My experience with the game

[Casual_Dutchman]

I am writing this as I play, so bare with me.
I play with Keyboard & Mouse, Windows 11, i7-11700K, 32gb ram, RX 6600XT.
I'm a game developer as well, so even though I know it's a demo, I will give feedback on everything, even when it's obvious it will change.

As soon as I played, I was unsure what to do. It took me a while to notice the tutorial text.

It was also unclear to me what my first active ability does and what the cooldown for it is. This is probably a bug, because the first time I used the ability without hitting an enemy, a cooldown appeared. So, maybe when you start to use the ability on an enemy before trying it first, the cooldown does not appear?

When I got barracks and made spearmen, it was annoying when I placed them somewhere and they ran towards the enemies without standing their ground. After they killed all the enemies, they even went back to their very original location, not even the location I set for them.

After the first level, the time it took for the bar to fill up fully took very long. I knew it will fill completely, so waiting for it felt like a long time. The time it took to show the 'continue' button after a level up screen was shown could also be shorter, especially since I can also check what the perk does in the level selection screen.

I died in the second level, but when I died, the enemies were still destroying everything, which was still very loud. This made the end screen very noisy (as in, a lot is going on)

When I wanted to retry the second level, I noticed the perk and challenge system, which took way too long to understand, since there was no explanation and the 'activated' state of the toggles was hard to notice/read (the colors are too similar, I did not notice them being activated)

In the end, the game was a little hard to play with K&M, since if I wanted to pick troops to command, sprint and move with WASD, I have to press too many buttons with my left hand. I used my right hand for some buttons as well. Maybe move towards the mouse well holding the right mouse button would be a good alternative to use less buttons?

Lastly, I went to the settings menu. this is really weird with K&M, because I cannot click on the toggle box for fullscreen or an arrow to change resolutions. My guess this was made for controller. Also the resolution selection takes multiple presses to change. So I have to press 'left' 2 or more times for it to change to a different resolution.

I hacked a vsync option and the performance at level 2 started above 500fps and at the end of the level (with all of the enemies) it went as low as 130 fps. Yes, that's a big decrease, but 130 is still good!

Loved the demo, with some tweaks and more levels, this is going to be a very nice game. Good job :D