I have played Eve Online so many hours, and it’s a bad game. Don’t do it. you will spend hundreds of hours dreaming about the cool thing you’ll do later, but for 99% of players the cool thing will never happen. You will be part of the one percent’s cool thing.

Do you have a similar game?

    • @Kissaki@feddit.de
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      91 year ago

      I think idle games are interesting to mindfully experience. They - at least good ones - demonstrate the influence of external motivation, of progression.

      Outside of that… Yeah. There’s a fine line of experiencing theme and gameplay Design, and falling into mindless simple number scaling and waiting.

      • @isyasad@lemmy.world
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        21 year ago

        This is why Universal Paperclips is my favorite idle game, maybe my favorite game ever. It has an ending and you can even interpret a story from it. Definitely worth playing once.

    • ∟⊔⊤∦∣≶
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      31 year ago

      This is a crazy one for me. I saw this for like 5 seconds and I knew instantly this would piss me off and I never ever ever touched it or any ‘idle’ type games. I would rather stand still and stare at a wall. I don’t understand how anyone could find any entertainment at all. And apparently they are massively popular.

      • @ParsnipWitch@feddit.de
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        31 year ago

        It does weird stuff to your brain. Just never start any of these and you’re good.

        Always thought I was immune until I was forced to play Roblox, of all things, with my niece. We played some kind of incremental / idle game and I had to continue to play this game. It was horrible. ( ; ω ; )

    • @Rannoch@lemm.ee
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      11 year ago

      I enjoyed playing Cookie Clicker, but probably because I only really played it for a month or so - I can imagine playing that any longer would not be worth the time 😅