Good time waster. Not a lot of depth
Been playing this game for a couple of hours already well past lvl 100. There isn’t a lot of progression from one level to the next. The chests you get for level do not scale with you level but rather the gold/kill. Which is an issue that I’ll dive into in a sec. The simplistic animation is actually really good. I do like the look to it. The miners look RIDICULOUS at higher mining speed. I am at x3.63 and it looks like they are spamming on a pile of dirty. Not an issue by any means, pretty fun to watch.
This will be a long review. I will be listing a lot of issues I have seen while playing.
Issues/bugs:
One of the skeleton that spawn on the right side of the island will sometime get stuck in between the rock, dock, and island. If you tap it enough it will either die and you get the gold or it will “bump” it back on land and will continue running towards the melee pirate where it acts like normal.
The return investment on upgrades stop feeling like you are actually gaining anything from it once you surpass the upgrade costing more than a few 100k. You can feel this mostly with the gold/kill or mining. It does not feel like it is maintaining usefulness at all. My miners are at 6k and my next upgrade costs over 1m. I feel, however that the miners are the most effective gold/sec asset there are. When you mix the speed upgrades you see a noticeable difference. So over all that isn’t too bad to invest in. The melee pirate however I feel is worthless to invest in long term. Even with the damage and attack speed upgrade it is still taking forever to kill the skeletons. I am mine 6-8 ore before he kills 3-4. The cost just isn’t worth it long term.
The biggest source of investment comes from chests. You can either find chests by digging them up or by leveling up. The level up chest is easiest to get because it is guarantee to drop on level. Leveling is super easy because the amount of exp needed never increases. So you gain levels very rapidly once you upgrade your miners. I can probably get 1-2 levels a minute of active playing. The gold per chest is dependent of your gold/kill and not your level. I think this needs to be the other way around. Downside to leveling is it isn’t automatic. You have to click your level to advance then click the cheat to open. THEN you have to click the chest to close it in order for it to disappear.
THIS IS THE BUG!!!!!!!! MAKE SURE YOU CLOSE THE PREVIOUS CHEST BEFORE SPAWNING ANOTHER!!!!! THE ONES YOU SPAWN AFTER WILL DISAPPEAR AND YOU WILL NOT GET THE GOLD!!!!!
The chests that you dig up are another big source of gold. The good thing is these chest close and disappear on their own. Bad news is there can only be one chest at a time. If two (or three) spawn and you click on one you will only get the gold from that single chest and it will cause the other chest to disappear. Costing you a decent chunk of gold. That needs to be fixed. Gold on these chests are reliant on your gold/ore not your level or gold/kill.
These next two do not really effect the overall game or progression:
The level up chest will sometime get block by a skeleton if there are multiple surrounding the melee pirate. It is still interactive and you can get your gold. It’ll just float midair.
Sometime skeletons will get excited and run off the map and into the water. Every time this happens another one spawn pretty quickly afterwards. It’s just funny to watch a skeleton get shoulder checked by the spaztastic miners and get launched into the water. Unfortunately you don’t not get any gold for this (in my opinion) totally legitimate form of skeleton killing. If you do manage to tap on the skeleton before he plunges to his death you WILL get gold for the kill.
I really hope that they are actively working on improvements this game and to add new content. Overall a decent game but pretty shallow in content and short overall growth after the first few upgrades/levels.