Terraformental

One of the best idle/incremental games I've played. Which is ironic, because I almost never alt-tabbed during my time playing it. It can be played as a "second monitor" game, but the gameplay is very engaging and I often found myself playing it just like a normal game. The game was fantastic, and I'm looking forward to whatever content this dev puts out in the future.

Инкрементальная текстовая Outer Wilds. Инкрементальная, потому что знания получает не только игрок, но и персонаж. Реализуется через ускорение действий - каждое действие занимает определенное время, при повторениях требуемое время сокращается. Т.е. прогресс идёт за счёт того, что мы знаем что делать, персонаж делает быстрей. 0.7 часов, потому что есть гигантская демка, на четвертый час я испугался, что сохранение не перенесётся и купил. Всё перенеслось. Кому не хватит демо, на itch лежит бесплатная версия вплоть до апрельского апдейта. [spoiler]Нашёл труп человека, запершегося в комнате с артефактом и копавшим до смерти от голода и жажды. Повторяю его судьбу в том же месте на протяжении последних трех циклов. Отличное сочетание игровых механик и истории.[/spoiler]

Its a time loop game. Which means many loops. Which means at some point the start of the loop turns into a mindboggling repetitive chore. Where you spend much time doing the same thing again and again. This is a thumbs down from me unless the dev implements either a) massive real time speed boosts for old and a few times repeated actions(the current one is too small and takes way too long to train) or b) some way to script and automate early game actions so one doesn't have suffer through the chore of doing them)

[i] You awaken in a cryo-pod in a seemingly abandoned facility on a planet being terraformed. Can you discovered what happened and where everyone went? [/i] Every time you complete an action, you gain familiarity on it, and the next time it'll take less time to do it. The game is in early access, but the development proceeds fairly quickly. If you want to have a try, the game has an [url=https://sh4dowsand.itch.io/terraformental] itch.io page [/url] where a free web version is available, kept a major update behind the paid and steam versions.

An incredible incremental game that I cannot recommend. There's a lot to appreciate about Terraformental. The story is cool, the artifacts are exciting, there's a lot of great systems and thought put into this game. But this is a game that requires so so very much time waiting for things to happen, a game with constant minutes-long progress bars per loop. And there's no way to 'automate' the boring parts of the game that you've already conquered many times over. I'm not saying that anything about Terraformental's balance or general design should change, but I find myself begging for a system like Stuck In Time's* 'action list' -- a system that lets you view & save your history of actions chosen during the current loop, and then edit it prior to launching your next loop. You can even have multiple lists saved for various routes you might want to take across the map. Something like that for Terraformental would be amazing! Please give us something that would let me plan out the entire path for a loop and then let me walk away for it to execute over the course of 10 - 30 minutes, then I can come back to manually play the exciting new unknown parts of the loop. * Formerly known as Loop Odyssey As it stands, this game requires way too much micromanagement. I sat down for an entire weekend and watched the entirety of Arrested Development on one screen while playing Terraformental on the other, and it felt like a slog 90% of the time. The mystery of the artifacts was very motivating, but this much pain and attention really shouldn't be necessary. As much 'fun' as I had sitting down and losing my weekend to this game, I really can't recommend a game that doesn't respect your time like this to other people.

interesting time loop game that really makes you feel like you're living the same day over again

hidden gem. content so far is masterfully crafted

Fantastic increlution style game with an excellent implementation of non-linear rpg mechanics with steady growth of character as well as significant planning to figure out the best next step to unlock the next milestone. Every cycle gets more efficient with permanent bonuses, although careful planning can save a lot of time. Definitely recommended