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Anybody got recommendations for some good idle games?

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[–] Malix@sopuli.xyz 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Unnamed Space Idle? https://store.steampowered.com/app/2471100/Unnamed_Space_Idle/

It is pretty similar to Melvor, you have a space ship instead of a character. Ship automatically shoots baddies and goes forward. You upgrade the ship, it's parts, etc. Proceed to idle, harveste materials, craft stuff, collect bonuses, unlock new tiers of stuff... etc. It looks a bit amateurish, but it's pretty cool as far as idlers go.

It has offline progress, cloud saves & works on linux too. And apparently you can share your progress with android version too - but I dunno for sure, haven't tried.

There are mtx available, but even the game tells you they're not really needed, they're there for giving support to the dev - and I can confirm, the game isn't coin operated at all, you gain everything you'd realistically need through gameplay at reasonable pace.

[–] TechieDamien@lemmy.ml 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I've been having a blast with that one. If you want something in a similar vein, take a look at antimatter dimensions. Again, it is the sort of game that has so many layers and it prone to spoilers.

[–] Malix@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 hours ago

I've played quite a bit of the browser version, but that steam version has stuff in screenshots I don't think I've seen in the browser one... huh.

Might need to check this one out, thanks!

[–] Poopfeast420@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Thanks, gonna check that out.

[–] Malix@sopuli.xyz 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

if/when you get stuck / progress feels horrendously slow/stalled, the wiki is pretty up to date and offers great info https://spaceidle.game-vault.net/wiki/Main_Page - but imo, only check it when progress stalls hard, otherwise there be spoilers, a lot of spoilers.

Welcome to space :)