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Hello guys.
I've made a post about 6 years ago on this very sub.
Original post:
https://www.reddit.com/StopGaming/comments/21yt01/my_short_story/ It's been 6 years. A wild ride. The attempt you read above didn't work, by the way, as you might have guessed. The older I get the best I know my body and my mind. I know what triggers me, my addictions, and I know the results of online gaming for me. Here's a summary of what happened; and of what might happen to you.
My attempts failed. I enrolled into college, on an ok degree and university shortly after that. I actually got a good grade on my final exams of HS. Everything was cool. I went to live near campus, by renting a room. On that room, I experienced fiber internet (I was playing on mobile internet my whole life basically, with around 130 ping). This allowed me to play with 50 ping constantly, from my bedroom. No parents, no one to tell me what to do. Just my own rules.
Year 1 results:
-Got obese
-Did half the courses of the 1st year of college
-Achieved/Learned absolutely nothing in my life
-Literally added 0 value to anyone/anything
I remember about 2 or 3 events from this year. Its a complete blank year of my life.
Year 2:
Decided to change again. Decided not to bring my laptop to college, and brought a tablet instead. This helped a lot. During this year I went to the gym, made a few more friends and actually experienced life for a bit. When I went home for the weekend, I used my laptop and played. Eventually I brought my laptop and started playing, which made me fail that year of college (I did 9/15 courses, which caused me to fail). That meant I needed an extra year to complete it. I developed awful sleeping habits, awful routines. Didn't take care of myself enough. Gaming, not completely, but with around 80% guilt, pretty much caused me to waste one more year of my life.
Year 3
Knowing I would need an extra year, I started working full time while studying. I got a cool job, allowed me to meet a lot of new people, be social, and earn quite a lot of money for a 21 year old. I didnt do much studying this year, but did enough to allow me to finish stuff next year, if I focused on it. I went to the gym here and there and with a bit of money, I bought a used gaming pc to play esports games. Having a full time job and getting friends that motivated me to do other stuff and to workout allowed me to stay off gaming. I actually started managing it.
Year 4
This year everything turned around. I saved money to do one last push at college, so I quit my job and I did a lot of courses in 1 semester. I went to 8hrs of classes a day and I studied the whole day, only taking a break to workout. I got shredded, got good grades, finished my degree, girls started coming in, gaming took a backseat in my life for quite a while as life was just super enjoyable. But still, it always found a way to creep in. Be it by me playing until 6am and missing work, or sleeping 2 hours and being tired to interact with people, or to skip workouts, it never allowed me to realize my full potential. When I thought I'd finally tamed the addiction, it got to me again. I got accepted to my master degree.´
Year 5 and 6
Just a continuation, kept working, trying to juggle a masters degree (on a university located in a different city) and working full time, working out, and gaming. I was gaming 10 hours a day and working 8. I still kept going and going, trying to actually game while being successful, and while I wasnt being awful, I wasnt reaching my goals. Eventually I got a gf and gaming posed a problem. I got fat again, sold my gaming computer, was happier than ever, lost 10kg again in a couple of months and was living life. Then quarantine came.
Year 7
Still trying to finish my masters. Bought a pc again in April because I was stuck, working from home and had nothing to do. Moved back to my moms house to save money, and for the past 8 months, I've been doing nothing but working and playing. I played around 12 hours a day, worked 8, slept 4. My health took a downturn, and my weight rocketed to the highest I've probably ever been, as I completely left the gym. I sold my computer (Again) a couple of weeks ago, and I've been happy and I didn't think once that I made the wrong decision.
I'm an absolute veteran in dealing with this addiction. I've failed and had success and experimented with a lot of different things. I'm 24 now, and I'm still young. But I've been clearly held back by something that has no real value in life, no matter how you look at it. No other hobby manages to grab your attention for 12hrs a day. I left this journey feeling empty, I notice my memory isn't the same. If you're reading this and you feel that you're heading down the same path or if you feel that you're in the spot you're in now, don't worry, and don't feel down on yourself. Computer gaming is just too fucking addicting for a specific group of the population. Everyone that judges you just does not understand that this is a literal drug for you and that you simply cannot control it. It's like them watching their favourite movie/hearing their perfect song for the first time, stretched out to infinity. If you're reading this, is because you feel that you need help. IF you remotely think that, you're already too deep in. This is already affecting your life and your future. Don't think that you can live with this, IT will find its way back.
I know this sounds dramatic. But I know a lot of people whose lives have been completely ruined by being too addicted to videogames man. I have friends that are 25 and have done absolutely nothing with their lives as they play 10 hours a day. LIterally ANYTHING in life that you pour 10hrs a day to will give you some sort of skill, be it: cooking, videoediting, reading, studying, etc.. Playing videogames is like staring at a wall. Do you want to spend 30% of your life staring at a wall? You will regret this.
Anyway, enough with the rant. Lets actually get practical.
Sell your computer. If you can't sell your computer, sell your mouse/peripherals that make you play ( this also worked for me). If you have a gaming computer, sell it and buy a weak 200 dollar laptop for productivity. Change OS to linux or MacOS, something not compatible with your games. Out of sight ouf of mind IS absolutely true when it comes to gaming, dont doubt it. IF I don't have a computer I DO NOT WANT to play anything. After 2 months you will be hating the videogame industry and you will look down on anyone thats still in that loop.
