Fortune Mill

STAY AWAY, This is a paid minigame pack of the games from idleon. Same music, same skins in most situations. 5 USD for a idleon pet too as a reward (this is the first paid pet that does not actually provide a buff) but first beat the game. You have no reason to play this unless you want to support the developer. (who by the way stopped updated idleon for weeks! even though we were promised weekly updates. Be careful though. as Lava2 is known for muting, banning, and booting anyone who disagrees or has a distasteful thought about anything he has produced.

also keep in mind, he counted up to 10 (this took 9 months and we had no idea what he was going to give us until 1 week before this minigame pack was talked about) in game and on the reddit forums and discord. Even the reddit post got taken down by mods because it didn't have anything to do with idleon.

Lets not forget this isn't even the first time this exact situation has happened.

Lavaflame2's reason for making this game was to condense everything he's learned from making idlers into a single game.

Did he learn anything?

No. Once again he's managed to make a game that is "Idle" only in name. You only make progress while actively clicking and there were no automation features in the 3.2 hours that I played. He is a master of creating insultingly simplistic "minigames" and asking you to play them hundreds of times to make progress until you're bored to death. There is no strategy, no interesting choices to make. Why do we have to manually scratch the lottery ticket minigames ourselves?

While the ideas in Lavaflame2 games are interesting and very creative, they certainly aren't fun and the implementation is severely lacking. Your reward for progressing is having to play the minigames MORE, when every other incremental dev has already figured out that the true reward is unlocking automation so you can introduce new mechanics once the old ones have overstayed their welcome.

If he teamed up with some skilled developers then these games could be cult masterpieces, because he clearly has strong vision for aesthetics and systems. But Fortune Mill is yet another failure of game design.

Can you call it an asset flip if you own all the assets? Reusing idelon minigames and making a sidecar game like idleskilling or the never to come out necromancy game, and then slapping a $6 on it feels wild. I wanted to try it out for the free pet in the other game which is why many people will download this... and then refund it.