Archmage Idle

Better idle games to have in the background on steam than this. it's a eye sore for me.

There are a few issues with the game as it is currently. Firstly, the settings option is weirdly hidden for some inexplicable reason. More importantly though, the sheer time investment to get anything done in this game is extraordinary. Any item worth decent amounts of gold is also used in crafting recipes, so you very frequently need to sacrifice entire days of idling between getting the gold to unlock storage/mechanics and *actually using* those mechanics. To put it into perspective, let's talk sigilry. Aspects from sigilry are super important for midgame, but some drops needed for it have a 1-in-1000 chance of dropping, with a 20% chance to even get a drop. Oh also for the record, you need 8 of these rare drops, 2 drops from 4 different skills PER ASPECT. Plus you need to farm resources AND gold for each use of the skill. To get it to a decent chance you need it to be at minimum level 150 in all 4 skills of an aspect, which will likely take 1-2 weeks minimum of aspect grinding alone. Btw, you can only idle one skill at a time, including for the resources needed for this grind. My time in game here isn't accurate, I mainly play on the phone btw (for long commutes).

It's meh, the forced tutorial is annoying at the start, then the game kind of picks up until you get into the 40-50s then it just kind of stalls and doesn't change for the rest of the game/grind, very little interactivity but thats idle i guess

Has been fun so far, nice little idle/incremental game, enjoying it as something i can leave while i work

So far OK as an idle game, but UI/UX needs tons of improvement. (Popup desciption blocks selecting items; Animus UI is very user unfriendly; etc.

Its pretty neat. The systems all connect very well for you to get your numbers up.