Idle Awakening: Mages Path

The game is probably abandoned. Dev is working on other projects. Even if it wasn't, this wouldn't be worth your time if you're new or experienced with incremental games. The early game is fun and the writing is quirky, and also ignorable if you don't care. The unlocks are frequent and progression is up to player choice. The game borrows a lot of ideas from other good games and they work for awhile. As you reach the midgame and things slow down, you might think "alright time to grind, power up, and break the wall", but that break moment never comes. You'll notice your scaling slows down a lot, so you grit your teeth and let it idle to get through the wall the hard way - and then you find out there's nothing on the other side. It's just wall after wall with next to nothing to push you through it. I sat through this until I finally got to another actual unlock and found out for the umpteenth time that the unlocks, once again, don't make a meaningful difference in your progression. They take too long to accumulate too so it's not even exciting or interesting. Look at my hours. The first day was fun, the second and third days were alright. I let it sit for 10 more days practically s…

lost my whole game (more than 500hrs played in the demo + full game) after an update. hotfixe didnt work. I don't want to do everything over again so dead game for me

likely abandoned

Game is ♥♥♥♥. Lost months of work due to recent update. No warning. Updates take six months and no achievements.

It's interesting for a day or two until the unlocks stop coming in and you're stuck waiting for a bunch of milestones that don't do anything to actually change how you play. For a game with "Mage's path" in its title, the game certainly feels a lot more like the path of the town's drunken craftsman for an obscenely long time. Some of the scenes mention you casting magic, but it's magic that the player can't cast because the game only gives you illusion and restoration, so it feels like the game is saying "congratulations, you can make a shadow that looks like a pot. You've awakened as a mage. That's it, there's no more mechanics to learn on this path. Enjoy six stories about blowing papers around with wind before we stop talking about it." And even after you are successful enough (Usually as a carpenter or something) to own a massive plot of land with multiple buildings on it, it feels like every story scene is still about you ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ up somehow and learning the wrong lesson. The automation looks daunting when you get to it, but it's unlocked pretty early and generally quite useful if a bit dumb, but it's often difficult to say when something should be automated. Some are easy: …

There is a lot to explore and play with here. I'm close enough to the "end" to consider myself done for now though. If you like incremental idle games, this is a great one to play. The biggest downside is that there is no "reset" so if you come back after a few months, you may be a bit lost again. And once you're "done" there's no real reason to keep playing.