comments for CLOWN HOLE: Going Deeper

assigning workers to nodes and fighters to campfires is completely unnecessarily cumbersome.

camera movement as well. no reason you can't just left cilck and drag.

but above all.. i don't like that clowns destroy things. which take resources away from you that you can't get back. don't like that one bit. the solution to this is to simply have the corpse/ruin of what they killed still there and clicking it, for free, brings it back. but can't be done until all clowns are dead or something. simple solution. makes the game far more enjoyable.

I hate this.

Good job, great game

I'm someone who actually really loves clowns, and even I have to be like what the fuck, my dude? Great game, and the coulrophobes are going to hate you.

Great game but desperately needs QoL for the camera movement and assigning workers.

It's a little boring sometimes, but it's a good game. A good improvement would be truly permanent upgrades which don't require spending resources during runs

A way to reliably detect egg clowns would be good.

(your art is sick btw, good job)

Unique game with a great vibe. The clowns are both unsettling and dangerous while still being somewhat cute at the same time. There's a good balance between idle and active gameplay, though you should consider making the game run when off tab. There's also a nice deal of strategy of where you can place your fighters and use lamps to filter waves. There's a pretty decent gameplay loop though the end of each run kind of just boils down to buying a lot of fighters or clicking a lot. I think having more diverse fighter types and upgrades to combat different sorts of clowns might be beneficial. The constant hazard of the baby clowns in the final stage is also a great touch and keeps you own your toes to buy fighters early. I think more mechanics like that would be fun.

All the bosses are great with their fun little patterns. I don't think the spider one is that bad, but I could see people getting surprised by it taking out precious buildings. Based on its difficulty, I think it'd be better as a 4th boss or have the jump speed reduced a little. The final boss also doesn't need to be beaten. The enemies it spawns drops so much blue ore that you can just quit about half way in. I believe you should either have these enemies no drop ore or have the boss stages require the boss to be beaten as they can also be cheesed by harvested egg clown spawns.

Balance:
The early game to each round is somewhat tedious. Since none of the upgrades speeds this up, your best bet at not dying of boredom repeating a stage a few times for egg clowns is using an auto-clicker. I think having some upgrades that benefit early game such as starting with X miners or increasing miner's/click's base power without buildings would be beneficial.
On the topic of egg clowns, it's not very intuitive to go for them. It's basically luck whether you happen to catch one on your first run and you're forced to repeat each run to get the ones you missed. On later stages, it can be especially worse due to the large maps and multiple light levels. You have a short period to find and memorize the Egg Clown location and hope you place down one of your limited lamps in the right spot next run.
I believe it's highly necessary to give Egg Clowns a unique indicator in the Dark (maybe a blue grin or a egg clown grin instead). Either that or give bigger stages more base lamps (or have that be an upgrade).
Bugs:
Sometimes Egg Clowns just run away despite using a lamp to create dim light. There's one pesky Egg Clown I could never kill in 3-1 since it consistently always runs away no matter what I do. If this is intentional, maybe it should be a unique egg clown enemy type. It seems to also happen when you catch an Egg Clown on the edge of a Lamp Post as well.
Sometimes the upgrade overlay will get stuck on a single upgrade and won't show you the info for the other upgrades. I don't know what causes this but it happened to me 3 times across my playthrough.

On the topic of prestige systems, I'm not sure it would benefit the game at its current state as you already usually have to repeat each stage twice or three times to get all the egg clowns. If egg clowns can be gotten more consistently without memorization, it could be better since you would only need to run each stage once.

the tutorial that tells me to mouse over the elevator won't get off the screen and i have no idea what "harvesters" are and how to get them, because there's nothing new in the shop.

nvm im stupid hehehehe about the tutorial its still there tho (i found the harvesters 4 seconds afterwards)

Loved this! Upgrades, mine and fight aspects. Having to replay to get all the eggs was a bit boring but having monsters after just dropping made me jump. Great game and concept!