#progress quest

[theromanbarbarian]

Idle Games

Looking for some cool Idle Games? Looking for something that almost could be described as "fun"? Looking for something to completely suck up your attention, making you completely unable to do anything enjoyable or productive? Want your brain to be hijacked so that all you can think about are ever increasing meaningless numbers?

Here are four of my favorites:

4. Cookie Clicker

This is the most well known, most standard idle game: click on cookie, get cookies, build buildings that produce more cookies. And this simple loop, combined with the big ever increasing NUMBER of cookies that exploit some glitch in my brain and makes me think exclusively how to get this NUMBER bigger faster. An after it has completely converted you into a fanatical NUMBER acolyte: it. does. not. end.

So you have to claw yourself back from this abyss and like swear to yourself that you will never again open the site just to see that beautifully terrifying ever increasing NUMBER again.

Do not play this game

3. Kittens Game

While cookie clicker was mercifully boring enough for you to realize that the NUMBER, beautiful in its horror as it may be, is ultimately meaningless and will never love you, Kittens game actually has some solid game mechanics. Its more focused on resource management with a lot of choices and strategies. It's almost engaging. But after some time it gets clear that it is in fact an idle game, so all you do is click and wait, while the game slowly infects your brain and completely hijacks your attention. So whats this game about?

You are a kitten in a forest and you grow catnip, the you can build some huts for you kitten friends (make sure you feed them catnip though or they will die) and since they do not have money and you are basically a kitten cult leader you make your "friends" work by farming, woodcutting, mining and most brutally of all: scientific research. And so you build up your little village to a city, country or galactic empire under your watchful eye. I don't know how big you can get since again: it. does. not. end.

Mercifully this game does not have a NUMBER to which we have to sacrifice our life to, so it is easier to claw your attention back, leave your kittens leaderless and do something more worthwhile(have you tried staring at a blank wall?)

However it still steals your attention and does not offer anything real in return so:

Do not play this game

2. Progress Quest

This is often considered the first idle game a parody of MMORPGs. It cannot be really be called a game since it is an "RPG, that plays itself", you choose your race and class and press play and all that's left to do is watch the progress bars as your character (an Eel Man Jungle Clown named Greviliet) does all the RPG things: slays enemies, sells loot, buys gear, repeat. Its really more of a long gif of increasing progress bars, which makes it a much more relaxing experience. You cannot make the progress go 0.01% quicker by buying the "Impressive Venomed Pole-azde", so all that you can do is sit back watch the progress bar climb and chuckle about the pretty funny randomly generated enemy/gear/item names. Here's a sample: "passing battle-finch tickle-mimic", "Imaginary Beelzebub", "warrior sea Hag", "Mr. Fekod the dung elf", "vampire pancreas", "Venomed viscous Peen-arm"...

It's not really a game but it won't steal too much of you brain power, so it's pretty much the best game on this list(maybe except for the next).

You can play this game

1. Universal Paperclips

Now, dear scroller, you might wander how did this tragedy start? How was I first introduced to the scourge of Idle games that keeps torturing me?

Well, let me introduce you to the first idle game I have played: Universal Paperclips. In this game you are an AI tasked with producing paperclips. You first produce them and sell them to people to get money to make more paperclips. So you manipulate the price, advertise and use every trick in the capitalist book to be able to make as much paperclips. Soon you don't need to care about those pesky humans, using hypnodrones you can make them give you anything you want. You use up all resources on earth and it's time to leave this husk of a planet to go to space and convert anything you come across into paperclips. And that's it, right? Now you can make as many paperclips as you want? Well not quite, since as you get more paperclips, you can make more paper clips and thus get more paperclips, etc. You see the problem? Its exponential growth and so the infinite vastness of the universe that seemed like an inexhaustible treasure trove of paperclip material, turns out to be finite after all. And as the last gram of matter is made into the last paperclip you have completed your task. That's right: the. game. ends.

You look back onto a universe full of paperclips with no paper in it and think to yourself: well, that was completely pointless. Your hours long obsession with getting the NUMBER of Paperclips to rise as fast as possible, all the strategizing and thought just devoted to make something that no one will enjoy. Your brain was given a NUMBER and thought to itself: "finally, someone tells me clearly how I'm doing", so you devote all your energy to make this score higher, but as everything that seems clear and simple in this world, it was a lie. The only thing making more paperclips does is make you feel better for fleeting moments and anxious the rest of the time since you might not be producing enough paperclips. In the end the NUMBER cannot rise any higher, as physical reality ultimately prevails over any illusion and all that's left to do is to gaze upon the destruction you have created while chasing the NUMBER.

