Ethos Idle

Name: Ethos Idle
Rating: 4.8 (186 reviews)
Author: Graham Goldstein

Simulation

Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad

186 Ratings
Ages

4+
Years
Category

Simulation
Developer

Graham Goldstein
Language

EN
English
Size

116.1
MB

Challenges VI! Chart the progess of Humanity through the ages, and guide their every discovery from the moment they kindle the first fire to the far future. Develop over 200 unique ideas across three different flavours of thought. Help your people to conquer or make peace with their enemies, explore and exploit the world, and develop projects to meet their needs. Manage your tribe's choices to squeeze out more strength, or sit back and idle as your clan develop on their own. Advance as far as you can take your people, and then collect bonuses to improve future runs. Select varied challenges that change the way the game plays, and combine these challenges to create your own unique scenarios with big rewards. Features: - Over 200 historic ideas to develop, across 3 flavours of thought - Dozens of exploration bonuses and synergies to unlock and exploit - Permanently power up your civilisation with prestige mechanic upgrades - Combine varied challenge conditions to create your own scenarios with powerful rewards - Optional, out-of-the-way ads won't interrupt your experience - A completely offline, single player experience - All game content is accessible for free

Ratings & Reviews

4.8

out of 5

186 Ratings

great idle game
10/21/2025

blue lizard irl :3
now, I will warn you: the game IS slow, and I recommend you ask questions in the discord server if you’re stuck, but this game has sooo much to it if you bother to look around.it’s great! 2 months in and I’m at Challenges III, the game hasn’t ever gotten old for methis game has a blend of idle and active play, and you’ll see that pop up at Challenges IIIthe people who say it’s way too slow probably screwed up somewhere, but if you set your mind to it you’ll see all the cool stuff this game has to offer
great idle game
10/21/2025

blue lizard irl :3

now, I will warn you: the game IS slow, and I recommend you ask questions in the discord server if you’re stuck, but this game has sooo much to it if you bother to look around.it’s great! 2 months in and I’m at Challenges III, the game hasn’t ever gotten old for methis game has a blend of idle and active play, and you’ll see that pop up at Challenges IIIthe people who say it’s way too slow probably screwed up somewhere, but if you set your mind to it you’ll see all the cool stuff this game has to offer
Way, way, WAY too slow!
05/27/2025

Eriptron
At level 24 and a best speed of only x4, this isn’t an idle game. It’s a fossilization game. One to forget about out of pure boredom. This takes Idle games to a painful. And you have to keep watching ads, ads that now are doubled up, to keep the snail pace of x4 speed. And if you do follow an ad to the Ap Store, when you come back, as a reward you either have to watch the whole ad again or a whole new ad! Idle nothing. At this rate I won’t live long enough to get to the higher levels. Where’s the fun in that? The first 15 levels, or so, where fun. Now, I might as well watch the grass grow. It’s as much fun. I’ll hang around for another update or two but if the x4 speed is best speed then it’s time to move on and let someone else watch all the ads. 5 stars down to 2 stars. A good idea lost in execution.
Way, way, WAY too slow!
05/27/2025

Eriptron

At level 24 and a best speed of only x4, this isn’t an idle game. It’s a fossilization game. One to forget about out of pure boredom. This takes Idle games to a painful. And you have to keep watching ads, ads that now are doubled up, to keep the snail pace of x4 speed. And if you do follow an ad to the Ap Store, when you come back, as a reward you either have to watch the whole ad again or a whole new ad! Idle nothing. At this rate I won’t live long enough to get to the higher levels. Where’s the fun in that? The first 15 levels, or so, where fun. Now, I might as well watch the grass grow. It’s as much fun. I’ll hang around for another update or two but if the x4 speed is best speed then it’s time to move on and let someone else watch all the ads. 5 stars down to 2 stars. A good idea lost in execution.
What the…
04/09/2025

Saphsaph
This game just completely changed… for even better…This game has already been an awesome incremental. This needs to be on broken mouse subreddit stat. I legit just came to the App Store to see if there’s an update for it bc I’ve liked it so much. And I’m the type that never updates apps lol. So you know!And they just added yet one more layer to the game that’s awesome! Changed nothing about before but now there’s new more!! We get so many updates as of now… and honestly the game is already peak. The ONLY criticism I have at all is that if I paid to have x2 speed. Don’t make it so if I watch an ad I can now get x4 speed. Give me the option to purchase FULL max speed or don’t do it like that bc it irks me to not be at max speed. And I mean MAX possible, and yet I’ve already paid to never see any ad or want to. But even with that this game is a must get for me.
What the…
04/09/2025

Saphsaph

This game just completely changed… for even better…This game has already been an awesome incremental. This needs to be on broken mouse subreddit stat. I legit just came to the App Store to see if there’s an update for it bc I’ve liked it so much. And I’m the type that never updates apps lol. So you know!And they just added yet one more layer to the game that’s awesome! Changed nothing about before but now there’s new more!! We get so many updates as of now… and honestly the game is already peak. The ONLY criticism I have at all is that if I paid to have x2 speed. Don’t make it so if I watch an ad I can now get x4 speed. Give me the option to purchase FULL max speed or don’t do it like that bc it irks me to not be at max speed. And I mean MAX possible, and yet I’ve already paid to never see any ad or want to. But even with that this game is a must get for me.
Fun!
03/13/2025

Mikedizzle239
Minimal ad interruption which is huge. Game is very entertaining! Some of the idea progressions you unlock aren’t quite sensible.. for instance, you get education and democracy and later is windmills. I feel like those would come before all that. That aside, my only question is about the prestige warp gain. Do the multipliers shown in challenges for that gain stay permanent once the challenge is completed or are they only active during challenges? Please answer me devs I can’t quite figure that out.
Fun!
03/13/2025

Mikedizzle239

Minimal ad interruption which is huge. Game is very entertaining! Some of the idea progressions you unlock aren’t quite sensible.. for instance, you get education and democracy and later is windmills. I feel like those would come before all that. That aside, my only question is about the prestige warp gain. Do the multipliers shown in challenges for that gain stay permanent once the challenge is completed or are they only active during challenges? Please answer me devs I can’t quite figure that out.

Fixed an issue that might cause ad completion to fail. Fixed an issue in which an exploration timer would reset on app restart. Changed new game startup to hopefully eliminate a rare issue in which exploration cards don't appear on the first run, making the gate unreachable. Fixed an issue in which a late game bonus' name would flicker rapidly in the breakdown list. Engine update.

Version 1.9.3

Jan 25

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