Perceptron - An Idle Game

I enjoyed it for a while, spent like 2 month playing. It just gets to a point where it realllyyy drags. Idk at some point it’s not fun to wait an entire day with overclock, watch an ad to double what I earned, then use that rep to get one thing and make effectively no progress. Can’t justify playing it anymore and glad I didn’t spend money. Maybe if you could sell some of the nodes back for slightly less then you payed for them it would move the right amount faster. Otherwise it’s just grinding ads to keep the boost on and days of waiting. Really appreciate that the ads are “optional” though! Don’t think it’s feasible to play without the overclock but it’s nice to have the illusion of freedom of choice.

Simple, elegant, long-lasting, and I’m so excited about the recent updates, though I had already happily resigned myself to being past the end of the game and still enjoying.

okay so like the title says, it’s confusing and very grindy, in terms of exciting gameplay it’s lacking, but it definitely has a lot of love from the developers in the form of little informative tidbits of info that pop up alongside the gameplay when you reset, it takes a while to grasp and most times is just a static screen, but it is very entertaining when you get close to a sort of goalpoint and especially when you do the prestige type thing, it also teaches you about baseline web mechanics which i thought was really interesting

Maybe my feelings will change later, but in the meantime the game is such a slog. Still, cool concept. I’m holding out hope.

Linear upgrades that scale exponentially in cost. The whole premise is that it’s a neural network. But nothing ever scales

Love the depth

I’ve played dozens of games in this genre, this one is just… agonizingly slow and not worth it in the slightest. Spend your time elsewhere, please just trust me.

I have a question if you want to call.

So that’s 2 stars I guess? I keep coming back to it in case the beginning is just slow. But no. Every time something new unlocks it’s just more excruciatingly slow linear progress. The worst part about the game is how bad the prestige system feels. In most games, you prestige and then you catch up quickly and then progress. In this game, your prestige multiplier is capped by your current base power… so every time you reset you don’t get boosted back, you go through the same slog until you are forced to prestige. It just feels really bad. It also feels like a total ripoff of exponential idle. The style is like, identical. Exponential idle at least has some fun decision points and a feeling of actual progress.

There are no explanations on what is happening and why it’s happening.