Don't use the quarantine as an excuse as I did. I was so happy and simply got depressed once I was stuck at home for 1 month and believed I really had a reason to play. This is another mistake. In your life, there will not be a valid reason ever again for you to simply touch a videogame. 99% of people can do that and keep going with their lives. You and me, can't. Pay attention to your family. Pay attention to your wellbeing and to your goals. Pay attention to your friends.
This is a post that I hope will help you, but is also something to keep me accountable. I can't lie that I feel a little ashamed to still have this issue 6 years after I noticed it, but hey, there's still time I hope. Hopefully this will help someone. And if you don't feel like reading this whole thing and you skipped to the end, let me try to summarize this in a few sentences:
I failed in quiting. I did OK with a lot of ups and downs. My life and goals could be a lot more advanced by now. Don't think you can't control it, its in your DNA to be an addict to this if you're browsing this forum. Make it impossible to play and you will not play. Simple. Dont try juggling it with other things, or limitting playing time, or games played. Sell mouse/PC, make it physically impossible to play, downgrade to a slow productivity computer. Go to the gym. Live life.
Thank you for reading
I’m on mobile and I’m feeling a lot of anxiety, also I’ve been up for almost 36 hours, not counting a one hour nap. I’m sorry if this is hard to read, or if anything either doesn’t make sense or just sounds stupid in general.
Like scared, scared. Not “I might still love him” scared. He actually terrifies me. I know that cutting him completely off is the best thing for me, but for some reason I’m terrified that he’ll pop back up somehow in person and say some shit. Especially since I have a new bf that I get along with a lot better.
He is insanely manipulative and mean. Uses his alcoholism as a crutch and a weapon. Acted like he wasn’t interested in me at all, and then would get horny and suddenly want to “cuddle”. He would ignore me all day, playing video games with the same person (the ONLY person) he’s been playing with for years, pretty much devoting all his attention to this male friend all day and night instead of, you know, his gf, ever, until I bitched enough. I honestly have started questioning if he was actually straight, just because of just how loyal and completely up his ass my ex was. Was super fucked cuz his buddy ended up becoming an alcoholic as well, which made things worse, because his friend actually IS attracted to my ex, and he ignores his gf for my ex just like my ex did to me.
Affection towards me in any way was a complete chore to him and all he wanted to do was drink and spend time with his friend. All. Day. Literally. All of his free time. Literally. I was a chore.
I know there’s a stereotype of dudes always playing with their bros, with the homophobic “just fuck and get it over with” deal, but it was extreme. Ex took every chance he could to spend time with him, and his friend would flip out and message me any time he couldn’t get ahold of my ex. Friend would bug him over and over and over like a psycho girlfriend and ex would just give in and be like “welp I did my bare minimum, I wanna play with my friend”), like fuckin hell dude. It genuinely felt like he was having an emotional affair with his friend (friend lives a few hours away so it was all online). I genuinely started to feel like ex had feelings for this man (who told me while drunk that he had feelings for ex) and just couldn’t do it out of shame (Bible Belt resident).
Come home, play with buddy, drink, go to bed, faced away from me. He doesn’t love me and hasn’t for a long time, if ever.
This is literally just the recent shit from the last couple years that we were together. We were together for 7 years. To get into detail would be an extremely long and probably extremely triggering, so I’ll keep it at: he was a raging drunk who used to black out all the time, and would be verbally/sexually abusive. This ended up worsening the ptsd I already have. No matter what happened, I absolutely could never get rid of the resentment towards him and the guilt of letting him completely fuck up my life.
He knows me better than anybody in this entire world and I absolutely hate him for it because he knows how to hurt me. And this isn’t the first time we’ve broken up (we’ve broken up countless times, both sides), but this is the first time that I’ve actually wanted him gone. I knew I was gonna have my breaking point and it took too goddamn long, but I got there.
But ig I’m terrified that, because this is the first time I’ve actually just wanted him gone, that he’s gonna realize that he can’t manipulate me through text anymore and might suddenly pop up in person. Or that he’ll realize I completely cut him off, and that it will inspire him to find another way to contact me, like all the other boys I’ve had to block (🙄). I’ve got a lot of practice (sadly) handling toxic boys, but never has one been so mean and fucked up and manipulative and had their fucking claws digging deep into my fucking skin for years, just leeching off of every bit of my life force. It’s as if I’ve run away from a master but can still feel the collar around my neck even though it’s gone.
I really need some encouragement. I need him gone forever and I need to be brave enough to make that so.
submitted by Alright, so this is an ongoing thing rn and I feel like it's a good fit here, if it isnt please tell me where it would fit better. These arent just going to be my own experiences with the guy but other peoples as well (Mobile, english first language don't care about grammar mistakes)
So I recently stopped being friends with a guy who is, for lack of a better term, a narcissist. This dude embodies the "give me what I want because I want it" mentality. I should probably start at the beginning.
When I first met this guy in highschool the two of us had similar interests (video games and dark humor), from the first time I met him though he always seemed to be trying to get other people to go along with him. At that time I was feeling depressed due to the death of my mother a couple years before (different story if people want to hear it), so I decided to hang out with him for a while. We quickly became good friends and hung out during the spare time in between classes and with a bunch of other people. However he would always tell stories of when he beat up his other friends (idk from where) because they did things he didnt like. The one story he would frequently say is that his ome friend was a cop and put his handcuffs on him, then when he chose to leave them on for a bit this ex-friend of mine attacked him. So we all just let it go.
