A low effort idle game (that has no reason to be online just to sit there and do nothing) in a long line of them all about Steam inventory items to make money with no over-sight for poor gaymers.
Idle Kitties Online
by White Box
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About this game
Welcome to Idle Kitties Online! This is a free game with relaxing gameplay where you can collect cute kitties alone or with friends.
What players are saying
18 achievements (1st one auto-unlock, and needs to pay $$$ to 100% the game) no trading cards, no point shop, mini disk size drops cats and cats carrier for Steam Marketplace $0.03-$60 depends on rarity, similar to that banana game Boxes does not need key, cases do need a key, which costs $3.99 for 15 keys 10 cats of the same rarity can be combined into one cat with higher rarity Most cats are listed for $0.03, I can picture someone buying pretty cats and then play it online globally or locally with friends - cats sitting together to create this virtual companionship
[quote][b][url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microtransaction]Warning: In-Game Cash Shop[/url][/b] This game is infested with a toxic mobile app style cash shop. You will be prompted to and expected to give money/credit card details to the developers through this cash shop to buy in-game goods so you can play the game.[/quote] Idle Kitties Online is another disgusting clicker scam game like "banana". Effectively a blockchain/NFT game, but abusing the Steam Marketplace instead of some other blockchain/wallet system... the end result is the same, this isn't a real game, it's just dumped on Steam to scam PC gamers through the Steam Marketplace. It has no value as a serious game, you just click stuff in the hopes an "NFT" marketplace item drops so the developer can get paid for the sale... and of course so the developer can sell ones that he's farmed up himself. So while this looks "free", it's only superficial. The real purpose for this game is for the developer to farm and exploit Steam Inventory items that drop through the game. They can then sell these items in bulk on the Steam Community Marketplace. This kind of Steam abuse, combined with a minimum-viable-product non-game, does no service to gamers whatsoever. This is pollution... it's harmful to everyone. It hurts genuine indie devs, who have to compete with this pollution to get visibility for their sincerely made games. It makes indie devs look bad. It makes it harder for gamers to find those genuinely made games. It's designed to prey on gamers and manipulate the Steam Community Marketplace to the detriment of all. Bonus points for a bunch of day 0 fake reviews (all in Russian) and a whopping $5 DLC on top of the rest of the scam microtransaction and "Steam NFTs". This is cancer. Avoid this at all costs.
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