ExoSiege is a free browser-based persistent strategy MMO / PBBG inspired by OGame, where every player is trapped on one giant living planet, extracting its body, building territories, raising armies, and surviving PvE threats while the game keeps progressing offline.

Last year, around 350 players joined the first open playtest, broke the economy, exposed race conditions, and made it very clear that the foundation was not ready yet. One week ago, Playtest 2 opened. This time, the important part is: the game is holding.

The first week in numbers:

• 492 accounts on the leaderboard, inlcuding guest accounts
• 130 active players in the last 24 hours
• 199 active players in the last 3 days
• 19.9k army movements
• 1.2M units dispatched
• 1.5k combats
• 54 alliances
• 175 linked Discord accounts
• 1.3k alliance chat messages
• 159 early pacing survey answers
• 116 first 48 hours feedback answers

The current top player is already above 5,600 score, the leading alliance Donkey Cult sits at 16,500+ with 3 members. The playtest still runs until at least October 31, so this is still the very beginning.

The best part for me was seeing the world become active again under normal conditions: alliances forming, old testers returning, new players asking questions, people comparing routes, reporting bugs, discussing balance, and treating the game like an actual place.

The surveys were maybe the most useful part.

Across the first week, 159 players answered the early pacing survey and 116 players answered the more detailed first 48 hours feedback survey. The overall picture was very clear:

• 60% said their first impression was good and they wanted to keep playing
• 40% were mixed or unsure
• 0% picked the negative first-impression option
• 59% said the speed in the beginning felt just right
• 38% said the speed in the beginning felt too slow / 3% too fast
• 42% said the overall game speed felt just right
• 57% said the overall game speed felt too slow / 1% too fast

The happiest technical result for me: 0% reported major technical or performance problems. 77% reported no problems at all, and the remaining 23% reported minor issues like map jank, mobile UX rough edges, UI polish and other smaller stuff.

So the foundation held, but the early-game lesson is clear:

Players generally like the game, but the beginning needs to provide more agency.

The roughest points from the feedback were resource progression, too much waiting, combat clarity, map / movement, and early points of interest that appeared on the map before players could meaningfully interact with them.

That last one was especially useful feedback. The living planet is supposed to feel active, but if your nearby map fills with traders, hostages, support services, or other content you cannot use yet, it can feel like being locked out of the interesting parts.

So today, July 4, the first early-game improvement patch went live.

The update is focused on making the first stretch more active without turning ExoSiege into a fast game. The tutorial now introduces more playable encounters, early quests were cleaned up, resource production and early NPC rewards were increased, unreachable NPC content appears less often around new players, Diplomacy unlocks earlier and NPC tiering selection was improved.

I also adjusted several rough edges from the feedback: exploration is clearer, research-gated NPC missions now explain what is missing before you send an army, daily and weekly quests got better tooltips, and the mobile map / Discord chat integration received quality-of-life fixes.

There is more in the full changelog, but the main point is this: the first player feedback loop already changed the game.

This is still a playtest. There will be bugs, balance problems, and systems that keep changing. Progress will reset at the end of the playtest, but prestige earned through the Megastructure victory system carries forward.

There is no pay-to-win, no premium boosts, and no paid resource packages.

If you tried ExoSiege during the first week and bounced because the early game felt too slow, I would genuinely like to hear how it feels after today’s patch.

If you have not tried it yet: it is free in the browser, no download required, and there is a guest account if you just want to land and look around.

Play: https://exosiege.com/
Discord: https://discord.gg/gNrccFVQxD

Come land on the planet. Thanks a lot for your support & all the feedback you have given!

Playable Link: play.dungeongames.io



I'm the solo dev. Kosmic Dungeon hits full release on July 15, but it's fully playable right now — one tap to play as a guest, no signup, no install. I'd genuinely love feedback from this community before launch day.



What I think makes it stand out from other idle RPGs:



- One shared world. The map isn't per-player. A corruption ("the Bleed") spreads across the *same* map for everyone, and any player can send squads to push it back — leave it and it regrows. It's a persistent world you're all idly shaping at once.

- Bank-or-push dungeon runs. Your haul is at risk the whole run: bank it and leave, or push one more floor and risk losing it all. Roguelike boons and cursed altars make every floor a decision.

- Honest gacha. Every summon drop rate is on screen, with a visible pity counter telling you exactly how far you are from a guaranteed legendary.

- Endgame mastery. Past level 50 heroes get class keystones, free respec, and an uncapped awakening path.

- Idle where it counts. Progress accrues while you're away.



There's an optional on-chain economy under the hood, but the entire game is free and playable start to finish without ever touching a wallet.



I built the whole thing solo and I'll be in the comments — I really want feedback on the core loop and where it drags before launch. Tear it apart.

