Karma Keepers

Idle & Incremental Lovers recommends Karma Keepers: [i] On one hand, nice art, meaningful upgrades and some of the most original mechanics I've ever seen in an incremental game. On the other hand, a very slow first half and way too much micromanagement. [/i] + The atmosphere and world-building are amazing, and the way they are tied to the game mechanics (based on developing karma and fighting corruption) is great, ultracoherent and pretty creative. + The resource management (balancing generated, extracted and collected faith & generating aether) and economy part is awesome and makes for interesting strategic choices! + Upgrades (both blessings and miracles) really feel impactful and change your way to play the game. + The various type of souls you can summon are all interesting, slowly contribute to the automation of your realm and make you feel like you're growing a community of believers. + The ending is great! - The first half of the game, with very little automation, is spoiled by all the manual micromanagement you have to do in order to progress. Extracting faith from the totem, collecting it, killing invaders, healing your summons... they all feel like a chore. - Prestige (…

A fantastic strategy idle game that hits all the right notes. Building up your economy, automating the kingdom, and managing the divine Reincarnation mechanic to beat the corruption makes for a deeply rewarding loop. Highly recommended if you love watching numbers grow and satisfying incremental progression!

It's fine. Watching your little guys wandering around is kind of fun, and when your cursor size is big enough it's fun to see big swathes of shadows get sent to the Karma Realm at once. In the later parts when the pace picks up it really gets flowing. And the developer is pretty responsive, when I asked for an accessibility feature it was added within a few days of release. That said: It's not an idle game, it's highly active, and even once you have automation set up you're still doing a lot of active play and that never really stops. But the automation is pretty unclear on how to do it and there's very little control over your little guys. When you have 1 totem that's not a big deal, but when you have 8 and half your totems don't have any collectors because they're all packed together on the others, it gets frustrating. Additionally, the prestige mechanic really feels like a trap, by the time you have enough points to get any real benefit from them, you'd be better off just sticking it out to the end of the run. A run is 3ish hours, even spending a bunch of time kind of flailing. I don't feel a need to do another one. So it's fine. I think it's absolutely fine for a five buck …

It's literally a baby game. I played it. Felt like a zombie baby looking at all the colours. I won't 100% because the last achievement is a speedrun. No interest in that. Peace.

I enjoyed the game but finished it in 2.3h without needing to prestige once. I'm left with a feeling of too little, would recommend it if it was an early access or had more content.

Good incremental. Not the linear kind, you constantly make choices that will affect your success. The speedrun achievement requires you to have learned how to play effectively. It's not super hard though.