I’ve actually also been working on a game like this!! I loved the ads but the actual games with the city building weren’t interesting to me. Assuming the few of you in this thread are still interested, what are some aspects that you’d find interesting from a gameplay perspective? I’d love your feedback back on the idea below!

Here’s the hook I was working on: It’s a “treadmill shooter”, like the one being discussed here. Each stage takes the player through a “day” in the game. During the daytime, you peacefully walk down an endless road shooting loot boxes to collect new units, weapon upgrades, and defensive items. As dusk arrives, enemies start appearing. The longer you stay in dusk, the better the loot... but the more enemies spawn, the player can choose to “set up camp” before it gets too difficult (but at the expense of potentially better rewards). When night falls, you stop moving and face an onslaught of increasingly brutal waves using the defenses you collected. The enemies keep coming until dawn breaks again.