Sin Slayers: Meat & Greed

A warning to anyone playing this game. A sudden power outage will corrupt your save file and that corrupted save file will get uploaded to the Steam Cloud, leaving you with no backups. So it's smart to do periodical manual backups of the file where the game is installed at Gemdiggers\Saves\Profile01\profile.dat. The developer claims he fixed it, but it's still an issue.

This is the skeleton of an idle game. There's no input outside of upgrading your meager selection of upgrades, and once you have them all (only 20-30 hours in), that's it. There's nothing else. Sell the gems, watch your money increase with nothing to spend it on, repeat until you hit the 60 hour mark and get all the achievements.

It's not even much of an idle game because the bag space you start with is pitiful, requiring you to sell every 5 minutes, or make no progress, and by the time you cap it out (115 slots), it doesn't matter anymore anyway because the only achievements you have left are playtime. When an idle game is this bare, having your only real interaction with the game boiling down to "press button to be allowed to progress" causes it to fail entirely as an idle game.

I should be given an incentive to interact with the game, such as speeding up progress, not having it halted ENTIRELY from my inaction in a got damn IDLE game. As much as I loathe Idle Slayer, its a really great example of this concept put into practice. On the inverse of that, there's How To Train Your C*ck. There's no real interaction with that game, but your upgrades have no limits and you're not punished outright for letting the idle game go on its own for hours. Your only punishment is less overall points because your stats are lower during those hours than they would be if you were actively monitoring the game.

Instead Sin Slayers: Meat & Greed cannot decide if it wants you to engage with it or not. You have to engage in that minor way in order to progress at all, while paradoxically, there's literally nothing to actually do. Buy all the gear (content) in about a days time, then wait for 2. Congrats, you just 100% the game.

This is the kind of practice game you would make when learning how to develop mechanics for an Idle game, not something you actually publish to a storefront.

If you want a cheap, easy, and fast (for an "idle" game) achievement completion, here you go. There's a singular positive for you. Beyond that? Don't bother.

Sin Slayers: Meat & Greed is an idle game where you mine for gems and upgrade your perks slowly. There really isn't much about it but I had fun with it doing work while 'gaming'. It was more of a studying companion than a game to me.