Idle Galaxy

Edit: STAY AWAY!!!! Came back to check to see if any changes have been implemented that were reccomended by many of the players but it appears nothing new. Also the dev has deleted all discussion posts with anything constructive. I've been trying to give this game a fair shot but in its current state I would not suggest this game to anyone looking for their new idler. The first few hours are ok, per normal idlers you make some quick progress at first. However eventually I realized that as you progress further, the game actually penalizes you for not fully upgrading on the previous levels. As an example, it used to only take you 20 minutes to accumulate 1000 currency, on the next level it may take you 1hr to accumulate 1000 resources. As far as I can tell, there is no way to go back to a previous level to farm faster so now you're effectively stuck in a catch up system. In regards to the upgrade system, there's no actual numbers to determine how much damage my clicks are doing so there's no way to even determine if some of the values are even working. I'm going to give this game a few more days and get past the first 20 levels and see if there's additional content. EDIT: I made it to level 19, and the upgrade system bugged out on me. I was farming my primary click damage and got to level 245 and then the total energy bank went to -21billion. It would take me weeks if not a month to dig myself out of this hole so it would be better to restart, however I don't know if this same bug would just reoccur. Would not rec this game to anyone unless some major content and mechanic changes are implemented.

I got the game because it seemed visually satisfying, but as an idle game I gotta say it got extremely boring and exhausting for me to keep playing after such a short amount of time. After mindlessly clicking for almost an hour I can safely say that there is a lot of work needed in the balancing of this game. As others have already mentioned, upgrades have linear effects but exponential in cost. Automation is extremely expensive and ineffective, that this doesn't feel idle at all. Not to mention you'd need to evolve to increase your money cap, and evolving makes collecting money even slower. Each and every upgrade is very straight forward and barely adds any QoL. Half of the upgrades are chance-based which almost never procs because of how microscopic the chances are. In the entirety of my playthrough, 99% of my money came from clicks. Idle generation is extremely low compared to clicking, you'd be waiting several minutes just to get an upgrade that is pretty much non-existent. Even perks are basically upgrades, and what's worse is that their bonuses are multiplicative (at least that's how I see it in the stats window). So if you have a 1% crit chance from an upgrade, and a 1% crit chance from a perk, you'd end up with a 1.01% total crit chance. Very not worth the price. Game lacks any sense of progression, it seems that you'd be stuck in the same process of clicking/idling, open shop, upgrade, or evolve. No new mechanics to spice things up, and the very generic upgrades need a LOT of balancing.

The game balance is awful. Linear power *decrease*, exponential cost increase. As you progress levels, you gain *less* per click, but the cost of upgrades stays the same. So if you skip a level without upgrading everything, you are heavily penalised. There is no way to click while the upgrade screen is open meaning upgrading is incredibly tedious. The idle functionailty is practically non existent. You get auto-clickers, but they fire off every few seconds with a fraction of the effect of clicking. You not only need an autoclicker to progress, even with one, progress becomes tedious. The game does not create a decent dopamine feedback loop which is basically an idle game's one task. The game should not have been released in its current state.

Poor upgrade system with nothing tangible to aspire to. The graphics are pretty but not special and become repetitive with nothing new added to the gameplay loop.

Game gets only harder with ''progress''. No new mechanics at any part of the game since the very start, you just click or wait.

Game has some serious UI and balance issues. Upgrades are tedious, and so is advancement. This in particular is not at all my experience: "Runs in background so you can spend time for something else while it plays itself." It goes more like this. 1. Click to collect all the energy you can. 2. Open the upgrade screen. 3. Buy ONE upgrade; it's all you can afford. 4. Close the upgrade screen. 5. Return to step 1 several times. When "several" goes over a hundred, everything AGGRESSIVELY stops being fun. You can't just let this game play itself; once your energy tops out, you have to manually click the "Evolve" link to move on. The game is missing three essential elements, all of which could be relatively easily fixed. 1. Collecting energy beyond the "Evolve" trigger should be allowed. 2. Energy you collect this level should carry forward to the next. 3. Upgrade buttons should be available on screen all the time. Game balance is still kind of off, but I don't have specific recommendations about that because I can't be arsed to play the game long enough to see the progression. The three UI fixes would make a massive difference in how the game feels to play, and end a lot of player frustration.

Idle Galaxy isn't really a proper game, it's just a lazy browser/Flash-tier "number incrementer" game where the object of the game is to increase the in-game currency by clicking, and sometimes buying things that increase the rate at which your currency/score goes up. It's an incredibly shallow game loop, to the point you might as well just run a program that does "i=i+1; print i" and watch the numbers go up automatically, and just watch it. You'd get the exact same outcome. If this sounds completely mindless, you're not wrong. Of course, in this case the numbers are augmented by some colourful blobs floating around, so if you're the kind of person that gets transfixed by lava lamps then this might just be the experience you need. For everyone else, this is barely a game. Number incrementers are utterly pointless games, and this has even less direction and motivation than almost every other game in the genre. The game is very simplistic, small and limited in scope and ambition. This feels more like a tech demo, proof of concept or student homework assignment rather than a fully fledged product designed for PC gamers. As such it doesn't offer any real value as a serious PC game. The game never really caught on with the millions of gamers on Steam, with a very low peak player count close to launch, and then just a handful of players launching this game every couple of days. This is undoubtedly caused by factors such as those raised in this review. It's always helpful with buying decisions to consider how popular and successful the product is, and unfortunately while this did accumulate a few participation trophy reviews, overall, people just aren't using it. So, should you buy this game? Is this one of the best of the 100,000+ games on Steam? Idle Galaxy is relatively cheap at $2 USD, but it's not worth it. Given the defects and quality issues with the game, coupled with the unrealistic price, this is impossible to recommend. This is also competing with over 11,000 free games available on Steam, many of them far better than this paid product. [quote][b][url=https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/marketing/profile]Profile Features Limited![/url][/b] Valve have marked this game as "Profile Features Limited" at the time of this review. This is usually caused by poor sales figures and low community acceptance for the game (to date). Until this status changes, this game will not give you +1 to your Game Collector badge count, appear in profile achievements or any other Steam meta-accomplishments, nor can it be displayed in some profile showcases. If these factors are important to you, it may be worth holding off before buying this game.[/quote]

The worst idler i've ever played.

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