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[–] kakes@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ngl I wasn't all that interested in this game, but with local coop mode? The idea of just chillin with my wife on the couch watching numbers go up together does have an appeal to it.

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It’s more than watching numbers go up, it’s absolutely more than a clicker because positioning, upgrade path, and when to use abilities are very important

[–] kakes@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

True. I've watched streamers play it, and I'm being overly reductive, but I guess what I mean is that it seems like a good game to zone out to and just get into that "flow" state.

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

It is 100% a flow game

[–] Kaldo@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There are abilities you can use now?

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I worded that poorly, I meant when you pick up one time use power ups like the exp magnet or the enemy freeze.

[–] iod@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So happy they migrated to the new engine. Previously i was getting single digit fps near the 25 minute mark and now it's smooth :)

As a developer I am absolutely amazed how far he took PhaserJS.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

Woop, remote play together also. So you can play with anyone else on Steam, the game runs on your PC and they connect in.

[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 3 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Thanks to the move to Unity, the performance on Steam Deck is many times better too making it an actually Verified experience.

Just don't expect lots of little updates like before, since it's a much larger game project now.

They said larger features were getting "borderline impossible" to develop with their old game engine.

That's something we've been doing in most events (since TGS 2022): hiding some of the future content for the game in plain sight, but this time it blew up online!

While the actual menu screen might never appear in game, all the new content shown in that version is scheduled to be fully developed and released in future free updates.

So here's a sneak peak of a handful among the dozens of characters and weapons that are getting developed for 2023 and beyond:


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[–] MySNsucks923@lemmy.zip -4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It blows my mind that this game is as popular as it is.

[–] Cabeza2000@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The developer worked designing slots for the gambling industry before.

Part his game mechanics are really addictive as they are similar to how people gets addicted to gambling (lootboxes, coins, spins, colorful lights, win animations, sounds similar to slots machines).

[–] Kaldo@kbin.social 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's a fun cheap game when you have 20 minutes to kill with no added bs in forms of ads, microtransactions or fomo ¯\(ツ)

20 minutes to kill

It's been 80 hours since I started the game how could you

[–] Cabeza2000@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I am no complaining. I have played the game for many hours, and also many of the million clones that came afterwards.

[–] Frozengyro@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

It's surprisingly fun. Nothing too hard or challenging really, just a fun simple time killer.