This game is easily one of the worse (maybe even one of the worst) incremental games I've played.

The concept for the game is good, but that's really about where the positives come to an end.

The graphics - nothing special. The upgrades - incredibly boring - the same ones are copy pasted for every single allied or enemy unit or structure while also not providing anything meaningful or interesting. You just always get the same increments for every single stat. The prestige in this game are probably the only slightly interesting upgrades. The problem is they require to restart your run which takes an incredibly long amount of time for this sort of game and while some of them are very useful, they don't really help you catch up to where you were before. And you can quite literally beat the game without even prestiging.

The time it takes to move on to the next stage is egregious as well. A lot of grind is required before being allowed to progress just to repeat the multi-hour grind again on the next bunch of upgrades you get to. The game also seems to be very unbalanced as this only seems to happen during the first 2/3 of the game and then after you've upgraded your monolith you can just speedrun the 5th and 6th regions by slowing the boss so much that it's almost unable to move at all.

The fix is actually very simple - just make the upgrades do something more interesting than just the same stats all the time, make prestiging actually worth it (either put in way more content or make it so that prestiging actually makes you catch up fast to where you were before - what point is there in replaying the stuff you've already been through?).

The game is at least very cheap, but all incremental games are, so is that really even a valid point? I'd suggest you try basically any other incremental game (for now?). It's not even that far off from being a decent game, I just found most of the design choices weird and easily fixable.

Honestly i had a good time. Was a good idle game to have going in the background while i check back occasionally to get some upgrades. It was fun up until I got every upgrade, beat every boss, and went to my "friends" tree to get the last few upgrades so I could hop off. But now there's like 6 that I cant unlock at all. I guess I could respec but was just really looking forward to getting everything. Then I look at my achievments and realize I already did them all. Just a bummer

The gameplay is okay at most but this game has a lot of issues so this might be a hot take.
Note: The price point is it's only saving grace here. If the dev charged any more, I'd have a lot more to say.
Also, I completed this game 100% before writing this review, however about half of my playtime was AFK.

1. I'm tired of lazy game devs reusing the same assets off itch.io.
2. The gameplay is repetitive and feels lazy mid to end game.
3. The fact that you can't get all the prestige skills in the game is a serious let down.

There are a few things I enjoyed about this game, but given the cons far out weigh the pros, I'm going to settle with "I should have refunded when I had the chance". IMHO this is a $3 game at best. Download Aseprite and make your own sprites. It's not hard and makes for a much better quality game. The lack of creativity was a serious let down.