Hi! Im currently working on a browser-based roguelite frog-taming autobattler called Hopfall. If you share your game, Id be happy to give you some feedback.
You can play it here:
https://classical-frog.itch.io/hopfall
Your feedback is greatly appreciated!
Thank you so much! That was a very detailed and valuable analysis, I am very grateful :)
Be as brutal as possible lol its still early in development and I love critical feedback!
First of all, the game's art style made a good impression on me, but after trying out your game for about 15 minutes, I just couldn't figure out what exactly you were doing. It's a kind of 1v1 detective game where you battle players online asynchronously, and the more evidence you find the more points you get? I had to figure that out for myself because the tutorial didn't help much. I didn't have time to read one tutorial section because it automatically jumped to the next one without me pressing continue. Also, the text is very small.
Because of that I didnt really get to enjoy the game because the tutorials user experience was not really good for me.
Yessir it is very uncooked still and confusing! I will improve the tutorial massively, improve instructions and make text better.
Yes the goal is to figure out evidence and optimize your Pet Detective using cards so that their solutions to the cases are better than your opponents. So real time training and building of your Pet Detective. Yea this is not mentioned correctly anywhere lol, thank you👍 I am improving it daily🫡
Hey thanks a lot for your feedback! That are some points I didnt get before so thats very valuable for me.
I tried out your game x minute hero and I will give you some feedback as someone who has played quite a few of games like this and has kind of got bored of them.
The problem with these games is that there are a lot of them out there, so it will be hard to sell yours if you want to make some money from it. What I like about these type of "vampire survivor"-like games is that you can just relaxfocus on building up your character.
The nine vertical upgrades for your stats felt rather too complex to me, as it slowed down the gameplay too much due to the time spent looking at all these stats and thinking about what to get next. There were too many decisions to make. However, I liked the horizontal upgrades, such as explosions or having a shotgun as your weapon.
Once again, it would be really hard to impress me as someone who has played a lot of these kinds of games. I recently played a game called TerraTech Legion, which included a twist. You could basically build your own character instead of just clicking to get a horizontal upgrade with a UI. Perhaps you could include something like this to spice things up a bit.
Thanks for your the feedback Noel!
I played your game and I managed to beat it.
It would be nice to have the controls on screen because I had to keep scrolling down to see the controls in the description of your game. There are some enemies which I couldnt kill with the normal attack because the bullets went over them due to their size - only with the empowered one (not sure if that is on purpose).
Im quite quick with the trigger and can tap it really quickly. There seems to be hardly any delay between shots, so I found the game very easy due to spamming the 'J' key. After finishing off the wave of enemies, I was hoping for something new to happen, but I was disappointed when it just froze after moving to the right-hand side of the screen towards a planet.
Thank you for the feedback, there actually is a pause menu in the game and one of the options let's you see the controls but i will try to implement some way to view the controls in a demo sometime soon. Did you have a chance to try the other levels? Right now, it's kind of inconvenient but you'd have to reload the page to select the other levels. Im thinking of some new challenges that I can offer to players that are adept at these kinds of games right now. Thank you
Thanks for trying out my game. I really appreciate it :D
Where exactly do you mean should dragging be supported? You can drag and drop consumable items onto frogs and u can also click on an item and then on a frog. The only places you cannot is for rewards and the shop. Is this what you meant?
The tadpole thing is something i already got feedback on but didnt find a solution yet because I thought i would use them for the tutorial but it would be cool indeed to make a mechanic out of them and evolve them into stronger frogs. I need to think about it again.
Ah, I tried it again, both drag and click work. Sorry for not noticing that before. For the click method, I think you could add a highlight effect on the item when selecting. That might have been what confused me.
And thank you so much for your feedback. It’s important for me as I think about how to balance the idle gameplay with the story.
I tried out your game. Im not really the target audience but i still have some feedback for you.
the game screen doesnt fill my screen. I need to scroll down a bit to see the bottom and i almost missed out all the stuff to collect.
For scavenging it would be nice to tell me to click and hold for the first time otherwise i might have missed that as well.
line breaks are in the middle of a word which makes it in my opinion hard to read sometimes for example counter breaks into c-ounter in the next line.
Art and sound looks and sounds polished and consistent. I like idling games but dont like to have a big story behind it. But thats only me.
I tried the same strategy again and won once more. I think this is largely thanks to the healing being quite strong, while enemies that focus on poison or targeting the backline are somewhat underpowered. The game also tends to settle into a smooth but fairly static rhythm rather quickly.
Hi. Thanks for trying out my game and your valuable feedback :D
With "alive and deep" do you mean that the game lacks of story or an objective to make the player care to beat the game?
I tried out your prototype and what I enjoyed the most was trying out the leveled up abilities and seeing how different they were to their weaker one. At first I didnt understand that I was supposed to go towards one direction and avoid staying down for too long, but after seeing the bottom row dissapear for 2-3 times i quickly understood what the goal of the game was.
I think getting players through a full run shouldn't be an issue, but the game currently lacks some long-term motivation—since enemy variety, build diversity, other gameplay elements, and map art are still fairly limited at this stage. I think a decent reference might be the trailer for Echo Generation—it showcases a range of different themes and monster designs.
Thank you for the feedback on the game. It's still quite rough and unpolished at the moment. I did originally plan to add more tutorials, cards, and enemies, but in the short term, I just wanted to make it look presentable enough so I could show it to others as a rough demonstration.
