I was at first unsure what to rate this game, but given how quickly and fiercely it overheated my nice gaming PC, it's now a solid no, cannot recommend.

Pros: Fascinating concept. Truly neat seeing everything evolve. Would have thoroughly enjoyed digging into it more, except for the cons getting in the way.

Cons: Very clunky controls. Tutorial had terrible, terrible dialog with relentlessly unfunny jokes rather than any focus on being a tutorial. Frustrating trying to find a balance between growing stuff fast enough to find good mutations and slow enough to catch them, given how rare yet momentarily brief they are.

Most importantly, while trying to decide if the pros outweighed the cons, it quickly overheated my gaming rig. First game I've come across to do so.

Good idea, but just generally a pretty tedious game.

I play mainly on highest speed because I have ADHD and I can't sit still with nothing to do for longer than a few minutes (which is in part why I play waaayy too much video games) but that results in me having to stay 100% focused (which I obviously also have issues with) in case a cutting pops up somewhere and I have 0.82 seconds to take a cutting before it disappears.

I guess this game is more fun if you're better at pacing yourself and relaxing, but for me it's just not very fun or intuitive.

I won't refund though, got this game for less than 1,50€ so the price is fair I guess.

I wish the game didn't have multiple set lifeforms you evolve into but more of a "freeform" style of gradual evolution over time but that's probably asking too much, very few games seem able to actually pull something like that off successfully.

The game doesn't look like it's being worked on anymore either so I assume it'll stay the way it is.

Get it on sale if you really want to check it out I guess.