Cut forward a couple months, this guy starts to bring his girlfriends to where our group hangs out, I'm going to put this into perspective, at the time he was in grade 12 and the girls he was dating were all in grade 9. And me being depressed had a ton of empathy so I tried to make them feel as comfortable in the friends group as I could (talked to them, made jokes, etc.). Apparently this was a huge no-no, because this dude quickly asked me to stop talking to his girlfriends. And me being someone who wants people to feel comfortable/happy was confused but did as I was asked. Apparently his gfs were "freaked out" by me and didnt want me talking to them (ex friends words) but I just let it slide. Go through several times of that and you get the picture.
Until he meets one girl, who I'll call T. I could tell that T really cared about him and wanted him to be happy and everything. T was also in grade 11 when he was in grade 12 zo j was hoping it would be his first lasting and meaningful relationship, boy was I wrong. After dating for around 6 months T dumps him, and he starts to go around and feel depressed. I had been in college at the time they broke up so I was just texting this guy, but he was really in rough shape. Talking about killing himself and everything, basically looking for pity wherever he could get it. So T did what only a naturally concerned person would do when the didnt want to directly deal with the guy, she called the cops and asked them to do a wellness check. This dude was so pissed about it he forgot to be depressed, because I could see he was using that to try and manipulate her into going out with him again. So he quickly got over her, dated a couple other people, then met his latest gf (now ex) E. (I'll talk about E later because things come up later).
When I was in College I met this girl I started dating and introduced to this friend, to show him I was happy. The two of them became quick friends and would talk about everyone meeting up. Well after just over a year of dating this girl she broke up with me and though I was upset I tried to move on. The following december (like 6 months later) one of my online friends who was pissed with me posted about him and her, which really crushed me especially since I had really regretted what he was pissed at me for and has apologized for several times. This online friend isnt the main part of the story. However it hurt me so bad I lost the will to live, and when I told the group of people including ex-friend, they laughed at me and so I just busied myself with work doing better with myself. And so I didnt talk to ex-friend for 4 months, until him and said other friend had a falling out.
Now to get to everything that's happened in the past year. E and ex-friend have been dating for around 2 years now, ex-friend is still good friends with my ex, ex-friend isnt talking to me at the moment. So my life started to look better. I get a voice communication invite from him and shit starts again fairly quickly. He told me the reason he had a falling out with the online friend is because in a game of truth or dare, he dared my ex into dumping online friend (who did deserve it, he was manipulative, mentally abusive, mentally unstable, etc.) Which led to a huge falling out where they had to block him on everything. Things are going well, then the friends we are talking to have this huge falling out with us (triggered by me being pissed over what another guy said, different story). So we are just hanging out, then ex-friend and E introduce me to E's best friend, whom I start to date not long after. Well back in august ex friend was telling me he hated my ex because she had told E she should break up with Ex friend. Now let's put this in perspective, E and ex-friend didnt have the best relationship, ex-friend has anger management issues (still) and tends to throw a lot of crap around, which starts fights. So E and ex-friend where basically fighting every day, and E, my now girlfriend and myself all created a group chat where we could talk about it and let E rant to us about her issues with Ex-friend. The stuff I heard would disgust a ton of people here, and quite frankly can be really personal, so I won't say everything. It also included a bunch of Ex-friend lies to me and a bunch of other people, but me knowing what will happen if she breaks up with him, decided to try and convince her to just tell him to smarten up, which she had done a couple times before.
Well a month or so before we made the group chat of the three of us, we had a group chat of the 4 ouf us (myself, my girlfriend, E and Ex-friend) to which I would respond in the group chat to whomever spoke. Ex-friend got so pissed with me because I wasnt messaging him privately more than i would message the group chat. After about a month of me knowing he was pissed about it I asked him about it, he lied and said he wasn't angry, but when I pushed him on it he finally spilled the beans and wouldnt think hes being too controlling. So life goes on with me thinking hard about it, until December finally comes around and Myself, my girlfriend, E and Ex-friend decide to hang out for E's birthday. So we go to a bar and hang out, then go back to Ex-friends house with pizza we bought along the way (Ex-friend, wanted a pizza from one place that would have made E's stomach upset but we eventually caved to Ex-friend). And when we got the another friend I'll call K was there because he was supposed to hang out with us over the night. Durning the time K had been going through relationship issues and was feeling sad, so got incredibly drunk and started talking about really depressing stuff (stuff I had though about myself years before). So a week or so after the get together I message K telling him I know about his problems and that if he wanted to talk to me he could. ow about a month before the get together Ex-friend had told me exactly what was going on with K and asked me to just not talk to him about it, so when K tells Ex-friend that I told him I knew (K wasnt mad and expected Ex-friend to) Ex-friend got livid with me and was pissed with me.
Ex-friend told his family (specifically his sisters) who all said I was toxic and needed to grow up. So when a week after that E is going Christmas shopping with Ex-friend and his one sister brings it up, E stands up for me and says "you realize he was just being a good person and looking out for his friend, right" which shut that sister up for a while. That day I told Ex-friend that he had a ton of problems and he needed to get help and deal with them. He just looked at E and said "I guess I have problems" and shrugged it off. That started the rapid decline part of our friendship (it had slowly been declining before).
