NGU INDUSTRIES
Over 100 hours spent, and while mostly enjoyed it, I’ve reached my limit of endless map adjustments and placements and replacements and nudging just to finally get positive balance. Until you buy your next upgrade … and boom. I just spent almost half an hour tweaking two maps to get positive flow for generating t1 & t2 flesh juices. After 10 minutes of enjoying zen equilibrium, I bought two upgrades and watched it all fall apart. Spent another 15 minutes to get things back into balance, but not before being forced into reducing the t1 & t2 income rates. What was the point of buying these upgrades then? Are they not supposed to improve things. Sigh.
– Real player with 2737.9 hrs in game
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So the game is in early access but I’m operating under the principle that that should not be treated as immunity from criticism. As it stands NGU industries has foundational flaws that make it less playable than NGU-IDLE that are unlikely to be resolved unless the game loop is significantly reworked, hence it’s a thumbs down from me. At the end of the day the game is free so you don’t have much to lose by trying it out but unless you’re crazy into Idle games I wouldn’t recommend it.
My main issue with the game is that the feedback loop is cyclic. Every feature is driven by resources you must grind from your factories (with the exception of BDSM), the main feature of the game, and every subsequent feature & upgrade you can unlock increases the production of these factories. To me this make the game quickly feel pointless, there are no real decisions for me to make other than what ratio I want to grind resources in and no mystery in what I might unlock since I know it all leads to more production. In some cases there are 1-2 extra steps in the loop “obtain resources - obtain resources faster”, for example arranging your beacons and factories in a way that optimizes production. This gives the game some much needed depth but it’s not enough. In the case of beacons I would argue that past the fifth time you balance your supply chain the process gradually starts to become infuriating (every upgrade you obtain will mess up your supply chain, with a knock-on effect on every downstream resource so you end up fiddling your factories constantly, never feeling like it’s worth it to optimize). If you’ve done it ten times you’ve done it 100, It’s just busy work and not all that well incentivised when the “reward” is that you’ll do it all over again when you can afford your next upgrade.
– Real player with 2066.7 hrs in game
Drunk Soccer is the Best Soccer
Great game, love it.
It did what it had to do, felt pretty drunk after playing it one hour. I got a headache and I feel kind a sick…
It changed my life. If I want to miss out work now I just play this game and get sick so I don’t have to pretend to be.
31/10 I would recommend buying this triple a title
– Real player with 1.1 hrs in game
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This is the best football game ever made.
– Real player with 0.7 hrs in game
MyHouseMyRules
It’s a fun game. I love the developer’s authoring approach, it’s really fun. 10/10
– Real player with 0.7 hrs in game
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I don’t know if I really totally recommend this. It was pretty scary and gave me quite a few jump scares. It was also pretty funny as well in the beginning. Towards the end it gave some homophobic jokes and also just the translation to English kinda got lost. Overall if you just look at the first 3/4ths of the game I would recommend it. If you want to watch my play through you can check out the link below.
– Real player with 0.6 hrs in game
Paint Drying Simulator
Amazing game. Great and I mean great artwork, coupled with high play ability, and fun. Probably one of the best games on steam.
– Real player with 113.3 hrs in game
i would recommend this game 10/10 you can watch the magnificent action of paint drying in real time theres many different colors to beat i have finished all 9 colors it is truly a masterpiece and i would tell everyone to play this game i actally bought 6 different copys 1 for me and sent 5 to my friends and planning on buying more i would want everyone experience this amazing beautiful game at its finest.
– Real player with 79.5 hrs in game
Tap-Tap Adventure
Somehow it happened that the world of Tap-tap left “talent” for a while. And somehow it so happened that this was enough “Mediocrity” to plunge the world into twilight and leave it without sound. Well, what happened, what happened and now you (recommended) have to collect the lost notes at each level, and at the same time return the music to the world. The difficulty lies in the fact that it all depends on you and your ability to calculate each roll of your protagonist die. But don’t worry! With the help of open “notes” your assortment of masks will also increase, which will help you in this difficult task of saving the world. From the side of the world, complexity is promised, tied rather to the physical properties of the hero, the properties of the surrounding world and methods, where can we go without them. On your part, I hope you can save this world .. After all, it is doomed without you!
Bard Idle
Build a unique team
Build a unique team! You will choose heroes from a list where each character has a random weapon, race and class. All this gives a huge number of random combinations! Your choice is important: in a strong team, the heroes will supplement each other.
