It looks the same as Idlehacking..
For a simple question, "This is the same as IH?", they just banned me.

There's a good 20 steam reviews pointing out that he bans for comments on the fact that it's ripped straight off of IH and recommending IH instead.

Idle hacking players mad that a game copied parts of the game when it itself is just a shitty Ai copy of basically half the idler that existed before is funny lol

Idlemoor copied a few things for sure but it's just more fun/better overall.

As for the ban it might just be a banned keywords, there were a lot of idle hacking bozos spamming the chats

This post was edited by XxMayonaisexX on Jun 13 2026 10:59pm

It's the same engine, the whole system is a same.. Not just an AI copy..
I wasn't mad, just was suprised it's looks the same as IH. and the question above is the exact what i asked and boom - ban..

Some of it is 1:1 , but there's a ton of new system in place so it feels different and it's been great so far. Can't deny that there are aspect copied for IH, but again Idle hacking is just a copy of other games so who cares at this point. It's different enough

but banning for a simple question without warning or something to reply, feels so disgusting..

im playing 10's of years of these PBBG's and first time experienced this like attitude

This post was edited by RubyRose on Jun 13 2026 11:12pm

yeah I don't really agree with the bans but when it's the 50th person that asks the question and 95% of them end up being spammers/people who made multiple accounts you get annoyed pretty quickly. Again it may also just be a keyword that is banned,not that it is much better.

It's a blatant copy that goes way beyond "looks like other PBBGs". Up until a few days ago he still hadn't finished sanitizing the JavaScript and still had old copied portions related to the Homelab Notifications on Idle Hacking. A bunch of users still have copies of the JS before the change, and it was archived on the wayback machine as well luckily. He still refers to Masterworking in enhancement as Compile in the JS as well. The game trailer on Steam still shows 'Compile' as the final action on enhancing (now Masterwork).

Before it got DMCA'd down initially it had even more blatant copying, like it originally had the same exact 20 stats (3 renamed but functionally the same), and those stats were split over 56 affixes between single/dual affixes. It was the *exact* same 56 possible combinations, even though you have over 200 possible ways to combine 20 stats between single/double affixes. The affixes could only appear on certain slots, and wouldn't you know it, those 56 affix combinations had the exact same mapping to the 8 equipment slots. Those 56 affixes had tags for essence crafting, and wouldn't you know it, his game had the exact same 8 essence tags, mapping to the exact same affixes, WITH THE SAME NAMES. He literally used the DMCA takedown notice and list of copied items as a checklist of things to rename while the game was offline for 10 business days.

No PBBG is fully unique, it's literally impossible within the confines of the genre to come up with an entire design space that nobody else has explored. The difference here is his game is not "inspired by" Idle Hacking. There's the direct evidence that it was copied first and then edited to try to cover the track, and he did a poor job at that.

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You should probably also look out when the owner of the game is talking with his best buddy in-game about baiting people on JSP by posting sale/buy threads.

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This post was edited by trgKai on Jun 14 2026 02:10pm

The fact the 'developer' doesn't even try to mention how heavily the game is 'borrowed' (stolen) from Idle Hacking is pretty telling.



I don't understand how you defend blatant copying of another game

It is harder to defend seeing how much was copied tbh. On the surface it looked like the UI was stolen and then some stuff, but if it's literally just 100% stolen and then reworked it is a good bit worse.


Let's not act like idle hacking isn't some Ai slop that stole a lot from other idlers though.

This post was edited by XxMayonaisexX on Jun 14 2026 02:32pm