Starvester

Short, sweet. If you like Idle, I'd say $5. I mean you can pay more, but honestly if they want more than $5 they can add more to the game. This feels like they could have added a few more layers and maybe something other than just clicking. It ends to fast for a $6.49 game. Honestly, it feels like this and games like it are all made by one company overseas, and they have a bunch of shell/temp Developers/Publishers and each one is designed to last just long enough to get past the 2 hour refund window.

Build a factory - IN SPACE - that spans multiple star systems, utilizing a fleet of configurable drones to run it all. Each place you visit lets you build a different piece of your factory, and each piece gathers a different resource. You'll need all of them to finish the final project for your corporate overlords: making a self-sustaining ring-world around a star, and then encasing a black hole in diamond to siphon its energy to fuel the ring-world. You can beat the entire game in about 10 hours if you're in a rush. But there's no reason to rush. And it has meta-progression. Every so often you'll hit a wall where progress gets too slow, so you can "prestige" and use your skill points between runs to purchase new skills that let you make certain resources faster and thus make your next run a little bit easier. The graphics are just "kinda meh" 4/10. The soundtrack isn't that great either, 4/10. The sound effects are also a 4/10 but at least they work. And there are times when some of the drones and menu screens can get a bit buggy... but exiting the game and reloading that save almost always fixes the problem. But the progression loop is SOLID, it's fun to see how far you can get in each run. I only needed 3 runs to complete my factory, and one final run to blow up the entire galaxy... it's a shame they didn't include any visual or sound effects of that final kaboom though it just drops you in the credits screen and then back to the main menu. Sigh. But yeah, it's good fun for 10 - 15 hours total. And you can leave it running in the background while you go do something else for an hour or so, come back and you'll have a mountain of resources to work with. The ideal way to play is build your factory for half an hour, then let it run on its own for an hour, then come back and build for another half hour, then let it run in the background for another hour, rinse and repeat. And then you can prestige when you have about 7 skill points saved up, even though the game tries to convince you to do it with just 4 points in the bank. Like I said - this way it takes about 3 runs to reach the "end" and another run to reach the final end-game achievement.