Incremental Adventures

Incremental Adventures

Don’t be fooled by the negative reviews from people who played it for 10 minutes. This game has far more content and depth than they’ve unlocked in that short timeframe.

I’ve been playing it since it launched on Kongregate a year ago, and it’s been one of the best idle/incremental games I’ve played in a long time.

It’s also a game you won’t easily reach the end of content in, with an active dev that actually cares about his game.

As for the DLC things that people complain about: it’s a free-to-play game, and those are clearly just more of a donation option than anything else. You don’t need them to progress in the game, and you don’t lose out on any experiences by not buying them.

Real player with 588.0 hrs in game


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This is another one of the few decent idle/incremental games on Steam. I have two big criticisms though.

The gameplay does a one 180. It looks like a party RPG kind of idle where you allocate stat points and fight tooth and nail for progression through stages. It’s like that for like an hour or two. And then the character/class/gear system becomes sort of irrelevant for advancement. At this point advancement largely depends on what you have your prestige settings and general options at. Don’t get me wrong, it still an engaging game, but in a completely different way.

Real player with 528.2 hrs in game

Incremental Adventures on Steam

Industry Idle

Industry Idle

No waiting on energy / stamina / turns. bloops you down with 5 million cash and you do the rest.

After playing about 5 maps and at the current stage of the game ill rate it like this.

R = rating / S = suggestion / Number links both

(R1) Game play 9/10

(R2) GFX 8/10

(R3) Menu Layout 5/10

(R4) Misleading Overwhelming-ness 6/10

(R5) User Overly Clicking Fatigue 6/10

(S1) Solid Game (people should be required 2 hours of play before reviewing on steam)

(S2) (more color never hurt. building colors. and background green when same type selected) (S3) (needs a right click on map or building with wheel menu option.)

Real player with 511.2 hrs in game


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“Oh yay.” I thought; “another idler to waste my free minutes on whilst I’m busy answering my emails…”

Boy was I wrong….

Welcome to Industry Idle; a minimalistic game in the spirit of games like Factorio and Satisfactory. The game places you in the shoes of a company CEO tasked by setting up a profitable factory complex in a city of your choosing. Build a booming automotive industry in Rotterdam, go deep into IT-development in Detroit, arm Toulouse with nuclear armaments and sell it all on a dynamic market…OR your competition !!

Real player with 352.6 hrs in game

Industry Idle on Steam

The Perfect Tower II

The Perfect Tower II

I have been playing this game on early access for 2 months now (since apparently we’re flexing playtime in reviews I have 1475 hours). I’ve played a lot of idle games before but this is the first one that managed to keep me hooked more then a few days. There are a few reasons for that :

  • the content is very varied, much more then any other idle game I’ve seen before, with a lot of different buildings that feel like different games but somehow tie together really well (you can fight bosses, optimize a factory that feels a lot like modded Minecraft, or try to get the highest possible scores in the various experiments of the laboratory, and a lot more…)

Real player with 5474.0 hrs in game


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I don’t typically do reviews. Usually someone else said it better and didn’t take 13 pages to say it. But for whatever reason I felt the urge to hear my own sweet Cherry keystrokes and here we are. Hi.

First off, this is probably one of the most, if not thee most advanced TD variant out there. It’s extremely involved and has system upon system that initially don’t seem too connected but everything assuredly is. Don’t go into this expecting Desktop Tower Defense 1.5 (My first TD game back on Kong). This will take hours to fully understand if you go in blind and don’t read a guide. The ingame help wasn’t much help when I started and the updates to it still don’t seem like they would be too helpful. But if you stick to it, the systems and loop aren’t in some foreign language and can be figured out with some time and effort.

Real player with 1183.8 hrs in game

The Perfect Tower II on Steam

Coin Treasures

Coin Treasures

A really novel idle idea!

I have already put some hours into it and am looking forward to seeing how the game goes.

The developers are very nice and this game definitely needs to be seen by the eyes more idler junkies!

The game can seem too easy at times then the next moment Thor’s hammer takes away all your stuff!

