Idle Planet Miner 4+

When i first started playing this game, all i thought was i could make this in scratch, and i still do. That being said despite its simplicity of coding, the gameplay is very enjoyable in comparison to many many games people make these days. You have to build the galaxy from scratch starting with low resource planets and progressing with better and more desirable resources. You can sell and start from scratch to buy permanent multipliers for your next galaxy, and even participate in challenges for permanent rewards multipliers! You can sell your resources from the ground up, selling straight ores up to alloys and then items, and progressively buy refineries to have a faster production chain. Things become exponentially more expensive to buy including the permanent multipliers, but this can be managed with buildings bought through prestige or “selling galaxy”. It is so simple yet so fresh to play. Developers like these deserve our money when they dont force ads unless you elect to watch them(increasingly rare in this market) and when they create new concepts instead of re-skinning another game and calling it their own. Props to the developers for creating this simple, yet addictive game.

Ok, so, this game is the best mobile game I have played in a long time. Let me explain. So in most games they make the purchasable in game content super overpowered but not in this game. Now you might be thinking “well why is that good?” Which is a great question! The rare in game currency for this game is actually obtainable 0_0. I know crazy right? Most games have super sales that makes everything cheap but in this game you can actually get the currency! And when trying to purchase stuff it’s super expensive so it forces you to have to play the game. At first I wasn’t liking that but after a few days of playing I love it. OH and one more thing (and this one is important). Ads arnt forces which is a automatic A+ for me, like how many games do you see not forcing ads? Almost none. And out of pure respect for the game and developers I got the $10 started pack, enjoy the money c: although it was pretty spendy for the amount of stuff I got out of the pack I think the devs deserved it.

Hot take: Galaxy sale mechanic forces replay of the early game too often. Resource panel doesn’t show as much info as it could/should (e.g. alloy rates / sec.) Resource panel sometimes shows incorrect stats (it says I’ve collected roughly half the silver that I’ve actually collected; doesn’t appear to update calculations properly during some boosts.) Detection of idle time breaks occasionally (I just lost 2 hours of progress because of this.) Severely reduced rate of mining when game is minimized forces having the game open with nothing to _do_ except wait. 8-hour spans between market transitions are super long in the context of “I have to keep the game open to make progress.” More frequent market transitions would give more to do while waiting. I spent time trying to figure out where my manager of public schools perk went, going through Projects, etc., to find that it was actually a manager from a public school. Consider “Manager (Public school)” etc. In the “Alloys” page of Resources, “Aluminum bar” text is wide enough on iPhone 11 Max Pro that it overlays the count column. Please please add confirmation when buying boosts. I just wasted a bunch of dark matter because I accidentally tapped a “buy” button.