Idle Aqua Driller

The game needs balancing, its way too easy. The game is also very laggy (for me at least) The game is short, I completed all achieves in no time. In its current state I do not recommend, but I will update review once there has been updates.

I picked this up for $3.50, but the experience is far too short for that price point. I usually expect at least one hour of gameplay per dollar spent, and this falls well short of that mark. To make matters worse, as soon as you open it up, the system instantly hands you 7 achievements. Getting 1 for booting up is fine, but seven is ridiculous. Achievements should be earned through actual gameplay, not just given away. There is also a frustrating lack of basic options in the settings menu. You cannot change any graphics settings at all, which seems to cause severe optimization issues. My CPU temperature was hovering between 90 and 95 degrees while playing, which is unreasonable. Additionally, there is no way to toggle off the screen shake effect, which gets annoying very quickly. The core progression mechanics are tedious. You have to manage 30 different decks, and each one has a max level of 800, but there is no option to buy upgrades in bulk. There is a skill you can unlock that automatically buys the cheapest deck every 2 seconds, but that is painfully slow when you need to buy hundreds of levels. The defense mechanics feel broken or unfinished. You are supposed to build turr…

Idle Aqua Driller isn't really a proper game, it's just a lazy 2D browser/Flash-tier "number incrementer" game where the object of the game is to increase the in-game currency by clicking, and sometimes buying things that increase the rate at which your currency/score goes up. It's an incredibly shallow game loop, to the point you might as well just run a program that does "i=i+1; print i" and watch the numbers go up automatically, and just watch it. You'd get the exact same outcome. If this sounds completely mindless, you're not wrong. I guess that should be qualified... I've seen far worse idler/incrementers. This one is at least themed and has some (very poor quality) animations for you to watch while the numbers go up. There's a progression tree but it's not really that meaningful. There's a "defense" angle that's far less engaging than you might thing. For Achievement fans, while you can get all the achievements for this with almost no effort, they don't count towards your profile because the game is Profile Features Limited. There's not much here for serious gamers, the incrementer progression is boring after 5 minutes and repetition sets in fast. And while you're …

easy to 100% it start lagging after a while and there is no multiple buy options which makes the game kinda annoying after the first 20 minutes. please add an option to remove numbers and coins/sprites so the game runs smoother. for me as i bought it from a bundle the "price" was ok... so no complains here.