Ropuka's Idle Island

Not very engaging, but cool looking art style. Takes way too long for what it is.

[H1]Ropuka's Idle Island[/h1][hr][/hr] 200-300+ hours to complete, Ropuka’s Idle Island is a true idle game in which there is barely any interaction on your part. You have a little frog companion that lives on an island on your desktop that cuts grass with scissors and occasionally naps. As time passes, you get coins which you use in a lottery to get random furniture pieces and decorations, which you may use to decorate the island, and points from cutting grass which you can use to increase Ropuka’s or the islands status to get more points faster for the lottery or more growth. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3754468768 While I personally found I didn’t much like Ropuka’s Island, I realize that’s on me for expecting more options to interact and do things on the island with Ropuka – BUT, I will however gripe a bit that to get 100%, you need to collect each furniture piece a total of five times, you can win multiples of the same item via the random lottery, which is completely rude and unnecessary. Regardless of that nonsense, the pixel art is cute, the music is chill,there is no pressure to do anything or complex game mechanics that require you to actively participate in the idle game. While I wish I could set it to rain forever objectively it’s a fine, if boring, idle game. [code]If you liked this review and want to read about similar games or just support me on my journey of playing my entire Steam backlog, you can join my curator group, [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/39675075/] Rune's Reviews![/url] Have a nice day! [/code]

3/10 frog cuts grass

很纯粹的挂机游戏，我想要的挂机游戏就是这个样子，2025年4月19日的一个中午购入，那个时候还没有汉化版，好在它足够简单，对着英文戳来戳去也玩得明白。喜欢它的背景音乐，躺椅上的小青蛙悠闲地摸鱼，割草。整个游戏只有装修和抽礼物需要自己动手，主打一个白噪音陪伴， 不会像其他游戏性太强的挂机游戏一样，挂着挂着就去玩了。同时期还有个挂机的石头当时也很戳我，改天去看看现在什么样了。

Somthing is off with this games files. It has a player log save file of over 46 Gigs! I was wondering why i had such low space all the sudden so I dug into my locallow files using the windows app TreeSize and found a huge 46 gig file just for this game. For just and idle cutting grass game this is unacceptable! Far as the game review you see exactly what you get. its just a poor frog cutting grass and sleeping and you just unlock some cosmetics to make the island and frog look different. Not much reward for loosing that much space on my drive so this is all going in the trash where it belongs.

Not for me — cute idea, but incredibly shallow Ropuka looks adorable and the concept is cute, but after spending a ridiculous amount of time with it, I honestly can't recommend it. The biggest issue for me is how little there actually is to interact with. At its core, you're basically clicking a few things, watching numbers go up, buying upgrades, and waiting. That's essentially the entire gameplay loop. There isn't enough meaningful interaction to keep me engaged without the achievement/collection grind. And if you're on Linux, there's another problem: the game isn't officially supported there, and running it through Proton results in the infamous black background because the desktop-transparency system relies on Windows-specific functionality. The developer has acknowledged this themselves. I wanted to like this game much more than I actually did. The art style and idea are genuinely charming, but underneath the cute presentation there's just not enough gameplay for me. 3 clicks, wait, upgrade, repeat. Maybe that's enough for some people as a desktop companion, but after hundreds of hours chasing the collection, I can safely say I wanted considerably more interaction than this game provides.

美术挺不错，但实际挂久了会越来越无聊，整体可玩性比较有限。 游戏绝大多数成就都和抽奖机制有关，游戏英语这里把它直接写作Lottery，个人很讨厌这个机制，而且很反感这种写法。明明是休闲挂机游戏，却在为了随机奖品长期劳动……啊，写出来后让我更讨厌了。 同一贴纸需要抽到5次才算真正集齐（搁这儿合成碎片呢？）代币和升级的价格不断上涨，服装和朋友的价格也奇贵无比，还没任何加成，不如攒这个代币去抽10次呢。看不到用代币购买的意义，感觉设计挺失败的。后期的资源需求尤其夸张，而贴纸数量非常多，如果不投入几百个小时在里面，就做不到全收集。 BGM很不错，但对于一款需要挂机上百小时的游戏来说，曲目实在太少，很快就会听腻，而且也没有提供导入自定义音乐的功能。美术是我觉得最优秀的地方，可惜单靠画风很难支撑我长期挂机的动力。