the actual loop is free and thats why i dont hate it. you buy brainrots with cash you earn, put em on your conveyor, steal other peoples, defend yours, repeat. you can climb the whole thing without spending, which already puts it above most of the front page. BUT. the x2 money and lucky passes hand payers a real head start, and the trending brainrots always seem to be the paywalled or hard fomo ones, so theres a wall the second you want to keep up with whats hot. its fun, its meme nonsense, its mostly honest. 3, would be a 4 if the best characters werent quietly gated behind cash.