Orc Incremental

Lovely Game, Enjoying it quite abit and don´t get the downvote wrong. I want the Game to be better, but if the reviews are 90%+ positive, they might think its already perfect. Aka it has to be said: The balancing is very very undercooked! There is 1 unit that literally 50% of all your upgrades gets funneled into and the rest just starts feeling worthless the moment you figure it out. Like, even trying with later upgrades/meta, pretty much going all-in on upgrades for everything but the one, said Unit still dominates being 10x faster better stronger. I mean i get it, the game is called "Orc" incremental, but damn, i wish there was a lil bit of opportunity with different builds. There´s so many different units, but if the most basic orc is literally 10x better than the most legendary Dragon imaginable while costing only 1/3 of the unit cap..there´s something wrong.

As far as incremental / idle games go, there is nothing to this game. You've experienced everything the game has to offer in about an hour. Most upgrades are just flat % damage or HP increases, nothing exciting. The summoning RNG will brick entire runs because of the design that summoning units gets exponentially more expensive, but the balance is so awful that if you aren't getting certain units your run is chopped. There are so many useless totems and units, and maybe only 2 or 3 useful ones. You'll unlock all of the units within a few hours, which feels terrible (nothing to progress towards and no meaningful power gains) but also the early units are easily the best in the game so the game gets worse the more you unlock because it dilutes the summoning pool. This is really bad design because you cannot avoid the unlocks, it's tied to level progression. Now, for under $10 CDN it's a good way to blow an afternoon or two, but the game is so shallow I can't imagine playing longer than that.

Gotta agree with many other reviews - you experience all the game has to offer within the first hour. The longer you play, the worse it gets, because your card pool gets diluted by useless totems. [h1]No balance[/h1] The balance here is all out of whack. Upgrades cost a fortune but barely move the needle. After 200 waves, some ally units have 22 kills while others have 2800. Card RNG is so bad that you are looking for a "banish" button. Everything grows stupid expensive for the same tiny gains. I wish the developer would remove all the "base +%" upgrades and replace them with "total +%", because multiplicative upgrades on the [b]final[/b] numbers are the only thing that can save the lackluster progression. [h1]Skill tree[/h1] The skill tree is impressively large at first sight, until you realize that each node is a binary 0/1. Normally, you'd see one node grow more expensive to grind its levels up. But here, the same node is placed in multiple nonsensical paths, so you end up with a +gold upgrade mixed in between +shaman damages. And even the final, most expensive upgrades, only give you +10% to the base values. What a weird design. [h1]Heroes are dead[/h1] Your "chieftain" units are almost completely useless. There are some that unlock fun mechanics (domino effect connecting 5 enemies, or a poison cloud at the clicked point), but most of them only work centered at the chieftain's sprite. The chieftain is so weak that he doesn't even survive running up to the enemy. So you can't use the freezing or blast skills. [h1]Grid[/h1] There's a mechanic of arranging your units on a grid, but it doesn't really matter - your allies run to the center anyway to attack the enemies there. On levels where it truly matters, e.g. where a proper placement would let you avoid a beam attack, the boss uses his big succ to pull everyone to the center anyway. So what's the point of this? [h1]Player to the rescue?[/h1] The only thing you can actively do is shoot weak fireballs from the left side of the screen. They are awfully slow, their upgrades are super expensive (obviously), and the only way to make them useful is to use a rapid fire spell that takes ages to refresh. In an idle game, manual input from the player should be much more powerful, otherwise there's even less incentive to interact with the game's window. [h1]Ehhh[/h1] Disappointing. They may try with more balance upgrades - there have been a few now - but I feel the game is just destined to be boring after one hour. Numbers go up, very slowly, and you can buy one upgrade every once in a while, so the numbers go up 1% faster. Are you okay with this kind of gameplay?

The ultimate "comfort game." Put on some music, sit back, draft some orcs, and watch them smash things. 8 out of 10.

Really enjoying this so far. The art style is super neat, the army building has more going on than I expected, and this thing is... well it's addictive as hell. There’s something deeply satisfying about drafting increasingly nasty little orcs, messing with your formation, and watching them mulch whatever is in front of them. Then you hit a wall, rearrange your crew, grab some new units, and convince yourself you’ve FINALLY built the perfect green murder machine. Also, the handmade art gives the game a ton of personality. Orcs good. Gold go up. Brain happy.

I mean it's fine. My biggest gripe is the lack of early support for new units with all of the upgrades being funneled into the base orc while also having a slow progression. Each each rebirth feels like a coinflip. If you hit a good core unit and comp, then you could progress at a reasonable pace. Otherwise if you miss then turn the game off for offline progress to make up for your luck. As for the upgrades, when you have a unit you want to play around like dragons or god forbid assassins, their specific upgrades are locked around a steep price. With the price of rolling for units increasing exponentially you are left scrambling for fodder early punishing future endeavors, while putting being unable to get unit specific upgrades till much later on in a run.

For any veteran of the incremental genre, I think this one is a skip unfortunately. After 4 hours, the game seems to be the type where you simply buy the least expensive upgrade, then wait if you aren't strong enough yet. Rebirth, buy the least expensive rebirth upgrades, then repeat. If there is variety, it takes too long to unfold. Balance is bad between units and "totems" which are unit buffs. There's a half-baked "gacha" mechanic to pull for units, which attempts to incorporate pick-3 roguelike elements into each run but just feels bad.

Absolute banger of a game. The progression loop is incredibly satisfying.

Ну так себе реализованный идлер. Можно было визуал и получше сделать. Из оригинального то, что толпа твоих войск бежит на толпу врагов. У кого остался живой солдат, тот и победил. Обычно такие игры ограничиваются отрядом героев против жиденькими волнами наступающих врагов. А тут орда на орду. Вот, собственно и всё что есть сказать об этой игре. Цена слишком завышена для такого качества.