I would say A Dark Room is way too interactive to count as an idler, though it has idle-like elements, sure.

Interesting that it doesn’t support HTTPS, given how it has an account website.

Then in that case, I’d suggest FTL: Faster Than Light. You can literally quit the entire game mid-battle and continue right from that moment; every single moment is saveable.

A Dark Room

Universal Paperclips

I think you should mention the Lemmy browser as well; I had no problem using Summit + Waterfox just now.

I don’t get it.

Source?

Scary. I wonder if anyone here knows anyone who was personally, directly scammed as a victim by people like these jerks.

Note that there seems to be a possible tracker in this URL. It looks like an anchor but I’d still suggest that you edit your post and delete the # part and on.

Thanks, TIL! Here I was thinking it was all manual!

1. You don’t need premium membership to play premium-only games; you only need 1 person at the table to have a subscription and then everyone else can enjoy the game for free. There are usually tables open looking for players, and if there is no open table to join, free participants can even put out a request for a subscriber to make a new table for strangers to join.
2. You can get 1 month of premium membership at a time for every 100 gift points that you acquire (which gradually expire if left unused). You can gain 5 gift points for winning for your first time at any game, so you can even rig it with someone else to just win at Battleship, Chess, etc. You can also acquire more gift points by contributing to tutorials, wiki entries per game (rules, strategies, etc.), or I think even filing bug reports or improvement ideas per game that get approved by the developers.
3. TTS and Tabletopia are 100% manual so you must already know the rules really well per game, whereas BGA holds your hand through all legal moves, so my circle of friends and I have even used it to learn new games blind (even though they also often have a tutorial). It also has a note system so you can type notes for yourself to remember things between rounds, if you choose to play in the optional turn-based mode (make your move whenever you’re next able to, versus real-time in which all players must be online simultaneously).

Board Game Arena is so good already, though!

Nice find, thanks! What else do you do that I don’t know? Haha.

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As in, what, you want more? Such as…?

You can edit post titles on Lemmy! had

Oh, right, based on what (little) I’ve seen, yeah…

Interesting, I hadn’t thought of that, thanks!

Thanks, I’ll check it out!

then that wouldn’t be platform-agnostic.

Syncthing is Win+Mac+Linux-compatible! That’s actually what I was going for, but didn’t think of looking for a portable version for some reason… Thanks for the idea!

Thanks, I didn’t think of treating a non-24/7 server like Syncthing. I may tinker with Owncloud, then…