Its been a journey

I still have so many puzzles to solve... Every puzzle reveals 3 more... But I love it.

The RNG element put me right off playing further. I like puzzles, but only being able to attempt them when the planets align is meh.

I felt like the game had enough puzzles running simultaneously that I wasn’t waiting for a particular day to work on one particular puzzle. Once everything started coming together and it was down to the final run, there was a little bit more reliance on RNG, but that’s rogue-likes. Any day that didn’t pay off in puzzles usually paid off in rolled over resources (freezer, moon pendant, trove, coat check).
I have seen a lot of complaints about the RNG in this game, but I never felt it, even on bad days.
- that's sorta the nature of rng, it will make the experience very different for different people.
The RNG beat me up too. I will say that there's a handful of permanent upgrades that either allow you to mitigate some RNG or give you buffs so you're not as reliant on it.
I think their goal was to make it so you're not hardlocked on a single puzzle so that you kind of wander into the manor without a specific puzzle to solve and see what you can solve/find as your tools for that run expand.
This kind of makes hours 0-10 kind of miserable because you don't know what puzzles there are and you don't have much you can do to avoid RNG so you're just wandering and hoping for the best, but it does get better after that point.
- I feel like it got worse. I hit room 46, and was trying to clean up some of the remaining stuff. Had a run with 130 coins, but the gift shop and luxury shop would not appear. When they do appear I have very few coins. I know there are ways to increase my allowance but its a slow grind. Similarly, crafting all the workshop items is pure luck. Filling in all rooms on the board isnt too hard, but still mostly a luck thing. I like the puzzle elements but the rng really killed my motivation to do the extra stuff
I just cheated to have additional resources when needed. Game was more fun after that!

I gave up after reaching room 46 and just watched Aliensrock. I'm glad I did, because the game just kept going every time I thought it was almost over.