Post Apocalypse Microbe Lab

It is a cozy game they said, it will help you relax and look at cute android girl fishing they said Then game hits you with existential crisis.

This is an incremental game in the way that watching the clock while doing nothing at your day job is an incremental game. The sad part is that the art and story are well done meaning this is pure wasted potential. Sure there are upgrades. There is waiting for the ultimate result to come about. But the idea that this is an incremental game is a bad joke. This is a waiting game. This is watching a story play out in a long, boring, waste of time. From an incremental standpoint, the only option that makes sense for upgrades is focusing on your gold production as the other four upgrades do nothing to further your production. You have no input yourself to increase this production as your only interaction is endlessly collecting the same samples to increase your level which does nothing besides progress the story at a snails pace. The dev has a serious flaw in their understanding of what makes an incremental game rewarding. I do not have these games on in the background to let my computer take 100+ hours to see a cutesy story play out. I want to see big numbers get bigger. How did thee idea pass testing that the player has no input to the speed of gold production and is entirely at the mercy of RNG? Watching the character slowly throw down her fishing line and the magnet happens to skip the only good loot so your left waiting to pull up trash worth 7 gold instead is a kick to the nuts. I mostly just feel like a chump for having spent any amount of money on this game and I wish to caution others that this is not in the spirit of incremental games at all. There are other games for half the price that hit that dopamine reception way better than this trash. Avoid at all costs unless you have a way to speed up the gameplay, get the game for free, and have a spare machine to run this endlessly until you reach the end of the story.

Cleared all the achievements available on Steam in a little under 200 hours, which gets me just over level 100 in-game. If you're crazy, you can get this up to level 999 by putting it on a computer that isn't going to do anything but compute that for the next...however many months? Maybe years? As for why you'd do something like that, as many have already stated, it's a fun idler. A good portion of the draw is if you've played other franchises from Skipmore in the past but it's not a hard requirement. Just a few interesting references here and there and a small story to go along with it. Very little else keeping you aside from number go up and watching Lyse fish with her oversized magnet on occasion. For an idler, it does that job well. If nothing else, it qualifies as a desktop toy for the office, which I more or less used for myself, especially since I took the time to send bugfix data to the devs on a somewhat rocky start of the release, all of which has been cleared by now, so they get points for tackling that as fast and efficient as they did. That might have been part of the fun of all of this personally, for me, so I doubt this will apply to you playing that but I do have to point out that they took the time to do that and it wasn't just a situation of release a game in whatever state and bail - They did, in fact, take time on this and respond to people and that's probably of the reason I'm going to recommend it regardless of how small or large the game is because I appreciate that and I think that should be brought up as often as possible.