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- 5 dollar games presents Atomicrops! So although I really don't like the music in this game, it's actually pretty fun. The game begins with an animation of a kid who's inherited a farm from his uncle. Upon exploring a bomb shelter, a nuclear bomb goes off, destroying everything. Now you are just trying to survive by harvesting plants and living with a variety of mutants. Gameplay wise it's a rogue-lite dual stick shooter where the panic doesn't really come from enemy attacks. Those are fairly easy to dodge. Rather it's from noticing them amidst all of the bobbing plants and animals while multitasking a variety of farming work. There's watering plants, weeding, swapping seeds, planting seeds, and shooting enemies. Normally in a twin stick shooter, I survive by avoiding anything that moves, and in this case, most of the moving things are actually harmless, making it an interesting spin on the genre as I get so caught up with farming that I literally forget that I need to dodge the obvious glowing red orbs. It's fun. You're under a very short day-night cycle. Nighttime is when waves of enemies come that actually CAN harm your crops, meaning that daytime is ideal for searching for supplies. However, I found that if I start the day with a quick planting and watering, there's only a minute and 30 seconds left until nighttime. I was in a constant hurry, searching through the environment looking for supplies. Supplies include pickaxes, seeds, manure, farm animals, a tractor, spells, and other things. Pickaxes expand the area you can use to grow crops. Seeds have to be planted in tilled ground and then have to be watered and harvested. Manure increases the yield of a crop as well as fusing them together to form a mega crop. Farm animals do farming tasks for you depending on the animal. Tractors are basically your super. You have to charge it up and then it does a big effect like turn enemies into manure. Spells are a more powerful tractor ability, but they're only a one-time use. There's a town festival at the end of each season which rewards you according to how well you did that season. This is where you can get the currency for permanent upgrades on future runs. And there are a ton of permanent upgrades, as well as characters that you can unlock. Each run also has weapons and characters you can marry by giving them roses. Overall, I don't really like the music or this particular character's mouth animation, but those are minor things. Of the 10 available years, I've beaten the first two so far, and the power ups have been very satisfying and the bosses have been a blast. That's a wrap for this game. Consider picking this game up instead of a cornucopia.
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