Welcome to Googol Idle

A game all about counting to infinity.

WARNING: WebVersion is not running the game as expected. It seems to run stable on the latest Chrome but no guarantees. Working on a fix right now. Thx

In Googol Idle, your opponent is the number 10^100. A number bigger than the number of atoms in the whole observable universe (10^80). 

You are the runner of the mysterious ancient motor "No. 1". It only counts from 0 to 9 in an infinite loop. It pays you every loop for your service. You can buy more counters, but they are all driven by the counters left of them... counting up only if its left neighbor passes a loop.

You must update the speed of No.1 to earn more money... for more speed, more income and more counters. Every counter that passes a loop will pay you. All the counters can level up 5 levels, that increases a payment multiplier... but leveling up has a price. It absorbes all counters to their right and resets speed and earning... but you keep the earned money. 

You know you cannot beat this game. It has more than one limit you cannot get over. But you can go as far as you can. Post your progress in the comments ;)

Features

  • Chilling Music
  • Calm-down game mechanics
  • Highscore
  • Finally a savegame function
  • unbeatable but challenging main task

Controls

  • Mouse Wheel - Zooming in and out... you need it!
  • Right-Click & Drag - Pan
  • Left-Click on a fully leaded counter - leveling up the counter

Who is it for?

Number whisperers. Exponent enjoyers. Idle fans who like watching simple rules weave into vast outcomes. A tiny ritual between tasks... or a long journey toward the googol.

Why did you do that?

It was initially a small project to learn LÖVE2D and Lua, since I had a lot of fun coding with Pico-8. And my daughters loved to playtest it... and they were fascinated by the fact, that the game is unbeatable.

Updated 16 days ago
StatusReleased
PlatformsHTML5, Windows, Linux
Rating
Rated 3.8 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
AuthorBenjamin Vockenberg
GenreSimulation
Made withLÖVE
Tags2D, Casual, Clicker, googol, Idle

Download

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googol-idle-0.4.0_win64_en.zip 24 MB
googol-idle-0.4.0_linux64_en.tar.gz 24 MB

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Incredibly funny and well made game! Those little messages at the bottom are a great way to keep people entertained! 

I love Balatro (but I suck at it lol)

Hi, and thanks for the great feedback. This means a lot for me.

Do you think there are enough of the messages or do think I should put some more into the game?

I love Balatro too and also suck at it :D

have a good time and thanks you

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Got to about 5m score then gave up, promotions resetting everything is too annoying.

Game needs another layer of some kind

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thx for playing and for the feedback.


Next content update will add more tools and mechanics to improve the progression.

New balanced multiplyer steps

Upgrading the buy buttons (increase base earn and base speed)

I must overthink the reset I guess. Maybe a rest light.


grertings 🖖

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Oh please add a "buy max" or "buy 10" option (e.g. shift+click buys max possible). My mouse is breaking! ;)

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Hi, thank you for this kind feedback. I‘m working on the first bugfixes and quality of life improvements. I have created a task to safe the mouses and touchpads of the world. I think the shift+click is a great idea 👍🖖

Really nice game and I like the messages on the bottom! Thank you

Thank you so much for playing and giving me feedback. That means a lot for me! Wish you all the best.

greetings Ben

Not sure why full screen doesnt work for me... the clickable location moves but the image does not.

Hi, thanks for your feedback.
I have to place a warning text to the page or disable the web version, cause I realize that the build with love.js does not work for everybody.
I'm looking for a solution at the moment, but my recommendation is to use the latest Chrome DesktopBrowser or downloading the game for Linux or Windows.

I guess, there could be a problem within my configuration file of the Love2D Project, will test this out.

Could you pls provide me some specs of your setup: Browser+Version and OS?


Thx a lot and apologies for the technically immature web version. 

Hey what a nerdy game my dear. But I'm glad to see you're doing something again :)
Will share it a bit. Have a nice weekend and get well soon!

Thank you so much. Yeah, have to feed my brain… thx for sharing, hope you both are okay too?

Greetings to Berlin ❤️