Very nice game, I remember I played it years ago. Seemed impossible to beat when I was kid. Still very hard, especially levels with 'gardening' for me.
My quick walkthrough for getting medium badge: Play level 2 on swarm mode. Camp near the terminal (the blue thingy). Use SPACE to access terminal - buy only ammo and health packs. Save 20000 money for pulse rifle. Use SHIFT to change weapon. Camp all the time near terminal and buy ammo for pulse rifle, when monsters stop coming from below, go up to pull monsters from other spawn(be sure to have full ammo). Wave/round counters are bugged, they will say some low number, don't look at that. You will get badge after 10th wave.
Setting quality(Right click -> quality -> low) to low really helped me to complete the game, but even with low quality game is laggy at last area. 4/5
To get "Lost in Space" achi, you must go to initial area, use card, grab suit and wear, open doors, go outside and grab piece of crystal. Then go to room where is big crystal and drop it there. Rest same like in walkthrough - blow up whole ship.
Same complain like in the "Non dark" version of this game: If you put timer (which is perfectly fine for me) give bonus points for time left after finishing game.
At first I didn't notice that there are SKILLS. I got to 2nd act without a single skill and I didn't know that I was doing something wrong. So, on the right of the XP bar there are 2 buttons - switch between inventory and skill tree. Maybe I wasn't the only who missed that.
What a fantastic game. I came here because I wanted some badges... now my save file shows I've spent 13 hours. Normally I don't like games like these (RPGs with turn based fights), but somehow this one is just so addictive. A true masterpiece.
It makes no sense that you don't get any bonus score for time left. I was able to finish 3rd puzzle with almost 2 minutes left and got nothing for that. I may be wrong, but I think older versions of this game included bonus points. Also I liked old symbols on tiles more than present ones. I remember it was possible to get 90K score with perfect 2 puzzles and solid 3rd, but now it seems unlikely.
Despite that, game is really good and it was inspiring for me as a dev.
I've changed my mind, it's better than first one. It's much harder, especially at start, but with proper skills you can do it. Skills I found most important were: 1. infamy(25% exp more), 2. cutting trees (+gold / -mana cost), 3. bury alive(maybe not necessary, but fun), 4. demon lord, 5. life drain/terror mastery - surprisingly best skills against bosses, especially barbarian. Also: 6. haunted cave was helpful for briliants, and at least 1 point for 7. traps.
And this game is reallyyyyyyyy long, it's 4th day I'm playing it and still there are few mission left and many without brilliant. The only thing I kinda don't like is huge similarity in graphics/style to kingdom rush - first cursed treasure was more unique at this aspect.
Yea, I think it's better now. I found it hard to get past elevators in last level but it was ok. Still, stars aren't very tempting and I didn't collect them at all (excluding level where you have to follow them). Good game anyways, addictive like that one with submarine.
Shouldn't there be more points for stars? Also from level 12 whole game becomes like 500% harder, especially because of bullets in next levels. Got to level 15, only because I wanted highscore. Honestly I kinda enjoyed that nighmarish level 12, because it was hard in good way... challenging I would say. But the next levels with bullets are just too much - slightly too late or too early and ball is dead. Other than that I didn't notice any bugs etc., so it's good work.
yes. you're right. I'm going to upload a new version where the cadences of the shots are lower and adding new levels with more puzzle challenges like level 12 ;)
I really liked it. My small advice: if you can't beat level, go back to previous levels, try to get gold and buy upgrades. I couldn't pass level 20, but with 2 upgrades for helicopters I almost got gold.
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Thanks!!! and DONE!!! more points for stars & seconds. ;)