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Galaxy idle

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68%Game Brain Score
graphics, gameplay
monetization, story
68% User Score Based on 914 reviews

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Galaxy idle is a single player strategy game. It received mostly positive reviews from players.

Arcade game where you will: Fight enemies, mine, upgrade, explore galaxies

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68%
Audience ScoreBased on 914 reviews
graphics22 positive mentions
monetization204 negative mentions
  • Fun and addictive gameplay with smooth controls and good graphics.
  • Rewarding upgrade system with a balanced difficulty progression.
  • Optional ads provide useful bonuses without forcing constant interruptions.
  • Game is very short with only two levels currently available and no progression beyond the second level.
  • Excessive and forced ads disrupt the gameplay experience; removing ads purchase does not fully eliminate ads.
  • Frequent bugs and freezing issues, including crashes and loss of progress, negatively affect playability.
  • monetization
    211 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    Monetization in the game is heavily criticized for its excessive and intrusive forced ads, often interrupting gameplay and requiring viewing to progress or unlock upgrades. Many players report that the "remove ads" purchase either only removes banner ads or fails to eliminate forced ads entirely, leading to frustration and dissatisfaction. While some optional ads offer rewards and are well-received, the overall ad frequency and poor implementation significantly detract from the experience.

    • “Paid for no ads and some tickets.”
    • “Fun game, monetization could be worse.”
    • “I don't mind paying for a game or no ads, but limits to rewards as a pay wall is not enjoyable.”
    • “Literally play for 20 seconds, then watch 3 ads each more than a minute... haven't even got past the first little area. You have to mine to buy upgrades until you get to level 5 but when you buy an upgrade, 3 or 4 light up green and you can't buy them without watching an ad. I'm already sick of it after almost an hour in and can't even get to combat.”
    • “The core game seems fine, and there are a fair number of optional ads, but there are also a large number of non-optional, non-skippable ads every few minutes or upgrades. These also tend to be ads that are several minutes long, so you end up with as much time in non-optional ads as in the game, and less if you use optional ads as well.”
    • “The 'remove ads' package did not remove all ads. I paid to remove ads, and it did nothing.”
  • graphics
    31 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    Overall, users consistently praise the game's graphics as good to excellent, highlighting smooth visuals and impressive design that enhance gameplay. While generally well-received, a few mention that shooting visuals could be improved. The graphics are considered a strong aspect contributing to an enjoyable experience.

    • “Gorgeous graphics, balanced difficulty level, and a ton of possible upgrades make for a fantastic game.”
    • “Good game, very smooth, great graphics, nice gradual increase in capacity and weapons, a bit of strategy and action, try it out, cheers.”
    • “Graphics are great and gameplay is awesome with great battles among ships and fighters.”
    • “A repetitive and shallow game, with so-so graphics and heavy ads.”
    • “Okay graphics, gameplay is okay.”
    • “Decent graphics for game type.”
  • gameplay
    29 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The gameplay is generally described as fun, simple, and engaging with good mechanics and pacing, often compared to arcade-style or adventure games. However, many users find it repetitive, shallow, and quite short, with upgrades feeling meaningless and limited overall content. Intrusive and frequent ads significantly detract from the experience, breaking immersion and slowing progress.

    • “But aside from no support contact, this is a really cool game with a simple and fun gameplay loop.”
    • “Smooth gameplay and visuals.”
    • “Really good game with good mechanics and good pacing.”
    • “It's a little bit basic gameplay-wise and upgrades feel largely meaningless.”
    • “Repetitive gameplay without story; most of it will be ad watching since normal progress is really sluggish, and it hounds you to give a rating too early.”
    • “Another shallow repeating loop game with mostly intrusive ads and not much as far as gameplay.”
  • story
    20 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The game lacks a substantial or complex story, primarily featuring repetitive quests and minimal narrative progression, which leads to a monotonous experience. Quest and mission design is limited and buggy, with forced ad viewing interfering with gameplay, and many players feel the game needs more content, meaningful objectives, and a clearer storyline to enhance engagement.

