I feel like I have to be missing something; there's no other way to explain it.

I have every upgrade, I have every prestige unlock (which, btw, don't try to prestige if you already have everything because it'll soft-lock the game), I have 15 of every staff, a v17.999 algorithm, and it only took me just over an hour to get there.

The game is fast in basically every respect... except for the World Impact bar, which has still barely managed to tick over 55% in all this time. In a game where you can unlock on offer in an hour, an agonizingly slow progress bar just feels like some cheap way to waste player time.

In the time it took me to write this, it ticked over to 56%. I don't feel like waiting for the other 44%.

Extremely shallow and absolutely not worth $5. At 40 minutes of playtime I have already maxed out the prestige upgrades and expect to be able to reach an ending after maybe 10 more minutes of play. Cool Windows XP aesthetic, but that's all it really has going for it.

I'm a massive fan of idle/incremental games. This is probably the worst one I've ever played. I'm 75 mins in and already I got essentially softlocked once during to a very poor tutorial and had to reset my progress, got back to where I was, blasted past it, prestiged, then got essentially softlocked again because the algorithm upgrades get absurdly expensive extremely quick, and after blasting through around 10 algorithms upgrades in about 2 minutes, I set staring at my screen for the next 3 or 4 minutes as I waited to buy one single point out of the 100 needed for an upgrade. Went from moving at mach speed to going slower than a snail in a matter of seconds. Considering the rough shape the game is in and the recent announcement where the dev calls this an "ongoing project", I really feel like this should've released in Early Access, because that's definitely what this game feels like. Just about the only thing this game has going for it is the very nostalgic aesthetic. I would definitely pass on this one for awhile.