It seems really well designed and implemented, unique even. On the surface, there appears to be a lot of different ways you can assemble your engine/tableau to get to the goal. It took me approx 2 hours to get my first successful run on the easiest difficulty, and I felt really satisfied in how I pieced it together after a few runs of tweaking the idea I had (I don't want to spoil how I did it but it did seem OP). I think others will enjoy digging into this and figuring out different engines to see how well designed and open the game really is, I am not good at analysing these things myself. On my next run to 3 million I'll try a different idea to see if I can make it effective. There's a lot of cool cards that I find interesting that I wasn't able to solve and I look forward to trying to build around them/breaking them. I feel like there's quite a bit of depth to explore and the game incentivises you to try it by taxing (with time) cards that won you the previous run, which is a cool idea (yet to see if it's frustrating)

I also think I've done a good job at filtering out the trap cards. I still need to interact with buying more cards that could change how I put the puzzle together and I haven't explored past the starter upgrades - this is where the meta/prestige mechanics come in. Honestly I have not really payed much attention to this (yet) but going for higher numbers will no doubt need a bit of a grind to unlock tools to get you there (a good thing for incremental enthusiasts!) I'm imagining that I'll need to have runs where I simply maximise silver production for as long as I can before inevitably failing the money goal.

But in short, I'm impressed with this. I didn't feel screwed over by RNG, only by my own bad choices which I think is good game design. The UI is clean and I think there's a huge amount of potential to develop the ideas presented here for future iterations - it does feel unique in the seamless marriage of different ideas. I would definitely recommend this game to people who are into active-incremental and engine building games (computer or board.) I would not say it's like other roguelike deckbuilders and has more in common with Zachtronic-type puzzle games than it does, say, Slay the Spire or Balatro. Assembling cool engines does scratch the same itch as putting together a nice engine in Opus Magnum or even putting the right cards down to do get your Magic The Gathering deck working smoothly.

Good stuff, and the price makes it certainly worth a chance if what you see, or what I wrote, intrigues you. If the depth I'm seeing in the early stages is there then it honestly seems underpriced! Well done dev, I enjoyed your game for 2 hours already and no doubt will get a few more in.

Really enjoying the game so far. Seems to be a few ways to overcome the burdens of making money quickly. Like the permanent upgrades you can "earn" too. Fun in general.

My numbers go up people!, there is something here, stay a spell and read. its worth it.