1) Buy me
2) Juice me
3) Squeeze me
4) Freeze me
5) Roll me
6) Sell me
7) Pill me
8) YOU PIECE
9) Pay out the believers

Wonderful to pop onto now and then and get my brain just activated enough thinking about synergies and how to pivot between different strong combinations to let the time pass without feeling a strong compulsion to play a ton. I'm not very good, but the extreme depth is evident and if I ever felt like it I'm sure I could get really into improving my skills. There's a special kind of richness to rolling with the punches of RNG or exerting your will over it that is very enticing to the TCG player part of my brain.

You piece.

I'm probably the only fucker on this site that has actually played this game to 100% completion. On the surface level it's a very simple auto-battler you buy the animal emojis, level them up, they hit each other and you try to win 10 times before running out of lives. But once you get into it the mechanical depth really shows. Leveling units on specific turns to allow you to acquire a higher tier animal 2 turns early to jump the power curve, learning order of operations based on stats, turn order, animal synergies in and out of battle it. It all meshes well for a surprising deep game if you're willing to learn it. While there is RNG with shops, if you are playing optimally you can win runs pretty often, the latest update made the life system even more forgiving and while going for achievements I have ended up with around 30% of my runs ending with 10 wins. My highest streak of 10 win runs in a row ended at 14 playing customs.

There are 4 main "packs" to play, one of which is F2P. The turtle and puppy packs are more simple, mostly focused on either scaling units, summoning units or sniping units. The starfish and the golden packs bring in new mechanics like trumpets and strawberries both of which offer a little more complexity. There is also a weekly pack of random animals/foods that gets generated every week that is free to everyone regardless if you own the pack with the specific animals in them or not. And custom packs which allow for sort of a deckbuilding experience. If I had to rate the packs I would say that the newest golden pack is my favorite of the bunch, the trumpet mechanic is a great addition and I can't wait to see what Team Wood has in store next.

Overall after 100's of hours, 456 achievements + a few secret ones this is the only F2P/Mobile game that I find is actually worth playing.

Shoutout to NL for playing this.

Don't get tricked by the cute exterior, this is one of the most infuriating games ever conceived.
Essentially a slot machine that tricks you into thinking it's more skill than luck because you'll see the community throwing around fancy words like "current meta" and "viable build".

Trying to have fun with the billion different pets the game provides you with? Get fucked nerd, "The Wet Aunties" summon a 50/50 Rhinoceros that one-shots your entire squad. Back to the mosquito dimension with you.
It doesn't even feel good to win, since it usually ends just before you finally manage to create a satisfying team.

File under "Games that are actually just fidget toys for when you want to listen to a podcast" along with Vampire Survivors and all that other brain slop.