Save The Earth is a very grindy, repetitive, and slow game. It starts out promising with some nice artwork and a bunch of upgrades and unit types to unlock. However, after a couple of hours there isn’t much more to do, but the game keeps dragging on. I unlocked all of the unit types and all of the upgrades on the first screen – only to discover that there are 2-3 more pages of upgrades to unlock. The problem is that the gameplay remains the same repetitive mini game of hovering the mouse over aliens to get points, but the cost of upgrades and units continues to rise exponentially. A single soldier that initially costs 15 points now costs over 1 billion and it doesn’t provide any additional benefit than the 15 point soldier I bought the first time. It is the same with the upgrades too. Upgrades now cost trillions for the same small gains that an earlier upgrade made for only a few thousand.

I’m at 30% complete on the achievements and I just don’t see any way of 100% this game in the next year or decade. By the time I idle the game long enough to get enough resources collected for the achievements, we may very well have met extraterrestrial life some billions of light years away.

Save The Earth is a very grindy, repetitive, and slow game. It starts out promising with some nice artwork and a bunch of upgrades and unit types to unlock. However, after a couple of hours there isn’t much more to do, but the game keeps dragging on. I unlocked all of the unit types and all of the upgrades on the first screen – only to discover that there are 2-3 more pages of upgrades to unlock. The problem is that the gameplay remains the same repetitive mini game of hovering the mouse over aliens to get points, but the cost of upgrades and units continues to rise exponentially. A single soldier that initially costs 15 points now costs over 1 billion and it doesn’t provide any additional benefit than the 15 point soldier I bought the first time. It is the same with the upgrades too. Upgrades now cost trillions for the same small gains that an earlier upgrade made for only a few thousand. I’m at 30% complete on the achievements and I just don’t see any way of 100% this game in the next year or decade. By the time I idle the game long enough to get enough resources collected for the achievements, we may very well have met extraterrestrial life some billions of light years away.