Started off fun, ADR vibe. Iron as an early gate was a little tedious. I stopped playing when the trading post came up and asked for money. Gross. Reminded me of every terrible mobile revenue extraction game. :-( it pulls one out of the game. Asking for money is 4th wall breaking. Also, why would it ever be worth spending money.

This is a clone of ADR, at least at the start, with some real money upgrades about 20 mins in (lol why, just edit the localstorage).

It would probably be more fun without all the UI jank (ads coming soon I bet), and add some “AI slop”, might differentiate it more from others. Use nano banana pro and veo to gen some textures, animations, etc.

What value is the “dark cave” place (opposed to “dark room”) anyway? You could easily substitute it with any early Mcguffin and remove the association with the earlier, more successful game. This feels like a try hard clone that’s trying to extract dollars from sucker players.