Yeah, the music reminds me of Amiga and the colour palette looks like it could have been copied from Chaos Engine or something.Playing the demo at the moment. Starting the game instantly felt like good old amiga times, where you didnt know what to expect from a game, there were lots of new ideas, like this game which has gameplay which hasnt been done (at least not combined into something unique) before.
Of course i love retro games and the graphic style as well as the music.
Also the game is really easy to pick up (but hard to master?), so there is that.
You can actually edit variables.ini and change game_speed. 120 is good.Sure, ideally you'd be able to speed up by about 16x or 32x, but get an auto-stop when you get cards that are not duplicates of cards already on hand. (Gear probably doesn't even need that)
The power of media in a world of brainless masses. This game isn't beautiful, innovative or even great at anything. It's a little autobattle game that belongs more to something you code in a couple weeks to upload on a flash game site or a mobile phone app, but it got advertised and a couple somewhat known streamers picked it up and people without power to make decisions for themselves will buy it.
In any case, good for them, and grats on their success.
Uh, who do you think decided they would buy it? Because that sounds like a great marketing strategy.…and people without power to make decisions for themselves will buy it.
Been playing RPGs since the late 80s and everything since. I uninstalled the demo less than 10 mins after trying it. I don't see the hype. I liked Slay the Spire and a couple others too.
IMO if you're interested, play the demo for an hour or two - and you've seen the core game and enough of the "content."
Uh, who do you think decided they would buy it? Because that sounds like a great marketing strategy.
I really don't understand the attraction of the game, even in the abstract. The core loop is watching something happen with terrible graphics I'm not even going to call 'retro'.
Not sure why this game gets a lot of hate but like "Valheim" I think it's just popular right now to bash anything that's popular.
Nah it's just that anything that's popular is usually shit. Just look at music nowadays.
I think you just explained some of the hate. A game that almost plays itself, that you can "drone out" to, that serves its purpose, I guess, but it can be grating to see something that's essentially a dopamine drip be a lot more successful than games that you have to be awake to play.