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I have played Eve Online so many hours, and it's a bad game. Don't do it. you will spend hundreds of hours dreaming about the cool thing you'll do later, but for 99% of players the cool thing will never happen. You will be part of the one percent's cool thing.

Do you have a similar game?

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[โ€“] Kissaki@feddit.de 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think idle games are interesting to mindfully experience. They - at least good ones - demonstrate the influence of external motivation, of progression.

Outside of that... Yeah. There's a fine line of experiencing theme and gameplay Design, and falling into mindless simple number scaling and waiting.

[โ€“] isyasad@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

This is why Universal Paperclips is my favorite idle game, maybe my favorite game ever. It has an ending and you can even interpret a story from it. Definitely worth playing once.