Progress Quest: the original idle game

Re:Progress Quest: the original idle game by rpmisms on Thursday April 25, 2024 @09:16AM (#40157167)

If you are an idle game enjoyer like myself, I cannot recommend Antimatter Dimensions highly enough. This game makes you do math, has deep lore, somehow, and is just generally an ode to game design. The core mechanic is based on 1.8e308 being infinity, too.

Here's a link, enjoy a mild, time-gated addiction: https://ivark.github.io/AntimatterDimensions/

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Re:Progress Quest: the original idle game by Aeolun on Thursday April 25, 2024 @11:15AM (#40158555)

I kind of feel like there’s little to do except press more buttons? Like, I get that it’s an idle game, but even cookie clicker at least looks entertaining.

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Re:Progress Quest: the original idle game by frud on Thursday April 25, 2024 @12:55PM (#40159982)

The game goes through several phase changes as you progress.

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Re:Progress Quest: the original idle game by pavel_lishin on Friday April 26, 2024 @12:36PM (#40171390)

That's good to hear, because right now I'm playing it by placing something heavy on the M key.

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Re:Progress Quest: the original idle game by LargeWu on Thursday April 25, 2024 @11:19AM (#40158612)

Cookie Clicker just has so many little surprises which keeps it engaging. I don't generally like idle games but I love Cookie Clicker.

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Re:Progress Quest: the original idle game by rpmisms on Thursday April 25, 2024 @11:38AM (#40158839)

Yes, it does seem that way at first. A minor spoiler: this game has its own DSL to script things, eventually.

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Re:Progress Quest: the original idle game by jprete on Thursday April 25, 2024 @10:35AM (#40158097)

This is probably the best of the genre. I think the main weakness is that it's slow even by idle/incremental genre standards, and there will be times when the right action is to leave it alone for hours or days.

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Re:Progress Quest: the original idle game by rpmisms on Thursday April 25, 2024 @11:39AM (#40158847)

Yeah, I'm in Cel7 right now, and I'm checking in twice a day. Love it.

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Re:Progress Quest: the original idle game by pavel_lishin on Friday April 26, 2024 @12:36PM (#40171381)

Quick question: is there more to this than just putting a heavy weight down on the "M" key and watching number-go-up?

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Re:Progress Quest: the original idle game by rpmisms on Friday April 26, 2024 @11:54PM (#40177048)

Vastly more. It starts out simple, and then you're writing code in the game's DSL and cursing Effarig.

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Re:Progress Quest: the original idle game by pavel_lishin on Saturday April 27, 2024 @01:17PM (#40181686)

I don't know if I'll get there. I'll probably just fire up Factorio.

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