This game's demo feels like 'roll the dice' over and over

[Der Liebe Frankie]

I've beaten several bosses in one run once, out of maybe 20 times playing the demo. All the other times I get stomped by the first boss. The one time I beat so many bosses I had a ton of cats getting fed a lot of milk, and a guard tower as the first slot which when it broke would spread attack to the other towers.

But it's such a limited build to win. If I wrote a review for the demo at least, it would be "this feels like rolling 1 die, and if you get a 1 on the roll, you win, otherwise you lose. If you won, you then roll 2 die, and if you get all 1s on the roll you win, otherwise you lose. If you won, you then roll 3 die... etc." The game feels kind of monotonous that way, and I haven't found any consistent strategy that will improve the odds to taking out the first boss most for most of my attempts.

[pushinruslan]

Well, you can win with royal 4 times out of 5, using a lot of different builds: honey-bee, clover-reroll, obsidian-guardian, mosquitos-frog-princess-witch, hydras. And if you're ready to tollerate lower chances some less stable options like princess-butler also exist.

The game is not really beginner-friendly though. You need to get a feel for enemy growth to know when to go for defensive option and when to start scaling your actual combo.

Since you've already cleared cats build, I'd suggest going for bees next - make first line defense of guardian-glass or dynamite or stairs have thief-chest for economy and then go for 3 slots of bees to get flower and honey each turn. Works better if you'll get smith.

[Der Liebe Frankie]

Originally posted by pushinruslan:

Since you've already cleared cats build, I'd suggest going for bees next - make first line defense of guardian-glass or dynamite or stairs have thief-chest for economy and then go for 3 slots of bees to get flower and honey each turn. Works better if you'll get smith.

I would not say "I've already cleared cats build." It's more like "I have accidentally won once using the cats build, and about 10 or more other times I used the cats build I died almost immediately". In other words, this game is completely like my OP description. I am not enjoying rolling dice and hoping to get a winning roll.

[pushinruslan]

Originally posted by Der Liebe Frankie:

Originally posted by pushinruslan:

Since you've already cleared cats build, I'd suggest going for bees next - make first line defense of guardian-glass or dynamite or stairs have thief-chest for economy and then go for 3 slots of bees to get flower and honey each turn. Works better if you'll get smith.

I would not say "I've already cleared cats build." It's more like "I have accidentally won once using the cats build, and about 10 or more other times I used the cats build I died almost immediately". In other words, this game is completely like my OP description. I am not enjoying rolling dice and hoping to get a winning roll.

As I said it's not about dice rolling. Since we're talking about cat build, ran 5 in a row, building only cats, and got 5 wins.
You can check the run here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adsViR21xtE
I dropped the runs where the win was basically guaranteed. So cats always win without any dice rolling. As i said - this game is not beginner friendly, but not about randomness(except for high ascensions and some challenge runs)

[S♥ShiMe]

well, we literally forced dev to release wayyyy before it should have been.
give it some time :D

[Falgabird]

>This game's demo feels like 'roll the dice' over and over
well I got good news about the infernal tower if you decide to buy

[Der Liebe Frankie]

Originally posted by pushinruslan:

Originally posted by Der Liebe Frankie:

I would not say "I've already cleared cats build." It's more like "I have accidentally won once using the cats build, and about 10 or more other times I used the cats build I died almost immediately". In other words, this game is completely like my OP description. I am not enjoying rolling dice and hoping to get a winning roll.

As I said it's not about dice rolling. Since we're talking about cat build, ran 5 in a row, building only cats, and got 5 wins.
You can check the run here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adsViR21xtE
I dropped the runs where the win was basically guaranteed. So cats always win without any dice rolling. As i said - this game is not beginner friendly, but not about randomness(except for high ascensions and some challenge runs)

Thanks for this. The video really helped. I had never thought of having double or triple milk towers for boosting the cat faster. And then I noticed even the game's promotional videos show this arrangement too. This even let me beat the first boss as my first play on a brand new profile, so it had no extra bonuses to choose from.