Earth Inc. Tycoon Idle Miner 9+

When I first got this game, it was because my cousin had it and told me it was fun and that he thought I would like it. I didn’t expect much, mostly because it’s a mobile game and they normally aren’t the best, but what do I know, right? So I download the game and start playing. This was around a year and a half ago, so it was originally harder to move to more planets once you got to like the 5-6 planet. And you couldn’t move to a different galaxy without having to have a bunch and a bunch of money. So I didn’t play it much. But now that this new update came out where you can move to a new galaxy when you reach level 300, it is the best mobile game I have ever heard of. I would sit in my room playing this game for hours straight. There aren’t adds unless you want more money, which isn’t at all necessary to have fun, so there really aren’t any adds. It also is somewhat educational because it teaches kids how to spend money wisely. Love this game and appreciate whoever made it.

After around the “oa” coin range, it becomes very difficult to progress further. The costs of upgrades scale up at a faster rate than the damage rate increases in an exponential difficulty curve, whereas other ways to increase income or damage (like Supervisor levels, Galaxy Brains, and Epic upgrades) have diminishing returns and/or become increasingly difficult to gain. It doesn’t matter how much real money you spend. You’ll eventually get stuck because the balancing (exponential difficulty curve compared to sub-exponential permanent bonuses growth) is off, yet there are achievements for mine level 50k (the wall is around 45k, if not slightly before) and two more after that.

The developer(s) should release an update to rescale the late-game progression curve, such as by making each mine level after 40,000 multiply the number of available Galaxy Brains by 1.001 (this would be a good start, but not necessarily a perfect solution). It’s a very common design flaw in mobile incremental games for there to be a soft wall as described above due to the aforementioned mathematical reasons. I’ll still give the game four stars because this is literally the only issue I’ve encountered. Great game otherwise.

A few years back, me and my friends(and even my family) all played virtual beggar a ton and competed to see who could max out everything first. It was really fun, and then a few years later, I see this game. I decide it looks interesting and download it. It was fun and I couldn’t stop playing it. But only a few minutes into it I realized it had a lot of similarities to one of my all time favorites: virtual beggar. As I kept playing, I saw more and more similarities until I decide to look at the AppStore to see who made this game. And sure enough, it was the same people who made virtual beggar.

I’ve been playing this game for a while and I’ve got many great things to say about it. It’s super simple and fun, NO REQUIRED ADS. Most of the ads are optional and are just there if you want extra gold. I love how the game captures a similar comedy profile as virtual beggar.

Final thoughts: Great game worth playing and not a waste of time.