(the) Gnorp Apologue

Not sure why I'm recommending this. If you want it, get it on sale. I got it for about $4, which is a little expensive for what Gnorp Apologue offers. Game is a little on the short and easy side for an idle game. I have no idea why I buy and 'play' idle games like this. Most of the interaction with Gnorp Apologue is what I would describe as watching a screen saver that's trying to explode your GPU and occasionally looks like a pride parade doing it. Eventually you'll get enough resource to buy a building upgrade. If you play the long game, purchasing an upgrade can take hours to days. The only real challenge is selecting which perks and zybellium upgrades synergize the best for the most resource production. The perk points carry over between games win or respawn which is the only replayability Gnorp has. I *DO* find the visuals for this game intriguing though. Little men that look like TVs with legs absolutely fucking HATE this one goddamn rock. Their entire purpose and reason for...

If I could give a rating of "meh" I would. Given the Overwhelmingly Positive rating I was expecting something a bit more exciting. I was also thrown off by the screenshots and videos of compression events making me thing the game had a bit more spectacle. If you liked this check out Fill Up The Hole. Inspired by Gnorp it is a faster paced but different alternative. The game was cool, cutesy, fun enough. I think my issue was with the talent point system. You can accidentally brick yourself with incorrect builds and have to reset with no payoff for the next run. Maybe there could have been a secondary points system rewarding you on prestige to quickly boost you past the early game back to where you were or something. The devs newer game Tower Wizard, fixes this issue. Apart from that I felt there wasn't enough active play mechanics, but then also not enough idle play mechanics to be a true idler. Overall I give the game a "its alright"/10

I'll be honest I don't get this game. The loop is boring. I feel like I never make any progress, there's almost no variety between runs. It consistently makes you restart which means you're just going through the most boring part of the game over and over. There's very little guidance on how to progress in any meaningful way. I don't understand the "overwhelmingly positive" reviews.

Very fun. A little disappointing in how limited the endgame can be, but the upcoming epilogue might make it shine.

I thought it would be really fun but just didn't enjoy it very much. The pacing starts out good then just falls off a cliff and leaves you wondering if you're doing something wrong. The pacing when leaving it alone for a day and letting it idle still felt way too slow. I don't like that there aren't tooltips to see what type of gnorp is doing how much damage. Instead I have to guess from the icon or hover through menus to try to find a match. There were some bugs with the UI too where a box would pop up to say I have a new upgrade available and clicking it would take me to the correct building but no upgrade was available there. Overall, meh. I don't recommend it. It was okay at best, maybe a little interesting. But that quickly turned to frustration and boredom as the pace slowed to a crawl with seemingly no improvements to be made.

IM BUSTING ALL OVER THE FUCKING SHEETS OMG

yeah this is good wish it was nicer about working on linux

A little different from other games of this genre I've played (which isn't a ton), this one has a lot more strategy for resource management, since the "number go up" currency isn't really the fundamental currency you need for progress, that is tied more in population in the "endgame" as well as the very limited upgrade stars you get at each stage (normally only one per stage), so making a plan of attack each run is important to progress at a reasonable rate. You may even have to scrap a run that isn't making progress without gaining anything to try again with a different build or strategy, since there's no ability to scrap or refund anything (other than skills only between runs). The little guys are cute and the graphics are charming. Eventually you may want to mute the sound though, as all the rockets and gunshots can get to be a lot and the public-domain music is a bit repetitive. It could be frustrating for some, easy to hit a wall with little guidance about how to progress. I got ...

Very clever clicker game, finally one with a "story" and a strategy, instead of just higher and higher numbers.

Fun little game if you like idle games, I must say that some aspects are a little unbalanced while other upgrades seem a bit useless so it could do with some more fine tuning. Some perks from rebirthing can actually make it harder to progress and in a way it feels like there are only really one or two viable strategies to play the game. Some nitpicking: - Gnorps can't be changed into different types of Gnorps, could use a "gnorp retrain center" with a fee - Reclamation is too aggressive but the upgrades you can get can easily overthrow it (both could use a nerf) - Prestige being only based on collection rate seems a bit weird, as collection rate can be inflated at times with some methods, I think a clear number would be good so the player knows how much he must collect per minute - Runners have a perk that triggers at the half way line but that line isn't visible and not really centered - Sometimes I had weird "half pixel jittering" when you position the camera - garden should state ...