Click Legends

at a glance looks like the kind of game that could have a bunch of interesting choices to min/max but actually most of the interesting looking parts turn out to be checklists and linear unlocks and the prestige skills are like "1% chance to gain a 1% bonus" type of thing which presumably scales up eventually, but is prevalent across the game with little +1% effects that are not very interesting when you are trying to 100x your damage. Aside from the narrow choices and linear progression, the game also has an annoying RNG-fetish. Play as a random hero affinity, with heroes that have random linear auto-unlock 'skills' which are mostly just +%dps , gain random 'equipment' bonus which is mostly just +%dps, find random 'collectibles' which accumulate to small +1%s, click random idols for a pile of gold, unlock random prestige options, etc. Aside from all this RNG everything else is pretty much completely linear with no significant choices other than maybe long term weight of chosen prestige skill priority, but the combat only has like 2 stats so I'm just going to take a wild guess that the theorycrafting in prestige skills is pretty standard idle game "buy next optimal thing" type of nonsense and turns the illusion of choice into yet another linear progression. idle games have an untapped ultra potential to distill extreme complexity down into its raw form away from any storylines and loading screens and cutscenes and dialogues and frictions... but if the idle game is simple then you basically have nothing, because everything else was stripped away almost by definition of the genre - without any optimization min/max theorycrafting there simply is no game. It's an interactive progress bar - a loading screen where you need to click 'next' thousands of times. also this is a small side note but why do so many games start you at lvl one and you look like some kind of ultra character fighting supernatural megamonsters in the first second of gameplay does nobody know h... nevermind