Refence
Posted July 28, 2025. Updated July 29, 2025. Played 2953 times for a total of 4460 hours.
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Refence is a roguelike based idle defense game, where you defend the wall with your heroes.
Choose your heroes to fight against enemies.
Build your castle to unlock various upgrades.
Do researches to unlock useful functions.
Hire more heroes to defend your wall for more waves.
Craft powerful relics to help you defend against enemies.
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I will admit that I did not remember the game being this slow at the start.
I personally would get a lot more invested if speed-up (at least x2 or x4) and auto-choosing rewards/hero levels wasn't locked behind hundreds of waves of resources. Keep the filtering in research, sure, but at least let us pick at random from the start so we can actually play idle-y and not have to pay attention to it every minute or two. The use of multiple currencies and a gacha in this sort of game feels... wrong. I can't dock you for it, but with those mechanics, plus gating the idle-ness in an idle-focussed game behind a few hours of progress... it just veers towards scummy behaviour, especially if the full game has in-game purchases.
As things stand, it entertained me for a couple of hours and I unlocked level 3, but I'm not about to sit here for another hour to get to level 4 and (maybe?) get enough paper to unlock relics.