STE : Save The Earth

★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

It's hard to get a good feel of whether to recommend this game or not yet. Overall, I do like the idea behind this idle game. The classic issue with clickers is that you are pressured to use an autoclicker to help give you a boost. But in this game, manual income is achieved by running your mouse over enemy targets (with some occasional clicking for periodic enemies).

I've only used the reset/prestige factor once so far, but it does seem like the pace is pretty slow at first. Again, I don't know how the pace compares long term, but I would give the devs props for attempting an uncommon mechanic which nullifies autoclickers.

While I make this a negative recommendation, let me extrapolate and add in some of its good features.

The games is fairly retro pixel, and has a sound track that is easy on the ears, if you're into that sort of music. The game is fun for wasting away a bit of time each day, but beyond that is at the end of it not that different from a lot of other idle clicker games. The only thing with this one is that you pay once and don't get bothered by money grubbing offers to speed up your progress like with most free ones.

That said, why a negative?

Well, first and foremost, contrary to images on the store page... it's not like that at all anymore. Whether for the better or worse, hey... that's not for me to decide. Then there's claims for having a variety of builds to your approach to things and complexity... frankly, I've played a fair amount of games and clickers, and maybe it's just me but it's not any more complex in my eyes compared to plenty other free clicker games out there.

The only actual complexity that I found in this game was to figure out WHAT the options were in menus and WHERE to find them. Took me nearly a preliminary playthrough and puzzling over this ridiculous expertise system that needed medal pieces to finally realize there was a way to BUY yourself a higher military rank.

And speaking of... your 'build' options are just a bunch of 'expertises' that offer you on 4-5 separate levels option A or option B that offers a bonus one way or the other. Basically it comes down to ACTIVE vs IDLE play where it seems to me the A option is always for the more active approach, while the B is for the idle approach. Mind you, only idle WHILE the game is playing.

So, money wise, at least you don't spend a fortune trying to get anywhere and it's only for the purchase of a fun idle game to mess about with if you have some idle time to fill up and you just want some MINDLESS puttering about shooting aliens and whatnot. But to say they deliver as claimed... NO WAY!