Archmage Idle

just a mobile game. steam is an afterthought, and it doesnt even scale properly for pc. cant make purchases on steam either. have to go through an app store. they just wanted the advertisement here.

Pay to win

2/10 👎 Not Recommended I downloaded an idle game, but somehow ended up with a second job. More menus than gameplay, more currencies than a Forex exchange, and progression slower than my Monday mornings. Uninstalled before the fun ever showed up.

spend 3 hours trying to understand how to upgrade my wizards got the needed thing to get to guild level 2 and then checked how much the wizard shcool (academy in game name) saw it was 2.5 million and quit the game

great game other than the fact whoever made it is dumber than ♥♥♥♥ and should learn to make a UI that doesn't make eating shards of glass seem enjoyable by comparison. the game has everything i could want out of an wizard idle game. too bad they smashed it together to make triple double ♥♥♥♥ piss supreme and threw it in front of you and said "eat it and you'll like it" and don't bother looking up any info either cause you'll only find info of better made games that do the same thing but without vomiting in your eyes. like the whole game is the UI so why is that the part with the least effort put into it. with a fixed UI 9/10 but without 3/10 at best

Linux version of the game does not work. I played by forcing the use of Proton. The game could use some ways to automate supply chains, but in the current state you just set it to gather an absurd amount of each resource you need one at a time. Not what I look for in a PC game. Probably fits much better as a mobile game you open for two to five minutes every four hours.

bad

Its a super grindy idle game that is mechanically weak. When the game opens up the cash shop it felt really slimey. If you're going to have a cash shop lead in with it that way you're being honest. If you hide it and wait until the grind ramps up you're basically being an exploitative jerk of a developer. For a game that's vibe coded, the prices are riddiclous, you don't deserve to get that kind of payment for a game you didn't technically make yourself. And what you have here isn't even that good. Its a very mediocre "bar go up faster" idle game with lots of pointless grinding. Its so hands off that I fail to see the point. I was curious because the screenshots looked like it might be a management style game but no, its a weird auto-battler and not even a good one. I don't recommend it. I fail to see the point of the game. And the MTX is frankly insulting for a vibe coded game.