Perceptron - An Idle Game

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.

I have never seen a “game” like this before. If you even want to call it that. It feels more like a task. I would hope for everyone that comes across this to play it at-least once in their lifetime.