Updating again after more play time:
I definitely want the dev to have credit for continuing to update and work on this and release small fixes here and there. But right now it's in a realm of one crash bug gets fixed just for a new one to pop up. I'll walk away from the game for 2 minutes to grab a drink out of the fridge, come back and it crashed. I'll be upgrading my cards, suddenly it black screens and crashes. I know it's EA, so there's bound to be bugs, but it's just frustrating to see them fixed only for there to be new sources. I'm sure the dev is working on it, but it's really tough to play right now with these consistent crashes.

Why are we not allowed to turn off the eye-aggravating soup that is the damage numbers over enemies? Absolutely adds nothing to the game except eye strain.

Adding an additional thought after playing more: Why is clicks even a system? You breeze through the amount needed for everything before even coming close to the number of clicks required. I had everything well before reaching even E50 gold, when the lowest amount of gold for one of the bonuses is E100, I think. I just don't get why this is even a thing that maxes out after 20 minutes of gameplay and is never used again? Unless there's a thing to reset it and buff it. Why isn't there a store in there to spend the clicks and gain some permanent bonuses??


Game is super laggy.
Some of the tutorials are broken. (Currently mine is the "hovering mouse over tips button - 1. Where the heck is the button? 2. Why is it not highlighted? 3. I've hovered over every possible option, why won't this tutorial go away?) - I actually just figured this out after a short while. The problem was I didn't have any cards to upgrade with cash, you had to upgrade them with the secondary currency first. Glad that the tooltip obscures the entirety of that upgrade panel, though. Again, needs a big fix, but maybe the tooltips aren't actually broken, just super poorly placed.
Very pay to win.

I can get over pay to win, but I can't get over the game being laggy and the tutorials being broken. Dev needs to put some serious work in, and then I'll be happy to change things if they improve.

Most hostile monetization I have ever experienced in an idle game. It's honestly comical.

Laggy start - though that subsides quickly - and ill thought out, tedious upgrade system. I think it is a huge upgrade on the first game, and I will probably hypocritically put a few hundred hours into this.
Buuuut, you're met with pay to win aspects within the first few minutes of play, and having this much PTW at launch early access isn't something I can recommend. It's just gross.

Gonna go play anyway because I'm broke and FTP is really all I can afford right now, but this is not a recommendation, it's a grudging acceptance.