Idle Research: Endless Tycoon

CryptoGrounds Games LLC

Contains adsIn-app purchases

About this game

Idle Research is an addictive resource management & incremental game with both idle and active playstyles.

Harvest energy in your lab. Spend it to research new tech, craft flasks, & unlock tons of upgrades to earn even more energy. Sit back & watch the numbers grow!

Manage resources to make sure your supply line runs as efficiently as possible. Use strategy to decide where to allocate your energy for maximum income.

Idle Research is the most satisfying incremental game with lots of fun things to do!

FEATURES
• Cute Art - Lots of colorful and fun items to unlock!
• Massive Numbers - Start small & watch your output grow exponentially!
• Endless Content - Tons of tech to research, upgrades to unlock, & enemies to beat. You’ll never reach the end!
• Nonstop Production - Keep harvesting energy, even when offline or afk!
• Modern UI - A very simplistic, minimalistic, beautiful, and colorful UI that's pleasing to look at!
• Cloud Saving - Transfer your saves to any device with just one login!
• Made With Love❤️ - This game is being worked on by a solo indie developer who is very passionate!

CONTENT
⚗️ Research - Research and unlock up to 18 different and colorful items!
🔨 Crafting - Craft items that unlock tons of features and make numbers grow!
⏩ Accelerators - Speed up the game with up to 62 different accelerators!
⚙️ Automation - Tons of ways to automate the game and let it play for you!
🏆 Mastery - Improve your research speed by mastering your items!
🔄 Prestige - Reset some aspects of the game to speed things up even more!
⚔️ Adventure - Fight enemies in 7 different zones and infinite stages!
🤹 Skilling - Access up to 70 different skills that boost tons of stuff!
🧪 Potions - Brew up to 12 different potions with the potion maker!
⚡️ Simulations - Start simulations for your adventure zones and earn fragments! Buy up to 17 different upgrades!

Incremental Mechanics
Start as an amateur chemist making flasks one-by-one in your lab. As you progress & level up your facility, you’ll find your output growing exponentially.

The Idle Clicker with Tons of Strategy
Exercise your decision making & management skills to choose where to allocate resources for maximum efficiency.

Become a Chemistry Tycoon
Unleash your inner capitalist, grow your lab into a huge factory that produces energy like no one’s business.

Grab your goggles, head to the lab and get ready to harvest all the energy the world has to offer. Play Idle Research today for FREE!!

Ratings and reviews

I wish I could love this game. It was fun until I hit the point where the only way to advance is the diamonds. Unfortunately the way to get diamonds is the solitaire game. I usually love solitaire. But this is the original where win rate is ~25% with no undo. And there seems to be a lovely bug where it just gives the unwinnable games back to back for an extended period, e.g. board is all 5's and 7's and deck doesn't have a single 6 or A-4. Once you complete flasks stop and uninstall the game.

It looks complicated with all the cluttered UX but it's fairly straightforward. There's a lot of IAP but, trust me, they're completely unnecessary. You can watch ads to boost productivity, but those aren't necessary either. It is genuinely well balanced for F2P players. Biggest con: its unfinished. There's nothing to do after dark tubes. Otherwise, I recommend. I look forward to future updates.

This is an okay idle game with reasonable IAP. However, I stopped playing due to a variety of issues. Firstly, the UI/UX is unpleasant: text ranges from tiny to huge, the game forces landscape mode, and in general the navigation between tabs is clunky and awkward. Second, there's too much going on with very little explanation of what is even happening. I found myself only opening it for the solitaire mini game, at which point I decided to just install a solitaire game and give up on this one.

What's new

v0.21.7 Patch notes in-game!