I mentioned this in another thread, but I’ve been having fun with the latest version of Vampire Survivors. It just pulls out all the stops on how powerful you can get.
The mechanic that allows this is the golden eggs. At first, these were negligible because they give your character a permanent 0.01 or even 0.001 bonus to a random ability and you typically get at most four in a run. But you can now “farm” the eggs. I’ve done this three times, getting about 100 the first time, 1000 the second, and 10,000 the third. After the latter run, I was curious to see what level I could effortlessly reach in less than a minute:
The thing I like most about this is the level of visual abstraction it brings to the game. Sometimes the exaggerated overlapping weapons create a sort of beauty that’s otherwise lacking.
Side note: The reason I picked this game up again is that my little nephew visited a week ago and stayed with me for a couple days. I’d introduced him to this game when he last visited and although he doesn’t have the game at home he’d been researching the secrets online. He was the one who went through the steps required to unlock the egg farming I mentioned above. As he was getting in the car to leave, he repeatedly told me that he expected me to get 1000 eggs in a single run, something he ran out of time for because we were doing things outdoors the last day of his visit. (I brought him and some other family members to a wild animal park and a ziplining course.)