Underworld Idle
The long-term progression in this game is fucked. Spending days on a run will give you absolutely pitiful rewards and I swear my only options are spending months slowly progressing and purchasing pitiful rewards that won’t help at all, or I would need to play for months without triggering a reset before I would even have a hope of entering the second faction’s prestige room to see what the upgrades there are like.
Let me elaborate a bit: In a few days, I can get between 150 and 200 ashes before things start getting really slow. To get one more ash, I need to multiply my money amount by ten. In order to get a single bonus at this point in the game, I need anywhere from 500-1000 prestige points (barely better than a 1:1 exchange rate with ashes, but saved between resets), and the bonuses I can purchase with those points tend to have effects on the level of “multiply your production or divide ash costs by a factor of 10-100” meaning I get ONE OR TWO additional ashes for EVERY run of the same length. For those to break even, I would need to do hundreds of runs, all of which take multiple days to complete. If I don’t want to rely on this ridiculous system, I could try to get a different faction’s currency up to a certain point, but every subsequent faction has like a third as many producers available, and the exponential nature of the game means it could take weeks to progress a single tier in their factions. I have literally no idea just how long I would have to wait before I could get to a level where I could even find out what rewards are available for purchase to see if the rewards are worth it in the first place.
– Real player with 1055.8 hrs in game
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TLDR: This is a clicker not an idle game, if this game was named “Underworld Clicker” I would give it a thumbs up, but since it is named “Underworld Idle” and it is not an idle game I can’t recommend this game. If you want a very active clicker game then this is for you, if you are looking for an idle game then look elsewhere.
Long version:
I have played this game for a long time now, I wanted to unlock every feature without any forms of cheats and I feel I did so now. At least every feature that is available at the time of this review.
– Real player with 645.3 hrs in game
One Way: The Elevator
This is a really lovely game which has been created with so much care and attention to detail. The story is quite sad but in the end very uplifting (no pun intended) as you make your way up the elevator and beyond. There’s a lot of mouse clicking to do to find everything you need and to gain all the achievements but I that didn’t put me off at all as I love making sure I’ve not missed anything vital. The game will still complete without achieving everything - which for me, makes it highly re-playable in order to finally find everything and to find the hidden areas which add quite a bit of extra time to the game. I enjoyed all the puzzles and found them very logical but you need to take notes of anything you feel might be significant for some. Other puzzles are mechanical and there is no skip feature - which is perhaps the only flaw in this game. I loved all the characters that you meet along the way and there is much humour, detail and so many little animations that I’m surprised at the price as this must have taken a lot of time to develop. I loved the previous Cotton games but this is my favourite so far and I hope there is a sequel or something very similar in the pipeline as I for one will be buying it without hesitation.
– Real player with 21.8 hrs in game
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What a cute (and a bit sad) game! The art is adorable and the music is relaxing. The story is great and since thee’s no actual verbal dialogue, it can be understood and played by everyone regardless of your language (of course you still have to navigate through the menu and whatnot). The story had a bit of depth to it, and it does leave the player a bit of guesswork in the end, but no matter how you piece together the ending, it’s still really good (although, again it can be a bit sad). The puzzles themselves are mostly easy, I only had a bit of trouble with 2 or 3 of them, but I could eventually figure them out.
– Real player with 7.6 hrs in game