Recent reviews by JimboTCB

Fun little game, only takes a few hours and none of the puzzles are particularly difficult, mostly it's just a matter of pixel hunting until you find the one bit you're supposed to click on to proceed to the next step, and then either finding the hidden clue somewhere which tells you the combination or randomly moving stuff around until the puzzle completes itself. Got it for free but I don't think it would have been worth paying actual money for when there's browser games which have much more involved and interesting puzzles.

Played it for 20+ hours over the launch weekend and still feels like I've barely scratched the surface. Starts out feeling like it's just Minecraft running a Factorio mod pack, but then you hit yellow science and everything starts getting so much more complicated. A lot of the mechanics will feel extremely familiar to factory game fans, but there's more than enough variation to keep things feeling fresh and distinctive, and it does the "Factorio but in 3D" thing a lot better than Satisfactory, as the focus is very much on optimising production lines as opposed to building nice 3D buildings.

Just the most absolute bare bones clicker game possible, with a bunch of art assets ripped directly from Minecraft, and a ton of stupid loot box and time gating mechanics to annoy you into spending money. Idle and offline progression is almost non-existent so you pretty much have to leave it running with an autoclicker if you want to get anywhere, and there's apparently another prestige mechanic later one but I can't even begin to care enough to get that far. The boss fights are interesting I guess, but after you do them once and figure out their gimmick, it just becomes another annoying thing to do every few hours for some more mostly pointless loot. Not worth your time at all.

It's a decent enough idle game and has some interesting ideas, but progression just drops off a cliff after the early stages, it constantly throws stuff at you which it then tells you you need to spend premium currency to actually use, and it's clearly balanced around the laughable concept of paying $13/m for a subscription to an idle game just so that you can maintain the boosts. Might have been a good game if the monetisation was a little less obnoxious, but as it is it's a hard pass.

Played it for a few hours. It's pretty cool. Loads of features which unlock as you go through, great sense of progression, and everything is balanced around playing for free instead of being made deliberately tedious and grindy to try and make you pay for it.

Having already put 100+ hours into the base game I was skeptical about the merits of a DLC, but there's more than enough here to make it interesting, and definitely worth the price. New dig sites, new vehicles, lots of new or tweaked features to keep things interesting, and a much better overall sense of progression compared to the more sandboxy base game.

Fun little game, if you like Picross puzzles then you pretty much know exactly what to expect from this. The "RPG elements" don't really mean much except for adding a time limit and a penalty for mistakes, plus some hint items which you really don't need as all the puzzles are fairly basic, but the later ones go up to 20x20 and are moderately challenging without ever requiring guesswork.

Somewhat interesting concept, but it's incredibly boring, progression is almost non-existent, and it straddles an annoying line between requiring far too much micro-management for an idle game while not having enough to do while playing actively. Maybe things get more involved later, but until then you're just watching dots on a screen where 95% of the window is taken up with a static picture of a galaxy and the actual UI is buried behind ten different screens which make it impossible to easily see anything pertinent.

Boring with almost zero interactivity even by idle game standards, and the progression is so slow that it's clearly balanced with the expectation of throwing money at the game unless you want to play for literally years to get anywhere. Maybe it gets more interesting when you unlock more stuff, but with costs scaling up by hundreds of orders of magnitude while your progression is almost non-existent, I'm not hanging around to find out.

Pretty boring and terrible even by idle game standards, the progression seems pretty rapid at first, but after a few hours you already start hitting a huge wall where it takes forever to level up, the next features are further and further away, and all the while the game is aggressively cramming its monetisation in your face constantly. Also there's a whole bunch of different features plus daily and weekly quests and a battle pass which are all on separate timers of varying lengths which refresh throughout the day so you're having to constantly log back in to do stuff, and all the art looks like it's been stolen from WOW and run through a bitmoji filter. The final straw was when after playing for one day it tried to pressure me with an "1800% value" bundle on a 30 minute limited time offer. Miss me with that crap.