Great casual game.

This game had potential to be really good, but too many systems fight against itself.

The perm upgrades are too weak by late game.
The random selector makes you hate having a wider pool of powerups.
Most of the abilities are borderline useless.
But the few combinations that work well suddenly make it feel like it could've been a good game.

The quest system is tacked on and poorly made, and often breaks.
The gold ship is... just why... it's such a bad design with how it was added that it actively broke part of my game to go to it.
The treasure room cutscenes feel out of place and bad.

Several bosses will just use invulnerability to try to sit on you while you can't avoid them easily due to high level dirt being way too tanky.
Which only gets worse when you encounter a boss that doesn't move relative to the world but he obviously moves relative to player position, so when he decides he wants to sit on top of you, you can do literally nothing about it.
The 'escape the acid' section constantly had me dying because of running out of fuel or being stuck on ice shards that were near impossible to avoid while ALSO fleeing the acid at top speed- and that's for the run I managed to have enough damage to fight my way back up at all.
But then even when I cleared it, the game then continues and expects you to go back to the bottom and collect the chest, while at zero fuel.

So many parts of the game felt like they had zero play testing and checking if it actually worked together.
Individual pieces and ideas that worked fine entirely isolated, then slammed together to make a mess that just doesn't work 90% of the time.

same thing over and over, except towards the end it gets increasingly more annoying as the events outpace your upgrades