Over all, I feel the idea for this game is very solid. The visuals chosen are very nice and give this game a really nice, bright tone, even if you are battling against ultimate annihilation! Lol!
That said, the controls for the miners bothered me. I did not like how the miners always stopped to fight the aliens. This is especially frustrating when the only mines available are on the other side of the planet. Virtually every time I tried spawning a miner to head for a mine, an alien would spawn very near my miner and my miner would stop and just attack the alien, regardless of how many times I clicked on him. I think miners should ignore the aliens all together. Otherwise, unless a mine spawns right next to the miner’s spawn area, the miners are nearly useless.
After loosing a game, I click the “Continue” button to bring me to the start menu, then click the “Start” button to start a new game and the aliens immediately start spawning at the same rate they were when I lost the previous game. It does not appear the game properly resets the difficulty upon a second game. To get a clean reset, I had to reload the page/game.
I would have liked some form on indicator on the tree as to how much health it had left. I have no idea how close I am to defeat otherwise. This is really a minor thing, to be fair, as the game doesn’t seem to last long enough to be an issue, but still… it would help me know how much slack I have for if I have to beat my soldiers into position, lol.
Like I said, over all, I think this is a very charming game with some great potential. For me, though, I was overly frustrated by the miners.