Melvor Idle

Been playing for 3 years now. Figured I should probably leave a review. I’ve bought and have countless hours in each expansion, with every skill maxed to 120. There’s no other idle game quite like this. You can really play however you want. Those familiar with runescape can see this as a pocket Ironman mode of the game. Solo play, with the allowance for mods which are conveniently located on the app so you don’t have to deal with any third party external downloading. Game shares 90% of its identity with OSRS while taking some of the nicer concepts from RS3, like the summoning and archaeology skills. Honestly this is the game that made me quit RuneScape and take back my life. It scratches the itch of “number go up” dopamine hits, without having to click for 14 hours straight. As I mentioned earlier, with the mods you can make your game as active or as idle as you want too. I like to feel like I can play actively so I got a “speed up while online” mod set to 2x speed as if I was tick manipulating while the game is open on my phone. If being idle is your speed there are mods to let you do away with the offline cap of 24 hours. Close the game for a week and your character will still be grinding those trees. Honestly, coolest game ever. It’s truly massive. The biggest and most complex (in a good way) idle game I’ve ever played. Recommend paying the couple bucks to unlock the demo for sure

So I got this game a while back, loved playing it. Reminded me of RuneScape a lot which I think is the point. Easy to understand and go about it as an idle game. All skills were open and no restrictions. However, when I opened it up today I noticed there is now a pay wall to most of the content. So all the work I put into skills are now blocked, some even maxed out but now unless I pay 10$ I can’t even view it. Of combat skills you can use only 4 of the 8. Attack, Strength, Defense, and Hitpoints. The blocked skills are ranged, magic, prayer, and slayer. These skills provide a lot of flexibility to combat and can make fights easier or more rewarding. Plus slayer unlocked new areas for you to fight in for better loot so it knocks out 14 additional zones you could choose from. For non-combat skills you can only use 6 of the 16: woodcutting,fishing,fire making,cooking, mining,and smithing. Locked skills are :thieving, farming, fletching, crafting, rune crafting, herblore, agility, summoning, astrology, and magic. I’m very frustrated with what was a great concept being turned into a paywall that blocks me from all progress I had made before the paywalls introduction. I’ll give it 2 stars for how I loved it in the past. But steer clear of this app unless you want to chip out 10$ just to play an idle game. Edit: my review isn’t showing up.

Everything about this idle game is amazing. If you enjoy RuneScape-style, single-skill training games where they all eventually play important roles with each other, then I guarantee that this is the idle game for you. Been playing it for just over a week and it has been incredibly rewarding. It’s been the kind of thing I can run in the back ground for 2 days and then micro-manage after that when I’ve done enough grinding of a certain resource. My one and only complaint is with the Herblore skill. It’s such a powerful skill that ties almost directly into farming (with some necessary inclusion of combat) but it’s incredibly hard to get enough seeds to make some proper potions and get the ball rolling. I mean the chance to get herb seeds needed for the 2nd or 3rd tier potions is pretty low and takes a long while to accrue enough. There are of course alternate options like pickpocketing the farmer, but I would just like to see some love put in to the drop rates of seeds. But that’s literally it, I love everything else about this game down to the details on the icons of skills and monsters. Truly a top-tier game.