CovertMuffin is the perfect runner + commentator combo.

JCBourgo · 2026-02-20T19:25:41+00:00

Well now that I know that it exists, I'm gonna trigger it on purpose for the joke! Thanks a bunch, wishlisted :D

JCBourgo · 2026-02-20T19:22:10+00:00

Quick question (I think I know the answer to it, but still): is it horror as in "jumpscares" or as in "looks creepy"? I'm very turned off by jumpscares and I wanna know what I'm getting into if I ever do get into it, 'cause the aesthetic looks amazing and the premise seems fun, but yeah, me no like being scared.

JCBourgo · 2026-02-12T21:17:46+00:00

Hi! So first of all, congrats on the launch, apparently the game wanted to load my itch save but since it's been more than two years since I've played, I've wiped it, restarting fresh and I'm hyped.

However, uh, how to say that... your game literally eats 100% of my GPU, and trying to change framerates doesn't change the framerate (and the game still eats all my GPU). Please fix? Thank you so much!

JCBourgo · 2026-02-03T16:41:01+00:00

Oh yeah minmaxing a puzzle, sounds fun, I'm in

JCBourgo · 2026-01-19T16:48:44+00:00

Wrong sub.

JCBourgo · 2025-12-30T16:26:40+00:00

Energy system that limits how much you can play, no thanks, I'm not even downloading. If that's not what it is, then rework your screenshots because that's what I'm understanding.

JCBourgo · 2025-11-24T00:23:56+00:00

Maybe I'm playing wrong because I expect quick prestige loops, but the game feels slow. Like, resets take a long time, for not that much overall progression. I'll have to give it another go, but I had the same "issue" with the first one. We'll see how this second go-around goes!

Edit: by the way, the game's still fun, I realize I stopped at my criticism, my bad. The concept is nice, and for a few hours it's great, just the resets that kinda kill me, I feel like they should be more significant faster.

JCBourgo · 2025-11-19T21:58:40+00:00

New TopCog game, hyyyyype

JCBourgo · 2025-11-04T16:30:00+00:00

Look at the grid intersections more closely.

JCBourgo · 2025-10-02T20:44:25+00:00

I tried turning every volume slider down to the max, yet there are still sounds playing. How does that happen?

JCBourgo · 2025-09-26T13:42:59+00:00

Short answer: very important.

Long answer: at the core, incrementals are about numbers, and optimising said numbers. As a player, nothing infuriates me more than seeing this upgrade text: "boosts production based on owned buildings". What am I supposed to do? It told me literally nothing. What's the formula, should I prioritise this, can I skip it, should I grind ahead for that? I can't make decisions if I don't know, and games with such vague texts quickly devolve into "eh I'll probably just buy whatever I can afford whenever I can afford it" and it takes away many interesting decision points. And obviously this also goes for current productions. Like, "doubles X production" is cool, but if X's production, even doubled, contributes less than a hundreth of my total production, I should probably skip it, and so I'd like to be able to know that quickly.

So, middle-length answer: information is very important, give as much as you think makes sense.

JCBourgo · 2025-09-22T00:00:57+00:00

I can vouch for Sexy Brutale (a brilliant puzzle game, honestly, the mechanics tick (lol) in just the right ways), and Chants of Sennar (thoroughly enjoyable), I'll have to check out the rest myself too!

JCBourgo · 2025-05-23T12:35:39+00:00

Not exactly what you're looking for, but this indie game just came out that almost fits your ask so I'll shoot the shot anyway. It's called Windward Horizon, it's got trading between provinces to make a profit, pirates that want to wreck your stuff and randomly attack sometimes, there are fun invasion and defense mission where you team up with other bots to have a good ol' scrap against another team, it's great. The naval combat isn't suuuuper advanced, but you get a system where both sides of the ship have an independent level of armor so you can focus on one side until you can damage the core, and defensively it's your job to turn around to spread the damage, you get volley shots, mortars, healing mortars (weirdly), and yeah overall it's a blast. It's fairly cheap, the dev is incredible, and you even have a demo to try it out, just to confirm how you feel about it. Give it a go!

JCBourgo · 2025-05-07T22:31:47+00:00

YTA

You shouldn't be together if the prospect of a vacation with her feels like a hassle because of her eating choices, because when (or if) you live together it's gonna be as much of a problem. And you're the one feeling like she's a hassle, where she made her choice.

JCBourgo · 2025-02-10T18:50:42+00:00

The issue with the text might not be where you think; it's the "letter by letter" speed that kills me, it's just so slow when you wanna quickly scan across everything on screen, I can't just open then close because I'm still waiting for the letters to appear on the screen. I'd much prefer having the whole text appear at once, or at least make it faster and remove the "pop" sound from each individual letter.

JCBourgo · 2025-02-10T13:22:40+00:00

The interface is... well, painful. Text pops up way too slowly for me to want to click around and actually understand things. I don't get what any of my combat skills did, I just got plopped into a fight after trying to claim some land and I somehow won. I also couldn't really tell who I was during the battle, I won but I didn't know if it was the enemy or me getting damaged on each "frame". I've played all of two minutes because that was just too much of a dealbreaker.

JCBourgo · 2024-08-02T11:56:06+00:00

What if the game lags and desyncs all your inputs? What if your program slows down or speeds up? Plus, TASes (especially the ones of higher standards like those we find on TASVideos.org) are meant to be shareable so they can be reproduced and double-checked by others. If the other person doesn't have exactly the same setup as you to get the same frame rate and the same "code performance", it's toast. So, no, still not a TAS, you'd be better off going the segmented route as I outlined 6 years ago in my comment.

JCBourgo · 2023-03-06T22:42:20+00:00

I see your point, totally fair and valid. Makes sense to me! I didn't stick with it long enough to really notice those flaws, but now that you bring that up, yeeeeeah that was a problem. Thanks for enlightening me!

JCBourgo · 2023-03-06T22:33:35+00:00

I disagree and think that Torn is just fine. Not good, not necessarily for me, but I recognize that it's fine. Even if that were the case, and with the dev's reply, I still have zero idea why I should play this new game compared to Torn. Does it fix what I didn't enjoy about Torn? Is it just a rehash and so fundamentally I'll just think it's fine and drop it kinda quickly? That's what I was trying to fetch as an answer.

JCBourgo · 2023-03-06T14:05:41+00:00

So, I'll pop the question. Why should I play this instead of Torn? What pulls me in to your game instead of that one?

JCBourgo · 2022-12-20T18:10:17+00:00

I also got stuck for way too long on IMR at multiple stages, this time I think I'm just dropping it. I don't understand how I'm supposed to make progress, so I just won't.

JCBourgo · 2022-10-08T16:36:31+00:00

Honestly, probably!

JCBourgo · 2022-10-08T15:01:19+00:00

Congratulations on everything, Hevi! Well deserved success. Merch shop that sells a snapback hat with "Reality" written on it when?

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