ExoMiner - Idle Miner Universe

2024 UPDATE: i’m not sure if they updated the lower levels, but today, on level 1,956, i got a new quest that i have never seen before (up till now, every quest is repeated every 20 levels, just higher amounts). “construct 196 ion rocket engines”. for me, first new quest ever. this is just a fun idle game that works even without any cel service or wifi. UPDATE: I’m not sure if they fixed the lower levels, but after level 300, the 16th quest is no longer the impossible one. You can get to the “end game” without spending a single dime. A fun game at the start. A HORRIBLE endgame. The 16th “rank” quest is always “upgrade 1 transport speed to level ___” (at rank 20, you go to another planet and “reset”) my quest is now “to level 190”. The problem is that it literally is impossible without spending a MASSIVE amount of relics to upgrade the transport speed (or anything for that matter) above level 160. The game “ends” with the last mine having zypher. I have opened every crate and spent every relic (only spend relics on legendary crates, and only spend them when you can’t finish the 16th quest without them) and the “resource deposit #40” is only at level 59. To level it up one just more time to level 60 will take a total of 238 HOURS. And that will bump up production just a tiny bit. “Resource deposit #1” is the cheapest mine to upgrade. Through spending every relic on legendary crates (they give the best return BY FAR on spending relics) I got the transport speed to level 180. To get it to 181 will take over 650 hours (and I have “steel” at 40x mining speed, transport speed and mining capacity) and OVER 4 YEARS to get the “cheapest” transport speed to level 190. Yeah… GAME OVER

I absolutely adore this game. The pace is perfect, you can jump ahead a bit if able.. it has all the features I want in an idle game. As of now, I do have one suggestion: upon watching an ad to gain idle time, the extra idle time should be used last. For example, you have 2 hours base idle time. If you gain 2 more hours, you have 4 hours of idle time. If you leave the game for 30 minutes, it should be only removed from the base idle time, and should regenerate to be used again. This way, you can stack your idle time (the way I know we all are) and you won't be running out as fast if you still have time to check on the game. Otherwise, I don't have anything else to say about it, and that's about the only thing I can nitpick so far! As far as I can tell, this game was released less than a year ago. I'm not sure how long it was in the works previous to it's release, but I do know this is more than I expected from an idle game that's been out less than a year. Definitely recommend.

For starters, I really love the art style; I think the devs absolutely hit it out of the park with the apps aesthetic. As far as gameplay, it’s a decent enough idle game. The progression is not bad and there’s a fair bit of craft-able items in the game so you’re constantly unlocking new things to make. However, what really breaks the game is that the reward system is completely broken at the moment. One of the main aspects of idle games is being able to watch ads for small amounts of resources that you can spend to level up. And while this game did have that system, after an hour of playing the ad button disappeared and now it’s going on four days without it ever reappearing, which means that I’ve lost out on four days worth of resources I could have used to level up my refiner and constructors, so now they are severely under leveled. Idle games are all about exponential growth and going just four days without rewards to level up the refiner and constructor has made the game basically unplayable. You do have the option of paying for the resources of course, but $5 for one level up worth of resources is a laughably bad deal. Over all it’s a decent game, with a lovely art style. If they fixed the reward system, it would sit at a 4 or 5, but the current game state and bugs make the game basically unplayable. I’d skip out on it and maybe check back after a few updates.