Marill?

Sounds fun! I’d reinstall the game if only to be able to help fellow players. Sadly, I can’t download the game now due to restrictions on my device.

This week I played some more of Vepro’s games. In particular, Yet Another Merge Game and Universe Shrinker. Both games have big enough numbers to warrant large number libraries. However, I noticed that in Universe Shrinker the shrinking of universes was represented on an exponential scale but could be easily translated to a linear scale. I guess I could find more examples of this in the “really big numbers” group of incremental games, but that one felt glaringly obvious to me.

I was browsing itch.io for new incremental games this week, and found Centrist Simulator. It seems to be good although it’s short and the appeal looks different from most other incremental games. Haven’t played it yet.

edit: haha I messed up the link format again

Okay, posted it! I’m kinda nervous about it though - it’s been a while since I posted outside of this instance.

Well, there was a post by thepaperpilot about the instance made on [email protected] half a year ago. Not much has changed about the instance that would be relevant to people from other instances since then, so I’m hesitant to make another promotion post for the instance. On the other hand, the community you mentioned is not the one thepaperpilot posted to around half a year ago (and one where promoting communities you belong to is more appropriate)…

I’ll think about it some more.

I’ve continued playing Coloot Idle and I seem to have reached a point of inflation. Whether this inflation will stop before I hit the number limit of the game I don’t know. I want to find out, but the game has gotten really repetitive at this point. I’m willing to DM my save though if anyone’s willing to do it.

I have also been playing Unnamed Space Idle (Web, Windows, Linux, just search for it) for the past few months, but haven’t mentioned it here for a while since I mentioned it in a previous check-in. That mention has probably been forgotten by now so I’m mentioning it again.

This isn’t incremental, but I’ve been playing NandGame, a puzzle game about building computer components from smaller computer components for a while. Currently stuck with trying to make a selector.

This week I’ve been playing web-based button simulators. Namely, Demonin’s Absolute Button Simulator 2 and Ducdat’s Infinite Button Simulator. I think I prefer Infinite Button Simulator among the two. Both games are very grindy/repetitive and they make no attempt to hide it. It’s charming in a strange way. I can’t explain it fully - it’s like these games have a sort of subtly shifting rhythm to them. Come to think of it, most incremental games also have their own rhythm; button simulators simply happen to be a sub-genre where I’m able to notice the nature of the rhythm very easily.

Vepro has published 3 games to galaxy.click. Of those 3, I’ve been playing Coloot Idle the most (but primarily because I’ve already played the other two). I’d consider it a semi-active simple game.

I only recently found out that Barribob has released a new game called Apex Machina. It lags a bit on my laptop but I like it. Take note that if you’re on Linux you have to run it on a Chromium-based browser (and I’d assume the same for MacOS, but I haven’t tested).

Oh yeah, there’s also a Genshin Impact-themed incremental published to galaxy.click called nahidaQuest!. It wasn’t my style and I’m unsure of its legality but I can see that there was quite a significant amount of effort put into it so you may like it.

She probably does mean the Matrix space. incremental.social has a slightly different interface compared to other Mbin instances, with the Matrix space being linked to as “Chat” in the navbar, there being a “Code” button which links to the site’s Forgejo instance, and the link to the list of magazines being listed under an icon on the right side of the navbar not present in other Mbin instances.

As for the engagement part, it may have something to do with the fact that the people organizing this place have/had ties to the incremental games community back on Reddit. I know I wouldn’t have joined if that weren’t the case.

Cavernous 2 is a puzzle game with idle and incremental elements. In that game, you can passively gain stats to compensate for your lack of skill (in this case, good routes). However, there is a limit to how high these stats can go which is determined by how good the routes are. This makes it kind of redundant, and adds timewalls for skilled players later on in the game when stat grinding is strictly required. I’d either switch the passive stat gain system to not have an upper limit (making idling much more valuable) or replace it with a system that automatically sets those stats to the upper limits (removing idling altogether, though still incremental).

Speedrun Dimensions is a game made during a game jam which involves repeating short incremental “levels” to grind resources that boost your rate of progress in those levels so you can beat further levels. It can get repetitive though, and I’d rather change the system so that you passively gain metaprogression resources based on your best time and replaying the level only serves to lower that time.

Fundamental is a slow game. It’s not everyone’s cup of tea, but I like it. However, during the quick parts of the game the user interface gets in the way of my speed (and my finger health). It’s something I’d want to change, thought I don’t know what to change it to.

If you’ll notice, the first two issues are similar in nature. I’d imagine most of the changes people will reply with will have something to do with either pacing, the way certain resources are earned, quality-of-life, or how information is conveyed to the player.

I’ve mostly been scouring itch.io for games to play lately, since I’ve felt like I’ve gone through all the GitHub-hosted games. A Dark Forest is a new game inspired by A Dark Room. I didn’t get dragged into it, but perhaps you may. It’s still in early development though. Evil Incremental is a game that reminds me of Orb of Creation, or at least the first parts of Orb of Creation. Perhaps a bit too much. Note that it was designed with a mobile UI in mind. More Curiosity is a short, micromanage-y incremental game. I think I recommended this a while back, but I’m too lazy to check.

