Recent reviews by Zax

Well... where to start. After beating the game not just once but twice in around 1.5 years I can assure this is one of the best idle/incremental games we have. You have multiple prestige systems, various currencies with dependencies between each other, huge playtime even if you're actively playing the game (around 280~ hours if you know what you're doing wayy more if you just idle which works for almost all parts of the game). Then we have many achievements with actual purpose, sometimes a small meme, sometimes a reference to something. Almost everything is decently explained in game. You can beat the game without any help.
If you need help, there's the discord of said game with plenty of people willing to give you hints/full guides.
Besides the various prestige layers and "stages" the discord likes to call it almost all of them play vastly different and because of this you'll never be bored (besides some waiting sections and yes there' some of those as well). The mid/endgame is very complicated let's not ignore that. However that does not impede you in any way to figure out the solution on your own. It feels always like a small puzzle and they're well designed overall.
The UI is incredible, probably the best I've seen from any idle/incremental games so far. Various options to customize and change the interface. The game itself has a mobile version and their saves are not crossplatform afaik. They both have the same content mind you and you can import the save to mobile/ back to pc if you want to do so.
Now to some criticism: I didn't like some sections of the game I'd say around 10% felt difficult to grasp on what to do to clear certain puzzles. Some solutions/ideas are not easy to grasp at all. In my honest opinion, very few challenges are without testing or fully understanding the innerworkings e.g. the math how things are being calculated not explainable at all/why this specific answer is actually the solution. Mind you: You dont have to calculate here anything, it's about their relation to one another and how they interact with each other in correspondence to the goal you're trying to achieve, that's the difficult part. To say some challenges are like complex machiney where you have to adjust some values in order to get the desired result would be a fitting example.
If you like idle/incremental games or you just want to explore something new give it a try. The first hour or so
before "the big wall" (if you know you), is not interresting at all. After that the game opens up very quickly and you'll have a much better idea on what to do from there on out.
Honestly a 10/10 game should've been the GOTY for this year but it's ancient considering the release date of the late 2010s

Probably one of the best games I've ever played and I'm not an FPS guy.
High skill ceiling and plenty of stuff to collect.
Dialog is not the best but gameplay just makes it still soo much better.
The music is just *chef's kiss*.
Steam achievements are decently difficult and not as grindy as some optional stuff ingame (dev medals, that dev did their testing).
Overall amazing game and would recommend any player.

Come on, this has to get GOTY. We can't let a DLC get GAME of the year. Honestly the best game we got this year, there's just no competition especially for a solodev project.

Honestly shouldn't be free considering how good it is.
There's really nothing to complain about. As long as you like something like Vampire Survivors/Vtubers, this is your game.
Been playing since 0.4 and do not regret any second of it.
There's some base management (came with the steam release/0.6) and the usual gameplay of these games. Not as bullet hell heavy as it could get in my opinion but I've not finished every stage atm, am at stage 3 hard.
Everything like items skills etc. is a reference to something from the idol group which is amazing. All characters feel unique to play with due to kit differences.
Best addition of 0.6 is fishing hands down lmao
definitely give it a try if you're into vtubers/like vampire survivors
one of the best games I've played this year and it's FREE

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If you like fast paced combat, where you can play as aggressive as you want, this is your game. When you fail to play aggressive it's going to punish you into oblivion, and maybe even into Skyrim, but it's really fun, when you just annihilate all opponents, while being a badass ninja. The stealth mechanic is pretty cool and can help you, if you suck at a boss or in general, when you're walking through some areas.

Just don't.