You can sit there and spend all your coins and try to maneuver the items the best you can, but when you come back

it’s always going to look like a crazy mess haha. It will start slow of course, but gradually you can drop more coins faster

Real player with 198.5 hrs in game

This is a neat more visual take on relatively simple incremental mechanics… and it kinda works.

TLDR: The game has some issues, but I find myself still playing it after 5hours+, and still enjoying it.

Don’t expect this to be an incremental with tens of new mechanics to unlock over 100+ hours, it is a much more condensed experience. And if you enjoy more visually appealing incrementals, then it’s definitely worth a try - although the current price might be a tad high compared to other games in the genre based on content alone, I found it more than worth it - and especially if the dev sorts out some of the below issues it’ll definitely be justified.

Real player with 13.4 hrs in game

Coin Treasures on Steam

Tap Heroes

Tap Heroes

I recommend this game but, honestly, only just.

I read, in the other reviews for this game, about how the progression was slow and I thought “I bet it’s not that bad,” but BOY was I wrong. It’s, without a doubt, the slowest game I’ve ever played. After 6ish hours of “playing” (including auto-grinding while offline) your characters still feel weak and unprepared for most things.

Boss fights are not something you’ll ever grind (unlike other clicker games I’ve played - where bosses drop decent amounts of money for an only moderately harder encounter). These boss fights are essentially an attrition match - where you stand there spam-healing your fighter* (*your one reliable source of dps (because, as far as I’m concerned, the rogue is

! censored useless)) while you wait for either the boss to crit and OHKO you, or for you to finally whittle down the boss' HP and move on with your life (and your underwhelming reward for your last 5 minutes of play).

Real player with 435.8 hrs in game

My playtime: I played this offline but I got all achievements in ~353.5h (reached area Lv 300)

Grindy Achievement(s): Yes (5 achievements, one achievement might take 200h+ playtime).

Optional Achievement(s): Yes (45 achievements).

Difficult Achievement(s): No.

Intro

Tap Heroes is a clicker game where you can recruit and upgrade heroes to defeat enemies and advance your level. The game has offline progression and no “world reset” feature.

Pros:

Real player with 314.2 hrs in game

Tap Heroes on Steam

Plantera

Plantera

This is a cute, psuedo-clicker that is extremely simple compared to many of the other titles in the Clicker genre. Everything goes together very nicely. The only problem is that it’s mostly a quest to complete the achievements, and then there isn’t much to do. The garden gets maxed out. The upside is that it doesn’t require micro-transactions (I’m looking at you, Clicker Heroes, Adventure Capitalist, etc) to “complete” the game.

The idea is to build a garden with 3 layers of plants (trees in back, bushes in the middle, and vegetables in the front) to harvest, as well as animals to get “produce” from, such as wool, milk, eggs, and random stuff the pigs dig up. There are various critters that will try to interrupt the farming. Wolves and foxes will scare the animals, rabbits will steal vegetables, and birds will fly away with one produce item. Obviously this has minimal impact on the overall output, and they don’t really add much except something else to look at.

Real player with 86.6 hrs in game

Published by: VaragtP

Developed by: VaragtP

Genre: Casual, Indie, Simulation, Family-friendly

Release Date: 29 Jan, 2016

Create, expand and watch your garden grown in this super addictive and totally adorable casual clicker game.

Introduction

Plantera is a simple and highly addictive clicker game, where the basic objective is to build and expand your own garden. As your garden grows, you collect more coins which allow you to further boost your garden (and coin collecting efficiency). Boosters can be bought with the coins, which allow higher value of produce, collecting coins when the game isn’t running for larger periods (I can currently leave my game for 12 hours, and come back to a large sum of coins waiting for me!), and guard dogs and scarecrows to scare away the critters trying to steal your produce! Though I’m not generally a fan of clicker games, I have really enjoyed Plantera thus far.

Real player with 73.2 hrs in game

Plantera on Steam

Future Fortune

Future Fortune

Should you be able to retroactively increase the rarity of your boosters? Yes. Does that make the game RNG? No, not really. This game is simple, fun, and intuitive and does not play even remotely similarly to Adventure Capitalist other than they are both clicker games. Everyone who is salty about this game either has no patience or no sense for numbers, as the game is easy and picks up the pace very quickly. Is the game a masterpiece….well, no. But it does what it sets out to do.