Also, not an incremental but I’ve been enjoying I Wanna Lockpick since laleyou recommended it to me a few weeks earlier. It’s a puzzle game with lots of numbers. I like numbers.

On a personal note: today is my first full day of summer vacation. Hope I don’t waste it.

Haha I didn’t expect somebody to reply to a post so old. People should probably do that more, although the way discussions are formatted here probably acts as a detriment to that sort of conversation.

Anyways, I liked how you listed both shark-themed incrementals as one is abstract and the other less so. I do take slight issue with the fact that the text saying “shark incremental” is not the text that links to Shark Incremental.

Glad you’re here.

I don’t like resets that are just a few seconds long or less than a second, because they tend to become repetitive and therefore boring. However, I believe that these issues are not just exclusive to quick resets. They can also be applied to games with longer reset cycles and in many of those cases the effects feel far more draining (an example: I’ve never been able to stick with Trimps for long). What I believe matters more is how much the game allows you to play at your own pace. I think a minute is a nice limit for a satisfying reset loop, though that is an arbitrary number so don’t take it as law.

I’ve been playing NGU Idle ever since I found out I was able to access Kongregate again (I don’t have a Steam account). Other than that, I haven’t been playing anything that I didn’t mention last week.

There’s a lot of games on that site, many of which I skimmed over. One of the games which caught my eye (non-incremental) was a game called “HP Atk Def”, since the mechanics seemed similar to Tower of the Sorcerer and I had been searching for games like it ever since the discord server for Cavernous introduced me to it and the sub-genre it spawned. I’d say it was easy since stats were not retained between levels and thus you didn’t have to think too far. But I liked it, and considered it a nice warm-up since I haven’t actually played any other game in the subgenre. Oh, by the way, if you have any other recommendations for games like this let me know (although keep in mind I don’t have money or a Steam account, and I can only read English).

I spent more time talking about a non-incremental game than I did about incremental games. I hope that’s okay.

@[email protected] what other shape has 5 similarly shaped objects of different colors, with each object connected to each other object through a line?

For that, you first have to unlock metal (get 12 earth) and then spend the metal on activating temporary automation (bottom right corner of each action). Each second of temporary automation contributes to ticking down that timer. If you have multiple active the timer ticks down accordingly faster, so don’t be afraid of activating as much temporary automation as you can afford.

Furthermore, the effects of fire prestige only take effect after purchasing the second transcend upgrade in the air tab.

I’ll admit it’s tough to understand what to do. It wasn’t intuitive to me either.

Huh, the first and last links are new to me. How’d you find them?

Today I’m too lazy to include links. The games should be one search query away anyway.

I’ve mainly been playing Idle Elemental this past week. This game is grindy in a fun way. There’s always this feeling of having something new to unlocked, and each new unlocked thing introduces new aspects to the previously unlocked things. There’s a certain beauty to how these elements interact with each other. The one major thing I don’t like about the game is that sometimes it feels like it’s forcing me into situations that’ll make me desire new elements instead of having said situations naturally arise out of the scaling. The biggest example of this is when new elements are suddenly introduced into the costs for upgrades. It’s just a pet peeve of mine. By the way, the game is available on the web and Android. I recommend playing it on Android as the web version can lag considerably.

There’s a new round in FairGame, and I’m participating in it. It’s a very relaxed round. On web.

I’ve been checking in more on Gooboo. It has nice ideas though the pacing is a bit too idle for my taste. Web.

I’m also playing Unnamed Space Idle. Web + all major desktop platforms.

I really am feeling lazy today. I only wrote a long description for the first game. Anyways, it’s kinda quiet here considering the amount of people who have joined. I see a lot of people here now.

This week, I decided to revisit some games I’ve played in the past but put on hold. There seems to be a drought of new quality incrementals at the moment.

I loaded up my Trimps save after half a year. There seems to be a lot to explore in this game, but damn does it feel tedious. I quickly remembered why I left it for so long. Web, Steam

Unnamed Space Idle is another game I’m playing. I play this one more frequently than Trimps. I don’t have much else to say to say about it other than I like it. Itch.io, Steam

Cardboard convinced me to play FairGame again, this time with more interaction with the community. I definitely feel better about this game now than last time. Please don’t reduce me, I’m not the dev I swear. Web

Everyone seems to like Super Turtle Idle, so I’m playing it. I don’t get the appeal, and I’m playing it in the hopes that it’ll click eventually. Web

Still playing Matter Dimensions - currently at the early parts of the Atomic prestige layer. It’s a long ride.

I’ve been playing Matter Dimensions this week. It’s a really tedious game, and yet I keep playing it for some reason. I feel weird playing it.