To the Stars Idle

The game is fun and engaging. If you buy it, you should expect a puzzle incremental rather than a pure incremental. You can't just increase everything as high as possible, as costs scale exponentially, so you need to increment gradually. However, the UI is atrocious. It is super annoying to use/navigate. Hopefully the dev addresses this.

Released and immediately abandoned as there is no news, no patches, no nothing. I liked what I saw on the store page, the gameplay was another matter. I played it for 2 hours, I got nowhere. If a game doesn't keep a player interested, it's not worth playing. Frankly this game is boring. Dev needs to explain what's going on. Like how to at least get to the next age or not constantly be running out of food. Why penalize for using cooking? Every time I point a pop into cooking, my food consumption skyrocketed. It makes no sense. No matter how much I put into cooking and foods, I was always in the negatives and having to start over and over by freeing pops. At which point I got bored trying to find the perfect path that the dev want's everyone to follow and if you don't find that right path you won't get anywhere. I researched everything completely for the stone age and still couldn't balance my pop with food production. That's how bad the balancing in this game is. Why am I getting x amount of development per second? What does it do? Where do the points go? What are they for? Then when you run out of food, it immediately drops to 0. I can to play this game, not follow a specific…

Of note I have hundreds of hours in Kittens Game, CIFI, and Unnamed Space Idle. There is a good game in here somewhere but the UI is terrible. It also plays more like a puzzle game than a true incremental or idle game - There seems to only be one way of going about things. After hitting X pop you HAVE to research what the game wants you to or your people will start to starve. You HAVE to tech and build your armies in a certain way or the oversupply debuffs will penalize you.

This has a simple but very enjoyable gameplay loop, the only downside is the graphics and a clunky UI. I still had a lot of fun with it though.

The game is interesting though rather hard. We need to balance production of different resources so that we have a powerful enough army to go further.

I was addicted to this game on Android, and am playing through it a second time on Steam. It's probably one of my favorite idle/incremental games, and it falls somewhere between pure idle games where you just watch numbers go up, and puzzle games like Shark Incremental. At it's core, you buy things to make things and spend things to buy more things, but it also requires you to manage scaling efficiency of your production and reallocate production when needed. Blindly trying to max everything will result in runaway costs. It creates a very interesting gameplay loop where you'll change your production for different goals, though you can just idly stockpile and push your way through. On the downside, the UI is pretty terrible, and can be clunky even once you figure it out because there's not really a tutorial. I think a lot of the complaints about this game are because it really poorly explains how aggressively upkeep can scale with the number of producers. Overall, though, this is one of those "hidden gems" of incremental games, and includes enough fun, active gameplay it would be a bargain at twice the price.