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.

The game starts off well, with the best minigame in the game and a pretty enjoyable soundtrack. At first, everything feels well-made. But that is where the game ends: after that, it becomes nothing but boredom and repetition.

Anyone who plays IdleOn knows that nobody can stand the minigames after playing them once or twice, and this game is basically just that. It is a bunch of similar minigames with nothing truly interesting to do, to the point where you stop reading anything and just click any upgrade because it barely matters.

Now, aside from the game — which I still gave a chance — the developer is an arrogant person who asks to be treated like a human being while not treating others that way himself. A lot of people complained because of this launch, but I think this was just the breaking point involving someone who does not listen to anyone and treats any criticism as a reason for a ban.

In the end, I was banned and removed from his communities after years of playing, participating in the Discord, having fun with the community, and buying every pack he loves to come up with just to drive the game further into the ground. All because of the fragile ego of a developer who cannot handle criticism.

In short: the game is well-made but boring, and the developer somehow manages to be worse than the game itself.