I would love the option to give up in the infinity tower. I know I can't beat the group because they outheal my damage but I'm forced to wait 5 minutes for them to kill me so I can move on.
I enjoyed this game. It was a lot of fun. My tip to players is to start by working on your saturation. It will increase the amount your potatoes fill the hunger bar.
When I beat the game I was missing 3 artifacts. I also didn't make enough gold to fully optimize my team. I don't like that. It makes me feel like I didn't finish the game. You need to add in a way for us to keep playing. New game + would be a great way to do that.
I would change all of the text. As Kuchen suggested. When you die there is only one basic text message. You could add a lot of different dialogue based on how far you got. Maybe even give us choices about following our heart or taking an easier path. The ending would tell us how our life was and how we felt about it. There are a lot of possibilities and a lot of ways you can improve it. The text would be my first suggestion. This seems like you started with that idea and just didn't follow through.
I have played through this game several times now. It is strangely calming to me. I find that I sleep better if I play through the game before I turn in for the night.
The scaling needs a lot of work. Upgrade your workers a few times and unlock your second core and you can no longer progress. You can type in cheat to boost yourself a little but even then you will never scale enough to progress without just spamming cheat.
I just finished mining all of the blocks. I believe my wyrm pen is broken. I put two wyrms in there but no matter how long I wait they will not produce blood. I also tried everything possible to hatch a dragon. I left two in the pen and waited ages and the cacoon never hatched. I also tried carrying one around with me and it still won't hatch. I think my pen is bugged.
This game needs a way to lock items into your inventory. When I try to move everything at once to the storehouse there are a few items I would like to keep on me so I have to move everything individually. It would just be a nice QoL change. I would also like to be able to reset the mining area. That is just a personal issue of mine though. Great game!
You can move entire categories of items by selecting a tab (top left) before hitting move all. For example, you can choose the second tab (resources) to move all wood, ore, etc without taking away your food and equipment. That handles most desired locking, but an actual locking system would be more flexible.
There will be more eventually! We have a lot of ideas, and definitely check out our subreddit for updates, suggestions and comments: https://www.reddit.com/r/aground
This game just doesn't feel finished. It's missing a lot of features that I'm positive you know it needs. Free play mode being one of them. If you had finished the game, it would have been amazing. As it stands, it's kinda disappointing.
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