Lazy Sweet Tycoon
I enjoy a lot of clicker games, and I did enjoy this one as well at first, but the game has a few achievements that are way too grindy to keep enjoying the game. After completing all the other achievements I have the following achievements left:
-
clicking 100k energized trees left (I only got around 10k while getting the other achievements with active play)
-
Start/complete 100 jobs, most of them take 1 to 2h in real life which means you have to log in every 1/2h to start a new job if you want to get through this one as fast as possible.
– Real player with 99.5 hrs in game
Read More: Best Replay Value Clicker Games.
Really fun game, it is not as indepth as other clickers but I like the chill environment and themes
Cross play is cool as well, I was a fan of the mobile game so I liked being able to bring my progress over
Runs pretty well on my computer too :)
– Real player with 41.1 hrs in game
Cthulhu pub
Cthulhu pub is a pub simulator with Lovecraft universe lore.
In Cthulhu pub, you can build your own pub or restaurant. Create cute characters, creepy monsters and establish a small pub or make a large cafe with a big amount of options.
Game features:
-
Build walls and floor for your pub!
-
Build tables and kitchen appliances
-
Set decorations
-
Hire your stuff: cook chefs, cleaners, and waitresses
-
Hire warriors who will protect your pub
-
Buy new recipes for the kitchen
-
Grow your food
-
Earn billions with your Cthulhu pub!
Read More: Best Replay Value Clicker Games.
Viridi
Disclaimer: I beta tested this game.
Viridi is exactly what it says on the tin: it’s a little virtual garden where you watch your plants grow.
The gameplay itself is minimalistic. Apart from planting your succulents, watering them, and zooming in to sing at them, there’s very little else you can do. It’s supposed to be a very zen experience — similar to keeping actual plants — so if you expect more interactivity than that then this is not the game for you. I usually had it on in the background while I went on with my day as always (hence my exorbitant playtime), but you don’t need to leave it on all the time. Your plants will grow just fine while the game is closed as well, so if you only want to spend 5 minutes a day checking up on your plants, then you can do that too. As you can see the joy of the game doesn’t lie within its interactivity, but rather within owning a virtual garden in itself.
– Real player with 302.4 hrs in game
Read More: Best Replay Value Free to Play Games.
Inch by inch… Calmly
snail crawls around the pot. Zen.
Watching grass grow.
…………
In real life I’ve killed more plants than I can (or would bother) count. In Viridi I can feel like an expert gardener, and without a stress of real gardening. Au contraire - it is an awesome stress reliever (and believe me - I know about stress!).
This game requires a really low level of skills, there’s no steep learning curve, you don’t have to spend hours trying to beat something or find some other-thing or figure out some puzzle. You just open the game once a day (or even not every day, or maybe 2-3 times a day - up to your liking), water your plants and pluck weeds. Once a week you get a free seed that you can add to your existing pot, or keep it for the future, or trade with other players.
– Real player with 204.0 hrs in game
Brewer
This game is cheap and kind of rough but it’s strangely compelling. You’re a brewery owner and you buy pubs and sell the beer that you make in those pubs. Someone mentioned “genuinely interesting decisions” or some such in a review of this game here and that’s stuck with me and it’s true. You have to decide which recipes to learn, decide whether to buy a pub and when to upgrade it, decide which beers to brew, and juggle deliveries so you don’t run out.
Is the best $5 game on Steam? I doubt it. But I find myself coming back to it now and then when I want to play for a few hours and don’t want to get into anything that is too involved.
– Real player with 735.4 hrs in game
Overview
Until REXCurse starts getting noticed by developers, ol' Il Pallino is going to have to review games from his own library. One such game that absolutely needs a review is Brewer. Set in a fictional area within Russia, the player starts a brewery and brews beer which is primarily sold through bars owned by the player, but every so often an opportunity (similar to contacts in Omerta - City of Gangsters) to sell beer at greater prices to out of town entities comes up every so often. As with any management sim, the player starts out small and goes on to conquer the gaming world by owning pubs all over the map.
– Real player with 228.7 hrs in game