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phone home

By ikado

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall5563.3925
Fun4793.2924
Innovation8272.2825
Theme7162.9524
Graphics2884.0025
Audio2553.6925
Humor4162.7821

Comments

ikado 2026-04-20 23:31

:)

dan-whiffing 2026-04-21 00:48

Very cute graphics and nice music! Gameplay is simple, but since you kept it short, it doesn't wear out its welcome. nice job!

decadedecaf 2026-04-21 01:17

Cute! The music and art made the game feel super comfy, and I loved the fake scanlines. Using the same bar for the ship's antenna progress and the mineral's health is fantastic UX design, and I like how the game lets you keep playing after you win.

I thought it was strange that you couldn't spam-buy the mining robos, but once the rate in which I was gaining minerals surpassed the rate in which I could pay for robos, it felt very satisfying. Great job!

drainkid 2026-04-21 02:31

Nice little clicker game, reminds me a lot of Gnorp Analogue with all the dudes throwing themselves at the rock. Good job :)

oasiss 2026-04-22 01:15

Screenshot 2026-04-21 at 9.15.00 PM.png perfect simple fun clicker!

takhomasac 2026-04-22 02:37

fun take on the theme! cute graphics, nice job!

derek-glennon 2026-04-22 02:43

Solid incremental/clicker game! Nice job!

pentagrammal 2026-04-22 02:51

Simple, cute and understandable. That is all we need!

pastry-chef 2026-04-23 20:56

Hey! We made a game called "Robo phone home". Very different genre though :)

nadia-pixel 2026-04-23 21:02

cute little clicker game! love the pink

trexxak 2026-04-24 19:48

Very comfy! Both sound-design and art-direction really click (lol)!

xedur 2026-04-25 10:23

I found the art style and the soundscape relaxing.

I may be too much of a min-maxer, but I found the robots to be a hindrance. The robots are fairly slow at mining and the time that it takes you to buy a robot and for it to get to mining, you could have mined significantly more if you had just kept on manually mining. For a game as short as this, I don't think the robots are actually worth buying, unless you (the player) plans on stepping away from the game.

unreststudio 2026-04-28 19:38

Awesome clicker. Very fan of the art style and it's very relaxing to look at !

automatonvx 2026-04-29 23:12

Not the biggest fan of clickers as a gameplay mechanic, but it was a cute polished take on it. The music was nice and chill, kept me clicking till I completed my mission. If I was going to critscise I might say, maybe a bit of variation in where you have to click would help the gameplay a bit... like if the resource re-spawned in different locations or something :shrug:. Also the robots felt a bit underpowered, had to do most of the work mmyself :) . Nice

kujoen 2026-04-30 07:04

jinx! You definitely have us beat with your moody artstyle. I have to agree that maybe the robots could be a little faster when max upgraded. Amazing how two minds with the same idea can come to such different implementations. Nice work!

ganonsspirit 2026-05-02 05:32

It's a nice little clicker game. :)

ukulelefury 2026-05-02 06:38

:) Love a good clicker. Cute bots, nice pixels! This was fun, thanks!

artur-hawkwing 2026-05-07 00:15

I love how you lose minerals for "mining" the astronaut -- that was a great touch! Very cool game, but got a little repetitive by the end. It felt very factorio-like in principle, and especially with a couple extra abilities it could become a super automation game.

EDIT: Wait I'm so silly that's how you build the antenna. Nice -- that explains why nothing happened when I hit 500!