To the Stars Idle (2025)

Developer: Denys Osypenko
Platforms: Windows
Genres: Simulation, Strategy
Rating: 3.9 of 5, 9 player ratings
Typical playtime: about 4.8 hours
Where to get it: Steam

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How it feels

A slow, methodical progression game where you carefully manage resources and technologies to advance a tribe through the ages.

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What players say

Players describe it as a puzzle incremental rather than a pure idle game, where exponential costs force careful resource balancing and overproduction is penalized. Many praise the addictive loop but strongly criticize the UI as terrible and hard to navigate. Some say the game was released and immediately abandoned with no updates or patches.

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