Clicker Games Click-All

If you haven't fired up Cell to Singularity in a while, there's a Philosophy event going on for the next few days.

I've been playing Cells over the last week, and I'm definitely hitting a wall in a bunch of the games where progress has slowed way down. I've also been messing around with Leaf Blower Sim, but the UI is pretty gnarly on Android.

After playing Leaf Blower for a few weeks now it is brutally obvious how the Cells to Singularity progress curve is tuned to strongly encourage watching ads to progress.

For their special events you might hit one or two of the tiers by checking in once or twice a day, but you won't even get close to the last tiers unless you've watched some ads or purchase doublers.

Between Knittens (via Netflix), Leaf Blower, and the Kairosoft games I might go hardcore 'no ads in games' again for a while.

If one were looking for a simple clicker game with no super complicated optimization loops to try to figure out, where would I start? I am looking for something similar to Cookie Clicker before the programmer put in the heavenly chips minigames things.

Universal Paperclips is probably a decent one to start with. It's been a while since I've played it, but I recall it being actually beatable in a (long) sitting or two. And yes, it has a definite end, unlike many clicker games.

Spaceplan, as well.

I've got the cards unlocked in NGU now

Ted wrote:

Spaceplan, as well.

Spaceplan for sure. Love it.

Mixolyde wrote:
Ted wrote:

Spaceplan, as well.

Spaceplan for sure. Love it.

I had credits so I got this on Android. Powered through it in a few hours and rolled credits and then.... Huh. After playing with Leaf Blower for the past few weeks and just now unlocking the Mega Leaf Crunch I feel like either I'm missing some features or the experience I paid for whiffed past me.

Rezzy wrote:
Mixolyde wrote:
Ted wrote:

Spaceplan, as well.

Spaceplan for sure. Love it.

I had credits so I got this on Android. Powered through it in a few hours and rolled credits and then.... Huh. After playing with Leaf Blower for the past few weeks and just now unlocking the Mega Leaf Crunch I feel like either I'm missing some features or the experience I paid for whiffed past me.

I also was a little underwhelmed by Spaceplan. I did love the 2001 inspired ending though.

Orb of Creation, yo! It's five dollars on Steam. No secondary monetization. You're a wizard and you research wizard stuff and make numbers go up.

It's got lots and lots of interacting systems to puzzle through.

polq37 wrote:

It's got lots and lots of interacting systems to puzzle through.

I played the free web version for a while, and after unlocking rituals just kind of stopped.

After spending a few paragraphs expounding on specifics (that started sounding whiny even to him) Rezzy decided that upon reflection his lack of enthusiasm stemmed from two main things:

The interface doesn't scale on the web version.
Advancements didn't feel impactful.

I still have the shortcut and it is still on my Steam Wishlist. Might chip away at this again when I'm in a different headspace.

Re: Leaf Blower Revolution.
Brute Force without spending much of any time optimizing or figuring out actual requirements and goals of specific runs I am on my second Mega Leaf Crunch.
This game really penalizes* players that don't read through and evaluate all the store options before spending coins.
I spent a good week treading water, not realizing (or caring) that nothing I was doing was actually improving the conditions for my next reset. There's something I find satisfying about all my ALBs swarming the screen and yeeting leafs at hapless critters.

*by making them play more

Yeah, I think I stopped playing the web version of Orb of Creation probably a bit past that point. It's cute and has some unique-for-an-idle-game mechanics, which I like. It just didn't hold my attention though.

Leaf Blower Revolution has held my attention.

Rezzy wrote:

This game really penalizes* players that don't read through and evaluate all the store options before spending coins.

If it makes you feel any better, you will eventually be Scrooge McDucking in Coins, BLCs, MLCs, and Gems. It's definitely worth spending a few minutes deciding which of those early purchases to make, though.

My current gate is in

Spoiler:

The Pyramid. I've beaten up through level -95, but it's taking tons of time gathering resources to ramp up my damage output for -100.

Well, I made it past that gate (barely) and immediately hit the next gate. Thankfully this one's very straightforward - just need to idle for a while.

Spoiler:

I need 250 shards to get through the black hole.

The Juicy Queenbeet is a lie.

I'm still petering along on leaf blower, but I have no idea how to proceed at the pyramid. Progressing in it seems to require tons of three currencies (borbs, cheese, beer), but there doesn't seem to be a way of automating any of them, or of increasing how quickly they accrue.

Am I missing something with one of the nineteen apparently irrelevant modes and mechanics that are floating around? Crafting, the pub, alchemy, items, cards, curses, chests, materials, artifacts... I poked around but none of them seems to materially affect anything much.

