What is Reddit's opinion of Godville?

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Linkme: Godville

I've been playing this game for almost a year, and I love everything about it.

Think AdVenture Capitalist, only mixed with a fantasy MMO - you have an adventurer who kills monsters and goes into town to sell the loot and interact with other real adventurers, join guilds, complete quests, train skills, et cetera. They do all this by themselves, though, with no help at all.

Your role is to be their "personal God". They believe in you, and therefore pray and sacrifice offerings of gold to you. This worship charges up your Godpower, which you can use to interact with the world around them - turn raindrops into healing potions! Strike their enemies with lightning! If you need them to do something really specific, type it in with the right syntax, and all of a sudden a nearby frog will be croaking to them, "Join the Ankh-Morpork City Watch Guild". Et cetera.

The guilds they join and the friends they make allow you to talk to those people - so you can guildchat, or just one-on-one friendchat, to the other Gods out there, about how silly your hero is and how close you are to getting them to build that temple you've been wanting.

I'm Scherzo. Feel free to add me and ask any questions you may have.

It's a browser/app no-player-online game. You're a god and have a hero and you can just let him be or punish him or do good. The real reason for playing it are the ridiculous interactions or thoughts of your hero and the stats.

Consult godvillegame.com for the international translation and godville.net for the original Russian version.

The site is down right now, but take a look at http://godvillegame.com/

In typical fantasy RPGs, you play a hero questing for the glory of your diety.

Here, you're the diety and you have your own hero (or heroine) out questing and sacrificing in your honor. Most of the "game" involves reading your hero's latest diary entries:

> 09:45: A vile and filthy Karma Chameleon is robbing the golden brick caravan! I'd better run away...

> 09:50: Maybe if I just stand here and wave my weapon around, the Exalted One will think I'm still busy...

> 09:54: Waiting for a moment while the scenery loads before me... Ok, moving on.

> 09:54: Oh my Lady, is that a Singing Shark on the horizon? I can smell my own fear...

> 09:57: Blinded the Singing Shark with a shiny golden brick and quickly retreated.

> 10:03: Saw a cat run by me with somebody's tongue in its mouth. I wonder what that means...

At any rate, sometimes having a hero feels very much like having a virtual pet, thus the recommendation.

Oh, and it's accessible from the web and as an Android app.

There really isn't one. MMOs on phones are always going to fail because of their insular nature - a PC version needs to exist or the devs will ruin it and the community will suck.

If you want an Android MMO you have three options:

1. Play a MUD via an Android MUD client. MUDs are text based MMOs, from the days before true MMOs, which have survived mainly due to lack of required resources. They are pretty much never pay2win, you can access them anywhere, and they have non-terrible people playing. Best you're gonna get on a phone to a full MMO experience.

2. Play Godville, which works on Android because it's an idleMMO and therefore you can literally do nothing directly. Just throw a little razzle dazzle at your hero, who's doing all the hard work, to help them. It's fun and has great community, but will not scratch an MMO itch at all for obvious reasons. Exists as both an app and a browser version. (If you're honestly cool with browser MMOs for some reason, you could also play Fallen London, but it doesn't have an app.)

3. Wait patiently for Albion Online. Alpha tested it personally myself, it rocks.

Fallen London: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Doveday/

For when I want ten minutes of strangeness and nightmares injected into my life. The best way to combat boredom is to open up your browser, log in to Fallen London, draw a hand of cards, and then proceed to eat a live bat in public and get banished to the tomb-colonies to live with the dead. Then accept a candle one of them rendered out of their own body fat as a housewarming gift. It smells of lilacs.

Transformice: http://en.transformice.com/

So I can dress a mouse up in a scarf and hat and send it through infinitely bizarre physics puzzles!

Godville: http://godvillegame.com/

To check up on my hero. They might need me to smite something - they fight so many monsters without my help, as their personal god. They really deserve the push. Or I could just yell obscenities at them through a nearby frog's mouth, light a bush on fire...

It's not "incremental" per se, but I found out about the zero-player game Godville through this sub, and it's the closest thing to an incremental game with an engrossing story I've found so far.

Basically, it's an RPG that plays itself with minimal input from the player, instead featuring a dumb NPC hero completing random quests, gaining XP and finding loot, all the while worshipping you as a god and detailing his or her adventures in a diary for you to read. It's tongue-in-cheek, it's hilarious, and it has a good amount of lore and secret commands for you to influence the outcome of the game.

Instead of clicking to increment a counter, you click to heal or smite your stubborn hero, as well as repeatedly bark orders at him/her. Through random events, your hero gets increasingly better at fighting. For me, it fills the same kind of niche as an incremental game, but without the commitment. Best of all, it's playable in the browser as well as on your smartphone.

GodVille - Totally NOT what you're thinking or exactly what you're looking for, but you are literally God in this game and get to boss around a ~~servant~~ hero/heroine.. I suggest to read the Wiki a bit and perhaps peruse the forums as well to get a better understanding of what you can do, otherwise at first glance it appears like you can't do anything.. That's an illusion ;)

> A special shout-out to the golem tools with their very limited selection of quips. That got old almost instantly.

Try http://godvillegame.com/ - I've "played" the original Russian version for a couple years, and I can tell you that even tens of thousands of jokes mixed with each other randomly become stale incredibly fast.

Garry's mod you could set up large fights and let the AI duke it out as they ignore you.

Not much graphically but http://godvillegame.com/ basically the hero is controlled by AI and you can give suggestions or just sit back and watch it do its thing.

Signups are here http://godvillegame.com/forums/show_topic/2016 No Zap Brannigan either, I'm afraid.

~ asmonder

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Spaceteam, to the point that they always want to play when I can't. (It's local multiplayer, and amazing.)

And I got several friends into Godville for a time, but they left... which is fine by me, since it's an idleMMO, so my character and theirs still interact with each other automatically all the time. Add me!

Don't get confused: this is a sparring tournament for Harvest Moon guild members only. There's another post (http://www.reddit.com/r/Godville/comments/x1pqk/the_flame_lounge_arena_tournament/) for a completely different sparring tournament, which is open to anyone. Signups are here: http://godvillegame.com/forums/show_topic/2016