I would say this game is a 4/5, quite good for what it is.
The main pain point is the bossfight, although there are some mechanical issues throughout the game. I'll try to describe them since it seems no one else is (despite the developer asking).
General gameplay issues:
It is very hard to tell when your boost is done charging, as well as how close it is to being done. The first issue can be solved by adding a halo or some other indicator when the boost is ready. But for the second, you might want to add a secondary bar in the side panel that repeats or replaces the boost charge gauge.
Sometimes it can be hard to tell where your boost will put you. A ghost where you'd end up could solve this issue
The upgrades seem pretty uneven in how useful they are, but maybe that's to be expected
Boss issues
The boss is likely[1] too much of a difficulty jump, leaving a long-ish time where everything before the boss is easy but everything after hard
Because the boss is so hard, it becomes almost pointless to continue into it until you're maxed out on upgrades. You won't beat the boss and you'll likely collect very few resources before you die.
The boss's tail. I like that if feels tron-like, although the new mechanic came a little out of left field for a boss that's otherwise a bigger version of the other bad guys. However, frequently what will happen is I will try to boost behind the boss to stun, only to realize I was a milisecond too late, and the tail has popped into existance and insta-killed me. I would suggest either delaying when the tail becomes deadly, reduce the hurtbox on it, or have it so the stun also destroys an unconnected tail.
The hit/hurtboxes in general should probably be reduced. If I boost near the boss in a safe spot and then he swivels and the tip of his nose touches one of my corners, that's insta-death. This is one of those times you should probably cheat for your player to make the game feel better.
You might consider making infinitely repurchaseable upgrades after all the other upgrades are purchased, to keep the feeling of progression during the final stage, instead of it feeling like just slamming your head against the wall over and over. Alternatively, if other changes make the bossfight more managable, perhaps make a final upgrade that lets you skip the upgrade page (since it's now pointless--no more upgrades available)
Possible improvements
The two most fun parts of the game are the collection/upgrade loop, and boosting through enemies. The former falls off later in the game as collecting becomes more of a slog and there are fewer killer upgrades left. To make the later part of the game better you might consider adding extra boost gauges as an upgrade, so people can have more fun blasting through their enemies. It might require a bit of a difficulty rebalance, though
As a webgame, this game has the perfect amount of content, but if it's going on steam where people pay for it, it will probably need more bosses, enemies, and upgrades. I might suggest an enemy that has some version of the boss's tron tail, to get players used to that mechanic
Also, the name is not great.
I made an account to post this feedback, so I hope it's helpful.
[1] Different games target different difficulty curves so it's hard for me to say for sure what a difficulty curve "should" be. Some players want animal crossing and some want dark souls. However, a sharp spike in difficulty is a sign to me of game needing better balance.
Thank you so much for your feedback, even made an account for it, I am genuinely amazed.
I would love to discuss with you further and answer everything, but I think it will probably be easier to communicate on Discord rather than here if you want.
In short, I agree with basically everything you said, and everything is on its way, consider that this is very early in development and much more content and polish is planned.
The only thing I don't quite agree is the boss feeling not worth the grind, consider that during it everything has reached max value, and later on you also get resource multiplier to boost your economy even better and it is basically much better to farm during the boss rather than before it.
Maybe make the resource multiplier immediately unlock at the boss, and then make it upgradable.
But overall I agree that especially early on it is too difficult to survive during the boss fight.
I would still love to discuss it further on Discords :)
Awesome game. Love the upgrade system. Feels fair and balanced, up until the boss fight. Boss is brutally hard, even after the last upgrade (the boss mechanics are counter-intuitive, but eventually you get used to it). Did manage to beat it eventually after getting all the upgrades.
Thank you for your feedback! Why do you think the mechanics are counterintuitive? Also congrats on beating the game! Would love for you to enter our Discord server to share your time and keep being updated!
