Sixty Four

I truly don't understand the folks complaining about this game. It's a clicker. But it isn't. And the universe is real. ...but it isn't. (play the game)

Once I got to the dark black cubes that require the annihilation. The screen starts flashing whenever an annihilation happens. I cannot handle the constant screen flashing, it's way too jarring.

Não sei nem como descrever o quão confuso e satisfatório esse jogo é. Basicamente um ambiente branco onde você cria máquinas automáticas para gerar recursos e aplica-los em mais máquinas e por aí vai. Mas tem uma história por trás, bem curiosa e sem te ajudar em nada, a não ser sua própria dedução do que fazer em seguida para continuar os acontecimentos. Confesso que me encontrei travado no jogo varias vezes, o que acaba gerando uma enorme decepção no game, mas é um jogo de geração de recursos, então é necessário paciência.

Poor progression for an idle clicker, great looking game but feels shallow and boring, cringe attempt at a story

I'm confused enough by the negative reviews that I wonder if I even played the same game. Especially the reviews that say you have to click all the time, because you can absolutely automate things while you explore this minimalist world. I feel as though people didn't "get" the game. Did they read the chat? Did they realize that [spoiler] you can store hell gems? [/spoiler] [spoiler] The aspect of one material decaying into another means you have to be clever and can't just blindly produce materials to infinity, which is sort of the point. At first, sure, you click a little. But then you don't need to, and then you can make things more and more efficient until you're just sort of satisfied and it's time to live your life. [/spoiler] I thought the progression was genius, the aesthetic was gorgeous, the discovery of how to play the game was fun, and the sound design was fantastic.

A brilliant game, but you probably need to be in a very specific, slightly broken mental state to appreciate it. Luckily, I was exactly there. It’s not an idle game or a clicker - it’s more like a puzzle game that occasionally forces you to sit with your thoughts and wait. Think Shapez meets Cookie Clicker, but with an existential crisis. The perfect 10/10 game for a rainy evening spent completely alone.

It can be difficult. You need to think, you need to have the ability to do over and put in the manual work of replacing machines where you could use a better setup. It is lulling to keep going on your subpar but still (seemingly) adequate layout, but to rebuild better is truly worth it by leagues. It is the difference between droning in the game achingly for hours, or actively stepping up into progress. The game is at its most engaging when you are mentally figuring out the ways in which to make a setup work, and the little ways a nifty trick here and there pushes you where you need to be. Because of the demanding nature of increasing costs of machines, the focus here is on minimizing, on excessive quality over casual quantity. This is mostly a puzzle game in practice. The game is labelled as strategy but in my head I understand 'puzzle' easier, I guess one thing writing this review has made me realize is that strategy is just a puzzle game in motion. The snippets from the store page had me curious and I wanted to find out what was the meaning behind what I could see. What is that giant cube with the metal tubes, black liquid pouring out, and computer part stuck to it? What does it mean? What are those metal palm trees? Why is there a phone chat in the corner? Glyph dimension?? In terms of answers to these questions.. By the time of nearing the end I had a solid idea of what was happening, even theories (though I did read about it online) for the strange appearance of objects. I don't know how I got there, or why, why some regular casual person is in this place, but maybe I didn't need to know. I guess it adds mystery. The questions sometimes are the meaning, and I think there is a lot of value made in a game being able to make you ask interesting questions. On the other hand, if you aren't aware of what the game [i]is[/i] then it can be a miserable experience, so I can understand the negative reviews that this game has, I get it, I was there for a long while before I finally changed my mentality. I do believe it is hard to grasp what the game is going for, and if you started the game seeking the satisfaction akin of other incremental or factory games, then the blurry expectations make playing the game in that way agonizing. An infinite plane for machines, yet the way forward is not about expansion - in fact, expansion is what limits you. Anyway, get over that barrier and you'll be having a good time. I recommend.

Pretty good simple clicker with some witty mechanics that bring it closer to the factory automation genre.