Demo-phase included everything from start to completing Oda's star (first sun basically). Every resource, most of prestige upgrades, managing drone ratios between planets, all of that felt sensible, balanced, managable. You were always upgrading your "factory" (as game calls it) to keep progressing further, you always had something to do and check for. There's no synergy between newly added planets as it was in the demo.

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After unlocking next new planet - you're met with your first timewall. It's a drone maker planet. When maxed out-you will get 10 drones per 20 seconds and there's NOTHING to boost it any further. This will be your main stop cap at the end-game.
Next, a planet which generates "star dust" which boosts sun's currency (which you wont have any problems with after getting past demo-phase). It's capped at 1 per 4 seconds, and you will need 100 to progress. You just wait and be happy. Then a planet which allows you to buy star dust, but scaling goes so high - you will buy 20-30 at most. Next planet unlocks at 300 STARDUST. YOU JUST WAIT. AND BE HAPPY. Next planet just gets skipped past due to accumulated research points being able to max out the planet and reach the needed goals. Next, game forces you to prestige because an """upgrade""" to progress is locked behind a prestige point milestone (it will happen twice (thrice if you count the moment in a demo phase, but that was actually paced good)). Salt on the wound - it unlocks a resource which is used for factory expansion and then is obsolete. After resetting-have fun waiting again.
Welcome to your end-game timewall. It's a "birth rate" meter, which increases ever-so-slowly, and you will be needing B I L L I O N S of lives, and you're gonna fill this bar TWICE because after unlocking a "planet" that helps with birth rates - you get forced to reset again. It feels like game forces you to reset back-to-back rather quickly while reading this rant, but keep in mind, there's a lot of waiting during these 4 lines of the review.
After reseting for final required time - most of timewall'd planets are now unlocked, but its only because the final timewalls are going to force you to forget about the game and write a review. It's a drone timewall. You need 500 of them. They're still capped at 0.5/sec. Have fuuuuuuun.
Game's over. Only one achievement left. After getting the last "planet" - it generates a resource which can be traded for a prestige point. Sounds nice, but gen time is abysmally slow. It's based off the birth rate, or lives rate, I DONT KNOW! PROGRESS BARS DONT SHOW YOU VALUES! All i know is its minutes per one, and you need 10 for the final achievement. I'm writing this and its only 6/10 through.


When i reached mid-game, i thought broken AltTab'ing would be the biggest issue.
Useless mechanics (asteroids, not even worth talking about), useless/misleading/not-working-as-described-in-some-cases upgrades, bugs when restarting game, bugs when AltTab'ing the game, unbearable timewalls compared to how demo played out, Everything past-demo is just waiting, wether its waiting for drones to be made, for """challenge""" completion, for factory expansion, for birth rate to climb, you will feel the timewalls. There is no more resource management, half of the demo-phase resources gets completely obsolete when reaching new content. DID THE ORIGINAL DEVELOPER DIE AND SOMEONE ELSE TOOK OVER??? PAST-DEMO-PHASE IS NOTHING LIKE HOW DEMO FELT.
I gave this game a second post-endgame chance to see if there's actually a good way to play through sluggish parts/i missed something with all the prestige upgrades i got, and... yes... there's a mechanic where holding down a planet speeds up its production, which... doesnt work on new planets... I could've really used 5x faster drone gen/5x more drones generated/5x star dust, but as of release - new content is a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ slog.

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oh, no demo anymore?.. Wow.

The demo was fun. The full game runs with that. However, if feels like non of the stuff past the demo content was planned very well and definitely not explained.

The worst offender, and best example, is the last step you need to do. It is not explained that you need to summon a ship. You need to then pilot the ship using WASD and then, when you are where you need to use it, you have to press spacebar.

And you know what, none of that is explained. It is so unlike the rest of the game that it makes no sense as it is never explained.

This game is beautiful. The concept is amazing too!

However, the game is so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ boring I think it's bugged. There's a hard time gate and I'm quite literally sitting here for 30min with everything maxed out and there's nothing left to do but wait and I'm not even near the end. Every time you prestige, you have to do this again and again just waiting. Nothing makes the wait go faster as opposed to every point in the game prior.

The Proxima Ares part of the game has you waiting X amount of seconds to generate two resources, Energy and Star Dust. Every X seconds, you generate 1 stardust. This is a hard time gate. However, the energy is EVEN WORSE. I believe the amount of Emitters you put on the star gives you X% of your current total Star Dust in your inventory. For example, I have 455 star dust with an energy generating modifier of 18,754%. You would think that you get 187.54x of your star dust as energy. Nope. You get 455. I've been sitting here watching the energy tick up by a few hundred by a few hundred.

I finally unlock the next level, instantly max everything out, then have to wait an hour+ to get the required energy to get to the next tier........................

This makes the game even more unplayable as you need energy to gain prestige points to make other points in the game faster...............

If you are considering this game please just put it on your wish list and return in like 6 months and maybe the game is in a playable state.