You Must Become A Lich

Coin pusher game. My first thought was repetition (boring). I was wrong. This game is quite fun.

The game is fun enough if you're a fan of coin pushers. Theres very little depth though, so basically all actions you take just affect the rate at which you inevitably win. If there were more coin pusher games out there this wouldn't be worth talking about, but as it is its one of the only games in this style at all so it has to get a pass if you like them.

Somehow the most addicting game I've played in a while. Although I wish you had desire to continue the project I understand leaving it as is and I respect that. 10/10

I streamed this game for this review. The link will be below. Overall, I think this game is a fun little experience to pass some time and leave you satisfied, but it's not without a few flaws. You Must Become A Lich blends an addicting coin-pusher arcade game with some pretty middling RPG/RTS (not really?) mechanics. The game is definitely most exciting doing the coin pushing stuff; waiting for that big load when you cause an avalanche of coins to fall into the receptacle is a gratifying experience. For sure, this is the funnest part of the game. However, the purpose of the coin pusher stuff serves an RPG and “army management” system. Players will use their coins to feed a chest that will reward the player with a random monster part which can be used to build your undead army. Unfortunately combat is just a number check. You will stand next to the enemy and wait for one of the pools to drain. If your pool is bigger than theirs, you win. There is no thought. This is fine, honestly. It might be nice if your Lich could assist by maybe casting buffs or flinging a few spells to give the player more agency in combat, but I don't see it as necessary for this game as it is a pretty casual and easy going game. What would benefit the game, however, would be speeding up this combat, as there is nearly a second of wait time between each attack. These 2 parts of the game often feel disconnected from each other. The coin pusher feeds into the combat mechanic, but the combat mechanic rarely feeds back into the coin pusher in any meaningful way. There are even coin pusher boss battles but you don't use your army to fight the boss! What a waste. What might help this is if each monster part had some sort of minor passive buff that affects the coin-pusher stage, and bringing your monster army into a coin-pusher stage would impart their benefits on the stage. Speaking of, The monster parts aren't exactly exciting rewards. With monsters being expendable and guaranteed to die, getting a rare monster part just doesn't seem worthwhile as a reward. Perhaps if there was a way to heal monsters or if there was more skill involved to reduce the overall damage monsters take it wouldn't feel so worthless. Regardless, I think more permanent rewards are most exciting (or resources which can be put towards permanent rewards). The game is fairly simple, so while it might not seem necessary to include explicit information, I really think it would benefit the game a lot. A lot of the game systems are never explained or only explained in brief. The game has no story, and I don't think it really needs something deep, but at least it would motivate the player to keep pushing forward instead of feeling like you are doing things cause “why not?” Some things do get a description, but often the text only appears on screen for a very brief moment and is often in the corner with nothing drawing your eyes to it, so it's very easy to miss information like the aforementioned town buildings increasing army size. If you'd like to watch my experience with the game, I've linked the archive below. You can click the timestamps to jump to when I start playing. https://www.youtube.com/live/K3iW1k9tX2Y?si=cFYn-DP3UUp1TCat

It was a fun, short, simple and easy game. There is not a ton of content here but it is worth a few bucks to pass the time.

when i open the game i cant full screen it and it has only the part where you throw the coins, nothing els. as i saw in other videos and trailer, there is more this game suppose to offer