Hacker News Reader

Comment by Cerium | Hacker News Reader

It has excellent replay value.

It has basically no replay value, compared to games like Kittens or Evolve. Every playthrough is basically the same. There are no substantially different strategies, and only at the very end is there a single decision that determines which of two endings (and fairly simple boosts) you get. After one playthrough you have seen 99.9% of the content, after two you have seen 100%

The writing and the story is pretty damn good though.

The new version has a multiverse map you have to traverse through to collect some really sick upgrades

It's an absolute grind, but once you pick up some 500% productivity multipliers it gets much easier

Oh shit. Gotta nope out of that as long as I'm still playing Evolve.

It sucked up several weeks of my time. Got about halfway through the map before my save file got corrupted.

Honestly kinda ruined it, I don't know if I can play the game again knowing I lost a couple hundred hours of progress

Yet somehow over the last so many years I have played this game 3 or 4 times and had fun each time.

It has non traditional replay value, because you are absolutely correct in your detailing of playthrough similarity, yet it appears few if any of us are able to ignore its siren song.

If anybody needs links to Evolve & Kittens, here you go:

- Kittens: https://kittensgame.com/web/

- Evolve: https://pmotschmann.github.io/Evolve/

Reply on news.ycombinator.com