Auri's Promotion review
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The thing is... this is not an incremental. This is a people management sim, or you can say a colony sim, like Rimworld. You don't just "click and numbers go up".

Fist of all, if an incremental has WASD/arrow keys as controls that's a huge red flag unless somehow it's intentional and the dev REALLY knows what they're doing. You wouldn't call "oxygen not included" or "Rimworld" or "Factorio" incrementals, right? you have to spawn drones or people or colonists, those colonists are assigned to tasks and that progresses the game. It's another type of game, not an incremental. Also, on incrementals you rarely (never?) control the player directly, so it's awkward to move Auri, since once the first elves start working she becomes just a camera control.

Second, the fact that a game "increments" or "has upgrade systems" doesn't make it an incremental. All games increments, all games have progress or upgrades or skilltrees where things go faster, that doesn't make them incrementals.

Third, the whole micromanagement and automation doesn't help the player to let go of the controls, they must actively play the game and spawn more people and assign them to tasks. Generally for incremental games, automation means you don't have to click or play anymore, you can leave it idle or semi-idle and the game plays by themselves.

So, in summary:

-Colony sim -WASD/arrows controls -Automation that doesn't automate anything because you still have to actively play the game and keep setting up new "people/colonists".

So, for me it's a big no. And even as a game to be honest, I found it a bit boring. Probably good enough if you want to play it with your 10 year old nephew for christmas, but I wouldn't recommend it for people 18+

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