Create a ballad
The game presents a ballad creation system. Create a ballad of your choice to support your playing style and enhance your team of heroes!
Engage in epic battles
Only strong combinations of heroes, enhanced by the ballad creation system and jelly dwarfs, can leave a mark on history!
As well as:
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16 classes
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20 types of weapons
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6 races
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Over 100 unique ballad lines
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7 types of jelly gnomes
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Events: chests, altars, animals and unexpected encounters
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Game Modes: Arena, Hero’s Way, Battle with Titans, Training
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Combination of active and passive play
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Original soundtrack and attention to sound
Coin Treasures
A really novel idle idea!
I have already put some hours into it and am looking forward to seeing how the game goes.
The developers are very nice and this game definitely needs to be seen by the eyes more idler junkies!
The game can seem too easy at times then the next moment Thor’s hammer takes away all your stuff!
You can sit there and spend all your coins and try to maneuver the items the best you can, but when you come back
it’s always going to look like a crazy mess haha. It will start slow of course, but gradually you can drop more coins faster
– Real player with 198.5 hrs in game
This is a neat more visual take on relatively simple incremental mechanics… and it kinda works.
TLDR: The game has some issues, but I find myself still playing it after 5hours+, and still enjoying it.
Don’t expect this to be an incremental with tens of new mechanics to unlock over 100+ hours, it is a much more condensed experience. And if you enjoy more visually appealing incrementals, then it’s definitely worth a try - although the current price might be a tad high compared to other games in the genre based on content alone, I found it more than worth it - and especially if the dev sorts out some of the below issues it’ll definitely be justified.
– Real player with 13.4 hrs in game
Soda Dungeon 2
I was an enormous fan of the original Soda Dungeon and have been eagerly awaiting this release for years. Unfortunately it was very disappointing. The gameplay was pretty much cloned from the original with little innovation. Many of the classes are completely identical. The items are highly uninspired. The prestige system to reach the endgame is excessive and became unenjoyable after the first 5 times. The endgame itself had just a couple of new items that had extremely little impact.
I would say this feels much more like an alpha version of the game, not even a beta. It has the skeleton of something terrific, but it’s so far from achieving that.
– Real player with 294.6 hrs in game
I would absolutely recommend this game. As with all idle games, I expected to spend some time on it, but not as much as I did. This game is very fun, rewarding, and addicting. I would recommend buying some bottle caps to get the time clock upgrade (you’ll see what I mean when you download it). This makes the game go much faster (some could say twice as fast). After you go through the first ten dimensions, the game gets a little boring. It’s mostly letting it run on your PC for 4-5 hours while you play or do something else. This was a great game for me, being in college. I could set it up, go to a college class, and come back and the game would be still running. I just received the final achievement now, so I figured I would give the game a review. I highly recommend this game to anyone who likes idle games. This has been my favorite one to date, and I hope that they come out with updates or a sequel. Thank you.
– Real player with 212.4 hrs in game
Wall Street Bets
10/10 would lose all my life savings again
– Real player with 80.9 hrs in game
I HAVE DIAMOND HANDS AND WILL NEVER SELL! Pretty cool
– Real player with 5.4 hrs in game
Cat’s Menace
This game was a lot of fun to play in front of my stream audience, however playing it by myself without friends would have been a rather miserable experience, I’m afraid. The game has no save or checkpoint system, so when you have a Game Over, you have to start the entire game over from the beginning. The game operates by having you assign a cat to a task and making choices to decide whether the cats succeed or fail in the mission. The choices have no logic behind them, so it’s a coin flip in deciding if you lose the cat you assigned or not. Also, it doesn’t seem to matter which cats you assign to the mission. They’re essentially just very cute life counters.
– Real player with 2.1 hrs in game
So, I’m going to be honest and say, I LOVE CATS…
Now, when I then looked at the “Similar to games you’ve played: The Witcher 3 and Portal 2” I was ready for this game to BLOW. MY. MIND.
Spoiler alert: It did not…
The other reviews are spot on:
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English translation is bad, even to the point where some things doesn’t make sense
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It’s game over pretty easily and you have no idea what would be the right answer to the events you’re prompted with
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When you get a game over, you start over from the beginning - so it becomes a pattern of blindly guessing what’s right and having to remember every right answer to get further in the game. Which gets boring and annoying very fast.
– Real player with 0.4 hrs in game