Idle Pins
Edit 02/11/2021: Three things related to monetisation have happened. First, leaderboards have been removed. That’s good, they were useless anyway and clear cheaters mostly populated the top spots. Second, the daily premium currency (Derium) given has increased dramatically, roughly doubling over the first month. While the amounts are still very, very small, it’s something. Good job.
Lastly, I cursed the game when talking about RNG based purchases, because there is now a slot machine for the Halloween event. The listed chances are 1.23% for a good drop, 29.88% for a not very good drop, 68.9% for absolutely nothing. You also get a tiny consolation prize with each roll, all for 100 Derium. If you wanted to buy Derium it would take roughly 8,100 to get one of the good drops, costing around $20. More absurd monetisation from the developer, sadly.
– Real player with 1220.6 hrs in game
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This will be a fully honest and unbiased review, i personally enjoy the game as i did with the original.
Personally i consider this game a pretty good balance between the active and idle sides of the incremental community. (if you complain about the game require to much active then, simply put the game isnt made for you, as its more geared towards the more active side of the incremental community. dont expect something like melvor, expect something like realmgrinder in terms of activity) The game however isnt entirely active and does have a somewhat long waiting periods, not timewalls per say, but just waiting periods. none the less, despite the fact i prefer EXTREMELY active games like perfect tower 2, and The Prestige Tree. this game has somehow entranced me despite the larger waiting periods.
– Real player with 304.3 hrs in game
Oraxum Trials
Exiled as an outcast, the alchemist lived a life that many would pity. The alchemist became a revered name whispered across the streets, often being sought out to conduct dangerous and bewildering experiments. Forever being hunted by the Katedral Academy, the alchemist wished to test the limits of sorcery and forge their own path.
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Oraxum Trials is an incremental puzzle game where you conduct complex experiments with the Oraxum, a hexagon-shaped board with magical properties. Master using the Oraxum — the alchemist’s greatest tool — and harness the power of mystical crystals, sigils and more.
Complex Puzzles - Every puzzle has multiple solutions, but you are given the freedom to create your own. Fill up your Oraxum for mana generation, utilizing both energy and corruption to your advantage. Conductors, reservoirs and other tiles can be used to create a solution.
Narrative Cutscenes - Grow your skills as an alchemist and discover the world with narrative
cutscenes. Make lasting friendships, face perilous enemies and uncover hidden secrets
throughout your journey.
Prestige and Upgrade - After performing enough experiments, take your gameplay to the next level by prestiging. Gain access to talent upgrades and acclimation points, all of which will have a permanent effect on your story and gameplay.
Decide Your Legacy - You control your own fate. Will you embrace the dark or light magical arts? Or perhaps you would rather maintain the perfect balance? A true alchemist knows their craft, and only you have the power to decide your legacy.
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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
Progress Game
I love this game. People are forgetting that this is still super new and wont have a lot of content. I am sitting at 90 hours on the game so far and love hitting those high numbers. To the reset complaints, I mean it only takes like 2 hours to get back to the max anyway so its not worth the stress over that. Also resets are common in alphas and betas and these children new to gaming don’t seem to understand that.
EDIT- I have hit a wall on floor 1318 of the infinite dungeon that after I beat the enemy whos health bar does not budge until death my game crashes. I however have fixed this by just going somewhere else on the map. Can’t wait for more!
– Real player with 131.2 hrs in game
As of writing this review I am level 842 and have played for ~38.2 hours.
Progress game is a game about.. Well, progressing. You kill enemies to craft better gear so that you can kill even stronger enemies. You get points which you use to update various different stats & much more. There’s currently 7 different zones to explore and conquer.
You can play through the “main game” in about 2-6 hours but if you still desire more there’s a zone with infinite amount of enemies for you to slay!
You might think Progress Game lacks content, but you have to remember there’s only 1 developer working on it, and for free!
– Real player with 99.3 hrs in game
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
Critter Clicker
Ok; I agree with reviews stating this is not a clicker game. Maybe ‘Idle Critters’ would be a better name. But I don’t agree that this makes it completely pointless and not worth the money don’t even have to spend on it.
I actually really liked it; trying to get all the upgrades and embiggen your farm is fun.
