Interesting game. While I do agree a tutorial would help immensely for this game since its overwhelming at the start, it's also a gamejam so I totally get the time crunch, and I figured things out eventually. Unfortunately what hurt the most were a few key bugs and UI things that made things difficult to play.
- I had tooltips going off the screen a couple times which made it impossible to read unfortunately. I ended up doing a bunch of research multiple days in a row to figure out what it does but still am not sure. Was it unlocking upgrades?
- Once I'd amassed a lot of resources for building monster, dragging it in the center one at a time was excruciating. It was cute with few stats but with a lot, it got tedious.
- Balance wise, temp work is kinda op just because of how quick it is comparatively to making guys. I decided to not abuse it to fully experience the intended gameplay loop, but this is more of a nitpick haha.
Either way, I still had fun! Nice submission!
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Thanks for the feedback and thank you for letting me know about the tool-tip going off-screen. Yep, doing research gives you points which allow you to unlock better machines. I wanted the dragging to be slightly tedious to nudge players to buy machines but I may have overdone it haha. Will definitely consider this post-jam. I also need to work on the balance as well because buying machines is also not worth it in the jam version ^^'