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by dmitriid 1323 days ago
It's the great unanswered question: what works in game design?

It turns out wand building and extensive end-game/meta progression is far more engaging than most other things. IIRC there was more chemistry early on (I think there was/still is cooking?) and more rogue-like elements like satiation, but wand-building combined with the world physics turned out to be such immense fun, that it eclipsed everything else.