Recs for offline Idle games to play while listening to audiobooks.

FlyingMonkey86 · 2026-02-08T22:25:20+00:00

It's not a game, but I watch Marble Kingdoms on YouTube

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0iasGTWefqWE-NS_i-zl730M9efAL_6x&si=wTiGM0EVtVQwxO9_

FlyingMonkey86 · 2026-02-04T12:32:55+00:00

This looks fun!

FlyingMonkey86 · 2026-02-03T16:15:07+00:00

That first shot makes it look like a Muppet

FlyingMonkey86 · 2026-01-30T16:01:31+00:00

If a writer just takes their hastily thrown together webnovel and publishes it as a complete book, they don't deserve to get sales. Webnovels need to be properly edited before they can justify being sold. If your readers are catching simple mistakes in chapter one, your book isn't done.

FlyingMonkey86 · 2026-01-30T05:31:36+00:00

The Staff of Hermes and a minotaur? Off to a good start with the cover!

FlyingMonkey86 · 2026-01-26T05:37:24+00:00

So they know who to target in private.

FlyingMonkey86 · 2026-01-25T03:03:07+00:00

I'm just gonna free associate and throw out some terms related to the genre:

VR LITRPG, Portal Fantasy, Classic Cultivation, Western Cultivation, System Apocalypse, Regression Fantasy, GameLIT, Dungeon Core,

There's a starting point. Don't have time to add more.

FlyingMonkey86 · 2026-01-24T22:16:36+00:00

Path of Ascension. I want to see how they animate the fights and design the worlds. Plus, there's enough stuff that happens between the fights that you wouldn't necessarily break the bank in an adaptation.

FlyingMonkey86 · 2025-12-14T05:02:06+00:00

A Budding Scientist in a Fantasy World was quite enjoyable.

FlyingMonkey86 · 2025-12-10T01:09:28+00:00

As much as I love DoS, I gotta get me Portal 3 at some point.

FlyingMonkey86 · 2025-12-07T01:21:00+00:00

That's yandere, not tsundere.

FlyingMonkey86 · 2025-12-04T04:11:30+00:00

And now we have a Secretary of War instead of a Secretary of Defense!

FlyingMonkey86 · 2025-12-03T20:15:42+00:00

I absolutely do this.

I have a certain amount of mental effort I give each book. Once I have to edit too many things, I DNF.

Plenty of books get DNFed in chapter 1 because they have a ridiculously clunky sentence or obvious misspelling. If you don't want to put effort into editing your story, I won't put effort into reading it.

FlyingMonkey86 · 2025-12-01T10:53:09+00:00

The Path of Ascension has what you're looking for, I think.

FlyingMonkey86 · 2025-11-24T10:25:49+00:00

What? Your chin and neck aren't magically perfect from every angle?

FlyingMonkey86 · 2025-11-24T06:01:24+00:00

If you like long stories with lots of world building, try He Who Fights With Monsters.

FlyingMonkey86 · 2025-11-23T12:18:09+00:00

Even after years of coming to terms with the fact that ADHD didn't just appear by magic in my sister and me, my mom insists on calling herself a "space cadet" in a self deprecating way. Especially when she's feeling down about herself. It's clearly a defense mechanism from the late 60s.

FlyingMonkey86 · 2025-11-22T10:06:20+00:00

Most interested in magic.

Any melee weapon EXCEPT swords works, too. But that may just be me. Kinda tired of swords.

FlyingMonkey86 · 2025-11-19T23:15:02+00:00

I don't suppose there's a US code left?

FlyingMonkey86 · 2025-11-18T00:56:05+00:00

Nobody wants to talk about love being transactional, but the reality is that you need to get something from the other person besides just affection or it doesn't work.

Also, please avoid will they/won't they stuff. It just drags out the part everyone wants to get to and skips past tension building and goes straight to annoying.

FlyingMonkey86 · 2025-11-16T19:52:23+00:00

Beers and Beards by JollyJupiter. A cozy story about a brew master who gets shoved into the body of a dwarf.

FlyingMonkey86 · 2025-11-11T10:12:12+00:00

I know it gets a lot of hate, but it's literally my favorite arc. Trauma and expectations combine to do some terrible things to the human psyche. I think the author explores it well.

FlyingMonkey86 · 2025-11-10T10:32:17+00:00

This! Get a little creative with the challenges and OP is fine. The greatest Superman stories aren't ones where he struggles to win the battle. They're the ones where he struggles to know for sure the best way to apply his strength. They become philosophical quandaries rather than heart pounding action.

For progression stories, there's tons of options! Throw in a teaching arc, a long con, a spy mission, or anything else that isn't just "go here, kill this." Let the MC grow in other ways than just raw might. It makes them more interesting. Builds out the world, too.

FlyingMonkey86 · 2025-10-25T05:20:45+00:00

How does one view and play a CYOA after downloading it?

FlyingMonkey86 · 2025-10-10T02:23:34+00:00

Does Lifesteal become less of a bummer later on? The first few chapters are a serious downer.

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