Then on new years eve E has finally had enough. She breaks up with him and blocks him on social media, because she knows if she didnt he would convince her to not break up with him. He goes absolutely insane, being pissed with me, being pissed with my girlfriend, being pissed with E everything. The dude even has his mom text me and say she's disappointed in me (he's 21 at this point). So I just let things go and stop messaging them. Well that isnt enough for Ex-friend. In the 16 days since she has broken up with her he has gone on several social media platforms and has started to harass everyone who he knows is in contact with E, even going so far as to unblock my ex (the one he called two faced) and demand information from her about E.
In the 16 days since E broke up with Ex-friend, E has also said some other appaling things that Ex-friend would do. Including but not limited to saying "you owe me sx" (passionate hugging for any reddit youtubers), flaunting the amount of money he spent on her, he would get so pissed he wouldnt talk to her if she wouldnt have sx with him, when she spent the night over, etc.
Now here's something I know all people who made it this far will be shocked at, Ex-friend a 21 year old man, has only had a single seasonal job, has no intention of moving out from his parents house, has no education, and is spending thousands of dollars on a credit card that he has no way of paying back without asking his parents for money. He spends all day playing video games and watching tv, rarely leaving his room. He never goes out and refuses to go to others houses because he has "social anxiety". He spends all night playing videogames and has absolutely destroyed his sleep schedule (he sometimes would play games all night until he had to work the next morning). And the absolute worst part of it, he has type 1 diabetes, and he cant take care of it himself, he has made me give him insulin before, when he was 20. When someone doesn't like him he demands they change their opinion of him or else he wont talk to them, the second someone says something bad about him he gets furious, and he never works to change other peoples mind
submitted by I don't know if this will be useful to anyone. So I write a line or two about every game I play, and decided to find all the incremental in my game journal and post them here. It starts with the latest games I've played and I think goes back to several years back. One thing I've realized is I have such a love-hate-hate relationship with this genre since I think I've hated 90% of the games and 100% of myself after each incremental phase. I usually angrily stop playing them for a while and restart them again, so this is more or less a journal of addiction, I suppose.
THE BEST GAMES I'VE PLAYED ARE THESE (no order): - Kittens Game
- Antimatter Dimensions
- Oil Tycoon
Honorable Mention: Eggs, Inc
The rest: more or less hated it
Additional comment if you decide to scan through it, I complain a lot, so it is perfectly reasonable and normal to think, "why the fuck are you even playing these games, idiot??".
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Time Idle RPG
This game was confusing. It tells me the game's resources is time, where you get 1 of it every second, but that's not really something as unique as I assumed. It would have been cool if time as resources meant you used it to deal with something related to time. Maybe time travel? Maybe slowing and speeding time?
Instead time as resource buys you stuff like a library. And then you buy a camp or something. Honestly, I wasn't really feeling it.
2
Path of Idling
The biggest cardinal sin for me when it comes to incremental is when a game has a lot of features and it just completely throws them all at you instantly. The joy of a great incremental is how things slowly open up and each new achievement feels progress.
The game is a RPG game and these are the things that opened up for me in the first few hours.
Combat which includes normal fighting, dungeon, raid, boss, PVP (locked, but it just needs an ascend, which I haven't done)
Skills
Hero upgrades which include Passive (strength, defence, stamina, intelligence), Train, and a huge Tree
Town which you can buy workers who get you various things like gold, orbs, knowledge, etc. You can upgrade stuff here.
Quest that also includes Perks and Skill quests.
Gear which 5 equipment slots, plus craft plus trade plus smelt
Also gear for your Pet, which is also another tab!
Now, here is the thing. Because I have all of this pretty much instantly, I don't really know which ones are helping me go past a well. How is adding 10 points in strength helping me? Should I have added five in strength instead and five in defence? I have already bought 20 or so upgrades in the Tree, but I have no idea if I am made the optimal choice. There is no real excitement with getting new gear. And so on.
The dev has added a lot of features, now it's time to rework the game, and have the features take their time.
2
Idle Slayer
The game is like a super simple platformer. Your character is running and any enemy it hits, it automatically slays it. There is no HP, and all enemies die in one shot. Your only active play is jumping occasionally to grab coins or hit the flying enemies. Also, you have a run skill that has a cool down.
With the coins, we get new weapons that give us more coins. Enemies give us souls which is used for the prestige system that provides us with an interesting skill tree which provides a lot of choices on the path you want to do in terms of upgrades.
So far excellent, however, the game has an extremely serious issue of pacing. The game initially progresses so fast that in the first hour or so, you get almost all the weapons aside from the last two, which then grinds down to a snail pace. You can upgrade your past weapons, but they never really get into play again. Reaching high levels of past weapons sometimes gave me upgrades of that weapon of 10,000% but they still did nothing to my overall coin per second. I think the pacing needs to be fully reworked. It would have been nice to get new weapons after certain prestige cycles, so that every new weapon feels like we have passed a significant wall. The best part of an incremental game for me is to face a wall, and when I finally break it, I feel powerful again for a while. This game feels like this though, powerful powerful powerful powerful WALL........break it....WALL. And so on. I'm still playing it as I want to get some of the skills, but I feel like it could have been so much better.
4
Exponential Idle
A very back to the foundation kind of incremental. The premise is that you are a student and working on a formula. There is a neat story where as you progress in the game, your character progresses through university. Each upgrade gives you more and more automation until I reached a stage where I would check back once every 2 or 3 days, click a 2nd layer prestige reset, and close it. Meaning the game was something like 5 seconds of game player every 2 days. I just opened it for this review and realized I had reached the end game. The story wraps up and it tells me "You can take a rest. Travel a bit. Go outside!" NO, DON'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO GAME.
