Idle Isekai - An idle RPG

Alright. I've spent a couple days toying with this, so here's my thoughts.

The core design here isn't half bad. The early power curve feels a bit stiflingly slow, but it's a story-based tutorial chapter, and it does its job well (even if I'm miffed I didn't get to recruit the precious little kitty cat to my party). Though the game doesn't introduce players to its more interesting systems presently, the unit summoning and merging have some interesting merits and trade-offs to consider, and overall progression feels nice, even though the game itself often feels ploddingly slow, even with a full party. Some sort of speed-up option would be deeply welcome here, especially since combat is, at present, extremely hands-off. The progression carries the whole package for now, which is extremely important for the genre, so that's good.

On the presentation front, though, the whole thing is sort of a mess. The assets don't mesh well, and when scaled up for dialogue the pixellation is pretty wild. The calligraphy font chosen for titles and such is extremely difficult to read, and the spelling seems out to create an entirely new written dialect of the English language. Some items, such as the topmost upgrade at the blacksmith, are simply hanging out of frame, obscured by the UI. Flavor text that most games would save for hovertext tooltips is abundant to such degree that it's often hard to parse what an actual upgrade even does, and the text that actually explains that tends to be cramped into a much smaller chunk of screen real estate even though it's the important information. The value of health, mana, and anything else tied to meters doesn't clamp, resulting in action bars spiking out of bounds and health meters entering wild negative values so long that they can sometimes obscure a neighboring unit's meter entirely on your status summary. Sprites in combat are extremely tiny, and they and the field are in an entirely different style from everything else in the game. Screen real estate on a whole seems partitioned off haphazardly on all fronts. It feels like bloom lighting and shadows won out over legibility and basic, functional UI no matter how I slice it.

In terms of actual bugs, you can merge units so long as you have the RP to do so (a number that seems completely separate from the RP used in the church???), even if you have no units to merge. This basically just resets your guy to level 1 with no benefit. It seems like that shouldn't be an option to begin with? The text windows that pop up after clearing the first chapter also do not scale to screen size, which I found out because you're using a lot of it, so I had to zoom out the web page to do much else with my screen

I feel like there's a lot of promise here, or I wouldn't bother with it for so long or have so many thoughts. There's a good, solid foundation here, even if most of the assets are almost certainly sourced from elsewhere. I know the project is early on, so I can be forgiving of a lot, and I've already seen that the next update involves someone playing spellchecker for you so that's already a good start. I hope to see this improve and live up to its potential!

The game is amazing and has so much potential but I feel like there is nothing to do in between the time that I have to wait for a character to die or press motivate every once in a while, And when the guy does die I just click like 3 buttons to see if I should have enough money to upgrade Hp or damage. I just want to do something more while we wait for a the guy to die, IDK maybe idle games are just like this and Ik I am asking for a lot for a game that came out 12 days ago but this would be nice.

there are "Eamil" and "Confurm password" in the account creation fill-in form

btw have you seen the action bar spiking outside of it's bounds? especially during motivation...

https://gyazo.com/487d535d2c3e9daad1816f2d38ad7272

(it happens every cycle, gyazo just doesnt have enough framerate to capture it every time, but it caught a few to demonstrate there)

can we get a mana ability for Groug? some suggestions:

- cleave attack

- finishing move prioritizing wounded enemies

- life leeching attack (this one would be super useful for my solo game without healer ;) )

The target the character chooses is retarded, it spreads its damage around and ends up taking so much damage from half alive enemies...

btw there is no way to export from the game? i just realized that im on v0.0.6 and if i refresh the tab i lose everything

what does wisdom do exactly? it's such a mysterious stat

i quite like it.

do you have a discord for the game?

Idle games have always been fundamentally bare bones. Cookie Clicker, said to be the game that laid the groundwork for the whole genre, is fundamentally simple. Unless you enjoy the farming or the stock market mini game, the only real option you have is clicking on more cookies and waiting for temporary boosts that can increase your production 10,000 fold.

Why is Cookie Clicker fun then...

To me personally, it's main driving point is the extensive hidden lore funny enough. It may seem simple at first, hiring more grannies to cook cookies. Soon however, you  find yourself within the cookie multiverse, feeding your own cookie dragon.

All in all...

Idle games fundamentally lack the "gameplay" element. To supplement this, many developers have introduced other sources of appeal, such as humor, lore, story, or simply the raw dopamine of seeing a large number. Even though the writing is not something to write home about, I still would highly recommend that you focus on Storytelling as your main "hook". If you continue to work on this project, I could see some potential in a more witty light hearted adventure that could poke fun at tropes and its source inspiration. Overall, good job and good luck.

Am I missing something? It seems that the gameplay consists of starting a new run, waiting 10 minutes, then clicking once on an item upgrade and restarting a run.

Every few minutes it's possible to click on "Motivate" which makes a few attacks faster.

Is there some other mechanic or is this it?

add more story please! it's the best part