Seems like a game with some potentially fun and interesting mechanics under the hood but wants you to put in a full work week to understand any of it. Unintuitive UI that doesn't seem to be explained (at least by default). Tutorial? I couldn't discern one. The game CTD for me more than once in my few hours of play. GOG says I clocked 11 hours in this game which is incorrect and I know why. I suspect I put in no more than an hour. But after one of the game's CTD's the executable kept running in the background even though no game window was visible, so the GOG client kept logging it as time played. Sadly the only pro I can think of at the moment is that the game was under $4 bucks when I got it. So it might be a good game but I'll never know because it shouldn't feel like work to uncover the mechanics or how to play, or to decipher an unexplained UI.
This was an unexpectedly great game for me. It's been a while so I don't even remember how exactly I obtained a copy or why I decided to. On the surface it has game elements that interest me so I'm sure that's part of it but I usually avoid 2D side scrolling with some exceptions, I loved Starbound (though it changed a lot over time). This is not a game for those who demand good graphics at any cost but this game makes up for it in every other area possible, I think. As simple as this game is, it has a great sense of progression. I do like the "start with nothing and build your way to success approach". You get to a point in this game where you will face two branching paths (though you can actually combine them depending upon your actions) and I really like the fact that they incorporated such diversity in the overall progression--at least for a 2D indie title. I also like that the automation during progression just works. I don't recall any obnoxious micro management needed on my part. I wish there were more games like this, 2D or otherwise. I guess you could say, "What are you talking about there are a ton of games like this." Yet very few of them ever give me the same feeling that I had while playing this one.
