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Full loads run the loop
Hoard Master Online is built around growing what you hoard (the game shows a size modifier such as +50% Size) and it gives you a Shop and a Customize screen to spend the results in.
Open the gameThe goal
The game surfaces size modifiers directly, shown as values like +50% Size, so growing what you hoard is the objective rather than a side effect. Reading those numbers is the core habit.
A percentage modifier multiplies what you already have, so taking it early is worth less than taking it after a base has built up. Ignore the number and the shop decisions lose their anchor.
The shop
A Shop sits alongside the main game, so what you accumulate has somewhere to go. It is the other half of the grow-and-consume loop the shelf describes, and the reason hoarding feeds into the next step.
Buying a multiplier while your base is small wastes it, because the same percentage returns more after growth. The shop rewards patience more than fast spending.
Customizing
Customize is presented separately from the Shop, which suggests it is about how things look rather than what they do. The separation is a deliberate bit of interface design, and worth reading before you spend.
Keeping the two apart helps when deciding where to spend: appearance changes are optional, purchases that raise your size are not. Each screen answers a different question about your hoard.
Session
A session naturally runs as growth first and spending after: let the size base climb, then visit the Shop when the multiplier will count. The loop, as the shelf names it, is grow-and-consume, and the order decides the value of every purchase.
The useful stopping point is after growth and before spending: leaving before buying wastes nothing already accumulated. Sessions can be as short or as long as the base-building pace allows.
Loading
Our captures of the pre-game screen return a staged loader: Loading scenes…, then images, models, and sounds. The percentage you see belongs to whichever stage is running at the moment.
That explains why the number can appear to move backward: scenes may sit near 99% while images restart lower. Read the stage name, not the swing, and wait for the menu to hand control back.
On the shelf
The Puzzle shelf names this game's loop outright: an io-style grow-and-consume, unlike the solving entries around it. The shelf describes the others with words like draw, route, and match.
Choose it when you want a relaxed accumulation rhythm; choose the scenario and route entries when you want a puzzle to finish. Same shelf, different promise, and the growth loop is the detail that tells them apart.
Common questions
Something that raises your size, and preferably after you have built up a base. A +50% modifier multiplies what you already have.
They are separate screens. The Shop is where you spend on progress; Customize is about appearance.
The loader runs stages (scenes, images, models, sounds) and each stage has its own percentage. A drop means a new stage is starting, not that loading failed.
The shelf lists it under Puzzle but names its loop io-style grow-and-consume, so expect accumulation and spending rather than a single solution to find.
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