Super Fantasy Kingdom

Underneath everything, it's a fun game. But holy hell is this the WORST progression, achievements, and grinding of any game I have ever played, zero exaggeration. I used to think Tainted Grail had the worst, but this game takes it by a mile. You have to play horrible units, playstyles, and perform goofy acts through repeated forced failures just so you can eek further to unlock even more stuff. I think the most egregious thing is for each faction, there is ONE optimal build order. ONE. When I say build order, I mean literally build this, then spend this on this, then this, in that order, precisely each time. If you deviate or try something else, you are at a huge disadvantage. Parts of the game are really good, but it's so bogged down with horrible systems and insanely boring and tedious grinding and drip feed progression.

4/10 incremental game. It's ok. This games advertising in deceptive. While a roguelike, a city builder, and a strategy game, all three elements are executed in a fairly shallow manner because this is actually an incremental game at its core and the point of all three systems is to engage with this core purely. - The strategy is pretty much nothing. It boils down to getting the right units at the right stage of the game, putting them in the exact right spot, and calling it a day. It's actually pretty disappointing in practice. - The city building is just on rails. You have slots, you put buildings on them, as the game gets more incremental, you can make more buildings. Eventually it just turns into micromanagement hell where you have to spend an unreasonable quantity of time maneuvering workers from one building to another so you can keep up with the the strategy combat end. - At the

I'm pretty disappointed, but it's personal. This game is a super good idea; but it's not done the way I personally enjoy. I loved the game for the first few runs. My main problem though... This game is solved-by-design. There are 1-2 actual build orders you NEED to do in order to win, and you can only unlock those after like 50 runs. (Ex: Day 1 build tavern, lumber, house, quarry, swap 1 cutter to stone, gather 3 stone, swap to wood, upgrade castle.) 50 near identical runs where if you're lucky, every five or six runs you'll unlock a few things to make those runs take 1 or 2 less in-game-days each run. In the beginning you unlock several things at once, of course. But 10, 15 runs in you realize you're going to do another 10 runs before gaining anything new. This isn't a 'Keep feeding rogue currency into resources for future runs.' kind of game. This is a 'Find a wood statue that adds