Novivors

The majority of players quits before unlocking world 2, which requires beating world 1, which boils down to grinding for about an hour. In that hour, you'll face very mediocre survivors-like gameplay, way too many menus, mechanics that are basically useless, tooltips that get stuck at your cursor and a shameless socials plug. If you stick around, you'll understand that this is actually an idle game. Gameplay becomes managing some menus after the game auto-played for a couple hours. Numbers grow, but nothing else changes. The final goal is to beat world 5, so that you can unlock world 6, which unlocks the last achievement. There's technically more to the game after that, but it's pretty much nothing you haven't already idled through at that point. There's also some massive performance issues in worlds that spawn 1000 enemies per wave (which is the bestiary or worlds with specific dares), slowing the game down to an actual crawl where each in-game second lasts up to 10 real-time seconds. Conceptualizing the idea of combining the survivors-like and idle genres is an ok start. From there, making the right design decisions could actually result in something nice. Unfortunately,…

This game is an idler first and foremost. You can play it like a Vampire Survivors clone, but the beauty of this title is that you can let it play itself, then spend the collected points/equip new goodies as time allows. That said, it's decent enough if you know what you're buying. Progression is kind of slow (again, it's an idler/auto-battler, not a typical roguelite), but eventually you'll make the screen fill up with flashy skills that bring your FPS to a crawl. Also, if you like sphere grids, hold onto your butts.

is a meh game - idler It is too complicated and slow progress. The UI and performance are literal trash. Not for me.

This game is an idler—to a degree. The systems kind of sneak up on you during the first 10 hours, and hitting “Sell All” early without understanding Support abilities and tools (like I did) is definitely a mistake. That said, there’s a surprisingly deep system here when it comes to gearing up and heading out. It delivers the grind you’d expect from an idler, but there’s more going on under the hood than it first appears. After reading some of the other reviews, I’m a little confused. This isn’t a bad game. There are plenty of QoL improvements that could (and probably should) have been implemented, but aside from that, it’s worth picking up on sale. It’s a solid experience—especially if you’re interested in a game that tries to expand the boundaries of its genre.

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The game's UI is definitely rough, but setting that aside, there are quite a few mechanics and concepts I haven't really seen explored before. Overall, it's very enjoyable. In my opinion, it's much less of a twin-stick shooter and more of an idle game!