With all its issues I'd still recommend it and I'm looking forward to more updates. Also please add savegame, and mobile support (at least zoom to read the upgrades descriptions). Really fun and polished pixel art game.

All hail the orb and all hail the duck! Very fun incremential game and cool art style, polished gameplay and a lot of interesting things to unlock!

I'm giving it a reluctant upvote mainly because I'm a sucker for looper games and I like parts of what's going on here. I don't like voting for potential, but I'm kinda voting for it's potential. It's simple as described, but it comes from a lineage of games that are fairly complex. I really like the idea of earning a meta currency for upgrades between loops, that's what I consider the strongest part of the game right now. The interface is simple, that's a good place to have simplicity. But I'd like more depths to the dungeons, to the pathing, to the strategy, to the purchases. All the purchases are just basic +% to a thing, nothing really changes the game's mechanics or how you interact with the game, it's just numbers go up. Mid and late game unlocks that give you more opportunities in the lower levels would be cool. (Like unlocking the ability to overlap yourself once so you have more pathing opportunities.) You have two tiers of upgrades and both are just numbers go up. Maybe make that equipment shop basic numbers go up and that second tier of shop more interesting things.

DM if you have better screenshots!!...

I'm going to give this 5/5 stars for the verve and personality of the graphics, sound, and interactions. THAT SAID, I had to bail after 10 minutes or so when the game got stuck after I exited out of full screen. I found the controls challenging using my laptop track pad -- it was never zoomed in a convenient amount, I felt like stuff was continually off screen that I needed to see. On the skill tree, the pop-ups showing what the hovered-over-skill were kept showing up mostly off screen. Challenging! I personally would love some attention to smoothing out the usability of things. Still, it was absolutely delightful to dive into, and I hope this continues to grow!

UI is not very friendly, busy.

Slow, not that interactable. And another idle that stops when not focused...

Just a bad idea, executed poorly.

I love this game!!!! However, I'm not quite sure if it qualifies as 'idle,' especially not early game.

i like a certain type of game-the fun ones (will be updated)...

At the point of this review, not reaaally a game, just the prototype, which is okay. Slow progress, nice visuals. The texts for autoclicker are supposed to be fun but just come out as pedantic. I'd wait to play once it actually has a game progression and features developed.

spectacular. simply the quintessential idle game, this is one of the few games that EVERYONE should play. (the reset function kinda sucks, but we ignore that)

So I'll try to be constructive because you seem to be working on this project for some time now (since 2024?) I think I can understand why your game is getting mostly downvotes. The main problem is presentation. I've played it for a while and the mechanics are solid, you can even say it's fun, but the game is desperately needing a graphic designer. First of all, the game throws you right into the action without a proper tutorial, just a rocky background, some red thing floating (you don't even know if it's you or an enemy you need to defeat) and an overly complicated UI. You figure it out. You have to touch the ui and explore tabs and randomly click buttons to figure out how half of the game works. I'm sure it's super clear and obvious to you because you've been beta testing it for almost 2 years, but the first time a new player comes and it's presented with this, I'm sure they'll just press a few random buttons, get bored and leave. The graphics also are not the best. From that photorealistic backgrouns to the core and the mobs... it doesn't have cohesion, you don't seem to define if you want a realistic look or a cartoony one. I'd definitely team up with an artist if I were you, the mechanics are well made, seriously I see future in this but you definitely need to fix the ui and the graphics. You could try hiring someone on fiverr or find someome who can help you with this. Hope it helps.

I enjoyed this, for a game jam game with a bit more to it, it's really good! I really look forward to how it's turning out :) I'm hoping my game gets similar reception to yours :) Wish of luck to us both! :)

It's barely recommendable at this stage because the UI is too buggy, but the main concept is fun and engaging. Keep in mind some people play games on mobile and you only need to make the camera move by dragging and add zoom (otherwise I can barely read the titles) to make it mobile ready. Right now on mobile I'm stuck on the starting area. Also a short tutorial would be nice, most of the game is pretty intuitive but I couldn't figure out how the hunter tile works (again, mobile and the font is too small to read). I'd recommend it just to know the concept but it needs a lot of polish to become a full game

Letting the dev know that game is currently unplayable on Itch (Chrome if it matters), with error displayed being "Couldn't load project data at path "."" and indication that game's file might be missing or having a...

Nice to have something progressing on the other screen, has neat features. Could do with some more love on the UI but overall enjoying it, dev seems active

I really enjoyed this. Feels like a breath of fresh air compared to all the node buster likes, it's literally just upgrade action upgrade action. But this feels more like an actual game with a story on plot. Also the music was awesome and the art is gorgeous

I can't say I enjoyed this one too much, although not the biggest fan of text based games. It was still good tho!

Fantastic game, just finished a run of it. Took me 12 hours but I really enjoyed it!