Review is pertaining to the 2.2 version which isn't included in the OP post. Look in the comments for the download link
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The art is alright, but as a clicker game this is hot garbage. It's abundantly clear that there wasn't even an attempt to strike any sort of balance, and some features of the game might as well not exist, in a literal sense. I'll explain why below, but just to get it out of the way: this game gets two points because the art is pretty nice, and that's about all it has going for it.
For those that have played clicker games, you'll likely be familiar with prestige systems: a mechanic where you'll sacrifice all upgrades in a given point generator in order to restart from scratch with a higher multiplier for said generator. In this game, it's simple enough: get a generator to level 500, sacrifice all levels to get a prestige level, and start from zero on that generator. There's a total of 5 prestige levels you can buy for every generator, meaning potentially 6 rounds of upgrading generators from 0 to 500. Doesn't sound too bad, right?
Now here's where things become... questionable. To unlock the last scene in this game, you need 100 septillion point (yeah, you've read that right). However, if you want to upgrade the very first point generator to the first prestige level, you need over 520 septillion points. That's over 5x the amount needed to clear the entire game, just to upgrade the very first point generator to the very first prestige level out of 5.
And some of you may be asking: "So what? Maybe this is just meant for people who want some post-game content and want to keep playing even after they get all scenes". And usually, I'd be with you, but not in this occasion. The issue here is twofold:
- firstly, I decided to start up cheat engine and get those points, just to upgrade the generator and see what happened. So I got it to level 500, sacrificed those levels for prestige level 1, and then leveled the generator back up to around 450; which cost a grand total of about 8 octillion points, or 80 times the amount of points needed to clear the game. The grand reward for all of this? Said generator went from being responsible for 0.0% of my overall passive point generation to... being responsible for 0.0% of my overall passive point generation. Bear in mind, aside from this first generator, every other thing was left untouched. Meaning that everything was at "trying to reach those 100 septillion points to get the last scene" levels. And yet, after investing 80 times as many points after that stage, you're exactly in the same spot you were; this prestige system clearly was never meant to be actually used
- secondly, even before getting into those prestige systems, getting to 100 septillion is an exercise in futility. Reaching the point where leveling up your point generators is no longer worthwhile, you'll be generating about 10 quintillion points per click, and about 20 quintillion points passively per second. That means to get those 100 septillion points, you're gonna need 10 million clicks, 1389 hours, or a combination of both. Now, at this stage you'll basically spend the entire game in fever mode, which should give about a 3.5x bonus to those numbers. Let's round it up to 4x for the sake of the argument, and you end up with a measly 2.5 million clicks or 347.25 hours. I'm sure you see the issue right about now.
Ultimately, the only way to complete this game in practical time is to get a specific special fever mode several times over, which is quite rare to get even once. There are several special fever modes, but the rarest one gives you a multiplier bonus per click that can go all the way up to 17600%. Realistically, you'll be able to get it to about 10000% if you go ham on all 3 mouse buttons (left + right + wheel), which is a neat 100x multiplier. Do this, and you'll get about 20 septillion points. Essentially, this means you'll be doing a gameplay loop of entering fever mode with a couple of clicks, then either clicking to hell and back if you hit the ~3% chance to get the special fever mode you wanted, or wait out the fever timer + the cooldown timer. Repeat until you get 5-6 special fever times, and you've unlocked all scenes. This will take you about 4 hours of staring at the screen as these timers run out over and over.
And then, if you want to, do this process until you've gotten 400-480 special fever times, so you can level 1 prestige your first damn point generator and get it back to around level 450, and be exactly where you were ~320 hours ago.
2/5, because the art is pretty nice. But if you wanted an actual clicker, for the love of god and all that is holy, find some other game