Exponential Idle 4+

An incremental idle game

Gilles-Philippe Paille

Designed for iPad

    • 4.9 • 3.3K Ratings
    • Free
    • Offers In-App Purchases

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Description

Play Exponential Idle, a math-inspired incremental game. Your goal is to stack up money by taking advantage of exponential growth. To do so, you have to step through time by tapping the equation or simply let the time follow its course. You can perform change of variables to accelerate the process, buy upgrades, get rewards, and unlock achievements while earning virtual money.

What’s New

Version 1.4.31

Fixed: Custom Theories would sometimes generate an error when the game is closing.
Fixed: Numerical values in the summary bar would sometimes wrap to the next line.
Added two more save slots.

Ratings and Reviews

4.9 out of 5
3.3K Ratings

3.3K Ratings

Josh1733 ,

Best Mobile Game I’ve Played!

At first it seems like a mindless clicker, where your equation is approaching some value and therefor your growth is decreasing, as the story implies.

But, as soon as it starts to seem tedious and like there are diminishing returns, the game offers you a way to automate that process and move on to prestiging to increase the growth potential.

Then this becomes tedious and appears to grant diminishing returns, and more and more time-consuming prestiges.
And then another layer is introduced: supremacy.
And yet again all of your progress is reset to redo it all over again with a very much increased growth factor.

I’m currently three prestige layers in: graduation, where you are a professor and you must reach higher definitions of infinity with more and more students.

Every time a layer seems boring or like the progress is slowing down, a new one is introduced that resets but greatly increases the growth of the previous one.

It is amazingly well balanced and so satisfying.

As an additional bonus, all of the equations that the app uses to calculate values are made available to you, so you can use them to figure out exactly how things work and around what point you’ll hit what you want.

All in all, an incredible game about math, growth, and optimization. Love it! Thank you for making something so beautiful and satisfying! And most of all, thank you for not hiding actual satisfying growth and enjoyment behind a pay wall.

Dr. Jebediah ,

Not impressed. Ironically simple

So far I’ve gone through 2 iterations of “prestige” and reached the fourth variable. Compared to other idle games, the growth equation of Exponential Idle seems too basic, which makes the game kinda boring for me. It’s kinda ironic that the equation is so simple, given that the theme of the game is exponential math. Maybe it gets more complex later? But I have little interest in playing to get to that point.

To explain what I mean - in the game you build up your independent variable X (thereby improving your f(x) function), and you also level up other sub-variables to do it. The function is just X = 0.8*Xlv + 2*(Ylv+Zlv+Slv). Basically the contribution of Y, Z, and S (per level) are exactly the same, so you end just level up whichever one is cheaper... kinda boring. Also the contribution of leveling X is just 40% as much as leveling the others, and it’s free to do so but you can only give it 1 level at a time. It feels like the game rewards you for mindless clicking with little to no strategy involved.

On the other hand, other idle games (like AdVenture Capitalist and all its follow-up games) present you with multiple different resources and challenge you to manage them all to optimize your growth... which is overall much more interesting and fun. Exponential Idle just falls short.

Developer Response ,

Hello! The game indeed gets more complex after a while. There are plenty of other features that unlocks at different times, providing different gameplays. With 2 prestiges, you almost only did what could be called a tutorial. However, note that each variable has their own upgrade that improve their own factor, so it's not correct to same that all variables are the same. Don't forget to click on the "Variables" label to access the upgrade panel. I think this is why you see that variables have the same contribution.

Alshar11 ,

Exponential Idle - A mindless idle game like the others

This game at first appears to be just a smarter, but more simple design. No cookies to click. Just a mathematical equation. As you continuously progress in the game you get to experience the complex equations that start to happen. Adding more variables using “Stars” which unlike most idle games is able to get while having fun.

Just as I started thinking wow, this game really isn’t that fun. I got to the prestige part, I had clicked the first equation about 8,000 times. I reached a point where my f(t) wasn’t going up that much anymore and then I became able to prestige. This changed everything I was then getting higher and higher until I reached around ee100 then I got introduced to Supremacy. Eventually getting auto buyers, then an auto prestiger. I could then AFK for around 4-8 hours come back and supremacy. I am currently sitting at ee730 and waiting to get the achievement for reaching ee777.

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