Break the box

This is a pretty interesting mix of nodebuster/roguelike that I haven't really seen before. Nice job!

I really expected some kind of ending screen to pop up after finishing floor 5
it does not seem feasible to get much further

possibly the best nodebusterlike i've seen but i hate the rats and they killed a lot of runs, maybe make the indication for their infested boxes more visible if they have one in the first place? but i like this, fun, albeit not varied, but theres quite a few fun stuff to this. if you ever add something like achievements for whatever reason, may I suggest one where you go up to floor 3 whilst only breaking the full wall of boxes? gets easier as you go on, but a fun thing to add nonetheless..

I think there's absolutely the bones of something really cool here. It's a "nodebuster" like but I like that there is a bit more strategy to this, choosing how long to stick around in a section if you can get more valuable stuff from the tougher boxes.

If I had any real substantial suggestions, I think a big one is a lack of variety. Items is an obvious one; definitely don't feel like there's much sense in rerolling when a lot of the items are quite boring and have pretty quickly diminishing returns; a flat +1 bonus to base damage stops being as enticing the bigger the number gets, and the box health feels like it outpaces me on that front too. I also personally think the consumables taking a consumable slot and a backpack slot is a bit much, on top of the regular scrap and tape cost. I'd personally make them cost more scrap, but no tape, in return for being, well, strong consumables. I also think some hotkeys for consumables would be a good move too. Items I think are good are things like the Knife, that item that gives you more damage for accumulating scrap, the box cutter that does more damage to blue/green crates, etc. Things that do more than just slightly improve damage.

I think the upgrade tree is kind of boring too, the skills aren't bad but they're quite plain - do more damage, do it faster, have more time. Early on you're only really getting 1 or 2 points at a time and it's hard to justify spending them on increasing the max scrap you get from a box especially early on where that's not really the thing killing my runs. I think some more unique interactions with boxes would be a good way to make that tree more enticing; touch boxes especially because of how they work very quickly become not remotely worth it because you only deal one damage at a slowish rate. I wouldn't be opposed to either upgrades or items that let us open them faster in some way. Other interactions could be like, a temporary boost to damage for blowing up a red crate, relative to how much damage it does? Or maybe even letting you jump over a box on a cooldown?

The rats are another big problem. A 7-12 second wait relative to how much time you have to work with is kind of egregious. The punishment for finding one is also really brutal; that's definitely something that could round out the skill tree or upgrade pool is ways to deal with rats. I don't think it needs to be super easy to find out, it's part of the risk-reward loop of this game, but I think perhaps it would be better to have ways to at least mitigate that risk.

On the whole though, this is all basically stuff that comes with refining a rough idea into something better. If you stick with this, I can see it easily being a worthwhile little game.

protip: you can hold down the attack button instead of repeatedly hitting it to avoid carpal tunnel and other inefficiencies.

also don't bother with white boxes. unless it's literally floor zero, you'll literally lose more time trying to pop that than nuking an entire max-size wall of hazard boxes.

another thing: INVEST. IN ATTACK SPEED. EARLY!

You had me at rogue-like. I'm going to be keeping an eye on this one.

A few issues I had:
* No indication that I can use W to move forward unless I'm missing something. I had to check the comments to see that was possible.
* I can kind of gather what some of the other boxes do but it's not entirely clear to me still. An in-game encyclopedia after the first run would be helpful.
* If a number of resources is required to move up to the next floor, that needs to be indicated before reaching the end of the level, right now it just feels bad when I didn't collect enough resources and didn't know what the requirement was. Made me frustrated and I stopped playing.
* If possible, need a way to disable ||some of the CRT-like effects that show up for the run. It's VERY tiring to my eyes and I always turn off CRT-like effects in games. I spent way too much time looking at actual CRT's way too close and it doesn't feel good. ||

That's all I got for now. I'm very interested to see what comes of this in the future days. Any plans for Steam?

I hope I can the space key to move forward, and in the upgrade screen the star required is under the star and it's really hard to read the number. But overall nice game :D

It was quite fun. The rats taking half your scrap makes them basically a death sentence. And a bit annoyed my save got wiped. Its absolutely a good start for a game if you add more items and variation.

Just small text issue. The description for the Hazard box outlasts the box and cuts off early.

How do you play Im on a iPad and i cant break the box