- December 11, 2024
- Rauchen
- 50h median play time
Chonkers
Platforms
About
"Chonkers is a cozy idle game for cat lovers, where you welcome stray kittens into your home and watch them sleep to soothing lo-fi music. Play with them to help them level up, let them chonkify without health risks, and adopt rare galaxy wandering cats. When ready, give them away for a weight in gold, collecting over 100 breeds and 400 variants. A purr-fect game for relaxation and cat lovers."











- The game features adorable cats and a relaxing atmosphere, making it a great idle experience for cat lovers.
- Developers are responsive to feedback and actively implement updates to improve gameplay and balance.
- The game offers a charming collection mechanic with various cat breeds, including 'chonkers', which adds to the fun of collecting.
- Progression can be extremely slow, making it frustrating for players who prefer a more engaging idle experience.
- The game lacks meaningful interaction and depth, often feeling repetitive and limited in gameplay variety.
- There have been issues with lost progress and the game's pacing, which can detract from the overall enjoyment.
gameplay
24 mentions Positive Neutral NegativeThe gameplay of Chonkers is primarily an idle experience with gacha mechanics for collecting cats, featuring both clicker and passive progression elements. While the game has a charming theme and offers a straightforward gameplay loop, players find the pacing unbalanced and repetitive, leading to frustration in progression. Overall, the mechanics are simple and lack depth, making the gameplay feel primitive and reminiscent of mobile games.
“I am actually pretty okay with this gameplay loop.”
“There's gacha mechanics with collecting the cats with multiple tiers of rarity, and each cat can have the chonker modifier or the space modifier, which is like a shiny in Pokémon.”
“Chonkers is a mostly idle game with a gacha mechanic (with in-game currency, no real money involved) on how you acquire new cats (the best gacha I would say).”
“However, there is one achievement that seems counter-intuitive to the entire gameplay loop.”
“What little active gameplay there is to be had doesn't really scale with the lengthy growth time, costs, and passive income of later cats, which is kind of a shame.”
“Regardless of the dev's intent, the presentation of this + the boost items reeks of mobile game mechanics, and trying to bring that to the PC is shameful.”