3
Factoid
Factoid & Spark should have the same review as they are almost the same game with only small differences. The games are the most basic kind of incremental, where you buy something with resources, until you get the next thing which gives you more of the resources. Both give you upgrades to speed things up, and finally prestige and it's own prestige upgrades. That's it. It's nice little change of pace from all the recent incremental that sometimes do too much, but obviously due to the very simple nature of it, it does eventually feel pointless, specially after you more or less open up everything and the prestige upgrades just keep repeating.
3
Spark
Factoid & Spark should have the same review as they are almost the same game with only small differences. The games are the most basic kind of incremental, where you buy something with resources, until you get the next thing which gives you more of the resources. Both give you upgrades to speed things up, and finally prestige and it's own prestige upgrades. That's it. It's nice little change of pace from all the recent incremental that sometimes do too much, but obviously due to the very simple nature of it, it does eventually feel pointless, specially after you more or less open up everything and the prestige upgrades just keep repeating. 3
Antimatter Dimensions
Easily top 5 incremental on mobile. Does everything perfectly. You progress nicely, and when new features open it, not only is it rewarding but more importantly, it keeps adding new dimensions (lol) to the game. I'd at the end game as I write this, and I realize that there was no point in the game where it felt stale. Each new prestige layer made the game feel fresh and almost like a new incremental game.
5
Melvor Idle
It seems this game was mainly aimed at Runescape players, which is probably why it didn't click for me. It also run extremely slow on my phone which also played a part in me not really getting into.
2
A Girl Adrift
The animation is really pretty and is a nice change of pace for incrementals, but I didn't really like the too much active play. Really had to keep going back and forth to different areas to do the fishing which got too repetitive for me.
You travel to different areas of the map to catch fish, which you get points and then you upgrade stuff, but I didn't really find any real excitement about the upgrades because I kept having to go back to previous areas to fish similar creatures.
3
Archer: Danger Phone
I'm really annoyed how terrible of a game this was. Two things I like, the TV show "Archer" and incremental games, and it's done in the most lazy manner. The game is the worst aspect of idle games where it's just a straight path of clicking the next upgrade with absolutely zero decision making. Every once in a while there is a mini game where Archer gets to shoot others but it's done in the most basic form of early 2000s flash games, where the animation budget is probably 3 dollars. Same static background and both enemies and Archer have just two animation frames. The absolute laziness of it is almost insulting to the player, because it feels like we aren't even worth the effort.
There is an Archer story in the game which develops really fast, which is the only positive part, but no voice acting is again another evidence that the creators of the game weren't given any budget for this.
1
Home Quest
This game is way too slow. You have to collect materials to build your settlement but everything takes time, so you click for a few seconds, and then you have to leave the game. Which I'm fine with, but the problem isn't the idle part of it, it's how the idle part of it combines with constant checking of the game which annoys me. I like an idle game where you forget to start the game for a day, you come up to a lot of resources, but this is a game which needs you to check back in every 30 minutes or an hour to really get anywhere. I felt that the micromanagement was getting worse as I progressed (without any actual thing to do when I am active in the game) that made me give up.
2
Idle Industry
This is probably an interesting game, but I gave up because the one thing I really disliked was the amount of resources and manufacturing that very quickly opens to you. You can buy raw materials, and you can either sell these raw materials or turn them into finished goods and sell them either. And each of these has several upgrade options (increase selling price, increase production, etc). Without even really getting too deep into the game, I have around 20 raw materials and around 30 finished products. A satisfying part of this genre is to have things slow open up for you, which gives me a decent feeling of satisfaction. But the money I got would quickly open up new products, so I would just jump ahead and purchase more expensive ones, and after a while I had a lot of materials and products at zero, and was instead focusing on latter ones.
2
Masters of Madness
Somewhat neat atmosphere and visuals, but too much active clicking. Click, upgrade to get more per clicks, get minions to get you some points without clicking, typical clicker, but with the added benefit of almost no idling. I like idling incrementals but clickers is a hard no from me.
1
Soda Dungeon 2
Basically similar to the first one, as far as I could tell. I did "finish" it but maybe I shouldn't have, since it really is the same thing from early on, specially once you get all the heroes and you kind of sort out which characters work best, then it's just the same. But because it was somewhat short and no real wall, it was at least easy to stick to it to the end.
2
Bacterial Takeover
Played for a decent amount and was actually more interesting that I thought, given the buttload of ad incentives. You create and upgrade bacteria, attack planets, and eventually go into a blackhole to prestige. Most of the game was good, but the part that killed it for me was the prestige system. Once you prestige, planets get super easy to attack, which becomes a lot of active play. I realized that each prestige was taking me at least 30 minutes to get to where I was, and it was just meaningless clicking. It got to a point where I was putting off prestige because it seemed like it would be a hassle so I stopped.
2
LogRogue
Cute graphics. The hero sort of hopping to hit the tiny monsters is cute to look at, but how long can you look at it and do nothing before you realize that it's boring? I suppose this is a game where it's just not for me. I don't like to have my phone open on a game and just watch it like a crazy person and do nothing. My rule is simple for incrementals. While the app is open, be active, if there isn't any choices to make, close the app while resources build up or whatever. I don't like it being open while I do nothing.
3
A Kittens Game
Incremental games are so strange. I get in and out of the phases. I loved this for so long and so obsessively that I wanted to only play incremental games. And then, just like that, I was wondering why the fuck I was wasting my time with this. Has happened countless times before.
