
Idly gather and manage resources to repair what's left of a decaying world. Scavenge forgotten ruins, meet scattered survivors, and push back against the inevitable collapse. IDLE_DIRECTIVE is a grid-based inventory and resource management idle game.
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IDLE_DIRECTIVE is a grid-based inventory and resource management idle game. Idly gather and manage resources to repair what's left of a decaying world. Scavenge forgotten ruins, meet scattered survivors, and push back against the inevitable collapse.
Balance limited inventory space by being strategic with your items and equipment! Available items include:
Utility items that aid you in your mission
Automation items that automate gameplay
Storage containers to expand your limited inventory
Resource producers
Manually, or idly gather various resource types to upgrade and improve yourself!
Explore a dying world filled with hidden points of interest (POIs). While many locations offer loot and resources, critical infrastructure that require repair is your prime directive and should be sought out.
The world is not lifeless, pockets of life still exist. Trade resources or aid survivors to build up your reputation, unlocking unique and powerful items or equipment in return.
RESET SYSTEM and gain powerful augment points that you can use to unlock powerful permanent upgrades to aid you in your directive. IDLE_DIRECTIVE features crafting, trade, and NPC tasks that are unlocked later on through Augmentation!
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satisfies inventory tetris desire + numbers game desire + cyberpunk desire + has a lot of content, four hours in and there is a lot more.
I completed the game. It might not be for everyone but I enjoyed it. Fairly simple idler. I'm assuming it's inspired by Armory & Machine. The key advice I would give new players that took me too long to figure out is upgrade machines rather than stacking duplicates and that there are items unique to the colony stores which are different based on type.
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Languages: English
Hours played at review time, across 479 reviews with recorded playtime.
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I had no idea what I was doing, the game just starts with no tutorial whatsoever, you wanna read what an item does? Too bad, forget to push your little button and you'll have to "Wake up" again.
I am on hour 11 and still can't wait to play more of this game, that's got to mean this game is doing something right.
Really engaging incremental game with a lot of interesting decision making for what parts to use and how to slot them. Eventually, you figure out ways that work best at different stages of course, but I also feel like every time I have prestiged there has been new and interesting mechanics to explore or things I wanted to do from last time that are now possible! Highly recommended for people who find the core mechanics engaging. Try the demo for 10 minutes, and you will know if it is for you!
The game is fun for the first few hours but if it wants you to prestige, which it'll force you to if you want to "complete your main goal", you don't get enough points without spending many hours manually dealing with sitting at POIs. There's multiple upgrades to solve this problem, one of which cots 100(!) points on its own, which would be okay if by the time I wormed my way towards the spire I was at 50. If the game treated just doing one Terminal as the end goal this would be a more tolerable choice but you have to get 4. Moderate fun while you're still learning how the systems work and while looking for cool new parts but not worth going though the hassle multiple times. It needs a significant change on balancing the time spend vs progress earned.
Despite what it says in the title - game isn't very suited for an idler. Still it is a good little incremental game. Not too long, the prestige tree isn't particularily sprawling, but game offers enough content. Also there is an end goal and you progress towards it with every run.
Exceptionally good and addictive game
Very interesting concept. Definitely worth the 5 dollars!
Seemingly interesting at first, but then progress is really slow.
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