This review is based on the DespATPT release (not going to be updated because the game uses obsolete software).
Theme: No real theme. It's a Prestige Tree-styled game, just with new layers. Some bits are slightly inspired by Distance Incremental.
Gameplay and core mechanics: It's like Prestige Tree, you can reset for prestige points once you have enough points and spend them on upgrades. However, instead of leading to boosters and generators, you can reset for knowledge to multiply prestige points and then unlock skills that add to the knowledge base. Beyond that point, you get a few more layers that have their own resources, milestones, and upgrades, though a few have some minor gimmicks like factories that produce things and the one below them or rocket fuel that slowly increases and multiplies rocket power.
Balancing and difficulty: Average speed and easy early on. Several layers are rather lenient with how far you can go before resetting and no challenges. Getting to 1e40,000 points and making it through most layers takes about four hours. Once you're at that amount, you are absolutely allowed to edit the savefile to have 355 factories and get intelligence. After that, it's waiting for various resources, with the most important being rocket fuel to boost rockets (this part is almost entirely a timewall and a chore without offline progress). Once you have the last intelligence upgrade, the game speeds up quite a bit and only speeds up more and more as you get more rockets and the numbers inflate. You'll eventually get softlocked due to a NaN error.
Content on offer: About average in terms of size, nine somewhat small layers. No real endgame, but reaching the softlock should take about three days.
Polish and miscellaneous additions: No interesting additions, but no glitches or typos (outside of the balancing and eventual softlock).
While the idea of a Prestige Tree-style game that came out before The Modding Tree was impressive, the game doesn't really have many features or interesting gameplay to stand out nowadays. The first couple of hours are fine enough, but the downright busted balancing past this point really sours the experience.
Showing its age
This review is based on the DespATPT release (not going to be updated because the game uses obsolete software).
While the idea of a Prestige Tree-style game that came out before The Modding Tree was impressive, the game doesn't really have many features or interesting gameplay to stand out nowadays. The first couple of hours are fine enough, but the downright busted balancing past this point really sours the experience.
Overall rank: D (Barely adequate)