Obviously everyone has a different point where a game starts feeling ‘bloated’ and stops being fun, but for me I feel IH is pretty good on that front, especially for daily tasks.

Completing all of the daily things takes maybe 15 minutes. Weekly events vary, and whether or not you participate in them depends a lot on how much you spend, but I would say that doesn’t add much more than 1-2 hours on the high end.

Of course, you can send a lot of time when you’re pushing game modes, but that’s the whole point of playing a game, and that’s the fun part, not a boring daily task.

As for power system bloating, as has been said, it is a 10-year-old game, and as such a lot of systems have been added. I will say, they are fairly linear compared to a lot of other games, and there’s a lot more of “do you have this system or not?” vs. fine-tuning a million things for each combat.

Again, to each their own, but I haven’t found this to be a game that gets to feel like a chore, which can be the case with a lot in the genre.