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Idleon

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Idleon has to be the most intense spread sheet manager I've ever played. I've got so many chickens in the oven you'd think I was the head chef of a banquet hall. I've got so many irons in the fire that most of them have melted together. There's a lot to do in this surprisingly well-crafted web of relatively simple mechanics that all tie together into a singular, long and grindy, but nonetheless interesting experience. It took me a while to give this game a shot. I have a general interest in idle games and occasionally check what steam has for them. This is always near the top. But I can't remember exactly why I didn't pick it up or what prejudices I held against it. Well, that's all in the past now; I did pick it up and I rather like it. Idle games are a hard sell for a lot of people. "Why do I want to play a game that plays itself?" Well, I feel like that's hard to answer because there are a lot of angles to look at it with, but for this a...