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. 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. 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.
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