Time Idle RPG

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Time Idle RPG is a single player casual role playing game with fantasy and mystery themes. It was developed by Limited Input LLC and was released on September 11, 2023. It received negative reviews from players.

Idle RPG game that uses real life Time as the core mechanic and currency. Featuring offline progress, prestige, unfolding mechanics, trees, and much more!

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35%

Audience ScoreBased on 98 reviews

gameplay9 positive mentions

monetization3 negative mentions

Unique concept using real-world time as currency, offering deep and complex idle/incremental gameplay.
A large number of interconnected mechanics and upgrades provide depth and many hours of play for dedicated players.
Free to play with no mandatory upfront cost, offering a substantial experience for idle game enthusiasts willing to invest time.

User interface is confusing, cluttered, and poorly optimized for PC, making the game difficult to navigate and frustrating to play.
Numerous bugs and technical issues including freezes, broken mechanics, UI glitches, and lack of basic features like a proper exit button and window resizing.
Heavily reliant on microtransactions with a cash shop that can impact gameplay progression, coupled with a slow and tedious early game pacing.

gameplay
38 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The gameplay offers a complex web of interconnected idle mechanics and depth, including unique rebirth systems and strategic progression elements, but it is heavily hampered by a clunky, confusing UI, numerous bugs, and poor presentation that make understanding and engaging with the game frustrating and overwhelming. While some players appreciate its mechanical ambition and early exploration, the overall experience is weighed down by design flaws and usability issues that limit enjoyment.
- “The reset mechanic of this game is configured in a way that does not feel like grinding.”
- “It's one of those idle games where mechanics just constantly stack off each other and build up forever, numbers messing with numbers in a million different ways.”
- “There are many interconnected mechanics and using them properly is the key to rapid progress.”
- “The brainless gameplay is, unsurprisingly, accompanied with an equally low quality technical implementation and poor presentation, resulting in yet another horribly low quality shovelware game that might as well have been done in a web browser.”
- “Now, if you can endure the grating UI, love games with bugs that not only distract but actively inhibit gameplay (gotta love when the menus just don't load properly!), and picked this game up way back at its release, opened it, and promptly fell into a coma long enough to gain the requisite base currency, then... idk, I guess I'd say check it out.”
- “Unable to change where I'm fighting, can't do anything with the tree mechanic, unable to move variants off capture targets.”
monetization
3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The monetization in this game is heavily criticized for its aggressive and convoluted approach, presenting overwhelming complexity early on to push players toward costly microtransactions. Many users view it as a blatant and unsuccessful cash grab, detracting significantly from the overall experience.
- “Usually with these incrementers the premise is simple to start with and gets more complex over time to encourage you to feel like there's something more than "n = n + 1" going on... but here it's a wall of pointless complexity slammed at you on day #1 in the hopes it will trigger purchases in the toxic cash shop... a weird and failed way to run a cash grab, but cash grab is exactly what this trash heap was meant to be.”
- “As mentioned, this isn't really free as the game is infested with mobile app store like microtransactions.”
- “So suffice to say I've seen my fair share of jank, bad mechanics, terrible assets, cash grabs, and just... terrible, terrible games.”
graphics
3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The graphics are widely criticized for being outdated and among the worst on Steam, with minimal and messy visuals that contribute to a confusing UI. Despite the game's large scale and early development, modern standards in the genre highlight its lackluster presentation.
- “The graphics here are particularly awful, so bad that it actually stands out as one of the worst looking games on Steam.”
- “Now, Ngu was kind of the first game of such incredible scale and took many years to get there, so players easily forgave it for ugly visuals, lack of audio, meh tutorial etc. But now we are in a much more modern era of idlers where things like Idle Wizard, Rule the Gods, Heart of Galaxy, Leaf Blower exist, so there is no excuse for using old outdated mechanics.”
- “Visuals are minimal if not a mess; the UI can be very confusing.”
grinding
2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The game's reset mechanic minimizes the feeling of grinding, as progression is mainly limited by cooldowns rather than repetitive tasks, with most grinding occurring through the fighting mechanics.
music
2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100%
The music features a simple but effective mechanic with basic controls like a mute button, while the short music loop and accompanying sound effects are pleasantly enjoyable.
- “It's got an interesting mechanic and basic functions like a mute button, but also features cool music.”
- “The very short music loop and other sound effects are actually pretty pleasant.”
stability
2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The game's stability is problematic, with users reporting UI glitches and random freezes that can cause loss of progress. Overall, it suffers from frequent crashes affecting the gameplay experience.
- “Update: progressed further into the game and now it randomly freezes and causes loss of progress.”
- “Some UI glitches.”
story
1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100%
The story is not fully conveyed through the documentation and tips provided, leaving some aspects unclear to players.