Asbury Pines

Really good incremental narrative game that spins out a twin peaks style plot into something more grandiose. Pacing is really nice and non-linear storytelling is drip-fed to you through resource management mechanic. Want to know more about a character? Gotta understand the lives around them or sometimes follow something insignificant at a first glance. The way everything is connected feels really neat! If you like unique incremental games, murder mysteries and character driven stories - get Asbury pines right now! PS: Don't use the speed up option until the hunt for 100%

Great game! I really loved discovering everything. Had to rely on the logged out progression near the end of the game, but I finished everything!

What a great game! It was my first idler, and at first I got a bit stressed wanting to micro-manage thinking I could screw up and miss out on things. But there's no way to mess up, you can unlock the story efficiently or inefficiently, that's all. The joy is in setting new little routines every time you start up the game, and enjoying the story at its own pace. I thought the medium and the story worked really well together; the measured pace of unlocking new story fragments really brought home the progress of time that's so important for the story. Some of the twists and turns I saw coming, some mnde me raise my eyebrows and go "Oh!" For the people who want to know how long it takes: took me 19 hours in game to 100% it, about 6 days with it puttering along when I wasn't looking. It probably could have been faster, but I had some RL stuff that prevented me from checking in more often. I played this in EA, but it's already great and more than recommended. I'll be looking forward to the last little tweaks and then replay it.

Great chill game with a compelling story. Progression could be fine tuned a bit more, some times you unlock a bunch of things all at once which can be overwhelming, whereas other times the progression is slow, but that's to be expected with idlers so no big deal.

Very cool incremental game. I cannot say much without spoiling it, but while the incremental part is already quite nice (even though it’s simple, it’s well made), the story is really compelling. The start is a bit slow, and there is a lot to read (including a fair amount of purely atmospheric, non-essential descriptions that don’t contribute to the plot), but after a while, the plot starts to unravel, and this is where the game truly shines. There are speed options in the settings: speed increase and fast-forwarding. I recommend not using them until very late. Everything flows very naturally for most of the game, so they are not needed. However, near the very end, or once you complete the story and want to 100% the game, there is nothing to do but wait a few hours for resources to be collected, and that’s where using these options becomes relevant.

Overall, Slightly different in active or idle both work. Actively it took me really about 20 hours to complete the story, will be doing 12 hour occasional checkins for the remaining 3 achievements. None are really misable, just lengthy, and you really need the upgrades from the 3 tabs to make any kind of progress fast.