Plus, despite being a bit ‘bare bones’, once you get used to the interface it definitely has a quirky charm that I actually found far more pleasant than a lot of the more ‘polished’ idle/clicker games out there.
– Real player with 335.8 hrs in game
There is nothing to this game. Great at first but once you unlock the very minimal amount of things there is to unlock that it for the game.
If the game gets a major overhaul update I will reverse this to recommend.
Edit the 80+ hours are from mostly leaving it on overnight for a few nights… really only spent maybe an hour at most configuring things.
Sure it is free but if the developer added way more stuff I would pay something for this game because in the beginning it is fun.
– Real player with 83.5 hrs in game
NGU INDUSTRIES
Over 100 hours spent, and while mostly enjoyed it, I’ve reached my limit of endless map adjustments and placements and replacements and nudging just to finally get positive balance. Until you buy your next upgrade … and boom. I just spent almost half an hour tweaking two maps to get positive flow for generating t1 & t2 flesh juices. After 10 minutes of enjoying zen equilibrium, I bought two upgrades and watched it all fall apart. Spent another 15 minutes to get things back into balance, but not before being forced into reducing the t1 & t2 income rates. What was the point of buying these upgrades then? Are they not supposed to improve things. Sigh.
– Real player with 2737.9 hrs in game
So the game is in early access but I’m operating under the principle that that should not be treated as immunity from criticism. As it stands NGU industries has foundational flaws that make it less playable than NGU-IDLE that are unlikely to be resolved unless the game loop is significantly reworked, hence it’s a thumbs down from me. At the end of the day the game is free so you don’t have much to lose by trying it out but unless you’re crazy into Idle games I wouldn’t recommend it.
My main issue with the game is that the feedback loop is cyclic. Every feature is driven by resources you must grind from your factories (with the exception of BDSM), the main feature of the game, and every subsequent feature & upgrade you can unlock increases the production of these factories. To me this make the game quickly feel pointless, there are no real decisions for me to make other than what ratio I want to grind resources in and no mystery in what I might unlock since I know it all leads to more production. In some cases there are 1-2 extra steps in the loop “obtain resources - obtain resources faster”, for example arranging your beacons and factories in a way that optimizes production. This gives the game some much needed depth but it’s not enough. In the case of beacons I would argue that past the fifth time you balance your supply chain the process gradually starts to become infuriating (every upgrade you obtain will mess up your supply chain, with a knock-on effect on every downstream resource so you end up fiddling your factories constantly, never feeling like it’s worth it to optimize). If you’ve done it ten times you’ve done it 100, It’s just busy work and not all that well incentivised when the “reward” is that you’ll do it all over again when you can afford your next upgrade.
– Real player with 2066.7 hrs in game
Destroy the Demon Army - Modified
Simple. I like it. Looking forward to updates and more content. : )
Edit: Not as simple as I thought. This will keep me busy. I want to keep the 5 stars lol
Good game. Great potential.
– Real player with 13.8 hrs in game
Helixteus 3
Ever wondered how it feels like to manage and exploit entire universes? Start small with only one planet. Construct and upgrade buildings to produce resources. Explore caves to find treasure. Send ships to other planets to fight enemies and get more building space. Conquer other star systems and start building Dyson spheres and other megastructures. Do research to unlock innovative ways to expand your megafactory.
Done conquering the universe? Send probes that look for other universes and get ready to uncover all sorts of new, exciting and weird things in them, where the speed of light can be 35c, and the gravitational constant such that it affects how galaxies and planets form.
Features
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Procedurally generated planets, caves, star systems, galaxies, clusters, superclusters and universes for replayability
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50+ types of resources to juggle with, divided into many categories: materials, metals, atoms, particles etc.
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16 types of infinitely upgradable buildings with varied functionalities: resource generation, resource conversion, vehicle construction etc.
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6 types of megastructures where their costs and power can depend on the star or the planet they are on
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40+ researchable technologies that unlock features and boost gameplay
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Incremental gameplay. Almost anything you do (including not doing anything) helps make numbers go up even faster. Offline progress. No or very little penalties when losing a battle.
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2 skill-based minigames that help accelerate things a bit
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