Idle Dyson Swarm

I'm not convinced so far, I would rate is as "Ehh..."

Its one particularity is that you have a Skill Tree which you can freely reset or swap between handmade preset.
eg: push research with a dedicated tree, then swap to pump building production, then swap to pump cash earning from the built up production.
It's alright if a little hands-on for efficient gameplay.

I've reached a few paragraph of story so far, it's a nice touch but the story/theme feel unrealistic in how they're handled (something that would require decade of experience and decades of deployment is presented in tone more matching of "on a whim..." "...then later that afternoon..."). EDIT: There's a lot more story, and better written, under the game menu Wiki > Lore

I seem to be halway to the first reset judging by the UI. pace is a little too slow to my taste. I'm not hating on it, just mostly playing on because I might as well grab the remaining achievements.

EDIT: Looking at the trailer there seems to be a whole lot of things post reset, just more of a slow burn early on I guess.

Wanted to like this idler. I really did. But it's not there. It's too slow for the amount of manual work you need to do. and the skill milestones are far too few and far between. There's a lot of potential, but there needs to be a lot more meat added to the bones that are here. Keep an eye on it, though, because the future could be bright.

In the mountain of AI slop that has been inundating the Idle tag of the Steam store lately we were graced by two titans of long-form incremental games this week (this and Kittens Game) making their way to Steam.

I played through IDS about three to four years ago on its initial Android release and it was a fun little game. Since then it has received multiple update adding more layers of gameplay. It's a slow burner for sure, but if your give it time you'll start to get sucked in as more and more of the mechanics come online. Also, there is an ending, it'll take some time to get there is a final goalpost.

The fact that it is 100% free on the Steam release should be reason enough for anyone who love Idlers to give it a shot.