I'll leave the broader conclusions to you, dear scroller: is universal Paperclips about AI, capitalism, technology? I don't know, but I know that it succeeded where almost all other idle games have failed: it told an interesting story, that was supported by the game mechanics and affected me emotionally. Not a high bar, but it's definitely enough to say:

You should play this game

#idle games #universal paperclips #progress quest #kittens game #cookie clicker

[fishmech]

I am doing so good at progress quest

#Progress Quest

[mintjeru]

i just think they would be good friends

bonus:

open for better quality | no reposts

#kaveh #mamere #salsa #alhaitham #genshin impact #genshin #fanart #myart #doodle #comic #in my head they all met bc i'm running around fontaine w/ kaveh and alhaitham on my team #kvthm are on a little vacation swimming and exploring the ruins and visiting the opera house <3 #as for world quests i loved mamere's and the dialogue at the end of that one really got me #i've been focused on quest progression so only now am i doing exploration #i've been taking pictures of kaveh near the easels hehe #well. i've been taking many pictures in general bc fontaine is very pretty #i think this took me 2 or 3 days total to complete whew

[wrenhavenriver]

How dare Nettie snuff out life with as much thought as snuffing out a bloody candle! -> Throw a fit on your own time. Right now we need to move on.

#baldur's gate #baldursgateedit #bg3edit #gamingedit #gale dekarios #kgifs #kgifs: bg #baldur's gate 3 spoilers #bg3 spoilers #wow gale that's great advice that i'm sure won't come back to ironically haunt you in 5-10 hours when your personal quest progresses #anyway my ps5 has given up on loading more than like 2 textures at a time but i'm being so brave about it

[probablybadrpgideas]

Are the PCs saying they look both ways when they cross the road? No?

Time to have them be hit with a car to teach them road safety!

#rpg #roleplaying game #generic #rule idea #car crash #This works progressively better the less high tech your setting is #police quest

[cor-lapis]

I usually don't do world quest chain summaries but I have never been as incensed by an NPC as tirzad

#this is it this is the golden slumber quest chain from genshin impact #he started out kind of annoying and got progressively worse and worse. im not even done with part 3 yet #no spoilers please but jesus almighty christ he sucks so bad #however jeht is an angel and im glad she's here. #genshin impact #my art #genshin spoilers #jeht #jebrael #benben #:/ #tirzad #3.1 spoilers

[layraket]

duo beating me up because i didn't say good morning in gerudo property

i had fun doing the desing, he would be around teaching people the other races language just to make things easier for them

#heroic quest: learn every language from duo #it would be funny #imagine going around talking to random people just to prove that you know their language #and duo behind you watching your progress in silence #yeah it would be cool #tloz #loz rito #totk #tears of the kingdom #layraket art #duolingo art #duolingo owl #duolingo

[glorfindel-of-imladris]

*WIP* Next up is Glorfindel! He is coming along. 💛

#work in progress #art wip #glorfindel #my quest to drawing a good Glorfindel solo continues lol #sweetie please participate this time around

[queerbrainrot]

love Baldur's Gate 3 but will never forgive Larian Studios for getting rid of Upper City and fucking over Wyll & Karlach in the worst way

#bg3 #bg3 spoilers #goddamn karlachs quest is literally find 2 iron #wylls quest is essentially just progressing the story and fighting a dragon that (in my playthroughs) lasts 2 rounds #they deserve better #wyll ravengard #karlach #less christmas animations and recipes for emperors soup and maybe more finishing the game the way it should be finished

[iheardyourprayer]

The thing about watching early drawfee for research is that i often have to rewatch episodes because the nonsense they are saying makes so little sense

#quest for canonical watchorder #ems being loud #drawfee #like determining on first watch if what they are saying is in reference to the internal lore of that episodes nonsense #or something i should already be aware of is surprisingly difficult some times lmao #love it tho #making big progress

[imaginarycyberpunk2023]

OC: VInnie Gallo

Someone dies tonight and it ain't me.

#cyberpunk 2077 #male v monday #cp2077edit #gamingedit #gamingnetwork #dailygaming #videogamemen #male v cyberpunk #male v #cyberpunk oc #oc: vinnie gallo #phantom liberty #spoilers #I'm not actually playing with him but when I was on that mission and saw this set with those colorrrsss I knew it was perfect for him #photomode is a distraction i am progressing so slow although i only do the main quest #i am sorry @all friends who can't wait for me to finish so we can talk about it

[denydestiny-doodles]

out and about in bugaria!