But still probably the best incremental ever.
5
A Dark Room
An incremental cult classic of sorts but I don't find it really matches the genre. There is a bit of incremental at the beginning with people huts and stuff but then its just a ascii exploring game, which wasn't interesting to me.
2
Little Healer
Saw it mentioned in the Reddit incremental forum in one of the posts and thought it was a healer themed incremental which sounded neat. But it's like being a healer in a raid in World of Warcraft without any if the extras. Just a couple of bars representing your team mates and you healing them while they fight the boss. I didn't even like playing the healer in WoW so no way would I play this game.
1
Clickie Zoo
Started playing for a few days until I realized there a beta released with the dev reworking the game completely from scratch and releasing it as "Idle Zoo Tycoon". So, played that instead but this seemed like a game I would enjoy anyway.
4
Idling to Rule the Gods
The UI and one drawing if your character is really ugly enough to be distracting to me. The game, seemed interesting and I eventually was into it, but seems like a game that has been constantly being updated, which is not always a good thing, because features are obviously updated regularly to it, making the whole thing a bit bloaty.
I guess, this is the problem with this game for me, it's too fat. Also, one main part of the game is that your character creates Shadow Clones up to a maximum limit. Which is fine except the clones can't be made in offline mode. This might not be a big deal in its original web browser game but that doesn't work as well in a mobile format.
2
Realm Grinder
This is one of the really popular incremental and it's fanbase seems to love it for it's depth, but to be honest, I don't play these games for the depth, I play it for the simple dopamine rush of doing the same thing over and over again. It relaxes.
Although, I didn't even get to the depth part because I dislike games where it rushes in the beginning. I constantly bought buildings, got spells, and got upgrades without even looking at the description. Apparently, later on, we can get complicated race upgades, which seems not what I'm looking for in such a genre.
2
Spaceplan
A short (!!) incremental with an actual story (!!!). That's two cool points for it but unfortunately, the game mechanics of increment genre isn't so good. It's a space game with nice visuals and a great ending (cool music set to cool graphics) but the game itself wasn't really that fun. This same exact game would have been better in a different genre (maybe something like "Out There"?)
3
Zombidle
Felt like idle games again and this is the kind of examples that kept me away. Too much clicking and seems like advancement will start to get irritating since it relies on IAPs
2
Eggs, Inc
While I was playing it, Eggs, Inc was probably my favorite Android game I had ever played. But like most incremental games, there comes a moment when I suddenly stop and think, what am I doing?
Because there is something fascinating about Incrementals. Their addictiveness is in a way the whole point. An incremental is less of a game and more an act of electronic addictiveness. What's the point?
Eggs, Inc is a very well made and fun incremental but even the best in its genre is still pointless.
4
Castle Clicker
Supposedly a mix of incremental and city building but didn't really find out since the clickings were way to much. I know this is supposed to be the genre but I like the incremental part more than the tapping part. This seemed to be a good way to hurt your fingers.
2
Endless Era
This RPG clicker game is like other such games but with horrible GUI and animations. Tap tap tap. It's my fault for downloading such games. Why would I ever think this would be fun???
1
Idle Quote
An incremental game with a unique twist. This time we get to make up quotes! The first negative about the game and this irritates me a lot is most of the quotes are fake. A quick search on Google and this proves it. Quotes are generally attributed to Buddha or Ghandi or shit like that and it's usually fake like most quotes on the internet. This kills the major possible advantage of the game because I thought coming up with arbitrary words would at least give me some quotes to learn. Aside from the this, the game isn't fun either because it slows down very quickly meaning you combine words very slowly at a certain stage of the game and then it becomes a boring grind.
2
Monster Miser
An incremental game with almost no graphics. We just see character portraits of monsters which we buy and then upgrade until we buy the next monster. Eventually we prestige which gives us multipliers. The only game choice is choosing between two monsters with each new monster with unique benefits. Annoyingly there is a max limit which I wish didn't exist because I wanted to prestige so much that I would be over powerful in upgrading like that "Idle Oil Tycoon". Still, pointless but reasonably fun.
3
Pocket Politics
An incremental take on politics sounds fun but it's so generic that it could have been about anything. A Capitalist idle game or a cooking idle game, it wouldn't matter. IAP was also the usual shitty kind.
1
Time Clickers
A shooter incremental sounds like a cool twist but it's not a FPS like I imagined it would be. I'm just stuck in a room and I was shooting blocks. Upgrades didn't give me any enjoyment since I was shooting fucking blocks.
1
Tap Tap Fish - Abyssrium
I thought this was going to be relaxing incremental but the ridiculous and generic IAPs and all the social integeration spoil it. Too much time is spent in them asking you to buy or share or tweet or post or give them a blowjob. And there is nothing relaxing about that.
2
Cartoon 999
Incremental game about comic book writers, but not the marvel DC kind, it seemed to be the webcomic one and I think it's a Korean developer so all the characters and injokes made no sense to me. The whole thing was just targeted to a very specific audience.
2
Dungeon Manager
Incremental games need to be simple but this is beyond simple, it's just upgrade a fighter to level 5, go to next dungeon character, do the same, and just continue without any of the delicious balancing of upgrades like other idle games.
2
Final Fortress
Incremental games are already pointless but when it's super heavy on IAP than its also annoying, but when it always has bugs that doesn't register my offline earnings, then it just needs a uninstall in its face.
