The internal clock on this version of the game seems to be significantly faster than in the original, and that makes this version quite a lot harder... makes for a nice challenge. Otherwise a very faithful recreation of a true classic.
That big button in the preloader that tells you to click it does *not* take you to the game, it takes you to the devs' website. 1/5 for misleading interface.
Pacing of the game is too slow for my tastes. I know this is supposed to be an idle game, but after a couple of hours of semi-idle play this game basically turns into "check the game once a day to buy upgrades." I know the dev is still updating this game so I won't submit a rating yet, but right now my opinion is 3/5.
The level design is good and the AI is actually really aggressive and smart, but I can't rate more than a 3/5 because of the slider. The slider is just not a good way to select how many units to send. Having to remember to mouse down to the bottom of the screen is distracting, not to mention the time you waste making sure you actually got the slider in the place you wanted it. Games like nano war, tentacle war, and phage wars (wow a lot of 'war' titles) as well as the original solarmax all had better systems.
I think 20 is bugged, I had a funnel draw water from a horizontal pipe below it (which it wasn't connected to) and then drop that water down through the pipe. It let me beat the level, but I don't think it was intended behavior.
... Those are Pidgeotto, not Pidgey. But that's okay because Pidgey is boring. Unless that's a clever way to avoid copyright infringement? Regardless, it's a neat little effort you have here, but I can't really figure out how to play it right.
Many great improvements over the original, not the least of which is that the game seems to have been optimized much better than its predecessors (which had slow-down issues). 5/5
Hint for the combination lock: The code is determined randomly each time you go to the screen (including after you fail and restart). However, it seems that the code always contains two sevens, a one, and a five; it's just the order of those numbers that's random.
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