Fun base defense concept, loved that your needed the storm for the crystal resource great idea. I also liked how the enemies chased me so I could distract them from my base and funnel them towards my defenses.

This is awesome, such a great interpretation of the theme. I knew I was gonna like this game as soon as I started clicking on stuff to mine resources haha. I like the tower defense portion a lot too, it's really fun to place the towers and try to defend your base. I think the idea of having the crystal be a resource that's only obtainable during the storm is great too. Unfortunately I wasn't able to really get into the game, most of my turrets wouldn't fire any arrows for some reason. I tried on the web and downloable version, but for some reason only the turrets in one part of my map actually fired arrows, around 70% of my turrets just played the firing animation but wouldn't actually fire arrows. Idk if I was just doing something wrong, but I tried to add a gif to show what I'm talking about if that's helpful. Really great job on this tho I like it a lot!

I had a lot of fun trying new patterns for my defences. I don’t know if it’s my tendency of preferring more the optimisation of the patterns and let them do their thing than just go myself and defend… but I played it that way and made my pattern-recognising braincell go brrrrrr

But yeah, I did find a couple things:

• Second cycle in and the overworld music disappeared. Don’t know why.
• At first the SFX were a bit too loud, then they were fine when the music went away.
• The AI, on several playthroughs, seem to really reaaaaaally like the top-left side of my tower. I guess they hammer one side, then go all in on any open flank left. I got better at managing it, but maybe I was missing something or it was skill issue of mine.
• I thought the tower indicator below, while on the storm cycle, was how much was left of the storm. I kept on waiting, like “hey why it isn’t going down? hey why is it going down so quick? aw I died… it was the indicator of how I had left of my tower.” Then I thought “do I get rated on time survived and I am gonna die anyways?” and now I am just confused.

Either I am not very knowledgeable of these kinds of game (which, lemme be clear, I am), or I did indeed get real confused for legit reasons.

I am new to this game genre (maybe except for Civ V, idk if it counts), and I did find confusion a bit hard to really fully enjoy the game. But it’s not a deal breaker.

More UI context, or some explanation in-game about the cycles, the collecting crystal doing the storm (which I missed until later on. my bad); and there you go, problems solved! I say this as more of a complete newbie picking up a game that caught my eye, and these first impressions are real important to pick up new players and bring them up to your genre.

brb going to go try new optimised defence patterns. Pretty good experience!