Playable on RPG Incremental or itch: https://gamesgamestudio.itch.io/rpg-combat-crafting-idle

It's an incremental/idle game where you grind skills, fight monsters, get loot. Inspired by Melvor Idle but with a better crafting system (in my opinion). So if you enjoyed Melvor Idle you might enjoy this one aswell! Over 1000 people have played it and many people seem to enjoy it. Your suggestions/improvments usually appear in the game within a few hours.

Links:

-URL: https://hazyhollowidle.com/

What is new?
We've added Holiday events, guilds, guild quests, custom artwork, avatars, and daily quests.

Currently sitting at 165 players and growing daily. Loving the feedback so far and appreciate it all both good and bad.

Guys... we shipped more IdleJourney :D

Play Idle Journey: https://idle-journey.com

Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/pNc4CFRjvk

Idle Journey is a browser-based idle RPG inspired by old-school MMORPGs like RuneScape (of course). It’s been almost 2 years since I started this project. During this time, I hired some folks, had to let some go due to financial pressure, quit my job for 6 months trying to dedicate all my time into IdleJourney, had to get a new job, raise 2 kids, and nurture my relationship with my wife... just a lot of stuff happened while IdleJourney was cooking. Right now, we are a team of 2 developers: me, as the lead, and another very talented developer I have the pleasure of working together for 1 year now. And I can produly say we built everything I wanted from day zero. Now, it’s a matter of just adding more..... Journey to this Idle! hehe

Idle Journey is no longer 100% free, but you can play for hundreds of hours for free before commiting $10 to unlock the rest of the game.

But before I get into the changelog, I want to share a pretty big gamedev blunder on my part.

So, Idle Journey originally used island-based progression. You would unlock one island, play through its enemies, resources and bosses, then move to the next one. It was simple and very easy to understand.

There was nothing wrong with it, but Idle Journey is heavily inspired by RuneScape, and since we were working on our first multiplayer systems, I started imagining the game as one big connected world. In my head, that sounded obviously better. More MMO-like. More RuneScape-like even... So I allocated me and my team to design one single world map.

We went on a 4 month side-quest focusing on that direction while players were waiting for new content. And when we were finally over with it.... we watched the numbers drop. People didn’t like the game as much. And neither did I. It was so hard to guide the players trough the game now, it was very overwhelming. The world felt big but pointless. It lacked direction.

At that point in time, I was considering just calling it and giving up. I made our game worse and that felt very bad. All the time wasted... Then, sunk cost fallacy started creeping in hard. "We already spent so much time on this.", "Maybe we just need to polish it more.", "Maybe players will get used to it."

But at some point we had to stop defending the decision and admit the game felt worse. So we sucked it up and reverted it. Once we went back to island-based progression, the game immediately felt better again - and we were energized.

The game feels like Idle Journey again!

Note: It wasn’t all wasted work, though. We managed to use the single world map as a base for the new island designs, which means every island got revamped again. So they definitely got better. But that wasn’t the intention.

So yeah...Huge update and a rollback of a costly design mistake. But we are now back on track and the game is better now because we were willing to undo a lot of hard work.

Now, Here’s the actual update and a changelog that I couldn’t really write myself without AI tools helping me check over 200 commits with extremely professional commit messages like “BRUH”.

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Idle Journey — What's New

Here's what changed and what's coming.

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🌐 Idle Journey is multiplayer now

The world is alive.

Other players now appear around you, wearing their actual gear, and you can talk to everyone in World Chat — with chat bubbles floating over players right in the world. There's an emoji keyboard, and you can turn chat off anytime in settings. This is the foundation for a lot of what's coming next (including shared bosses — more below).

🌟 New Skill: Astronomy

A brand-new skill. Astronomy is a gather-and-study system: research constellations by unlocking and leveling individual studies with materials you collect. Every study you raise gives a permanent bonus that grows as you level it — so the deeper you go, the stronger you get.

The early-level Astronomy nodes are tuned to play like the other gathering skills.

🏜️ New Area: The Desert

Set sail for an all-new desert island, packed with new things to fight, gather, and collect.

New enemies

• Anubis — a major boss (see below).
• Pharaoh Guards (Lv 95), Mummies (Lv 75), and venomous Snakes (Lv 87) that hit you with a nasty poison.

New gathering

• Cactus and Palm trees to chop.
• A new Sandstone mining tier.
• Desert fishing — reel in Catfish and Koifish.

New gear & items

• A full Sandstone equipment set — 13 pieces covering weapons (sword, 2H, axe, dagger, bow, pickaxe, rod), shield, and a complete armor set (helmet, platebody, platelegs, boots, gloves).
• New chase item: Blue party hat is now obtainable (tip: requires astronomy unlock)
• AOE Tools for mining, fishing and woodcutting! You can now farm multiple nodes at a time
• Lucky ring III
• New potions that boost astronomy
• New jewelry tier (diamond)

🐉 New Boss: Anubis

Anubis is our new boss fight, available in the same 3 difficulty tiers.

