miniBONG

A brilliant idea ruined by bad execution.

miniBONG could have been something special. A dress up inspired idle game with a little gacha mechanic (the random equipment store), stat progression and visual customization? That’s basically a first and exciting concept. And yet it fails in almost every meaningful aspect. Yes, you can customize characters. Eventually. But early to mid game, you’re constantly swapping out gear, making fashion choices irrelevant. The real customization kicks in far too late, and even then, the lack of basic QoL features kills the fun.

-No auto-equip. You’re forced to manually compare and equip gear in a clunky interface.

-No inventory search or sorting. With dozens of items, this becomes a nightmare fast. At least you can auto destroy stuff. Right, no sorting there either.,

-No detailed stat breakdown. You're given the bare minimum.

-No clear skill/ability info. Many passives and effects are literally undocumented.

-This is unacceptable in any game but for an idle game, where efficiency and clarity are core to the experience, it’s a disaster.

-No team formation system. All characters fight solo, making progression feel shallow and wasting the potential for synergies or strategy.

Speaking of progression; it's extremely slow, interaction becomes more of a chore than a reward. The art style is charming, that’s the one thing that holds it together. If you buy it, you're basically paying for the aesthetic. And at 90 cents, , it’s not the worst purchase you’ll ever make. Still, this is a missed opportunity. With competent developers, miniBONG could’ve carved out a niche of its own in the idle genre. Right now, it’s little more than a proof of concept hidden behind cute visuals. And sadly, it will probably stay that way.

Actually quite fun! I typically play these type of "Idle" games on my phone, but the artwork for this one caught my attention. Unlike mobile games however, it's nice to just pay for the game and not deal with any cash-shop or anything like that.

The core 'gameplay loop' is running your team of chibi warriors through levels of auto-combat. As you move up the levels, your warriors will level up through experience points while collecting equipment and outfits. You can dismantle your unwanted equipment to purchase new equipment in the shop, RNG style - or you can spend currency to enhance your warriors with unwanted equipment. When the difficulty of the auto-combat levels gets too much - you can restart your run from Lvl 1 to gain more experience and equipment. Rinse and repeat!!!

Aside from the main line of auto-combat levels, every hour a special area will open. Combat in this special area gives different currencies that can let you change the appearance and color of your equipment.

The grind is slow, but comfortable. There are LOTS of different designs for the equipment and costumes, and the system of appearance/color swap makes character customization really fun.

I hope the developers continue to work on this game. I would REALLY like to see a few more gameplay loops to make things more engaging when you're not playing full idle. Something like a tower defense mode would be a fun way to mix things up. As long as they don't add PVP - one of the best things about this game is there is NO PVP, echoing the lack of cash-shop - as someone who has played a ton of these games on mobile, they are always shoving PVP in as a way to encourage players to spend money for fast upgrades in the cash shop. Kudos to the dev's for not including any of that nonsense.

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miniBONG is a AFK Autobattler/Management game.

The game is based mainly on the autoclicker games but without clicking for attack, you can hold the units for avoid their attacks to you but not click for attack them.

It's a new concept of game where the key is leave the game afk and your minions do the work for attack the enemies.

Then you ask, so when I play this game?
The answer is the very high customization and management of items and resources, sinces that it's pratically the 99 % of the game, as any rpg there are drops but with this one there are thousands of them each one with diferent stats and you have to match to the playstyle of your minion.

There is also a very good and interesting visual aspect of the game where you can choose how they look from the items you get and there are tons of diferent items for customize your character and look very cool.

It's a very grindy game but worth it.