Why Is This Idle Game SO FUN? | Good Cheap Games: Idle Champions
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- Опубліковано 17 вер 2024
- Brian spent all his money on a really expensive pogo stick, so he's made it his duty to find GOOD CHEAP GAMES. Today, he's talking about a surprisingly fun idle game: Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms
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Did you know BDG also likes games that aren't free? That's the best segue I can think of. Anyway, here's BDG making a song using the Nintendo Labo and a vibrating skeleton: bit.ly/LaboMiiChannel
Hey Polygon, sometimes your journalism feels a little like a rundown more than journalism. This feels like journalism every second and I was BESIDE MYSELF with delight. Pay this boy more 'cado cash.
Warframe, Smite, and Heroes of the Storm (not on the steam store)
I'm glad Polygon lets Brian do His Thing. This and Week in Revue both feel like the stuff he makes on his own personal channel, it's great
Wheres his personal channel I love him?
Search Brian David Gilbert and it’ll come up
I think his content on polygon is more structured than what past videos he had in his personal channel.
Polygon utilizing BDG’s unique talents and style to make an informative and incredibly hilarious new series? Hell yes!
BDG is like what Brennan is now to CollegeHumor.
Yurii Kotsar I’ve never seen a truer statement
Griffin McElroy, watching Bryan eat that avocado: what is a legacy
Planting a garden you'll never get to cronch.
Joseph Delahunty avocado, you great unpeeled travesty
@@alacnaythegreat1054 you cronched for me! You let me make a difference
Ya spelt brian wrong
(Sry if this sounds annoying its just so if you spell brian’s name you know it’s spelt brian)
Favored Existential Crisis a place where even UA-cam comedians can leave their fingerprints and rise up
Oh good I was afraid Polygon wouldn't have Bad Eating after Griffin left
I love the 🐈 give the 🐈 🥑
Griffin knew he was leaving Polygon in good hands
Good mouths?
griffin left polygon? :( he was my favorite
That’s polygon’s entire brand, grown ass men eating fruits wrong and then immediately regretting it
Brian is a gift we don't deserve him
Such a good addition to the polygon family. I'm so happy
brian this is excellent
I’m so glad they let Brian make video exactly in the style of his own channel, this is the flavour I want
Is *T H E C R O N C H* an official Polygon trademark and motto by now?
Are employees contractually obligated to cronch on various fruits and vegetables in improper ways throughout their videos?
Feam Brian is just trying to keep Griffins spirit alive :(
no i honestly think, i think that's just how brian is to be honest
he is just like that (and that's valid)
Wait...
How do *you* eat avocados?
Chomping Griffin's flavor eh?!
Surprise. Cronch was always ™™™Polygon™, and the rights were tied in with the Griffin character.
Surprise²!. Griffin isn't even his real name, he's a character played by the talented stage actor Todd Voreswallow
The idle game that hooked me is the browser-based Fallen London. It's like a choose-your-own-adventure novel unlocked a paragraph at a time by clicks.
this is such a great idea for a review series! thank you BDG for always being there for us avocado fiends, you're a real avoca-bro
GOOD CHEAP GAME! FTL: Advanced Edition. It's only $10 MSRP these days, and consistently on sale for even less (typically $5 or $2.50). Provided me with hundreds of hours of unique, compelling gameplay, and is one of the best roguelikes around, imo.
FUCK YEAH
-Tara (like you couldn't have guessed)
Nice fake account, Tara
In all seriousness, FTL really is one of the best games I've ever played, and I say this while not generally being a fan of tactical strategy games. That people can pick it up for under 5 bucks on the regular boggles my mind.
FTL got me through countless hours of pointless pre-req classes in college
In a similar vein, Slay The Spire is a $15 game with some really fun and satisfying mechanics plus an art style that I just LOVE
BDG's specific brand of humor makes me feel like I'm staying up too late at a sleepover with a really charismatic best friend who goes on a tangent that leaves me sleep-deprived and wheezing. I love it
This made me so happy, this is some top tier quality BDG
*_N A T H A N ! ! !_*
Have I ever mentioned how much I love BDG? Because I really love BDG
ayy gilbert, rocking those painted nails bay beeee
Between this, G&Gbert, and Brand Slam, Polygon is really killin' it on the video front
lets please appreciate that Brian named his cat Zuko
I am too years too late and I'm sorry, but it's not actually his cat. It's his roommates
N E W B D G S E R I E S
I hope zuko makes an appearance every episode
yes please
thank u for this i spent all my money on avocados last week
I have exams now, so of course I need new idle games.
I need games I can play without playing games!
What better to waste all your time on and to use as a procrastination technique?
