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13.0 hrs on record (8.6 hrs at review time)
At its core, (the) Gnorp Apologue is much like your garden-variety Cookie Clicker, except with:
- A steady growth of mechanical depth, which leads to actual invested decision making
- Resource accumulation times which are timed excellently, so that you pretty much always have some time to thoughtfully plan/eagerly anticipate whatever you'll do next, while practically never dragging on for so long that you get bored of waiting around
- A clean, simple, highly tangible interface which offers a great way to visualize progress
- OUTRAGEOUS levels of optimization, especially given how over-the-top things can get visually
- A great knack for prodding at one's curiosity with tooltips and the like, while still making sure that those things make sense once you see them in action
- A lovely little sense of humor which never gets too overbearing
- A humble, earnest dev who's willing to communicate, and is actively invested in making sure that YOU get your money's worth, rather than the other way around

Now, be aware that (the) Gnorp Apologue is quite short, as incremental games go - 8 hours of play to reach the official ending, in my case - but even then, it's only because the dev made a good call on when the gameplay loop would start to lose its luster, and chose to provide a nice, clean hopping-off point. (And even then, if you haven't had enough of numbers going up, you still have the option to just keep on going, in one way or another.)

The bottom line is, this funny little gnorp game costs less than an Overwatch 2 skin, and I still got more honest-to-goodness fun out of it in the past two days than I could wring out of the entirety of Activision-Blizzard over the past five years. If you got a couple bucks lying around and a few afternoons to spare, then I'd say to do yourself a favor, and set some aside for (the) best little indie game that I've played in months.
Posted December 28, 2023.
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168.8 hrs on record (105.5 hrs at review time)
KRIEG!
That is all, thank you.
Posted June 23, 2016.
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2 people found this review funny
7,686.0 hrs on record (4,862.1 hrs at review time)
Dude.
It's TF2.
How do you not have it already?
Posted March 31, 2015.
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