Very fun game and upgrade tree. The boss fight was a little frustrating, but once you get all upgrades, it's just a matter of beating the game. I'd love to see multiple 'worlds' with different enemy types and bosses for each. This game is certainly worth the playthrough.
So sometimes it would seem like the boss would hit a wall in a way I wouldn't expect (because of it's large hitbox). When it would do so, its forward line would complete instantly and kill me. It would mostly happen when we were both near an edge and it would charge at me nearly parallel to the edge, but slanted just enough to hit the wall and cause the said effect. It didn't seem like it was an intentional mechanic and I compensated by only fighting well within the borders. Perhaps it was a skill issue on my part, but that's just my perspective. I do think the overall boss fight was well designed and fun.
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i think you should remove the downloadable version because i have the windows user's curse
It's normal, because we have no certificate as it costs too much, you can still play it by clicking "more information" and then "open anyway"
I CANT BECAUSE IT GETS DELETED RIGHT AFTER ITS DOWNLOADED AND MAKE THE DOWNLOADABLE VERSION PAID
That's strange honestly, none else had this problem, probably it's something related with your windows defender/antivirus setting
I would say this game is a 4/5, quite good for what it is.
The main pain point is the bossfight, although there are some mechanical issues throughout the game. I'll try to describe them since it seems no one else is (despite the developer asking).
General gameplay issues:
Boss issues
Possible improvements
I made an account to post this feedback, so I hope it's helpful.
[1] Different games target different difficulty curves so it's hard for me to say for sure what a difficulty curve "should" be. Some players want animal crossing and some want dark souls. However, a sharp spike in difficulty is a sign to me of game needing better balance.
Honestly wow.
Thank you so much for your feedback, even made an account for it, I am genuinely amazed.
I would love to discuss with you further and answer everything, but I think it will probably be easier to communicate on Discord rather than here if you want.
In short, I agree with basically everything you said, and everything is on its way, consider that this is very early in development and much more content and polish is planned.
The only thing I don't quite agree is the boss feeling not worth the grind, consider that during it everything has reached max value, and later on you also get resource multiplier to boost your economy even better and it is basically much better to farm during the boss rather than before it.
Maybe make the resource multiplier immediately unlock at the boss, and then make it upgradable.
But overall I agree that especially early on it is too difficult to survive during the boss fight.
I would still love to discuss it further on Discords :)
This is really a great game. Looking forward to the release.
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Bopin game, addictive af 9/10 <3
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Awesome game. Love the upgrade system. Feels fair and balanced, up until the boss fight. Boss is brutally hard, even after the last upgrade (the boss mechanics are counter-intuitive, but eventually you get used to it). Did manage to beat it eventually after getting all the upgrades.
Thank you for your feedback!
Why do you think the mechanics are counterintuitive?
Also congrats on beating the game! Would love for you to enter our Discord server to share your time and keep being updated!
i could play this 10 hours straight no cap
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Very fun game and upgrade tree. The boss fight was a little frustrating, but once you get all upgrades, it's just a matter of beating the game. I'd love to see multiple 'worlds' with different enemy types and bosses for each. This game is certainly worth the playthrough.
Thank you so much for your feedback, why is the boss frustrating?
Also, new content is coming soon!
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So sometimes it would seem like the boss would hit a wall in a way I wouldn't expect (because of it's large hitbox). When it would do so, its forward line would complete instantly and kill me. It would mostly happen when we were both near an edge and it would charge at me nearly parallel to the edge, but slanted just enough to hit the wall and cause the said effect. It didn't seem like it was an intentional mechanic and I compensated by only fighting well within the borders. Perhaps it was a skill issue on my part, but that's just my perspective. I do think the overall boss fight was well designed and fun.
Thank you so much for your feedback!
Unfortunately though I don't seem to understand exactly what happens, a video of the bug happening would be a huge help for us if you can do it!
If you want to help, join the Discord server and send a recording of the bug there :D
Very fun
Thanks a lot!!!