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Idle Research is an addictive, resource management, incremental game with both idle and active playstyles. Research and craft colorful Flasks and Tubes to earn as much Energy as possible! Big numbers guaranteed.
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Review score: 83% on 2026-11-01 → 83% today (1,913 reviews)
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Hello! I just wanted to provide the last major feature previews to provide more updates on where I am at in terms of the next major update THESE ARE JUST PREVIEWS, NOT AN ACTUAL UPDATE. THERE IS STILL NO ETA. I AM STILL FOCUSING ON COLLEGE AT THE MOMENT. My pe…
Hi friends! Just felt like I should provide some updates on my progress with the next major update. THESE ARE JUST PREVIEWS, NOT AN ACTUAL UPDATE. THERE IS NO ETA. I AM STILL FOCUSING ON COLLEGE AT THE MOMENT :) Also spoiler warning... Anywho, here are some sc…
Thank you very much for your patience to those who were affected by the Offline Progress issue. Should be good to go now! :^) (Accelerators) You can now hold on the little buttons on every accelerator. (Crafting) EXPERIMENTAL: Added a manual input for crafting…
(Crafting) Presets now have a custom preset input. (Solitaire) A setting to toggle Auto Win NOTE! A lot of the balancing related changes in this update are subject to change! (Saving!) Save System has been reworked. Flasks, Tubes, and Shared data has been merg…
Offline: For Tubes Adventure, you now gain kills offline! This only gives kills for the stage you are currently on. Settings: A setting to toggle the offline progress screen. Crafting: Presets have a new look and were heavily simplified. You can now toggle ind…
⇐ v0.21.4 ⇒ Flask’s Assembly: Added shortcut buttons in Juice. You can now hold on the Sample Processor buttons. Mastery: (QoL) since there is a large phase where you only have 1 mastery slot, assigning another mastery slot will disable the already enabled one…
Hey everyone! I'm back with the largest set of developer standup blogs so far. Since the last post, I have finally graduated from college with a bachelors in Computer Science, and transitioned to full-time software development. I've done a pretty good job bala…
Hey everyone! I'm back with another set of developer standup blogs from my discord. Posts have been less frequent because of College. I'm about 2 weeks away from graduating! Anyways, I present you the last 14 episodes! *Looking at the earlier posts now... wow,…
Starting today, I will be reposting 10 days of developer standup blogs that I write on my discord server. These will be delayed but highly detailed posts about what I have been working on for Idle Research 2. You will also see the progression of changes over t…
You wake up from a time-activated cryogenic pod in 2070 on planet Mu Ra Tempel — after the devasting Earth-27 Mutually Assured Destruction incident. Steam Page At The Bottom Hey all, I have been able to get a lot more progress with Idle Research /2. I'd really…
Hey friends! Happy 4th of July to my American players, and happy Thursday to everyone else! I hope everyone is having a great week. As decided on my discord, I have decided to begin development on a new version of Idle Research. There's a lot of things that ne…
Hi friends, I have finally removed the steam achievement for the Black Ice Flask. So now people should be able to 100% the game for now. This new update is still taking way longer than it should, and I again apologize for that. For those who don't know, I am a…
Hello everyone! As you may have noticed, it is definitely past the February or March goal I was hoping for. Unfortunately, there is no update ready still. Those who go to university and work full time may understand. It is currently summer break, and I am curr…
Hi everyone! Classes for college starts tomorrow... 😢 I wanted to give you guys a quick heads up on what I will be working on during this semester (and potentially next semester). There are lots more than what's being shown, but it's just the general list. Ca…
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