Ok let’s use those numbers:

Let’s say the ratio is 1/100. Rather investing in 100 diverse small - medium projects @ 2 million each or in one big 200 million project with a increased risk for bad management decisions and safe (boring) story & mechanics which leads to at best ok ratings? I would choose the former but i’m not a CEO type.

Yeah, I played the demo a few months ago and went ahead and purchased it, it seems right up my alley for the swarm survival genre. I like that how broken your build gets depends less on how many times you click level up, though it certainly helps. It reminds me of wand building from Noita.