Simple Multipliers

You can only restart when you have bought an update, so to get the progress you want to get a bunch of points and only spend a little bit of it before restarting so you get leftovers to buy the bigger things you need later on, but this means it really is a game of waiting endlessly while not really getting the feeling that you grow stronger. There is also no offline progress, so you have to keep the game running.

Y'all can see the other reviews already. What they are saying still applies at the time of writing this review. Simple Multipliers is a REALLY idle game. It is extremely slow, painfully so at the start. The basic premise is that you have a bar that fills up (see the photo, its the "Generator" bar). When it fills, you get the amount of points that you see right about it. The bar starts at filling up once per minute. And it gives you 1 point after it fills. You can buy an upgrade for 1.5 points to make it give you more. The upgrade makes it go up to 2 points, so you get 2 points per minute. You can upgrade again for slightly more points, etc etc. This is the first mechanic. The second mechanic, the one that is really the thorn in the side of the game, is the "Converter" (in the photos its the thing to the right, underneath "Multipliers Points"). As you generate points, you can spend them to buy Multiplier Points. You can then spend these multiplier points to buy upgrades that will make the game faster in some way. Each Multiplier Point you buy doubles the price of the next one. It starts at 50 points, then 100, 200, 400, 800, 1.6k... You get the point. You use these Multiplier P…

Simple Multipliers isn't really a proper game, it's just a lazy 2D browser/Flash-tier "number incrementer" game where the object of the game is to increase the in-game currency by clicking, and sometimes buying things that increase the rate at which your currency/score goes up. It's an incredibly shallow game loop, to the point you might as well just run a program that does "i=i+1; print i" and watch the numbers go up automatically, and just watch it. You'd get the exact same outcome. If this sounds completely mindless, you're not wrong. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard, just like the gameplay fails to approach any standard. While there are options to change the resolution for the game, all this does is scale up the simplistic 2D art assets used to make the game, which makes little or no difference to the graphics quality. Without any other substantial graphics tweaks, it's not possible for gamers to improve the lacklustre 2D visuals. The game interface is mostly just text boxes/dialogs and features mostly static, barely animated 2D images, the kind of thing you expect to see in browser/HTML…

The game has an excellent concept, but is PAINFULLY SLOW even for an idle game. I am well aware that the entire appeal is that it is supposed to eventually get faster, but the game is so slow that I generally feel as though I won't be able to get to an acceptable speed within the year. If I didn't know any better I'd assume it was a mobile game with in-app purchases to speed up the grind. Furthermore, the player can't really do anything except upgrade. Maybe allow the generator to be clicked to skip 1 second at a time? In any case, as I said, nice concept, extremely slow. Only buy if you have something else to do in order to let it run in the background.

bad progression system, no offline progress

meh. too similar to the other games.