What a cool mechanic, really hooked me once I understood it! It took me some time to grasp the core concept, but when it finally clicked, I played the game like 10 times. However, the mechanic could definitely be introduced better as I said, it was confusing to understand. The shop could also be a little more fair in its distribution. On some runs I never found a splitter and others had no passives, so I think it could use some fixed randomness. Also more and better guns, side guns are useless imo. The core mechanic is absolutely brilliant and creates really cool gameplay loops. Overall, this is a really solid game that with some polish and tweaking could be a real banger.

I got insta-killed in round 3 lol. The building mechanics is interesting. The problem is the cost of connectors to chain between buildings are almost the same as weapon buildings so you end up having to wait another wave to activate a weapon building. I can only buy 1 or nothing after each wave as money reward seems to be pre-determined per wave. Not sure, I may be doing it wrong. I will give it a try later, I got demotivated after several attempts of losing fast. My skill issue.

The low-res pixel art is charming and consistent so very good on that. The explosion particles are too many and some too huge, and at first I mistook the yellow ones are coins to grab lol. Retro soundtrack and retro sounds is a good decision. Overall I think you did great.

Loved it so much! ;) needed some time to get used to what to use - i think the splitters are far too rare, especially in the beginning, when the shop is small.

Homing, bouncing, piercing front shottgun carries so hard, that you dont need any other guns anyways haha.

Some ideas:

1. The screen is so colorful of explosions and bullets in the lategame that its kinda impossible to dodge - maybe a more noticable color for bullets?
2. More splitters ;)
3. sideguns are kinda - mäh - you kinda only want front anyways - maybe make them more viable by not needing direct power but beeing able to be powered from the side?
4. at the beginning of the game you can be greeted with undodgable bullets before you get control. Maybe add a grace period?

–> hell i played far too long! :D

pretty fun when i figured out how to play! i remember i commented on the descriptions, and actually, i found everything perfectly understandable this time around. good job!

the tutorial is definitely a bit long, so it was hard to remember everything before i started, but besides for that i liked your mechanic a lot. color choices were also great

I like the creativity in the gameplay here. I like the music you've got here. I think it should go longer before it loops, since the player can spend some time thinking. Is there a way to revisit the rules after they're initially presented without refreshing the whole game? I saw something about rotation, but I couldn't figure out how. I think the wave aspect was a unique take on the theme. I would love to see something more visual indicating the wave other than the blinking of the tiles. Maybe a moving vertical line (since it's a graph, I'm thinking of the vertical line test)? Or something bigger that flashes?