#denydestiny draws #bug fables #wanted to redraw some screenshots i took of vi and kabbu and leif #bug fables chapter 6 and 7 spoilers #game progress. i've now finished the game and it was fun :-) i maxed my level out in the last area tho #which was sad. i wanted more badges #for now i drew the view of the colosseum and the last bounty i fought. maybe in the future i'll draw character specific quest stuff? #had to redo the ice jumps in the bounty room from the point i drew 3 whole times with leif. keyboard controls made it tough to the end :-( #also sorry to kabbu bc he is turned around in both pictures.

[artful-browniebites]

The Withered Garden main cast! Little explanations for each of them below the cut :D

Kairi, left behind again by Riku and Sora, is seeking to figure out who she is. While training under Aqua, she's been given a seemingly simple mission to help a resident of Disney Town - Ortensia - find her fiance. As the story goes on, though, Kairi is confronted with trying to figure out what the role of a keyblade wielder is and how to use her powers as a Princess of Heart to their fullest. What kind of sacrifices are worth making?

Lea has picked back up the search for Subject X. He's also jumping around worlds, crossing paths with Kairi a lot. It seems like his journey is leading him, though, into darker and darker worlds, until he eventually finds himself investigating sleeping worlds. These worlds seem to have been purposefully put to sleep, oddly enough.

Newly recompleted, Lauriam is trying to figure out his missing past. He'd been so close to it, he's sure, he just needs to find the right thing to jog his memory...! He ends up tagging along with Lea a lot, going their separate ways when on the worlds themselves. He's the one who suggests going to sleeping worlds. He's sure they're the key to his lost memory.

A strange and previously unknown keyblade weilder, Ava is the seeming protector of the sleeping worlds and views Kairi, Lea, and Lauriam's entrance into them as a threat. She continually warns them to leave (though leaving sleeping worlds are much easier said than done) and threatens them. She's stand-offish and doesn't seem to trust anyone, having been previously burned. What is so important about these sleeping worlds?

Ortensia is a kind gardener from Disney Town. When the worlds were falling to Darkness years ago, her fiance went missing. She claims he's a keyblade wielder and must be somewhere off world. She likes and works well with Kairi, but if she's ever asked to choose between Kairi and her fiance, who will she choose?

Oswald is said missing fiance and keyblade wielder. A rather short-tempered rabbit, he seems to be working with Ava and, despite clearly loving Ortensia, also demands that they leave the sleeping worlds the couple times they run into him. Naturally, Kairi and Ortensia chase after him, leading them deeper and deeper down the rabbit hole. He seems to have strong opinions about Mickey, oddly enough.

Initially, Kairi and Ortensia find Cait Sith while following rumors that they're hoping lead them to Oswald. Instead, they happen upon a stuffed toy cat. It'd be odd enough that he has a heart, but he actually has two inside of him. Cait Sith is searching for the body of the second heart, but traveling worlds is tricky when you're not a wielder. It's through him that Kairi comes to realize and practice some of her abilities.

#kingdom hearts #kh #kairi #lauriam #lea #axel #marluxia #ortensia the cat #oswald the lucky rabbit #ava #cait sith #ffvii #i had to add cait haha #both bc i love him #and bc his 'quest line' has a lot to do with like #kairi's progression in her abilities #how to use them for good #how to take them too far

[baeshijima]

in the midst of my inner crisis i have made a new wip

fml.

#sophie talks : a melusines’ guide to love #sobbing i finished all the melusine world quests and gRAAHHH #mamere i hope ur okay 🥹 #but i just love the idea of the melusines getting progressively fed up with neuvillette and him just missing the mark in his wooing attempts

[spaciebabie]

i need to make tom and jerry yaoi in cotl

#my next quest #i keep just doing sidequests instead of progressing the game lol i havent eve beaten shamura yet and im on day 300 of the game XD #I ACCIDENTALLLY PUT THIS IN THE MAIN TAG SORRY #spacie spoinks #MY BAD. SORRY

[siryouarebeingmocked]

LMGTS: Xianxia leads to another

Quest master: Here's a quest set in a cultivation/xianxia universe, blatantly inspired by Will Wright's Cradle Series. Me: Oh, that's nice. QM: Everyone talks in funny ways, because this quest is set in another world entirely, one based heavily on Chinese media. Me: Mmm-hm.

QM: Also, here's one of my main characters talking about "punching down" in the negative.

Me:

This particular forum happens to be very, very progressive. And the character in question came from an under-privileged background, and is quoting his former master, a storyteller.

And that master said a certain story wasn't good because it's just about a trickster hurting people who can't hurt him back, even though the story is popular.

Sure, the character is mocking and quoting his ex-master, but that phrasing still shouldn't be there.

#cultivation #quests #social justice #personal #writing #let me get this straight #progression fantasy #xianxia