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Mushroom Clicker

Wizard Shrimp Games' Mushroom Clicker casts players as a novice Mushroom Wizard harvesting fungi and hiring creature helpers across an idle-incremental mode and a tower-defense-style Fungal Forces mode, earning a Very Positive reception for its cute art, relaxing soundtrack and chill pace, tempered by a repeated complaint that its mechanics don't do much new within an already crowded genre.

6.5 / 10

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Mushroom Nook

A cosy desktop-companion idler about collecting and growing nearly 200 species of mushrooms, praised for its charming pixel art and relaxing pace but held back by a genuinely confusing interface.

6.5 / 10

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Mushroom Simulator Co-op

A tiny, chaotic co-op party game from Nimble Starship where you play a mushroom growing by yelling into your microphone while dodging worms and a basket-wielding forager, Very Positive across 115 reviews for its short, funny sessions with friends — held back by a genuine microphone-calibration bug that leaves some players unable to progress.

6.5 / 10

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My Idle Space Cruiser

A solo-developed desktop-widget idler about a cruiser flying to the edge of the observable universe, whose own review sample splits cleanly between players who find its honesty about being small genuinely relaxing and one who calls three total upgrades "barely a thing."

6.5 / 10

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My Idle Witch

A cozy desktop-pet witch who brews and sells potions in the corner of your screen while doubling as a genuinely useful Pomodoro timer — let down only by an economy that runs out of things to spend on far too soon.

6.5 / 10

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My Little Spider

A NZ$7.39 desktop-companion idle game about a pet spider that catches real, correctly-drawn insect species on a transparent overlay web while you work or study, praised repeatedly and unusually specifically as accidental arachnophobia therapy, but held back by missing Steam Cloud support, no Linux transparency, and a distracting sell-your-bugs interruption loop several reviewers say undermines true idle passivity.

6.5 / 10

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NetDive

A NZ$4.49 action-incremental "shapes game" about an AI learning what makes a human human, praised for a genuinely affecting late-game story delivered through text logs and an easily-missed epilogue, but flagged by one detailed reviewer for a specific piece of in-game archive text they argue trivializes real-world war by comparing it to a technical error.

6.5 / 10

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No-brainer Heroes 挂机吧!勇者

A 2019 semi-idle party RPG that most of its audience genuinely likes — except the small, verifiable slice of English-speaking buyers who kept hitting the same unresolved one-minute crash bug for five straight years, on a game whose developer stopped posting updates in 2021.

6.5 / 10

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Northeast Past (东北往事)

A live-action FMV branching drama adapting a beloved 2012 Chinese gangster TV series into an interactive underworld epic, delivering strong voice acting and genuinely tense action for newcomers, though longtime fans of the original show say the condensed adaptation shortchanges a key character and lands a disappointingly incomplete ending.

6.5 / 10

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Not Monday Cafe

A cozy idle cafe-and-farm widget game designed to sit at the bottom of your screen while you work, praised by most of its 605-review corpus as one of the cutest idlers around — undercut for a vocal minority by a genuinely broken pathfinding AI, heavy resource use, and a front-loaded pacing curve that leaves late-game players with nothing to do but wait.

6.5 / 10

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Operation: Outbreak Idle

A zombie-themed idle tower-defense game from DeadLogics about a single automated cannon fending off endless undead waves while players chase ever-bigger upgrades, earning a Positive launch reception for its addictive, low-effort progression loop, tempered by honest reviewer complaints about missing day-one content, clumsy UI, and a mismatch between marketing and its actual genre.

6.5 / 10

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Ore & Odds

A NZ$7.99 mining incremental that puts a slot machine in the middle of its progression loop, then declines to say clearly what a bad spin actually costs you — a genuinely interesting hook, undercut by how little the game or its early reception have yet proven about it.

6.5 / 10

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Paragon Pioneers

A solo developer's charming Anno-flavoured idle colony builder with a small but genuinely devoted Steam following -- reviewed here from every available English review rather than a sample, given how small that following is.

6.5 / 10

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Party Animals

A genuinely fun physics-based brawler undermined by an offline/local-play promise the developer confirmed it never intended to keep, gacha-style loot mechanics in a paid game, and a regional split so sharp English reviews sit at 89% positive while Simplified Chinese sits at 67%.

6.5 / 10

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PegIdle

A pachinko-flavoured idle game that nails its dopamine-hit opening hours before settling into flat, number-only late-game pacing, and whose most-upvoted complaint is a save system that could erase everything on a crash.

6.5 / 10

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Perfume Atelier

A cozy perfume-crafting sim where you grow your own ingredients, distil and blend essences, and sell bottled scents and candles to a parade of regular customers, with a satisfying core loop that outlasts its thin, RNG-heavy endgame.

6.5 / 10

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Placid Plastic Duck Simulator

A deliberately zero-stakes "watch rubber ducks float" relaxation toy that became a genuine viral hit and grew into a real cross-platform merchandising franchise, undercut by an unusually high GPU-usage bug that never fully went away and a paid-DLC-per-achievement model that expanded to ten separate purchases over four years.

6.5 / 10

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POPUCOM

A wonderfully creative, Splatoon-and-It-Takes-Two-flavoured co-op match-three puzzle-platformer from Hypergryph, whose Very Positive score coexists with an extraordinarily well-documented, months-unresolved netcode problem that spikes online ping to 999ms and freezes players out of boss fights entirely.

6.5 / 10

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Professor Simulator: Desktop Lab

A genuinely novel desktop idle sim that swaps the usual farm or factory setting for a satirical academic research lab, delivering a relaxing, motivating background companion undercut by an overwhelming early learning curve, incomplete localization, and at least one reported save-loss bug.

6.5 / 10

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