Source: Thousands of hours of Idle Game Experience

Real player with 544.0 hrs in game

It’s a decent idler. Been at it a few days, running on the secondary monitor as an occasional distraction.

Good stuff:

  • You start off fully manual on all of your activities. Then you earn points to automate those clicks so it becomes more idle.

  • Pace of earning points to increase your resources and automation seem steady and good.

  • So far, no walls hit or problems. Just spend your points wisely where they will have the greatest impact on how you want to play.

  • Left it running overnight 24x7 for 4 days without a bug or crash.

Real player with 527.6 hrs in game

Future Fortune on Steam

Idle Research

Idle Research

Idle Research is an addictive, resource management, incremental game with both idle and active playstyles.

Research and Craft items (Flasks, Tubes, and Cylinders) to earn as much of the 3 types of Energy as possible!

The game can be played anywhere at anytime, no internet or constant attention is required (though it would speed up progress :D).

Supports different platforms from Mobile and the Web version!

Features

We all love numbers right? How about big ones? That’s what this game is about! It was designed to be a fun and addicting incremental where anyone can enjoy.

Research and unlock up to 27 different and colorful vital items that serve one main purpose: Crafting!

Craft researched items that will make you even more Energy and can be used in different parts of the game!

Use your Energy to speed up progress with the 41 different types of Accelerators!

Earn Fire Items when researching to buy various special upgrades including Automation! You don’t need to manage everything manually 24/7 =D

Master your items to improve their research speeds and gain Mystical items!

Use your Mystical Flasks to buy from a wide selection of upgrades in the Mastery Tree!

There are 3 major prestige layers for each Flasks, Tubes, and Cylinders. Reset some progress, gain Golden items, and come back even faster!

Take your crafted Tubes into battle with 9 different zones each with unlimited zones! Each zone drops different colored skills that will help speed up the game.

Use your unlocked Skills from Adventure and level them up with your Tubes! Unlock up to 90 skills, each important in their own ways!

Use your tubes to brew 14 different types of potions that will improve the game in general and different Adventure stats!

Constant Development

As a sole indie developer, this is my passion and hobby. Making games is the major thing I do almost everyday. I will always seek suggestions, fix bugs, and always add new content that will make the game even better. My goal is to satisfy as many players as possible and to create a fun experience.

Community

One of my major goals is to create a community of players and indie developers that are friendly and helpful towards one another. Want to come along with the crew? Join the discord!

Made with love and passion,

Zach / CryptoGrounds Games LLC

Idle Research on Steam

OPEC IDLE

OPEC IDLE

Very bad for a game that actually costs real money.

could use more content and a better layuot for the graphical user interface, its literally effortless.

Real player with 137.7 hrs in game

For an idle game it is quite short, It is “beatable” in a few days.

Game is bugged and the dev does not care. The gains are faster/slower depending on which tab you are on. It tickles the surface of what makes idle game fun but that ends there. I doubt the game will evolve furthermore. Do not recommend.

Real player with 83.8 hrs in game

OPEC IDLE on Steam

Plantera 2: Golden Acorn

Plantera 2: Golden Acorn

The round blue Mellows return to tend to the garden once more and grow the big magical oak tree that have been rumored to have placed its seed there. Build up your garden around the tree to attract Mellows, round blue creatures that will help you pick up things and harvest your plants.

Tend to the oak tree and grow it to the sky to harvest its Golden Acorns.

Adorn your garden with decorations and watch as your garden grow more lush than ever before with new plants, bushes and trees and get populated by new animals, both in the sea, on the ground and in the sky.

If you want you can pluck trees and harvest plants yourself, or let your Mellows do the work for you while you watch or build and invest in new plants. The Mellows will even continue to work and tend to the garden while you are not playing the game!

As you play you will unlock new items and as you continue to expand and improve your garden your magic oak tree will grow even bigger with it, soon reaching its crown to the sky and beyond!

Plantera 2: Golden Acorn on Steam