I also recommend kittens game-entirely text-based, so I find once I have at least a few kittens, it's just enough without being hugely distracting
first griffin and now brian
when will polygon's produce madness end
Brian truly is griffin’s spiritual successor, and if I didn’t know it before then I sure do now with that avocado cronch
One thing Brian didn't mention about this game is that it is fully endorsed by Wizards of the Coast, the people who make Dungeons and Dragons, and all the champions are either canonical DnD characters from the books or Characters from famous DnD groups such as High Rollers, Oxventure, I think a few Critical Role characters, and even some of Joe Manganello's own creations
They even had a character based on ProJared's D&D character, but removed him when ProJared was cancelled. This character was pretty important for some of my formations, I still miss him.
Good to see Polygon still committing mouth crimes.
Brian chomping that avocado has the same energy as Griffin’s Banana Vore Corner
Brian, this was freaking great. I love you, your weirdness, and the energy and creativity that you bring to your videos.
All your hard work really shows! And i'm proud of you
Superflight is $3 on Steam is a proc-gen wingsuit flying game with a Burnout-style near miss mechanic that is really really fun. I love just going zen and flying around while listening to podcasts or music, or passing the controller with friends as we egg each other on to do some ridiculous stunts.
Also I'm very excited for this series
As a new Brian convert, it's so much fun to see the craziness he has gotten into the last two years and see where he was at with Polygon in the beginning.
PLEASE let BDG make more videos like this. Brian, your editing and sense of comedic timing are exquisite!!
I find the phone game Merge Dragons immensely soothing. You have dragon eggs, and you merge three of them to make dragons, and you have flower sprouts, and you merge three of them to make flowers, and the dragons harvest "life orbs" from the flowers, and the life orbs unfreeze new terrain. And stuff. You get a better return rate on merges if you merge 5 instead of 3, which adds a tiny bit of strategy. Mostly you kick back and watch dragons fly around and harvest stuff. You only get a limited number of free turns per day, but that's enough to have a good time for ten or so minutes each day.
This show rules, also love that it is shot in a two-camera format for no apparent reason
I can't tell if this game is a rip off of Crusders of the Lost Idols, or vice versa. The mechanics look pretty identical.
Also Brian, thank you for just existing. You're a light in this cold, dark, unforgiving world.
They are made by the same company. Idle Champions is still different in some ways but after having 7k+ hours in CotLI I just don't think I'll make the switch.
Ah, makes sense. Better than the alternative, where it's just a rip off, not like that's surprising in today's market.
Thanks for the info
BDG picking up the CRONCH torch
Duelyst! Great card game that doesn’t get anywhere near enough love!
And as a fellow millennial and Avacado addict I’m hyped for this series
Look Brian, when a Frenzy and a Click Frenzy overlap you GOTTA go hard. Nathan was totally justified. (Please play Princess Remedy in a Heap of Trouble (free) and the sequel Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt (like 2 bucks iirc). They're charming and fun and I love them)
I've played a few F2P idle games over the last year. Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms is the best one I've come across. There's a bit of strategy involved in terms of optimising your formations; character growth through the gradual acquisition of better gear for your champions; and the developers are actively updating the game and refining things all the time.
Regular new content comes out, allowing you to unlock new champions, and there are catch-up methods available to help you acquire new champions you may have missed from earlier events. I've never spent a cent on this game, though I will likely spend a few dollars in the future - not because I need to, as you definitely don't need to - but more as a way of thanking the devs for putting out such a good game.
I have played...almost 250 hours of Fallout Shelter... Please Consider
HECK, for real. I have perhaps played it more than Fallout 4. Perhaps.
Only fallout I've ever played... I'm only at 200 hours tho.... Should dive back in.
there's so much to unpack here. the awkwardness, the various wonderful voices, NATHAN, trying to eat an avacado like an apple. good video
More solo Brian stuff please! He is so hilarious!
I find it hilarious you mention "NATHAN" when this game had a crossover with the D&D show "Dice, Camera, Action" in which there was a character played by NATHAN Sharp (there was also such lovely people as ProJared and Commander Holly).
Is it some sort of Vox Media criteria that Polygon has a Vore/Cronch person on staff at all times?
Yo, I spend all of my money on avocados, so I love free/cheap games! Here are some I enjoyed:
- Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt
- Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist
- Circuits
- Please, Don’t Touch Anything
- Lovely Planet
- Mandagon
- Downwell
- Refunct
This is a great series that I hope goes on forever. Please tell me about every free game worth playing. Thank you, Brian (and also Zuko who was very helpful)
I had a lot of fun with Terra Battle for a while. You slide characters around a grid to kill enemies in progressively harder dungeons. There's some strategy and skill required and an upgrade system and some fancy artwork. It was made by Hironobu Sakaguchi, the Final Fantasy guy.
This is the high quality content I come up know and love from my friends at Polygon
nice to see brian taking on griffins mantle at the end there.
