Zero Stress King: Idle Defense Reviews

Nice short game, perfect when watching something or in the background

its fun and fully beat in 7.6 hours. my problem with this game is you cant even fully unlock everything they don't give you enough prestige points to max everything out so even after you fully unlocked everything and beat the game your left with alot of unlocked stuff. to me in these types of games i want to max everything out and be op. there also isn't anything to do once you beat it. i feel it still needs a few more bosses and skill trees or a way to unlock all defense troops just for fun. the concept of it is fun the game ui is great and it was fun till i beat it.

Pretty fun idle game, the title is accurate in that there is zero stress, although I find that to be common with most idle games. The progression is interesting enough, you get to try different upgrade paths and combinations each respec. My main complaint is the game is quite short and the upgrade paths don't feel very balanced as some are noticeably superior to the alternative. Once you know what you're doing you just begin speedrunning respecs for progression which is fine, but it does feel like at a certain point there is no longer a challenge and I wish there was a bit more content after the final boss.

The game was really fun and I really enjoyed it. The one problem that I have is how grindy the goblin map is. Overall, I hope the game gets updates and keeps going!

Poor system, satisfying game. Decent idle game like Gnorp Apologue. But too many "IQ test" upgrades and friends(prestige). For example, loot drop upgrade is completely waste of resource.

A Great game to play if you don't want to fully focus on it the entire time. I had a lot of fun earning the new defender's and seeing the new enemies. The upgrade's felt very rewarding and worth the grind as well as the earning of all the new currencies that come with the new enemies after beating the boss fight's. Some work better than other's together and you will need to learn that. Overall great idle game that felt fun to play. Beat it within hours on record. 10/10

Really had fun playing this. Pretty simple and straight forward, and quite satisfying to watch your defenders stave off the big waves. Some frustrations I had: The monuments were kinda boring and once they were automated I would have prefered some different 'patterns' they follow. When deciding between two units to unlock, it was difficult to compare them since you could never swap them out, only when you reset your run. They all seem fairly balanced though, I used them all in my different runs. I don't know what the statistics menu was showing me for my units, was it kills? damage? What timeframe are we talking? Who knows! The game's upgrades (outside of the helpers) were pretty boring and samey, this happens a lot with incremental games, I don't like that I knew that after unlocking a new unit, the same stat upgrades could be unlocked in the same order as all the others. Units never got any unique bonuses or interesting upgrades in the main upgrade screen. Finally, achievements were a bit lacking (not even an achievement for unlocking everything!), I would have appreciated some more goals to work towards, although I did end up maxxing out the skill tree which was fun. Overall, I would definitely play this game, it's cheap and lasts about 10 hours, super fun to keep going!

Cute game, quite easy and I think relatively nicely balanced. Took ~7 hours to beat, which is fine given the style of the game. The art is nice, the sound effects and animations show a lot of effort was put into the game, too. 100% works on Linux, which is a big plus for me as I don't have a Windows gaming rig anymore. 🐧✅ Making it longer would not necessarily make sense - there are plenty of games that are almost infinite/impossible to 100% (Cookie Clicker and Revolution Idle to name a few) if you are into that sort of thing. Also, I quite liked reading the parts of the path as you progress.

Works great on Steam Deck, ZERO STRESS :D Really fun idle game at a great price! Had a small issue with text size on the prestige screen, the dev responded to my post and fixed it super quick, awesome dev ty \o/

The settings/options menus contain giant, unremovable pop-up advertisements for other games. The very idea of having ads like that in a paid game is abhorrent. Leave that garbage in free-to-play games where it belongs.