I am HUGELY inspired by Kittens, which is one of my all-time favorite incrementals. My wife loves it too, but it can be a bit brutal and grindy at times. My eventual goal is to have a bit less grindiness, a more concrete ending, and always something to do in the short term. Hope you enjoy the game so far, and will come back for more in future patches!
I don't often post comments on this site (this may be the first, actually?) but I feel I should. I was enjoying this game well enough and getting into it, enough to play it for a while, at least, but the ramp up from 25k to 2.2 million cost on the chests has kind of crushed my desire to keep playing. :s
Thanks for reporting this issue! We have identified the bug and fixed it in the latest version. The chest scaling should be a smooth curve, but a bug was causing an unnaturally low small chest price until you reached a certain progression.
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I am HUGELY inspired by Kittens, which is one of my all-time favorite incrementals. My wife loves it too, but it can be a bit brutal and grindy at times. My eventual goal is to have a bit less grindiness, a more concrete ending, and always something to do in the short term. Hope you enjoy the game so far, and will come back for more in future patches!