This is without a doubt, the worst idle game I've ever played.
This is utterly boring, unrewarding and takes excruciatingly long to get anywhere.
First issue: The cursor is offset by about half an inch. So you have to click things slightly to the right of everything.
I think this could potentially be caused by the fact that I have my cursor set to be bigger so it's easier to see, but the game does not allow for a hardware cursor. But I've only had this issue on very few games, and there's a lot more than that, that don't allow for a hardware cursor, so I'm still blaming the game for this.
In this game you get towers, and you get upgrades for the towers that have a chance to be high quality.... Okay, so that's good, yes? No... Because then you upgrade the towers tier, so if you got lucky and got a legendary, which is extremely rare, that legendary is gone.
It's taking me a long time to get all the achievements, because as well as losing the upgrades when you tier up the tower... you also have a reset mechanic. So you have to prestige (It has no confirm, so be careful if you play the game, that you don't accidentally click the prestige button. It'll do it in a flash, no confirmations) So you have to redo everything, very slowly, all over again.
Then there's XP, to level up and gain tiny bonuses... This is EXTREMELY slow and it will stop progressing completely until you get to a higher wave very quickly. It's an extremely slow drip feed of things that don't actually help you all that much until you have a lot of them.
There's also RNG on this, they can be higher quality, they probably won't be.
Statistics are a separate DLC. It's not an expensive DLC, but this is very anti consumer. You want to know what your critical chance is? Cough up some pennies.
Despite being an idle game, that requires you do very little. You have to unlock automation, it takes a LONG time to unlock it. I'm 37 hours in, I have barely any automation so far.
I instead describe this as an active game that thinks it's an idle game.
The game starts off with clicking to do damage, you get a few upgrades to your click damage... then it stops letting upgrade click damage, it just does a small percentage of your tower damage.... I have an autoclicker and I still can't click enough to be worth a damn. The autoclicker clicks ten times a second. (I can reach higher myself, but not sustainably) So the active part of damaging enemies is useless... But that said, you still have to hold the games hand a lot throughout because unlocking automation for each individual thing takes a hideous amount of time.
Now, you could defend this game and say that it's really cheap... But I'd still be giving this a negative review if it were free. Because this game wastes your time. I know all games are technically a waste of time, but there's a difference between time wasted and time well spent. If time is well spent you come out of the game feeling like you enjoyed yourself, you might even want to play more once you have all the achievements.
Well, I still have achievements to go, and I can tell you that as soon as I get the last one, I'm Alt F4ing outta the game, uninstalling it and categorising it with the rest of the games I put at the bottom of my library as "ZActuallTrash" (Z so it goes down alphabetically)
I hope you have a lovely day, whether you read my review or skipped to the end. <3
