Man, this is slow, do we need to wait in real-time for actions to complete? A run is 500 seconds, that's 8 and 1/3rd minutes, and this time is spent to do actions before an army arrives to destroy you. You need to find a solution of some kind first, before that happens, and what you do determines which of 3 endings you get.

But when you spent time to do actions, you have to sit there...and wait...as a progress slider fills in real-time for every second spent. And the actions you can take form a tree, where you generally can't see what actions branch off of any given other action, without completing it first. And some actions will take several minutes to complete, just so you can see if there's anything past it, and if anything past it is helpful. You very well might sit there for 3 minutes, only to discover the next action in the chain takes more time than you have remaining. And if you prestige, you're back at the beginning and would have to wait through the timers all over again. Since time is a resource being spent here, WHY do we have to sit there and wait in real time? This could VERY easily be sped up, with just a couple options, saving the player a lot of waiting and watching a bar go up. And if you were expecting actions to be faster based on your stats, like is the case in many other games that use this formula, typically with permanent stat progress being made between prestiges...sorry to say, but as far as I can tell, that is never the case. You have the stats to do an action, or you don't. And if it says it requires a resource, then the resource is consumed in the amount shown, but stats are not consumed. The player is never told this, I just worked it out.

Let me use my current run I'm doing as I write this as an example of my problems with this game. I'm trying to explore the farther corners of the action flowchart here, and the prestige I got after getting my first ending didn't make actions any faster, only gave me some actions that convert an essence resource into other resources (not helpful at all in the amounts I can actually get right now), so I figured, might as well see what's behind all of these actions that have you grow new parts. This took around 415 seconds of waiting, just about 7 minutes, leaving me with only 85 seconds in the run. And...it reveals an action that gives me "confidence", which can be repeated 1000 times and takes 2 seconds per completion. I have no idea what this stat does, and have not yet seen a use for it. Just to test, I run it until I run out of time, getting 42 completions. Nothing happens or is revealed, and I start a new run with...no progress made. I didn't have enough power to unlock more "essence", you don't keep stats across runs, and you don't even get to keep the actions you saw revealed! So I gained nothing, except the knowledge that that path is a waste of time unless I need "confidence", and even then, I better have around 85-90% of my run left to even get there! ...Was that really worth spending 8 minutes on? And as others have noted, you have to have the tab open. Every time I tab here to write this review, the game stops.

The idea of the game is cool here, it's just had...seemingly no effort put into its playability, and it overall feels rather restrictive, unnecessarily tedious in an extremely avoidable way, and unrewarding in a way that could be very easily solved, if we could so much as see all actions that have been unlocked at some point to navigate more easily! So, despite the fact that I've only gotten one of the 3 endings, I feel confident in giving this game a 3/5, in it's current state. Yes, despite how overall negative this review was, I would still BARELY recommend it. I would NOT recommend completing it, but I would recommend trying it out for a bit, maybe get one ending. It's a neat idea, and I do like the formula, wish we had more good games like it with some more QoL for the player, as discussed here. But I don't think this game is worth completing in it's current state, from what I've played here. This is listed as a demo right now, for reference, so if it does change significantly in the future and I see it come up again, I might review it again at that time...but I won't be actively tracking it.