While the experience is enjoyable, it also feels unnecessarily long, drawn out and unchanging through the entire experience. The earlygame balance feels wrong as well, with needing to upgrade your capacity many times before you can even get anything else. With a few balance updates, this could be great. For now it's just okay. Edit: It is now 2026, february 10th. The game is good. Balance feels way better. Not having a cap on your resource that you need to slowly upgrade is very freeing, and upgrades base upgrades like water absorption/storage being multiplicative is so, so much better. Early game lasts a few minutes, instead of... Like 15, I think, at time of my last review. Models are also way better, dragon fruit trees no longer make it impossible to see the ground, though one of them did clip weirdly into the worm menu, imposing itself over the item text. Speaking of dragon fruit trees, I did run into a few weird balancing things while planting them. The bomb max upgrade feels... Out of reach for the time where you'd be using them. I bombed my berries and replanted dragon trees with just the 10 max, never needing to spend the 25k for it. Trips to the wizard were quick, but a bit tedious. Really, you'd need to refill your bombs 50~ times for the price to be worth it, juice-wise. Maybe bombs are too cheap, maybe capacity is too expensive, didn't really change my gameplay a lot tbh. On the topic of pricing, water absorption scaled way slower than water capacity, so I kinda just instantly maxed my water on contact with it. Maybe not bad but kinda redundant to have the absorption mechanic by that point. The story is, absolutely, there. Something is happening. Characters are saying things. It's not very developed but dialogue is kinda funny sometimes so it has my pass. Also, the actual ending was pretty cool I do vibe a lot with dark themes in my games. Blood for the blood god! Huh this review kinda just turned into a feedback form. Whoops. original rating: 3 stars new, spicier rating: 5 stars