"Sort the Court" is free and extremely cute and simple and I always end up accidentally playing it for several hours at a time every couple months. Also this was already on Simone's top 5 games of last year, but "Butterfly Soup" is another favorite.
Dr. Langaslov, The Tiger and The Emerald Heist. The title is along those lines and it's an amazing self aware story based f2p game. Highly recommend for an hour or so of fun
BDG has brought such a blessed light to Polygon. Him, Pat, and Simone are the reason I'm still here after the great McElroy departure
Abyssrium- Mobile game that gets a bit ad-hungry at times, but is still a cute, relaxing fish tank simulator that lets you decorate however you want.
The Arcana- a mobile dating sim/murder mystery with a canonically bisexual man, a non binary character, and a POC woman who are all dateable and beautifully drawn and horny for you. Also they’re adding a patch to let you date a werewolf I think?
Flight Rising- a mobile browser game that’s basically a way less broken all-dragons version of Neopets with better art.
Hope these suggestions work for you, BDG! Best of luck on the series.
this is such a good idea for a video series!! i don't have many favorite free games, but you know i've got some favorite cheap ones: The Binding of Isaac (a classic. $5), The Rusty Lake series (detective point and clickers. $2-4), Fallout Shelter (addicting management game. free!), and Long Live the Queen (crazy decision-making game with an infinite number of outcomes and cute unlockables. $4).
I"M ALREADY IN LOVE WITH THIS SERIES
Wowowow a good reason to say subscribed to Polygon right here.
A Dark Room and Universal Paperclips are my absolute favorite idle games. They actually have some fantastic writing.
briAN NO DONT DO THE B- oh god he did the bite
My favorite free mobile game is Logical Cell, it reminds me of the golden age of flash games where puzzles were actually well thought out but not so hard that you needed an engineering degree to solve them. I've played a few hours of it and yet to hit a real difficulty wall but at the same time I still feel good about myself after solving every one.
Brian I love when you get to take the full attention of the camera
Brian you’re so great there aren’t even words to properly say it aaaaaaa
I guess it is fair to do a follow-up on Idle Games, now that you explained the concept?
1) Crush Crush: hot anime babes with cheese dialog meets idle games. Plenty of waifus to choose from;
2) Adventure Capitalist: one thing that sets AdvCap apart from other idle games is that if you are good, you can actually finish this one in reasonable timeframe;
3) Universal Paperclips: if you have an unnatural craving for Clippy, this is game for you, because you can turn the whole universe into the paperclips.
(Yes, I just made a comment to a year old video because I felt like it).
I can't even pick just one part of this well-crafted video to highlight. It was all just so good. Keep the cheap games coming. B)
Love this segment!
More of this cheap and free series and avocado man. He's got moxie.
Some good cheap games I enjoy: Morphblade ($5), a simple puzzle that quickly turns into a tactical warzone. Endless Sky ($0), the spiritual successor of an old 2D spacefaring game series. Card City Nights 2 ($10), a silly but surprisingly robust card game with online functionality.
You guys, you can download spelunky for free on chrome. That game is actually fabulous. A random-generated rogue-like platformer that is brutally hard and litteraly throwing a rock bounced off a wall and killed me.
I love his nails! And the way he says “avocados”
CARD HUNTER!
It's a free-to-play turn-based miniatures strategy/collectable card game set in an 80s D&D ripoff you're playing with your friend, who's DMing your campaign. It's funny, it's super challenging with lots of depth and strategy, it's great. You have a party of heroes that level up, and they each have their own equipment which makes up their deck. On your turn you play cards from each deck, each of which has their own positives and negatives. For example, that big axe you got might have lots of powerful attack cards, but also adds cards that make you miss attacks or immobilize you. The deckbuilding is super complex because you're really building three different decks at once, it's nuts and great and no one has talked about it in years.
throwing my hat in for Fallen London as well, it's so in depth and fun and they make actual video games that tie in to their world (i love sunless sea so damn much) but ALSO there's this great indie game that's super unknown and is from a franchise that basically nobody has heard about. It's called Yu-gi-oh Duel Links and i'm embarrassed by how much i love it
this video sold me on Brian. more Brian please
Go look up his personal UA-cam channel. It's basically a bunch of stuff like this.
Dalton Runberg thanks for the tip!
I love card hunters, it's a free to play online deck building game where you use the decks to fight through dungeons. Shits rad as hell. Though some dungeons are pay to play the major experience isn't lost and the game is a casual dream. Puzzles galore I tell you PUZZLES GALORE!
rotating brave is a rly fun game!! it's like downwell, but with swords, and the screen rotates every section
a good free game I enjoy is Secret World Legends. it used to be a one-time-pay mmo, but got re-released as a FTP mmo, and while you can buy things to make your weapons better faster and whatnot, it's not needed, and the main draw is the story anyway. all of the story is available for free, no surprise purchases needed later on in order to progress. the fighting system and the weapon system can be a bit clunky and difficult at times, but I love the story so much I thought I'd mention it.