The zombie skin was also crappy.
1
Mana Maker
Here is how I know this clicker isn't very good. It doesn't make me hate all clickers and my life and mobile gaming in general for being so addictive and pointless.
So fail, sorry.
2
Infinity Dungeon
The usual incremental RPG that I should probably never play again. Starts simple enough and then gets more or a chore as you play.
1
Another incremental game which I had promised myself not to play anymore because they are so pointless and repetitive and endless. Well, this wasn't infinite and had a goal at 999 level so I thought it was good but while the humor was cute, the game did become very repetitive. Every 10 levels the slimes changed but after every 100 levels the whole thing restarted and while the monsters got stronger, I seemed to get even stronger. So the game became easier as I progressed and there was no more challenge. By level 800, I gave up.
2
Tap Dungeon RPG
Okay, I'm running out of ways to complain about those incremental RPG games that all have similar problems. It starts off reasonably fast and fun but soon it seems like I am in a data entry job. Doing the same thing over and over again with little changes.
1
Dungeon 999 F: Secret of Slime Dungeon
Another incremental game which I had promised myself not to play anymore because they are so pointless and repetitive and endless. Well, this wasn't infinite and had a goal at 999 level so I thought it was good but while the humor was cute, the game did become very repetitive. Every 10 levels the slimes changed but after every 100 levels the whole thing restarted and while the monsters got stronger, I seemed to get even stronger. So the game became easier as I progressed and there was no more challenge. By level 800, I gave up.
2
Tap Dungeon RPG
Okay, I'm running out of ways to complain about those incremental RPG games that all have similar problems. It starts off reasonably fast and fun but soon it seems like I am in a data entry job. Doing the same thing over and over again with little changes.
1
Tower of Hero
You start on the first floor of the tower and keep fighting your way up by summoning your heroes (by clicking) and recruiting other fighters, get upgrades, level up, and then, ugh, here is the typical incremental RPG part, restart, get items, and do it ALL over again.
There is something fun about restarting and getting slowly stronger each time but it also feels so pointless after a while. Such a pointless genre now that I have played a billion of such titles, heh.
3
Pageboy
Yet another incremental RPG which I have no idea why I downloaded because I'm sick of the genre. I played a pageboy to a knight who does the fighting while I collect the lot. I collect the loot, buy stuff for the knight, and eventually I restart to do the same thing again and get better items but this game I didn't even RESTART! Because fuck it! Fuck it!
2
Idle Warriors
The story is cute. Human population is regressing while monster population is on the rise. So the humans start enslaving monsters to mine for them! The brave warriors beat the crap out of monsters, kidnap the bosses, and enslave them. The animation of monsters slaving away while speech balloons above them talk about their wife and children is funny.
But the game itself is another RPG incremental which I should start staying away from. These games are like a chore for me nowadays because I'm doing the same crap again and again. The blame is probably on me because it seems like a reasonably solid game. But hey, fuck it, I PERSONALLY didn't enjoy it.
2
Tap! Tap! Faraway!
Any game that is remotely like Tap Titan scares me. They are addictive at first and very fast moving but after every restart gets more and more annoying. It soon turns into a time eating activity with the player having to redo the initial levels to get relics to get better items to progress further to restart to get relics to and so on until the player realizes how much time he is putting in the game for a repetitive activity.
2
Auto RPG
Now that is a title the game developers didn't spend too much time on. RPG battles are automatic but I can help out by clicking like a mad man. I started with one hero but would get additional members in my party as the story progressed. Party members receive skills as as they level up and while all the skill usage is automatic, it did give me a sense of progression which is extremely important in a RPG and which I think is usually lacking in incremental games. It usually starts feeling useless but in this game at least there are new maps, new members, and an actual end sight!
There is an infinity stage once the last boss is defeated but I am glad the infinity stage happens AFTER the end and it's not the game itself.
4
Merchant
Hire a hero and send on to battle. The battles is done automatically and takes time, starts with something short like 10 seconds with each battle taking longer. The loot is raw materials which can be used to craft equipment which also takes real life time with better items taking longer. The crafted items can either be sold or equipped to the hero to make him be able to fight stronger monsters.
I was worried I would hate the longer crafting and fighting times because I hate games which I have to watch for a task to finish but even though the durations for longer, I had more to do. However, I don't know what would have happened in the end game because I gave up on it. New maps were exactly like the first map just with different heroes but the progression was similar in each level which felt that I was doing the exact same thing all over again but with longer task times.
2
Idle Oil Tycoon
This is the best idle game I played. It's graphics aren't just minor, they are none existent. It's just numbers, so basic that my sister thought I was on a stock market app.
It's such a simple concept. Invest, get oil, upgrade then like other idlers restart to get a bonus and do the full thing all over again. When I finished the game, I played the unlimited mode which I played until the unlimited mode couldn't handle the numbers anymore.
5
Soda Dungeon
This kind-of Idle Dungeon was great. I started with weak ass fighters who would fight on my behalf while I collected the loot. I then got to use the lot to upgrade the sofa bar to recruit more adventurers. Not sure why it was a sofa bar. Maybe they wanted to make it a family game and not have alcohol? Sounds weird but the sofa element in a RPG game sounds weirder.
The game only hit a brick for me when, like most other incremental games, there is no real closure. Once I thought I bet the big bad guy, it just goes on, harder but similar enough with no end in sight. Eventually, we have to stop playing right, but it always feels a bit like a let down when I don't feel like I have finished the game.