I made the mistake of burning through a giant stash of cheese and beer while playing with crafting, so now I'm looking at the same problem. I'm guessing the bartender missions are the quickest option. Juice up material gains, buy the 50 of every material per day boost, and grind through a few +250ish beer quests. Blorb harvesting seems to only work manually unless I'm missing something.

Is the card mechanic new or did I just miss it this whole time?

I did a lot of Pub missions for cheese and beer to start, but that gets extremely tiring pretty quick. The secret better way is:

Spoiler:

Trading. Yeah, trading. The thing that you can't possibly imagine would ever be viable, because the trades for cheese and beer are tiny, and the trades take forever to complete, right? Well let me tell you, I can trade for millions of cheese and beer every couple of minutes. The secret to make that work:

Spoiler:

Crafting. Make the highest-tier leaves you can, and reroll properties looking for Trade Global Multiplier. Stack those up. Also try to level up those leaves to 30, and then eventually you'll want to ascend them and level them up again. Also use Bearo to automate trading so you don't have to click stuff all the time, and Penguino to reduce the trade times. And Butterflyo to make Bearo and Penguino better. There are other shop purchases you'll want, to make trading better too - I can go into more detail if you want.

Rezzy wrote:

Is the card mechanic new or did I just miss it this whole time?

The cards were added in a release a few days ago.

Eleima wrote:

The Juicy Queenbeet is a lie.

I just got my first one, although I haven't tried a ton until the last week or so.
I had been planning on trying to save scum it, but it just showed up by itself while I was waiting for everything to mature.

Phishposer wrote:
Eleima wrote:

The Juicy Queenbeet is a lie.

I just got my first one, although I haven't tried a ton until the last week or so.
I had been planning on trying to save scum it, but it just showed up by itself while I was waiting for everything to mature.

I'm not in this post and I don't like it.

I might have to resort to save scumming, but I ... ugh.

Cell to Singularity has a new event based on mass extinctions. It has some interesting mechanics.

So, I'm in the pyramid of Leaf Blower.

I wanted to confirm if I noticed something : It is better to idle in the pyramid for its chests, then going offline for the MLC/BLC coins ?

Manach wrote:

So, I'm in the pyramid of Leaf Blower.

I wanted to confirm if I noticed something : It is better to idle in the pyramid for its chests, then going offline for the MLC/BLC coins ?

Yup, sounds about right, for you right now anyway. I've gotten to the point where I actually do need to leave it running for days.

Still in Leaf Blower :

I upgraded "Advanced Trading Education" in MLC by, which I consider as, mistake for 2 levels.

I use trading for Gems, and it ask between 1e15 to 1e24 ressources, even potions. I can't get more then 1e13 potions.

Maybe I'm not setup to produce enough potion ? My leaves, the tradable ones, are at 1e110 each.

Anyone might have a pointer to gain more potions ? Or that number seems normal ?

Thanks.

Yeah, potions are a lot harder to come by, until you have the max amount. And the "Advanced Trading Education" can be a bit of a dangerous purchase, for exactly the reason you discovered; I discovered it the hard way too.

1) Set up as much of a Global Trade Multiplier % as you can get.
2) Use Bearo, Butterflyo, and Penguino - and upgrade them to level 10 to get the additional boosts.
3) Upgrade the Pet Leaf and Water Leaf (uniques) to level 10 to get their additional boosts.
4) Use Pet Scroll, Seed Scroll, Unique Leaves Scroll for their boosts. Look into setting up a temporary card set that boosts scroll durations as high as possible before using those scrolls, then switch back over to your trading set.
5) "Better Pets" and "Better Unique Leaves" in the gem shop also help.

With all of the above, you should be able to complete trades every 3 minutes or so. Then you teleport to an area that generates lots of seeds, and wait. Increase the mulch "Trading Optimization" and "Mulched Trade Caps" when possible. Don't forget to buy "Bigger Bag" BLC upgrades to increase the max number of each leaf type you can hold - that'll help with some of the larger trade amounts. Also spend some time in the pyramid to get chests, which you can open for big leaf rewards, to help with trades.

You all are terrible people. Why am I even playing Leaf Blower Revolution? I'm super hooked on this now and I don't know why

It's great, but I'm now at the point where I'm not sure the 'best' way to advance. So I'm just brute forcing while taking detours into the challenges.

Welp, there's $5.99 spent because, I STILL DON'T KNOW. This game is stupid addicting. I was super excited to get home and play Plague Tale: Requim. What do I do? Load up leaf blower revolution, decide I don't want to lose my items when I ascend as well as getting some bonuses to those ascension coins and leafs.

YOU PEOPLE ARE THE WORST!!! I CAN'T STOP PLAYING LEAF BLOWER REVOLUTION! grumble grumble grumble

You're welcome.