Idle game thread

[JustaDumbThriver (Thrive is the only environment where I am not too lazy to capitalize)]

Hypothetically, a game can automatically minimize itself so it has to run in the background. It can also automatically buy upgrades in itself so that you don’t have to open it up.

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

Wouldn’t the later be a 0-player game?

[JustaDumbThriver (Thrive is the only environment where I am not too lazy to capitalize)]

Those were both attributes for the same hypothetical game I was talking about. So the hypothetical game would be 0 player.

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

So 0-player is an another category an idle game could take on?

[JustaDumbThriver (Thrive is the only environment where I am not too lazy to capitalize)]

Yes, certainly. After all, it’s not like letting something auto generate requires a human!

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

Do autoclickers change anything here?

[JustaDumbThriver (Thrive is the only environment where I am not too lazy to capitalize)]

Autoclickers allow you to walk away from the game and still make progress, the whole point of idle games.

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

Wouldn’t that also be achieved with point-collectors in-game? Like something the actual game provides.

[JustaDumbThriver (Thrive is the only environment where I am not too lazy to capitalize)]

Yes, but autoclickers maximise an extra point collector that isn’t automatic: clicking the thing itself with your cursor.

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

Have you used autoclickers not-from-within-the-game before?

[JustaDumbThriver (Thrive is the only environment where I am not too lazy to capitalize)]

No, not really… Idle games are the only instances I have used them.

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

I meant if you used them on these games, but that answers this question too.

[Deathwake (i nuked zenzone and will never let him forget it)]

Paperclip simulator is my favorite idle game (probably because i’ve played so few)

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

Did any other you’ve played come to your liking?

[hhyyrylainen]

I think a game counts as an idle game as long as you can make progress while “idle” so not making any active inputs or having to look at the game to react to events (or very rarely having to look at the game). So I wouldn’t discount entries from the idle genre just because there’s no like passive progress while the game program is closed.

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

Thinking about it, the plant/sessile side of Thrive could be considered idle in a way. Obviously not making Thrive an idle game but still.

[JustaDumbThriver (Thrive is the only environment where I am not too lazy to capitalize)]

Idleon is a cross between an RPG and idle game.

Sometimes I forget about one of my profiles for a month and it suddenly has Jeff Bezos’ lifetime earnings.

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

You mean you have multiple runs of that game running?

[JustaDumbThriver (Thrive is the only environment where I am not too lazy to capitalize)]

You can have multiple profiles, which all deposit into the same chest. A profile can deposit one thing into a chest, and your other profile can take it. Stealing from yourself is truly one of the best selling points of this game.

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

How many profiles can one have at maximum?