4
10 Billion Wives Kept Man Life
The two games from this company, 10 Billion Wives and Kept Man Life, have similar strengths and weaknesses.
I liked the silly premises from both. In 10BM, I had to get married as much as I could, using the loves I collect to marry more expensive wives! In KML, I'm a boyfriend who doesn't work and I have to please my career gf so she would take care of me.
Both start reasonably fast and I was willing to grind through difficult parts but the end game is like a brick wall. Passing through it to get all the achievements is pretty much impossible unless one puts in way too many hours. And it's a shame because I really wanted to get all the achievements to see all the tiny little extra stuff.
3
Adventure Capitalist
One of the better incremental games, but now that I am out of the short lived incremental fan phase, I realized how dumb the genre is. Tap, tap, tap, upgrade, do this a million times, reset, and do it all over again like a moron. The game does deserve credits for me acting like a moron and playing it for so long but I also cheated and got free cash and then if occupying became even more pointless.
3
The Monolith
A combination of an incremental and a civilization building game seemed like an excellent idea and in some ways, it was, specially how we get to upgrade through the ages from cavemen to futuristic. But no offline feature means that the resets aren't enticing.
2
USSR Simulator
An incremental game that has a great theme (USSR!) but absolutely horrible to enjoy, even though I did stick to it. After a certain upgrades, the game just turned into me popping in the game, clicking an upgrade and then forgetting about the game for a few days.
2
RPG Clicker
They should call these games tappers not clickers. We are not clicking anything on a touchscreen device. Anyway, tap tap tap level up buy weapons tap tap and uninstall.
1
Logging Quest Logging Quest 2
[Review is for the original and its sequel]
There is not much of a difference between the game. I actually played them both at the same time because the actual game is offline. You choose your hero, send them to a dungeon, and then come back to the game after a while to see how well they did. I thought an offline RPG like this might be interesting but then, if you don't really play a game, how much fun can it be?
1
Another pointless incremental. I was in an incremental phase and got so many incremental games that I know realize were absolutely pointless.
Hit a tree, buy upgrades, get a new hero, and continue hitting a tree. Not much offline it seems which is what I like about incrementals.
1
Galaxy Clicker
A space incremental that should have been a lot of fun. You get to upgrade your spaceship and buy new ones and explorer new planets. But first of all, the interface is so ugly that it makes playing the game less enjoyable. And a lot of things I didn't really get no matter how much I would play like the full exploring planets. The spaceships were nice, so it could have been fun.
2
Megatramp
A pretty pointless incremental kind of game. You are a tramp and then you can collect money to buy upgrades to make more money, with no strategy needed, nor any effort needs to be made to hurt your brain cells.
1
Inflation RPG
It supposed to be some kind of incremental RPG, I think, which has you resetting and getting more powerful and then fighting monsters to get insane levels. It is very unique but I couldn't get into it.
2
Widget RPG
Are you fucking with me? This is button bashing rpg in the most extreme manner. You get a widget, so you don't even have to open the game and distract yourself from the button bushing. Just click the button and the game plays behind the scenes and gets you experience, loot, and kills.
It's a ridiculous idea that is fun for a few minutes to see what they come up with but there is only so much button bashing you can do.
2
Capitalist Tycoon
I downloaded this game because I was in an incremental/idle game phase and really enjoyed AdVenture Capitalist. But this game is nothing like that. On the surface, it seems similar, buy small investments, make money, buy bigger investments, and so on.
But with this game, there is no offline mode, and you keep having to wake up managers, AND the goal is to see how much you make in one year. Bah. I prefer the incremental approach which makes you build and build and build, not try to rush it in just a year.
2
Clicking Bad
An incremental clicking game that is themed after Breaking Bad. It is a fun idea it's a very simple game with little to do aside from the obvious of upgrading and upgrading. The only twist might be to balance out making lots of money selling drugs and not attracting the law but even that is only a small challenge at the start. Eventually, you will get enough upgrades to bring the law risk so down that it makes no impact on the game play.
2
Zombie Tapper
A super basic incremental clicker game with a zombie team. Click click click to eat brains, use brains (?) to buy zombies to do the brain eating for you and then buy upgrades for your zombies, and buy new zombies and it all feels very pointless.
1
Bitcoin Billionaire
I started to enjoy incremental games, but it needs to have a good offline mode, because I don’t want to just play a game where I keep tapping. But that doesn’t mean I didn’t play. I played it, and I played a lot of it, because I could reset the game (like most incremental games) and it gives you a small benefit where you could finish the full game a bit faster (it gives you bonus income). So, I kept finishing and resetting, and each time the start to finish would shorten, so I thought I would reach a stage where I could finish each start-to-finish in an instant! It didn’t happen. I got bored first.
3
Tap Titan
An addictive tapping game. Just tap on the creatures, level up, get new skills, hire heroes, and then reset and to it all over again to progress further. It’s an incremental game where it depends on resets to progress, but no real offline bonus, so you have to be playing online. Which got boring, so I installed an app that does the tapping for me, which is actually a stupid way to play the game, but this isn’t an attempt to prove to anyone my intelligence. Anyway, thankfully something went wrong and my progress got deleted, WHICH WAS A GOOD THING, because the game was extremely addictive.
4
God Squad
I’ve realized most incremental games are stupid. Tap on monsters to kill, collect gold, buy Roman Gods, level them up, fight other monsters, and then get bored.
1
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