Cauldron

I think some of the best reviews of a game come from the people who've dedicated hours of their lives to find that the game they've played for dozens of hours is really just ok I want this point to be clear: This game, in its current state, is like a 5/10. I wish Steam had a "Mixed Feelings" because I like part of it, but the whole is not worth it. PROS: - The art is pretty good. I will fully admit that I am just a sucker for pixel art, so this is a little bit of my bias, but the sprites on display were really well done. - I LOVE the characters, even if some were clearly heavily inspired by pre-existing games, like Froggy clearly just being Frog from Chrono Trigger. Each character was unique, and I loved the personality given to them in the unlockable interactions. If I had to pick, my favorite designs are Froggy (Because I’m a slut for CT), Tankston, Mortimer, and the Elemental Brothers. - The option to carry over save data from other playthroughs is a nice QOL that helps smoot...

Pretty fun and inventive spin on the idle game genre. The mini games evolving into completely new games as you unlock new progression is a very welcome twist. If you don't mind a game that includes some grind, this one is a worthwhile pick up.

Cauldron is an interesting little package. The general gimmick is the interplay between the minigames and RPG battles; playing the minigames gets you resources to exchange for skill points for your party; you then clear enemies from parts of the map to find new characters/games/upgrades and so forth. There's decent variety in the games; the apple catching minigame evolves over time into a bullet hell shooter; there's a fishing game similar to Link's Awakening, a tile based mining game, a Vampire Survivors-like, and an ice breaking puzzle game. As you clear the base game, you unlock new modes with different modifiers, like one where all enemy groups are doubled up in size, a pacifist mode where you literally can't fight any enemies and have to bribe everyone with your minigame resources, and so on. It's a compelling time sink (particularly as something you poke at while watching videos/streams/etc), and I put a lot of hours into it in fairly short time; I don't know if it's a great ...

Superb game! A masterpiece imo.

The game is cheesy and cute, and somehow the demo alone ate almost three hours of my life; so I bought it. Out of everything it is I have to say the mini-games are actually really great in how fun they are, and they tie back into some other things throughout the game in quite a smart way; overall meaning it surprised me in how well things fall together while lamp-shading tropes and being deeper that it seems on the surface.

Not just a good mix of different types of gameplay Honestly, top notch story too

19 hours in game, but most of it spent Idle/AFK. I tried to like it, but the real gameplay is limited to 5 (or at least that's how many I unlocked) simple minigames, and no amount of extra score multipliers will make them more interesting. Especially as you reach the end the upgrade trees pretty soon and all that's left are those infinite score multipliers, so you do exactly same thing for a bit more points. I'd rather spend the money on some shorter incremental game that remains engaging throughout than on this.

Probably THE best entry to the genre of idle, AND incremental games. Incredibly fun for so many different types of people.

Probably one of the most FUN incremental games I've ever played. The idea of a minigame focused incremental game is genius. Everything starts of real slow - for example, the apple catch game starts off with you maybe managing to get 3 or 4 apples before the minigame ends. Then, as you get more and more upgrades in the tree, you'll find yourself not even worrying about apples which are falling by the millions upon millions, while you're dealing with bullet hell mechanics. My personal favourite minigame is the minecart game which is a bit like vampire survivors. Again, you start off barely making it a minute or two into the level, and then once you've got a few upgrades you're suddenly carting around your entire team and wiping the floor with slimes and bats and skeletons. There's multiple game modes, including an almost fully-idle game mode that unlocks fairly early on, Progress in each different game mode impacts your other game modes via resource mulitipliers, meaning that yo...

Amazing incremental game that feels like an evolution of the genre. 10/10