You Must Build A Boat

Despite the "modest" art style, it's a good choice for a mindless match-3 experience.

There is a layer of strategy with the enemies resistance and weakness to certain attacks, but you can ignore all that and just focus on matching tiles. If it's too hard, upgrade some stuff and get back to matching.

the odd thing about this game is it feels like it should be a superior game to the first game, 10,000,000 but even with all the improvements it feels worse

The progression system is really well designed and I enjoy it but I feel like in the first game using an item killed or almost killed the enemy you used it on, Now all the spells feel so under powered that I don't even care if I get them, you can upgrade them but you need that money to upgrade your other gear but even then it feels like each enemy takes more and more time to kill, the first game felt fast with you constantly slaying and upgrading so quickly with lucky runs lasting for a dozen monsters, now I feel lucky to kill even 5, everything works better but I feel weaker than the main character in the last game, it's remarkably unsatisfying but I like everything about this game and even plan to continue playing it yet I still think the pacing of the first game flows better, with upgrades being a palpable feeling of power increasing instead of a single point of damage increasing, you gain power so slowly and the monsters do too so the difficulty holds still for the whole game neither getting harder or easier

I feel weird saying all this because intellectually I understand it's a better game but when playing it I get less dopamine from each combo because each combo impacts the enemy less and I see less enemies fall to my onslaught, making each run feel shorter, I feel like I move at most a dozen feet before I'm killed