Zen Idle

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Today I bring you the chill game: Zen Idle

I've played a few games from Kongregate. This company usually makes in-depth games with great art and interesting game mechanics, yet this is the first hyper-casual game I've seen from them.

The objective of this game is to cram many balls into the room and squash them. The balls spawn at different times and they fall down to gates that add multipliers to the ball's value.

At the top of the screen is the money that you collect along with premium blue diamonds.

As your total spent on upgrades grows, you gain extra perks once you level. They are temporary between resets.

This is the screen to upgrade your balls. You can decrease spawn time or raise the ball's value. As you gain more wealth you can unlock better balls.

The second tab holds all the level upgrades. As you buy new areas, the red gates turn blue and give you a money boost for passing them. (See the last picture to see the gates.)

The third tab is special perk cards. These give you permanent boosts as you use premium currency to unlock them. You get 10 diamonds daily or can sometimes watch videos.

The fourth tab just gives you some extra and temporary boosts.

Lastly, is an example of the gate. Not much to say here.

Overall:

 3 of 5 cogs.

This is a very chill game. Not much is here to keep you playing for too long.

Story:

 🚫 None. 

There is zero story in this game.

Amount of ads:

There are only optional ads you can watch for temporary boosts.

Advertised as seen:

💯 %

Every ad I've seen for this game has been truthful. They do not hide anything.

Graphics:

 1 or 5 cogs.

Come on. Flat colored shapes. All the graphics look like they were made by a kid. This is very disappointing as Kongregate has higher quality games than this.

Audio:

 4 of 5 cogs.

This is the first mobile game with memorable chill music. It sadly loops too quickly and becomes very repetitive. I would love to hear more tracks like this one.

Gameplay:

2 of 5 cogs.

Not much here. Tap on balls that get stuck and get money. There isn't much interaction here.

Free play:

💯 %

You do not have to pay any money at all to play this game.

Fun factor:

😐 average.

Not too much going for this hyper-casual game. It's fun to try for a time, but I lost interest rapidly.

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