Idle Crown

It's an okay start but soon enough you find out that you barely make any progress. Most of it coming from being offline (but you need to unlock the offline progress hours first). Especially the late game is unbalanced and unoptimized. It seems slopped together with AI and was not tested with real players before launch.

The developer abandoned this game for quite some time now. Worker-Tick-update-bug that makes the use of the menu on the left very frustrating the more workers you got. What does the bug do? You can not open another menu point on the left when an update tick happens, so you need to click in between the update ticks of the workers+1. That got unbearable after 18 or so workers. It took me 527h in actual in game time to get all the achievements but still I'm unable to get the last boss fight. It would take roughly 30 more combat upgrades to get to that. Which in turn even with "offline"-progress does not seem feasible. From my point of view the only way to get there would be crafting and selling of the last sword and then turn that gold into renown. There is the next "feature" of this game IF the amount of money you donate is too big the game freezes for minutes at a time. Since there is no achievement for the final boss I don't think it was ever intended to be possible/feasible to get there. So, can I recommend this "idle + incremental" game? Absolutely not. If you still want to play it, sure do it but I'd say stop at an average level between 50 and 65, since that was the point w…

I'll admit I did not give this a very good chance. Just a quick look at it though and you've seen all there is. This wasn't enough of a game to interest me into playing longer.

Be aware this game decided to launch itself and run in background with no icon... Its mining and not for us. Avoid.

Unfortunately, I've changed my review because of the leaderboard system and the fact that I can't gain any more xp in certain skills. After the recent endgame changes, I built a legitimate Smithing production chain using the game's own worker, Endowment, Mastery, and renown mechanics. I eventually reached roughly 5.2 billion Smithing XP per hour. I climbed rapidly through the leaderboard until reaching #32, at which point my leaderboard score apparently stopped updating even though my local XP continued increasing normally. I initially assumed the players above me had simply stopped playing. Then I found a Steam discussion where other players reported the same problem. Some report having substantially more XP locally than the leaderboard will display, apparently after progressing very quickly. If this is an anti-cheat measure, it appears capable of flagging progression rates that the game's own mechanics legitimately allow. That's especially frustrating in an idle game whose endgame is largely about optimizing exactly those mechanics. I had a lot of fun with Idle Crown, and there's a surprisingly engaging optimization game underneath the simple presentation. But if legitimate o…

Doesn't respect the players time and resets progress.