It is really adicting, but has its flaws. Once you get to play for a while, you will have no idea what's going on because you can't check additional information about the production or consumption of stuff. There is a "nerd mode", but it's not clear or helpful. There's also no indication about how many resources each machine can process or in which order, which makes the complicated recipes feel overwhelming.
As a roguelike, I think there's some balance between really niche cards and generally good cards, but the card system is stupid. The cards get consumed when you use them, so there is not a deck in a classical way, which defeats the whole purpose of using cards. In these kind of games, you rarely need to get a certain card more than once or twice for assembling a synergy and you can control the number of cards (by not adding them or removing old cards), but here you either get lucky and roll the specific cards you need everytime, you play a bit of everything and hope the crops don't interfere with each other or you have some way to produce cards from other cards, which basically breaks the game.
I played until I got the "you win" message at round 200 and kept playing until my farm collapsed at 220. There was so many stuff in screen that the game lagged every new turn. I think the game can be a pretty decent roguelike, but it needs several changes to the core gameplay.

Reviewed on Nov 22, 2023


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