Idle Brick Breaker

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Greetings mechanics and tinkerers!

Today, the mechanical spiders of the web bring you: Idle Brick Breaker

Today's game is another one filled with neon art. A simple game that you watch more than play.

The game has two currencies. Dollars and gems. Gems are premium currency used to buy upgrades. You get level after level of random block shapes with increasing hp. You can gain diamonds from tasks or every so often challenges show up. Very rarely, bricks can have a single gem.

Balls, at least 12 different kinds. The first button with the purple ball brings to the ball menu. You get a random 3 to choose from. Each one does different things. Poison balls make bricks take more damage from other balls. The prices to upgrade these become silly, fast.

The bulk of your powerups come from these cards from the second button with the magenta square. These upgrades take a lot of premium currency.

The yellow bolt is a menu that holds temporary upgrades or tasks to earn premium currency. Very time consuming for very little offered. 

Prestige is the way you reset. You gain massive bonuses that help you progress along with the infinite resets.

Perks show up under levels. These last for one prestige. When you hit certain levels, you get a perk. They give you boosts until you decide to restart from level 1 again.

Overall :

 4 of 5 cogs.

The game is simple, but you spend more time watching. You can click on a block to do 1 point of damage. There is no upgrade I found to increase that damage.

Story:

 0 of 5 cogs.

Your story is in another dirigible. 

Amount of ads:

 

None except for optional ones that give very limited powerups or dollars.

Accurate Advertising?:

💯%

Straight forward. All video ads I've seen match the content exactly.

Graphics:

 

2 of 5 cogs.

Simple, hyper-casual game graphics. This game was most likely created by a single person, in a short amount of time.

Gameplay:

2 of 5 cogs.

Just an idle game with limited interactivity. You spend time just staring at the screen or letting it idle offline.

Free play:

90%

Free to play and get everything but it is very grindy to do so.

Fun factor:

💤 sleep-inducing.

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Cat Heroes: Merge

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Greetings mechanics and tinkerers!

Today's game is Cat Heroes: Merge Defense

Cat Heroes is a space-age trip from the 80s. The neon style gives this game a retro feel.

The color of the cat affects what elemental type of damage it does to the invading balls? You can also unlock stronger versions of the same cat, which also changes how it looks.

There are several powerups that you can watch videos for. The first one here is energy. This is used to summon cats into a holding bay. (I lost the screenshot of this.)

In this bay, you can combine cats with the same number and color to make them stronger, then fuse them in the main field.

The second powerup you can gain by watching videos is a speed boost. This powerup increases the attack speed of the cats.

The third powerup is simple. It auto merges all cats in the waiting bay.

You can click on the treasure box to bring up the cat upgrade menu. The first 4 slots upgrade the merging bay.

This last screenshot is just the stats of one of the cats you get. You use the star currency to upgrade your cats.

Overall:

 4 of 5 cogs.

The game is a nice time killer. You can pick up and play anytime. You can't progress until you beat a full wave. Bosses show up every five levels.

Story:

 

0 of 5 cogs.

No story to speak of in this game.

Amount of ads:

No ads beyond optional ones for rewards.

Accurate Advertising?:

💯%

Graphics:

 3 of 5 cogs.

Simple neon 80s style. No detail beyond that of a Lite-brite.

Gameplay:

 4 of 5 cogs.

Basic tower defense gameplay. It gets difficult to progress without beating levels. Sometimes the free chest will give you things to progress.

Free play:

90%

You can generally play for free but the difficulty forces you to try paying to advance.

Fun factor:

😎 fun for a time.

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Updates coming

Disreguarding last post, the blog will resume once I find a work around for uploading screen shots. New artwork is on the way as well.

I have updated all the star images with a new gear animation. Art is provided by E-122-psi: https://www.deviantart.com/e-122-psi

I have plans to make a new background that's more fitting to a steampunk theme and new tip-jar art. Maybe a few new theme objects once i figure out what it takes.