Idle Iktah

I was looking for a nice, relaxing game where I could just click around and switch my brain off. Then I saw it was free and thought, "Why not?"
Turns out it's actually pretty fun. You basically just do whatever the game tells you, so you're kind of a very obedient monkey clicking on things all day.
My only complaint is that there's a lot of text. If you're in the mood to completely stop thinking, it can get a bit much.

Still, it's going on my "play when I'm retired and have way too much free time" list.

I CAN RECOMMEND THIS GAME TO MY FRIEND EVEN MY GRANDMA.

Mostly simple to follow, has decent offline and online playability. Does require some consideration or planning for storage. So you will catch yourself with a facepalm after you eat, sell, or destroy an item you need later on.

I am enjoying this a lot more than Melvor. It has its cons like unobvious UI and/or UX at times, but all in all a nice idle thing to sink your "extra" time into :)

Idk why, it works on my Linux build, but it's very slow. There's like a 2 second delay in clicking and moving from one screen to another. I'll try it on PC and Mac in a bit - hopefully there's cloud save. I just like running idle games in the background at work and revisiting them when I get home.

I first encountered Idle Iktah like a couple years ago as a mobile game. I played it for several months, doing basically everything the game had to offer, and then I uninstalled it, because I'd consumed all its content.

Upon seeing it here on Steam, I thought, "Yeah, I'd play that again." Listen. Listen: it was a mobile game I'd already played completely. And I liked it so much I decided to go ahead and just... play the whole everlasting grinding thing again. That's how good of an idle game it is.

There are a couple microtransactions present even here, but they're perfectly optional, like, your gameplay really doesn't suffer if you totally ignore them. Buying them just feels like getting a little bonus for telling the devs, "Hey, I liked your game," which imo is the best way for a transaction of this sort to be. Practically everything on the store page you can get just by playing the game.

And if you also played it as a mobile game, idk if my memory is just garbage and I forgot whole entire parts of the game (totally plausible because my memory is garbage) or if they added some new things, but it's probably worth a play again!