NGU IDLE

Somewhere around the undecillions I began suspecting that they may be fabricating new numbers I am currently in the trevigintillions and am now convinced that they are just making ♥♥♥♥ up Yet despite my doubts I persist I must continue to make Number Go Up

Great idle, lots of different things happening at once which provides a ton of opportunity for optimization. 1300 hours at the time of review and I'm not even at evil mode so I think I'm like a third of the way done. Only complaint is that there is no option for a resizable window so it looks awkward on my main 1440p monitor and doesn't fit on my side vertical monitor so I have to constantly move it back and forth to see everything when I'm playing another game. Definitely reference the discord if you don't want to get stuck for a week+ because you forgot to focus on something.

Its really easy to rack up hours with this game. Ive been playing for a while. Runs in the background pretty well. Used to use it to get through my work day lol.

I’m currently a few years into a PhD and do teaching work on the side, which means I’m almost always at my PC but rarely have much time for games that demand my full attention. As a result, I’ve been tearing through idle/incremental games this year; the genre has become a bit of a fixation lately. I've played (and loved) Universal Paperclips, Kittens Game, Horripilant, Tower Wizard and a handful of others which I didn't spend too long with. NGU Idle was low on my list of games to try, perhaps because I assumed a free game would be lesser, or because being free and having an...odd art style made it seem somehow inferior to the others (in hindsight, a strange belief given the purely text-and-numbers presentation of previous games I'd tried). I'm pleased to report that my assumptions were incorrect and that this has very quickly become my favourite incremental game. I was chuckling almost immediately at the strange humour and drawings, it's become a treat to push a little further each day to see what new weird item or monster is waiting for me. There are also so many systems to tinker with and optimize! The math is satisfying, and there's just the right amount of decision-making. …

Huge numbers for a number-obsessed (OBSESSED!) mind. I'm in love, I'm ecstatic, I hug you and vow to love you forever. I laugh (challenge passed), I cry (forgot to setup auto-merge auto-boost software doohickey before leaving the house), I swallow my pride (and abandon my personal life), take a smoke, and head back to bed. I'm in love with you. Had I really known what life was before I met you? I don't know, nor I care to find out. I'll come back again and again, blissfully cursed by you, ever-loving and devoted. I know that I haven't seen what you really are, merely a fraction of what you offer, and that scares me. I don't know if I can stay with you nor if I should. But I don't bother asking those questions, as whatever the answer might be, it wouldn't change a thing. I love you, NGU Idle.

The best idle game ever made! Thousands of hours of addictive gameplay, idle or online, and it never gets repetitive. Not pay to win either, something modern games lack. All this for only 188 mb of storage.