    • “Great little space mining game, excited to see if they add some originality around the upgrades and missions.”
    • “Maybe quests that involve specific galaxy areas to deal with a group of pirates.”
    • “Would be better if you could see the current amount of $ you have in the bank, see what quests are in text because it's unavailable, what goal number in quests are, can't see what level your ship is at, just missing a bunch of basic elements.”
    • “There is no story; you just go from the starting station to the ending jump gate, leveling up to progress.”
    • “Repetitive gameplay without story, most of it will be ads watching since normal progress is really sluggish, hounding you to give rating too early.”
    • “No story and only 2 levels.”
  • stability
    12 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The game suffers from frequent bugs and stability issues, including freezing after upgrades, glitches during long sessions, and problems progressing past certain points. Additionally, intrusive ads disrupt gameplay and some features remain incomplete or non-functional. While the core gameplay is enjoyable, these stability problems significantly detract from the overall experience.

    • “Works great, no glitches or issues.”
    • “Full of bugs and ads. The upgrades list partially disappears after a while. Often after watching ads, the game freezes. Upgrades don't provide benefits but still cost resources. The daily bonus timer jumped from 19 hours to over 109 hours. Bonuses are useless and last only 120 seconds, and long cutscenes cause time loss. Intrusive ads appear on top of reward ads, plus a permanent bottom banner with ads.”
    • “The game freezes for me sometimes after upgrading the ship. It seems to be a save problem because when I restart the game, my upgrades are undone.”
    • “It has bugs and freezes after you upgrade speed. It's so far the worst game ever. You can't even max out everything without it freezing, and you can't connect with Google Play to save your progress.”
  • grinding
    6 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    Grinding in the game is a core mechanic involving mining, selling, and upgrading your ship, which many find fun and rewarding initially. However, it can become repetitive and tedious over time, especially given the limited number of maps and endgame content. Overall, the grinding is somewhat grindy but adds to the game's appeal for those who enjoy progression through upgrades.

    • “For what it is simple fun it's a good game, grinding is grinding but upgrading the ship is fun; however, the game only has two maps so you won't be playing long, maxed ship out in a few days with nothing to do.”
    • “It can be a bit repetitive and tedious, and there are a lot of optional ads.”
    • “Lots of grinding to get upgraded.”
  • music
    3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    Users find the music repetitive and express frustration over the inability to disable or separately control music and sound effect volumes.

    • “Cannot turn off sound or music.”
    • “Want to control music and sound effect volumes separately.”
  • humor
    2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The humor in the game is noted as unique and enjoyable, adding a lighthearted touch that enhances the overall experience. Players appreciate the funny moments that arise, making interactions with other starships entertaining.

    • “It's good, unique, and funny at times, you'll learn to play give and take with the other starships.”
  • optimization
    2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The game suffers from poor optimization, causing mobile devices to overheat and potentially harm battery health. Being a Unity-based game, it continues the trend of suboptimal performance on mobile platforms.

    • “However, I don't recommend this game due to poor optimization; it overheats mobile phones.”
    • “Please note that this is a Unity game, which is notorious for poor optimization and can cause harm to mobile devices and/or batteries.”
  • replayability
    2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The game offers very limited replayability, with only two playable levels that can be completed quickly. Users feel it lacks long-term engagement and value, leading to disappointment after initial play.

    • “Way to rip people off having them pay for no ads or resources, then to find out only two levels are playable.”
    • “Played it out in one day, no replay value at this point.”
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Galaxy idle is a strategy game.

Galaxy idle is available on Phone, Tablet, Android and Mobile Platform.

On average players spend around 2 hours playing Galaxy idle.

Galaxy idle was developed by Yso Corp.

Galaxy idle has received mostly positive reviews from players. Most players liked this game for its graphics but disliked it for its monetization.

Galaxy idle is a single player game.

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