about this game, which I'll get to. But first a description of what this game is. It's an idle incremental game, in which you are almost never idle. But it doesn't do this in the standard non-idle incremental way of having short sections of gameplay surrounding by upgrades. The game is all upgrades and progress bars, but it uses these in every way concievable to make an experience that is unlike any other. And at it's heart, that experience is great. Now, my mixed feelings. I started playing in version 0.6, and it was a great game that turned sour after ten hours. I'm now playing version 1, and I'm nearly 15 hours in, and compared to 0.6 the game is slower and less directed. Sometimes being less directed is good - there are lots of options about what to focus on, and sometimes being less directed is bad - there isn't a clear way to progress. It also has the issues that for the first hour or so, there's very little choice, but past hour 10 the amount of choice is overwhelming, to the point that the choices begin to lose meaning. I still think it's a great game, I'm just enjoying the moment to moment less, and the hour to hour more.

Скорее нет, чем да. То, что было в первых версиях игры, и то, что сейчас - разные продукты. Раньше было интересно. Сейчас же... как бы так объяснить... Нагромождение кучи элементов внутри элементов внутри элементов за элементами управления. Куча ресурсов, куча улучшений, и им нет конца и края. Ресурсы здесь нужны только лишь для того, чтобы открывать новые ресурсы. Такое ощущение, что нынешняя цель игры - задавить игрока улучшениями и ресурсами. А ради чего это всё? Чтобы что? Игра душит игрока перегруженными возможностями, которые нужны только лишь для открытия новых ресурсов. Цели в игре нет. Всё происходит крайне медленно. Вы ради интереса можете поставить мод, который ускорит ваш прогресс в сотни раз, и всё равно ничего не изменится. Вы как топтались на одном месте, там и будете топтаться, только цифры станут больше.

Much preferred the early access version of the game. 1.0 feels overwhelming with mechanics just there to make you wait such as the garden, even though it's an active incremental game rather than an idle one.

게임은 재밌음. 그런데 인크리멘탈 게임인데 숫자가 높아지면 버그가 걸림 렉이 걸리고 세이브파일이 망가지고 후반에는 게임 설계마저 이상해짐. 제작자가 게임 후반부 스탯들이 어떻게 될지 하나도 예상하지 못한 게 보여진다고 해야하나 그냥 올업적까지 딱 하고 끝내면 딱히 문제는 없음. 그리고 가장 큰 문제는 그 문제를 한 달 넘게 방치 중이라는 거. 패치를 계속 기다려보려 했는데 안 해줘서 부정적 평가를 남기게됐음.