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Value is in the wallet of the beholder and all that. Considering you could buy a whole stack of indie games or a big release or two for that price it seems a bit steep then again, I guess it would also cover a single spaceship (or part thereof) in Star Citizen. The “$100 worth” of bonus stuff from the Epic Store consisted of some extra characters and familiars (creatures that automatically click things for you, in case things weren’t idle enough) and a whole bunch of chests. They can be particularly dangerous for inflicting existential dread over the entire point of games, or at least certain mechanics within games, as demonstrated by Cow Clicker back in the day, especially when combined with monetisation. Previous idle games have seized that compulsion to Make Numbers Go Up but not lasted terribly long, after a while of Making Numbers Go Up to unlock things to Make Numbers Go Up Some More they get a bit hollow. It’s the gacha-type progress that’s more of a hook, heroes to unlock, gear of increasing rarity to equip them with, assorted consumables to consume.

In the process of all that they’d got a bit lost, and found themselves slap bang in the middle of bandit territory again…” As you’re not even watching the screen much of the time it’s a bit of a moot point anyway. Barely had the words left his mouth when a pack of snarling wolves attacked, and Drizzt and his companions were forced to defend themselves until they had slain 25 of them. “Phew” said Drizzt after they’d finished off all the bandits “I’m glad this next bit of the forest is bandit-free”. In a radical twist then they had to collect 10 McGuffins for Reasons coincidentally one in every two and a half bandits were carrying them so they ended up killing 25 of them in the process, what are the chances? Then there was a Bandit Boss, and several more waves of 25 bandits. An RA Salvatore tie-in novel would go something like “Drizzt and his companions set off to find the stolen sceptre but were beset by bandits and had to kill 25 of them, then another 25 of them, then 25 more. The adventures you embark on in Idle Champions do have a story, but heavily suborned to the mechanics, not something you’re eagerly following for the plot. Eventually you hit a wall where you’re making no impact on the mobs, so you finish that run, then start another one with some bonuses to take you further. Perfect for leaving in the background while, say, writing a blog post about it. You just need to alt-tab over now and again to level everyone up, perhaps adjust the formation, kick off some special powers if you’re feeling terribly interactive. Once you’ve worked all that out, though, you can pretty much leave them to it.

There’s a bit of a puzzle working out optimal party composition and positioning one character buffs anyone adjacent to them, another the column in front, another grants different benefits depending on their position in the formation. If nothing else players should end up with a solid understanding of orders of magnitude and such. Numbers Go Up to such an extent that I was struggling with the notation million, billion, trillion, not a problem octillion and nonillion, bit more unusual Qd… Quattuordecillion? OK, that’s why there’s the option for scientific notation. I’m a sucker for Making Numbers Go Up, and Idle Champions is pure, concentrated essence of Making Numbers Go Up.

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The base game is free to play, but Epic were handing out some bonus loot who am I to look some gift loot in the mouth?

Until it was the free giveaway on the Epic Store. It didn’t spur me to go and get Idle Champions, though, I had no great interest in the game. Searching the blog it turns out it was CivClicker in a weirdly ironic meta-twist the reference was in a blog post about searching the blog to remind myself what I thought of previous games. Reading the article reminded me of dabbling in previous idle/incremental games: Fallout Shelter, a Westworld game so similar to Fallout Shelter there was a lawsuit, a silly monster-clicker thing Steam put out for the 2015 summer sale, Cookie Clicker, back to one I played years ago but couldn’t remember the name of.

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PC Gamer on Twitter had put out a link to an old story and my interest was piqued by the mention of Progress Quest (plus a fondness for the Forgotten Realms). Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms has been out for a few years now but hadn’t been on my radar until a month or so back.