I both want & need this series, mercury bless this avocado cronching hero
Arcadium an amazing retro scrolling shooter. With interesting bosses and aliens along with buffs. Slowly accumulating the power to upgrade your stats but unlike most games you accumulate gems very fast as the drop rate is very high but the difficulty ramps. I love it and am still loving it
Brian, when you ate the avocado my soul left my body and the recoiled back INTO my body and now it's in the fetal position sobbing uncontrollably.
"Lifeless Planet" has so much old fashioned Si-Fi novel vibe, "World of Goo" is anti-corporation manifestation, and "Dungeon Keeper 2", because it's good to be bad.
Thank you for existing brian
Dots and Dots&Co are two free games that I've really enjoyed playing. Dot&Co is kinda Candy Crush-y in a not great way, but the music and aesthetics make up for the sometimes icky F2P mechanics. Definitely recommend!
Brian you are an angel do u know that
as someone who often binge downloads a bunch of free games and then never plays any of them im incredibly excited for this series
Great video Brian! I'm so excited for the next one
Good Cheap game: La Mulana, a devious puzzle action game thats still fun even if you use a guide for all the puzzles because the runny jumpy bits are still so satisfying.
The big question though: will avocados be Brian's new branding? Like Griffin and bananas?
This is an excellent idea for a series. Also Gardenscapes is a totally bizarre franchise and Austin is the worst npc.
Its a few years old at this point, but Candy Box (along with its sequel Candy Box 2) are the gold standard for free games in my book.
a free to play game i love is toontown rewritten, a revival of disney's old mmo toontown online. it's super fun and anti-capitalism which makes it even better
Im really a fan of the free to play mobile game tsuki adventure. It's great for if you want to take like a five minute break every two hours. Youre like a rabbit named tsuki who leaves his city job that he hates to go live out in the country and farm carrots and make friends. It's very calming and cute and good for not accidentally playing for three hours at a time when you had a paper you were sposed to be writing. OH ALSO ads are opt in (you get in game currency for choosing to watch them) which is especially nice because you dont have to have your calm vibe harshed if you dont want to
For gods sake, Brian! The leading a in avocado is like the first a in “Tapas night!”, not like the first a in “Applebee’s $1 Margaritas”
BDG you're the reason I still subscribe to Polygon
Alphabear is older but I still play it. Word games are always challenging & the bears are just so dang cute. I'm also obsessed with Sailor Moon Drops, which is just candy crush, but.... but you're sailor moon.... Actually, the events they have for powered up characters keep me coming back. I've been playing for a year & still haven't beaten the main storyline. The puzzles are enjoyable while not making me want to scream. It's a fun game to play before bed when the doctors tell you you're not supposed to be staring at a lit screen.
Oh & the Arcana! queer friendly romance visual novel. The only thing that might keep it from this list is the amount of wait time you have for coins. They make it slow on purpose so you'll slide a few dollars their way. But if you're patient, it's a beautiful game.
Kingdom: New Lands! It's around $15, but is regularly on sale- right now it's
F2P mobile game recommendation: AFK Arena. Been obsessed with it for the past week. Although when you hit mid-late game progress takes forever (upwards of a week I hear), you can still check in everyday for daily quests and such. The character design totally drew me in, and three other friends have since joined me on it. Check it out for sure
We are blessed to have you BDG
I've gotten a ton of mileage out of Receiver, which is a rouglelike shooter that sets out to accurately simulate the process of loading and firing a handgun. It's atmospheric, cyberpunk, and pretty unique. Think I picked it up for 2 bucks and I've played it for 25 hours.
I really like Clicker Heroes. It's an in-browser game that I play on Kongregate, though I imagine it's available on other sites. It's another idle/clicker game (in case that title was just SO COMPLICATED), and you have a bunch of heroes that you can buy and upgrade (both via random "lootboxes" you get for leveling up, or via paying with IRL dollars, which I've never had to resort to in months of playing). You can do soft or hard resets for different prestige currencies, which have really nuanced interactions with each other, and there's different build outs you can choose based on whether you want to be playing actively, clicking/using auto-clickers, or if you want to let the game run in the background and check on it occasionally. Check it out, BDG!
Omg his cat's name is Zuko that's wonderful
Filling the huge shoes that Griffin is leaving behind. Well done sir!
Good Cheap Game: Cytus on iOS and Android
It's a music game from a few years ago that plays really well and has a catchy, eclectic mix of songs. After they hit a million downloads, they made the first 10 chapters of the game free, which is ~100+ songs.
Cytus II came out recently, but most of the music in that is still gated behind dlc.