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Lots of fun, but the animations need to be possible to speed up substantially. I find myself waiting a long time to click on the next card that I already know I want to play.

It seems like when Druid triggers multiple times, the first trigger should count as a card for the second trigger.

It’s inconsistent with the “the first time this card is played” rune, which only triggers the first time.

I’m not suggesting that it bypass hunger or fatigue; I’m suggesting that it should affect the length of time it takes to run a node from the player’s perspective (including the passing of hunger and fatigue as normal during that time), but not the speed of animations or of movement. Movement should be independent of demon time, because it’s almost unusably fast with it, and painfully slow without it.

UI observation: the way that “demon time” makes both the background animation speed up and movement around the map speed up, is it just speeding up the overall game loop? That’s going to cause a whole variety of problems, and would explain several things people have observed here in the comments.

You may want to make it just a divisor for how long nodes take to complete, not a change to all time-based things in the game.

In particular, scrolling with the arrow keys should always be the same speed, something a little slower than the demon-time rate and much faster than the non-demon-time rate.

Ah, I see! So if it doesn’t have that icon, it opens up more nodes?

I feel like +2 is a notable boon, but not obscenely overpowered. And it makes for some interesting thought and strategy required.

I know what the “this conflicts with other nodes” icon means. Does the icon that looks like ->| mean “completing this will unlock new nodes”?

Is there a legend somewhere for the icons and keywords? I haven’t found one.

I don’t think it should be “speed up lemonade stand”, for exactly that reason. Rather, it could give some stat that disproportionately helps the lemonade stand; I can think of a few possibilities that would help there but not be exclusive to there.

The ability to export and import saves would solve this.

Yes, but most of it felt worth it, and contributed to making it an accomplishment.

The main thing that felt painful rather than providing a sense of accomplishment was chewing through Raw Materials to get Refined Salt randomly. Potash is available elsewhere now; it’d be nice to have a reliable way to refine salt as well. Doesn’t have to be a way to obtain it directly; it’d be satisfying if there were a way to make it that wasn’t up to chance. It feels like, there’s already a hugely random way to get a Screaming Mandrake quickly; Alchemy should be the slow-and-steady way to get it without dealing with randomness.

In its current state, I did it once for the achievement and the feeling of accomplishment, and now that it’s done, I don’t anticipate wanting to do it again.

Other than that, it was mildly annoying that many of the ways to obtain Alchemy used up precious resources that couldn’t be spared; I had to get almost all of the Alchemy from the Stale Soda / Arsenic mixing and from completions of the raw materials refinement while hoping for refined salts. But if not for the randomness, that would feel like a somewhat interesting puzzle: do you want to spend all your Alchemy effort and resources towards a single reliable Screaming Mandrake, or do you want to make all sorts of other potions instead?

Fair enough; it certainly felt like an accomplishment.

I didn’t realize the Vagrant’s Sword would be that powerful.

It’s powerful, but it feels earned. It’s hard to get, and to get maximum benefit you have to delay doing other things until after it.

Having now gotten all the lemonade-related nodes, I do enjoy some aspects of the lemonade game, and it’s nice not having to worry about gold. One thing that might make lemonade more fun would be to add a Shadow Comprehension that helps bootstrap it much faster on subsequent runs.

Thanks. There are now enough raw materials to be able to transmute one mandrake, though not enough to necessarily reliably do that and make a greenhouse.

Ah, thank you! I hadn’t explored that branch yet, because it didn’t seem like things were generally locked behind a completion of a “Leisure Perpetual” action.

That would be really appreciated, and would make the early game much faster, thank you.

Part of why it’s confusing is that it’s help text on the first action. It might help to move the help text to the action that returns, instead.

Any hints on where to get a recommendation letter? Managed to meet all the other requirements for the Fellowship of Erudition.

The extra skills should be on the left of the screwdriver.

They don’t seem to have appeared after prestige and obtaining that option.

Based on the classification of other things in the cabin, should “collect life essence from fox den” be marked as Leisure? Otherwise, it takes 100 actions to get 200 life essence that way.

Found some text that could use clarifying.

Could the hunger and fatigue bars have numeric maximums listed, to make it easier to see at a glance if an action that would increase them would go to waste?

It looks like a similar bug with an obtained node showing up as unobtained and unobtainable can happen with “Walk Pass the Void Stone”.

(Also, it should be “Walk Past”.)

The prestige option to unlock additional skills doesn’t seem to do anything.

From the upgrade screen, it’s really easy to hit the back button, and that seems to lose all progress.

Bug: Destroy says “remove up to 3 cards from your deck”, but it only allows removing 2.

Won my first attempt at Brutal. Love the new version!

Really wish that dynamite was reliably available in the shop. Perhaps rerolling the shop could also reroll the special purchases like dynamite and resource-type-swap?

Spent an entire loop trying to transmute a screaming mandrake. Came up one refined salt short, after scavenging all the raw materials. And I was one raw material short of being able to try to get another refined salt.

Could there be some more challenging ways to get more raw materials? e.g. “Dismantle the storage room”? Or buy them?

Any hints for where to get the mysterious invite?

Or the second alchemy table? EDIT: Apparently the transmutation circle grants an extra “alchemy table”. Might make sense to make that separate, for clarity.

When saving and restoring, “Purchase Pets: Unicorn” stops looking like it’s been obtained, but clicking on it does nothing. Possible save/restore bug?

Bug report: One of Dark Psychology I and II doesn’t seem to work; after getting both, I only have 10 Manipulation.

It’s amusing, but I feel like I have zero control over the motion of the coin, no matter where I click it. After the Nth time the coin flew across the arena to land on a fox, I gave up.

Rediscovered this and enjoyed it again. Star on day 775. Zen on day 1027.

Looks like I really was just short last time, because this time I managed to get it to say “Infinity”. And I didn’t need “duplicate last ingredient” this time, just Rosemary, Mint, many duplicated Wyvern’s Tear and Lavender Oil, and one Traveler’s Herbal Tea.

I think there are enough instances of Echo on the mint that this would take an absurdly long time to actually finish scoring. Best guess based on the estimated number of bottles of Wyvern’s Tear (more than 100, not sure how many more), there are likely at least a million activations of the first Rosemary: more than 100x echo on Rosemary and each mint means at least 100x100x100. Given that every activation triples the scoring, the actual score (ignoring floating-point limitations) should be at least 3^1000000 points. But getting there would take days of scoring, since there at most a few activations per second.