The Syndicate: Classified Operations

The theme was good and one we don't see often amongst incremental games. The pacing was a little suspect. 2.7 hours to complete the game. Starts off strong, goes into a grind that doesn't really introduce anything new while time gating progress behind events triggering, which felt like it was intentional to drag the total playtime over the two hour refund window. And I get it - I wouldn't want to go to all the trouble of making a game just to have people play it, beat it, and refund it. But also, I didn't go through the trouble to buy a game, to receive 1 hour of game and 1.7 hours of filler. And yes, it's tagged as an idle game, and I'm pretty familiar with the genre. This wasn't really an idle game though, it was an incremental game for an hour, and then an unnecessary idle for an hour and a half, to then complete the game. There's a big upgrade tree, but aside from automation perks nothing particularly game changing in there. Every good upgrade tree will have some +1 to this, +5 to that. But truly fun incremental games will also include some significant, fun, paradigm shifting kinds of upgrades. After finishing this I reflected on the experience for a few hours, and h…

I think it's a little dishonest to say that AI was only used in non-english translations when there's clearly AI in the english version as well, and it's just hard to not notice. Also I thought there was going to be more depth to this game and there's just not... I know it's silly but this is a clicker first and a spy game second... The video and description really sounded like you were actually doing something besides just clicking. No, no you aren't. This is a clicker with a spy theme, that's it. It's just disappointing and not what was promised from the advertising. If it weren't for the AI slop and the overpromise of what this game is, I wouldn't have thumbs downed this game.

Fun minigames built into a generally entertaining incremental game. Bigger number better person.

Really interest style for a incremental game, really nice pacing, really nice art style and it has voice acting, if your someone who likes watching numbers get big and seeing things blip on the screen like myself i got hyper focused on it im sure you'll enjoy it to, and the dev is really nice as well they helped me get to the bottom of an issue i was having and seems very interested in listening to ideas and feedback. Great game over all for an incremental.

A Cold War themed spy idle game is a type of idle game I didn't know I needed, but when I saw this at NextFest I had to give it a shot. Full release feels good so far but I'm only like an hour in at this point. Essentially feels like the demo did which is very polished.