I thought, why the hell not? I waste enough of my time playing them so surely the fact that I do not need to put a disc in a machine, wait an hour for downloaded content and hotfix patches like LittleBigPlanet 3 this afternoon and spend inordinate amounts of time staring at loading screens shouldn't stop me from writing about them on my blog.
In this special feature, I'm going to be covering Idle Games.
What are Idle Games? They're rather games that you don't play. Games you buy upgrades for and then wait as an incremental score ticks up and up and allows you to buy more upgrades to get the number higher and higher.
You have probably already heard of Cookie Clicker and given that a good go, so I will keep it off the list. The titan deserves no more credit until it gets a few more updates.
In any case, here they are.
#3: Progress Quest: www.progressquest.com
Progress Quest is, in essence, a text-based idle-game RPG. Once you're on the site, click play and you'll be taken to the character creation screen where you choose attributes and random names and all that gubbins. From then on, you're pretty much done. You then watch as Progress Quest plays the game for you as you kill random enemies and receive random loot of various rarities before heading back to town to negotiate the purchase of better equipment.
It comes complete with a Windows '95 background and won't progress if you alt tab or otherwise open another browser.
#2: Kittens Game: http://bloodrizer.ru/games/kittens/#
Called the "Dark Souls" of the Idle Game genre due to its extreme unending length and harshness, In Kittens Game you are a Kitten and you press a button to harvest Catnip. You can then either make Catnip Fields by planting the Catnip to make more Catnip or Refine the Catnip into Woods to make Huts.
Fields do well in Spring but poorly in Winter and your Kittens will die due to Catnip shortages if you do not plant enough.
You then do other things including learning science for cultivation and other things with Scholar kittens once you have room for them, or you could get more Wood with Woodcutting Kittens and so on, but you'll have less Kittens to haves Catnip so they'll all die in Winter if you haven't thought long and hard about your Catnip resources.
The official wiki is endless.
http://bloodrizer.ru/games/kittens/wiki/index.php?page=Main+page
#1: Clicker Heroes.
www.clickerheroes.com
Dun-dun, duddah duh duh. Stuck in my head since early this year.
Maybe it's the cutesy graphics or the way its made but it's just so frackin' addictive.
This game is just the bomb. You click enemies and they die and you get coins. with the coins, you buy heroes. Heroes give you upgrades which lets you kill bigger things. Get a certain number of Heroes and you get Hero Souls, reset the game and you get +5% damage for each Hero Soul you have OR you can use them to get Godlike Powers from Ancients which give you permanent buffs throughout all subsequent playthroughs. Get over Level 100 and every five new levels you will receive a random buff to a Hero which changes their art style and makes them twice as powerful, a buff that also remains through new playthroughs and there's a bunch of achievements as well which gives you extra permanent bonuses.
It's amazing.
But the best bit? When you save and click off it, the game keeps killing enemies and gathering coins for when you next turn the game on due to your save being saved in a cached script on your computer.
The wiki has thousands of helpful tips:
http://clickerheroes.wikia.com/wiki/ClickerHeroes_Wiki
It also has an Official SubReddit and community if you're the type of person who frequents those lesser sorts of websites.
http://www.reddit.com/r/ClickerHeroes/
Enjoy gaming, folks. I'll be back with an instalment of the best free browser MMO's after the cut.
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