
Overall it’s the same game and it works fine on phones. It makes the experience a little harder to navigate. The game can be played on smartphones but only through a web browser. The biggest problem with “Trimps” is that there’s no real mobile version. “Trimps” also won’t pressure you into buying bonuses with real money so going back to it never feels like a chore. It’s the perfect game for killing time in between classes or in any situation where you have to wait around. The player is able to check in every once in a while, build some stuff, get some upgrades and then leave the game alone until later. Even when the player isn’t actively on the game, everything is still moving forward. There’s something about this game that makes it oddly relaxing. At the same time, a player can choose to play the game very casually as a time-sink. Completing these challenges will unlock special perks that give your Trimps some type of bonus. Dedicated players will eventually find rare resources like helium and will use it to unlock challenges. There’s a surprising amount of depth found in “Trimps” as well. The lack of visuals actually helps the experience since it lets the player focus on the real meat of the game. It sounds kind of dumb, but it was fun imagining what the game looked like after a few hours of putting hundreds of Trimps to work and sending them out by the dozens to fight large creatures. The only information we’re given on the Trimps themselves is that they’re “impish” creatures. Since the game doesn’t have any actual graphics, its up to the player’s imagination to determine what the game’s world looks like. “Trimps” is a callback to the days of text-games like Zork. Like most incremental games there’s no real goal other than to see the number of resources go higher. There’s also upgrades that increase the Trimps’ gathering speed. As time goes on, the player builds different facilities to be able to hold more resources, house more Trimps and train their Trimps to fight. When a game of “Trimps” begins the player will gather food and wood and then start using Trimps to do all the work for them. A ton of these games have been released in the past five years, but the one that get its right the most is “Trimps.” Incremental games are extremely simple and after a while they basically play themselves. What a game of “Trimps” looks like after a few hours.
