STE : Save The Earth

It's hard to get a good feel of whether to recommend this game or not yet. Overall, I do like the idea behind this idle game. The classic issue with clickers is that you are pressured to use an autoclicker to help give you a boost. But in this game, manual income is achieved by running your mouse over enemy targets (with some occasional clicking for periodic enemies). I've only used the reset/prestige factor once so far, but it does seem like the pace is pretty slow at first. Again, I don't know how the pace compares long term, but I would give the devs props for attempting an uncommon mechanic which nullifies autoclickers.

While I make this a negative recommendation, let me extrapolate and add in some of its good features. The games is fairly retro pixel, and has a sound track that is easy on the ears, if you're into that sort of music. The game is fun for wasting away a bit of time each day, but beyond that is at the end of it not that different from a lot of other idle clicker games. The only thing with this one is that you pay once and don't get bothered by money grubbing offers to speed up your progress like with most free ones. That said, why a negative? Well, first and foremost, contrary to images on the store page... it's not like that at all anymore. Whether for the better or worse, hey... that's not for me to decide. Then there's claims for having a variety of builds to your approach to things and complexity... frankly, I've played a fair amount of games and clickers, and maybe it's just me but it's not any more complex in my eyes compared to plenty other free clicker games out there. The on...

Stuck on the 3rd page of updates for weeks. Developers should have play tested the game first, such as on x5 speed, just to make sure of the dynamics. The good point is that you don't need an autoclicker to progress, except for mothership where autoclicker makes a huge difference. But overall active gameplay doesn't do much once you progress quite a lot in the game, and by the mid-stage I have just gotten stuck with nothing that can be afforded. Also, actual upgrades are badly balanced. Only the most powerful unit types have benefit to upgrade due to poor mathematical optimisation. Active play wise you can swipe over main aliens, and then every 5-10 minutes there is a small thing to click here or there. Not enough going on to keep your attention.

THIS REVIEW IS MY OWN UNBIASED OPINION - I was not compensated or rewarded for this review in any way. Let's start with the basics: This game works like most clickers, albeit slightly differently. As soon as you launch the game, you're faced with a small scenery of a city surrounded by aliens in little ships. It doesn't guide you, but as soon as you move your mouse over a ship, it dies, and you realize that's the "clicking" you do. Each kill gives you XP for leveling up, and currency to buy upgrades. Leveling up gives you Research Points, which you use in combination to currency to do Research that makes collecting more currency easier. You use currency to buy units that generate currency over time rather than through the "clicking", but the "clicking" still generates currency far faster, and you get XP for doing it. Buying units is tricky (weird?) because in order to buy specific numbers of units that are higher-tier, you have to have a certain amount of lower-tier units first...

I am enjoying this game right now. It is like a clicker without the clicking you have to swipe your mouse over the enemies to kill them and click the special enemies that appear. This makes it so you have to be active but if you are idle the game auto kills enemies 1 at a time. If you like these types of games you will probably like this one too.

I was a massive fan of this game years ago. Really happy to see an updated version available on steam and loving it. Brings back some good memories plus the added mechanics are a great addition. Happy to support a decent developer and hoping you will continue updating this game over the coming months and years :)

Even for an idle game the progress is way too slow and the dev has given up on it, excuses it with being too busy to work on other things. Oh well.

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I've always been a fan of STE since it first came out on Kongregate, despite the Carpal Tunnel. However, this is a different game. And what comes with this difference is the idle killing of aliens, and anyone who knows how to make decent progression in this game knows how frustrating this feature is. A certain strategy that I'm sure most people try to do is Auto Click the Mothership right after collecting either the blue or green Supply Boxes. Preferably the green Supply Box if you already have enough RP. So, if you get the green one while clicking 50 times or so per second with your auto clicker, your RP goes up a significant amount and progress quite easily because of that. But this feature they added... just ruins the game. I like to kill the aliens down to where I have less than 10 aliens to go for the Mothership to come out. You don't want a yellow Supply Box, so if you get one, you don't spawn the Mothership. But if one comes out, I just wait for the next one, hoping it's green. ...

Womp Womp. This is 15 minutes of moving my mouse around the screen i'll never get back.