Revolution Idle review
5

EDIT Summary: Revolution Idle is NOT a fraud and instead a great game.

Statement: When deciding on whether to play this game or not I encountered multiple persuasive reviews and comments stating this is essentially a copyright infringement on Antimatter Dimensions. I decided to relay this information here and made the original review based on that. After receiving multiple contrary responses here I reconsidered and evaluated the claims myself. After screening the code base of both games I came to the conclusion that the original information was insubstantial. I decided to keep the original text of the review at the bottom to give relevant context for others looking into this review section.

Regarding the copy allegations: This game takes extensive inspiration from Antimatter Dimensions, which stood out negatively to a lot of people playing the classic. A lot of the structuring around the multiple reset layers, challenges and differing mechanics are similar in nature. Also, which tipped off people additionally, Revolution Idle copies the names of the first few reset layers and a couple mechanics, like infinities, eternities and dilation. This is acknowledged in Revolution Idle by shouting out Antimatter Dimensions and its creator in the credits directly below this game's creator. As people in the responses have pointed out, the base mechanics of the game are not actually the same however. And not only does Revolution Idle change up all of those, it adds substantially to each of them and diverges after a certain point in naming as well. To be certain, I compared the code of the two games and found no significant overlap. Not only is the engine / programming language different (Unity vs NodeJS) and the resulting code structure barely comparable, the naming of labels (classes / methods) does not indicate literal inspiration from the predecessor. Obviously terms like "infinity", "eternity" and "challenge" will appear in both, but I could not discern any duplication or other foul play.

Actual Review: While I still recommend playing Antimatter Dimensions, I can also fully recommend playing Revolution Idle. I am not far enough into the game to rate all the mechanics but so far it does a great job of presenting the player with different mechanics and gameplay for the different stages.

I apologize for essentially spreading misinformation and learned a lesson about propagating unverified infamation, especially in agitational fashion.

Original Text: Apparently just a reskin of Antimatter Dimensions with AI art and Microtransactions. Play Antimatter Dimensions instead. This is a blatant insult to open source and incremental games.

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