oh hey i played this one recently! it’s pretty fun yea
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Already loving this one, perfect for my currently head empty post-work evening tysm for sharing!
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lmao 10/10 game
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i wanted to see if there are idle games like this but crossed with pomodoros so i can get some help focusing (my executive dysfunction has been horrifically fucking bad lately). I found two pretty cute ones that I’m going to try out, one for work and one for personal stuff.
PacaPomo is one where you manage a farm by doing pomos to grow crops and stuff. the aesthetic is cute and it works on my work mac
Legend of Pomodoro is a bit more like your traditional idle game where you do quests and stuff by doing a pomo to upgrade your gear and do the adventures and whatnot. haven’t tried this one yet since it’s windows only and uh. i’m technically working rn (dw about it)
if anyone else has good ones of these to try let me know.
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i’m happy this thread is here, because it’s 2024 and i just this week paid $2.99 for the android app of kittens game
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I finished DodecaDragons this weeks, definitely one of the best I’ve played, and yesterday I started up Calculator Evolution. Actually remember playing this several years ago, pre-pandemic even, but can’t recall if it was finished back then or if I got to anything close to a ending.
As far as numbers going up goes, its one of the rawest. staring at a screen where you’re literally making the Base go up with bigger numbers - and eventually letters. Labs make things more strategic, but I’m managing to figure builds out on my own.
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I picked up Melvor again this weekend… I think I’m softlocked in my Relics run bit I don’t really want to restart it. At least I can do stuff on my Adventure save.
Alternatively, I want to get my Satisfactory to the point where it’s an idle game and I can watch numbers go up.
It’s currently half-off, so I finally bit on a game that’s been on my wishlist forever:
Well, you see the pitch. It’s why I’ve been interested. I’ve just about unlocked the first real automation thing, and even though it’s mostly just looking at janky ASCII animations, it kinda rules?
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ooh I played this on phone and rly liked it although idk if that was a previous/more lightweight version of it? I don’t remember paying for it but it was a while ago
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I downloaded the Dino Market demo for Next Fest, not sure if the demo is gonna stay up but I kind of like it. Might be the only idle game widget I use when I’m working without being on stream. Though there’s one sound effect that’s really annoying bc it sounds just like the noise one of my externals makes when it goes “u connected me wrong, im angy ):<”, but hopefully they’ll let you customize sfx more in the full version?
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The biggest thing about Ordinal Markup isn’t even its infatuation with mathematical terms as much as its a time sink - and I mean that as an insult. There are plenty of early on challenges or hurdles that are just “come back in 3 days” and at that point it becomes more of a parody of idle games.
Enter ordinary pringles, which takes the basic structure and concept of Markup, adds plenty of early on systems and bonuses to make the whole thing more bearable, as well as later prestige layers and currencies. There’s still plenty of weird mathematical bullshit, but I’ve been finding it much better at distracting me than Markup ever was
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Yeah, that was my impression of Ordinal Markup.
I’ve been playing Fundamental for like a month now in the background. It looks extremely unassuming, it’s a bit on the slow side, but it’s actually pretty interesting long-term. Idk how much more I wanna say about it.
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On a whim in bed last night I googled “recommended mobile idle games reddit” and decided to grab Kittens Game, which is apparently the Dark Souls of idle games according to its website. I expanded a bit too aggressively at the start before I’d understood there was a seasons system and some kittens starved and I feel really bad about it. :'(
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Idle Slayer is an action-idle game, has gorgeous pixel art, a bit of a plot, a few fun minigames and they did an Attack on titan crossover event recently (pretty cool for a solo dev!). I’ve been playing it for 2-3 years and it’s way more involved than I initially realized. Wiki/reddit/discord community if you want to really push past the walls.
It’s not really number-go-up at all but the new Pokemon TCG Pocket app has an auto-battle mode that reduces the game to probability, online micro-interactions, and opening booster packs.
For PURE number go up, there’s one that gave me a headache called Exponential idle. It’s just the math of an idle game without the pretense of a game around it. Like. It’s literally just the formulas:
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