Orb of Creation

oh my god this may be the single best incremental experience there is right now, and to think i played this for free as an itch.io project so long ago, the developer really knows their stuff with making an incremental game about thinking rather than thinking and waiting, and i personally liked the new plant growth system, was so happy to pay for this and have a complete experience that im not even done with yet

I'm torn on this review because i think as far as idlers go this one is juggling some interesting ideas. Rather than like most older idlers this one incentivices an active playstyle and manages to make the player analyse the tools and resources at their disposal to engineer a solution to most efficently get to the next teir which is, when it works, incredibly satisfying. you get theese moments when you cast a new buff and spam spells and watch as your resoursces overflow your supply cap and you spam an insane amount of upgrades. you unlock a new thing and suddenly you got a whole new system to explore and use. NOW as much as that is cool when it works i think this game DOES NOT GO FAR ENOUGH from the genre of idlers. As often as i unlock a new tool and engineer a new solution i'm bogged down in the inflexibillity of it's systems. I think it leeans too heavily on spellcasting and that all the other systems are almost irrelevant. the only one that was really intersting to me was Alchemy and the Rituals and even then they werent nessesarily that engaging. the fact that you simply incrementally grow through upgrades means that things just scale in somewhat uniteresting ways and down't…

[h1]A messy and overcomplicated incremental that doubles as a really great clicker[/h1] Wow, this game has so much stuff. Sadly, way too much of it is pretty useless - either completely or at the moment of unlocking. It's messy, hard to navigate and very easy to become stuck in some kind of bottleneck. A lot of QoL features are missing, e.g. my spellbook was completely clogged with outdated junk by the end of game. And two especially bad gameplay mechanics (Agromancy and Ritual) with a very high capacity to make your play miserable. I don't think I would be able to finish it "as intended". "Not as intended" part for me was actually reading the guide here on Steam. There is a really great one, that teaches correct allocation of limited stuff, like spell selection or advancements. Also with proper explanation of game mechanics, because most of the in-game explanations are worded in such a weird meaningless way it's often outright impossible to understand them. All that knowledge allows effectively skipping all the messy and boring parts of the game and focus on a really great one - [b]clicking[/b]. There's SO many stuff to click, and it will cause SO many different numbers to g…

My kind of incremental - always something to do and figure out the optimization chain. Numbers go up and progression becomes more complicated - it's not just unlock everything you see until the game ends. Thumbs up

Fantastic game if anyone wants a semi-idle idle game. Great feeling when you get an unlock that leads into several unlocks which then leads to back-leveling a ton of other upgrades. Possibly the best idle game I've played so far.

Relatively fun idle game for when you're bored, and it doesnt end too quickly. It's a bit pricey, but It's definetly a good game.