How the fight works

• He mixes melee, a charged ranged spell, and a summon that calls in a pack of minions.
• While he's summoning, he becomes invulnerable and shields himself — you can't damage him during the cast.
• Right after summoning he's left stunned and wide open — that's your window to burst him down.
• Kill Anubis and his summoned minions die with him

🃏 New Cards: Desert Collection

A wave of new cards tied to the desert region — collect them from the new content:

• Enemy cards: Anubis (with rare variants), Pharaoh Guard, Mummy, Snake.
• Gathering cards: Cactus, Palm Logs, Perfect Palm Leaves, Sandstone, Catfish, Koifish, Diamond.

🗺️ Back to an island-based map

We've moved the game back to a hand-built, island-based world instead of the open-world layout we'd been experimenting with. Honestly, open world wasn't the right fit for Idle Journey — it spread content too thin, made progression harder to pace, and pulled focus away from the tight, readable loop that makes an idle game feel good. Islands let us design deliberate, distinct zones (like the new Desert), guide your progression cleanly, and ship new areas faster. You'll still get the new map UI, minimap, waypoints, and Teleport Tethers to move around quickly.

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🧪 Test servers — shipping with more confidence

We now have dedicated test servers. This lets us roll out new features to a live environment before they hit everyone, catch problems early, and ultimately ship more content, more often, without putting your main save at risk. It's a big step toward a faster, steadier update cadence.

⚔️ In development: The Coliseum + World Boss

(test servers first)

The Coliseum is not live yet — it's launching on the test servers next week, and we want you in on it early. It's a new combat arena with escalating waves, hand-crafted challenges, its own token currency, and a shop.

Alongside it, we're putting up an early version of a shared World Boss — a boss the whole server takes on together, made possible by the new multiplayer foundation. Both are early builds going to test servers first so we can tune them with your help before a full release.

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💎 A note on Premium & Idle Tokens

Buy any premium packs to fully unlock the game forever.

During alpha, purchasing either pack — the Quality-of-Life Package or Gotta Go Fast — grants you Premium for life. It's meant to feel like buying the game and everything we add to it down the road, not a subscription.

We've also added Idle Tokens, a premium currency you can earn through normal play or buy in the store — the currency behind cosmetics and convenience items. Expect a steady stream of new cosmetics over time. Yes you can buy timeskips, but they have a weekly limit and cannot be used on new content. This should strike a good balance of funding for the game and keep the playerbase pacing in check.

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⏳ A note on Time Skips

To keep new content meaningful, brand-new content can't be rushed with Time Skips for at least the first couple of months after it launches. The one exception is the early-level Astronomy nodes, which behave like the other gathering skills.

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Thanks for playing during alpha — your support literally funds what comes next. See you in game!

AI disclosure: Item icons and some UI icons are mostly generated by AI. Claude code helps a lot on coding tasks and even writting this changelog. Thats it, all 3d assets and VFX were either bought from AssetStore or made by us

Links:

-URL: https://www.solvendra.com
-Discord: https://discord.gg/G2BvyxZJHp

What is Solvendra?
Solvendra is an idle MMO with incremental aspects, currently in alpha. It has 20 skills and 3 combat styles that aim to reward the player's choices. We do not like to limit players in any way. It's planned to have over 250 enemies, 60 dungeons, 2000+ items, 600+ collectibles, achievements, guilds, cards, pets, raids, skill trees and so much more.

What is new?
On this patch we have added the market. Now players can exchange items with each other.
The market allows placing buy and sell orders. Also buy and sell instantly if there are any orders listed already.
There is a posting fee and price works step by step to avoid undercutting. So that if the current price is 500 gold, the next order has to be at 495 gold or below.

Now enemies drop gold too :)

Finally, runes can be upgraded with upgrade stones up to tier VII.

Cheers!

I built it as a pure skill-based arcade game — no complex controls, just timing, physics, and those “one more try” moments.

• Free to play.
• Optional IAP: Revive, which lets you continue your current run.
• App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6764475676

Hi everyone again. I have been busy with my game again and this time I have two big updates. I have a trailer and have completed the single player story mode!

The trailer is a bit rough around the edges as I didn't want to spend too long polishing a turd if it's bad. I would love to know what you think of it, bad or good. Any advice is really welcome!

The saga is an interactive story arc, consisting of multiple acts, exploring the verse and interacting with other characters, think of it as a solo DnD story with me as your dm. I do hope later to really branch out and make this mode multiplayer like a real DnD campaign but one step at a time!

For those who have not seen my previous posts, im a solo dev working on this game Fatebreak, which is based on spinning a wheel for your characters. there are 28 species with each having their own subtypes and stats. Your characters spin for their origin stories and then you take them on the saga. It consists of weighted decisions and mini games, pulling from the wide roster of characters from other players in the game. The lore is vast and each new player brings their own lore to the verse!