Space Miner - Idle Adventures

it's not good. Hours indicate that I left it open for hours because at the point I'd progressed there was no offline progression.

A disappointing idle game with forced resets, tedious achievements, clunky controls, and constant time-wasting micromanagement

Crap game

[quote][b][url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microtransaction]Warning: In-Game Cash Shop[/url][/b] This game is infested with a toxic mobile app style cash shop. You will be prompted to and expected to give money/credit card details to the developers through this cash shop to buy in-game goods so you can play the game.[/quote] We’ve got another "numbers go up" simulator with [i]Space Miner - Idle Adventures[/i]. It’s a brain-dead clicker/incrementer: click, buy upgrades, click more, repeat until bored. Predictably, the technical execution is just as lazy as the gameplay loop. This is differnet in at least having a little bit of gameplay in it... this is Asteroids meets Cookie Clicker and if you think that's a terrible idea, you are absolutely right. Basically there's a mining minigame and a little top down Asteroids like shooting, but the bulk of it is just grinding upgrades so you can buy bigger upgrades to help you grind more... it's so tedious. Fans of idler incrementers (are you okay?) will be annoyed by the lack of offline progression and constant need for attention to the game... and I agree, that's the antithesis of this game genre, which is what lead this to no success here on Steam Direct. Also, cash shop cancer. On the topic of visuals, the weak looking 2D retro assets seem like they'd be more at home in a browser game or a mobile app. 3D graphics accelerators hit the mainstream of PC gaming in the mid 1990's with cards like the ATI Rage and Voodoo3D, there's no excuse for such poor 2D graphics in 2026. That alone is enough to disqualify this for recommendation. Now on to pricing and value for gamers. This game is infested with mobile app store like microtransactions. This is a consumer hostile model that we don't need to see on PC. It's deceptively priced to gouge gamers, and that's a reason in itself to avoid this. In terms of public reception, the "free" price tag didn't help. This peaked at a handful of players and then immediately cratered. With a peak count of less than 50 gamers (out of over 130 million gamers and over 40 million daily logons), it’s safe to say the PC gaming community has collectively decided to ignore this, probably because of the reasons supplied in this review. Given that this free game won't increase your game collector count, is it worth your time to add it to your library? Definitely not. This is impossible to recommend. To quote another Steam reviewer, this should be a paid product... they should be paying people to download it. There are over 140,000 games on Steam, not every one of them is a hidden gem. I'm here to help gamers find the ones that actually matter in that sea of Steam Direct self-published mess. If you don't agree with my findings in this review, you should definitely download it and play it to see for yourself. I'm happy to have helped you make an informed choice, regardless of the outcome. You deserve the best.

Controls are annoying, music is good, crashes every 10 mins.

It's a clunky POS with some of the worst UI decisions I could have imagined. The controls are bad, the menus are bad, it takes an obscene amount of time to do anything and you have no idea what anything does without the tool tips. F2P is too expensive for this kind of experience, you should be paid to play.