Open The Gate: Just A Little

Terrible controls, forced farming in a horrendously boring way, strategy is meaningless. A terrible way to set this game up. Not enjoyable, just a pointless empty spam fest where you have to do empty nonsense to hope to progress.

The grinding is excessive and not particularly fun. The game looks cute, but it feels pretty unbalanced. You basically can't get past Level 4 without replaying it over and over dozens of times just to earn enough XP for new skills. It doesn't really feel like you're doing much while playing either... you're mostly just spawning the same keys again and again until you eventually get strong enough to pass the level. I see what the game is trying to do, but it starts to feel repetitive pretty quickly, without really making you feel like you're making meaningful progress.

this game loks like one of my favorite games called epic war 2, but its not like that at all most missions don't give you exp after your first completion. wait though you still have to replay missions to hopefully get better versions of your guys i like that part its cool. but is sucks that i cant progress the skill tree wile i grind. it's an okay game just not for me.

https://youtu.be/0CFAUXlxJoE Fidgety unit placement and a sluggish economy causes stages to start out with large amounts of waiting to do anything.

I am not really sure how to rate this game. In general ist okay. Beside always the same strategies (as far as I played). But its not really click-friendly. The Icons of the Grous are a bit big, so they lay on top of each other or - if you disable the overlay - too far next to each other. If you have bigger elvels and need to zoom out, then they are too tiny to grab them. But since you have only one Icon per kind of Unit anyway I wonder why you should zoom out at all, since one specific strategy is working always. On the other hand it happens very often, that I click on the level up wheel and it tells me, I would not have enough money though I richly have enough. I wish I could split units. Even though it seems like I dont need such "deep" strategic placements. The upgrading stats for the units are also not really intuitive, since it shows up and down scores (red and green), but it dosent tell you from what relation its up or down. You can only manually compare the single scores with the ones of your actual unit. (which leads into complications in levels where you can choose from different finghters but you cant see the actual values of every actual fighter and cant compare.) An…

It's not an amazing game, but cheap and entertaining. Bugs: the upgrade base option is glitchy, many times it doesn't update visually (neither the popup), so it seems like it doesn't work, but you only need to reach the gold for the next not shown) level. When switching between units, the camera often pans. Tower take/retake logic is very glitchy, but only apparent when you intentionally turtle (for kill 10k enemies achievement for ecxample). Oh, and a lot of sounds like level end and dragon abilities still sounds even if you turn down all sound settings. Other inconveniences: you don't get help, like hover screens what unlocked titles, perks and abilities do, or which titles you haven't unlocked yet. The skill tree logic is a mess, you need to figure out the directions on your own and it doesn't help that theoretically unlocked skills doesn't always show. Zooming goes in a scale where either the mouse controls are inconvenient or the pixels hurt your eyes. Also the keyboard control is really awkward. The "kill 10000" enemies achievement takes hours even at max speed and is really stupid. Gameplay flaws: the resurrect skill is overpowered, making any other skill useless in comparis…