Aetherium Hearts vs IdleCrawler

Raise adventurers in Selwyn, town of the Ash Marches, and send them down into the labyrinths. The expedition runs by itself — they walk, they fight, they gather, and sometimes they fall. Those who come back bring the whole of it with them, written up by an AI as a single tale. No two are ever the same. ◆ Three labyrinths The Ashen Corridor, the Frostcrystal Archive, the Ember Crucible. Each runs to a different depth and a different danger, and at the bottom of each an Aetherium Heart lies sleeping. ◆ It runs on its own Once they are down there, they walk and fight on their own feet. The descent continues while the app is closed. ◆ Tales The record of a returning expedition is woven into prose by an AI. Send it straight to X, Threads, Bluesky or Discord. ◆ The town and your company An armoury, a general store, a forge, the guild, a temple, a shrine — Selwyn holds nine places to go. You can also go looking for an adventurer who has gone missing. ◆ Standings Set the Aetherium Hearts you have offered at the Shrine of Astel against every adventurer in every town. Japanese and English, switching with your device. Free to play, with no in-app purchases.

Descend into a dark fantasy dungeon with a sword in one hand and a shield in the other. IdleCrawler is a first-person idle RPG: your knight keeps fighting while you are away, and the gold is waiting when you come back. FIRST-PERSON COMBAT Monsters come at you one at a time and fill the screen. Your blade rises, slashes and thrusts, and every stage brings something tougher. THREE SKILLS Shield Bash stuns for 2.5 seconds and blocks the next hit. Strike lands one blow at five times your attack. Fire Burst sets the enemy alight for 3 seconds. Skills fire on their own when ready, or tap them yourself. TREASURE CHESTS Fallen monsters sometimes drop a chest. Open it within 25 seconds for gold, and now and then a gear shard. FIVE REGIONS Throne Hall, Lava Wastes, Ruined Cathedral, Cursed Forest and Crimson Tower, each with its own monsters and a boss at the end. GEAR AND UPGRADES Collect shards for your sword, shield and armor and raise them from Common all the way to Mythic. Spend gold on attack, attack speed and defense in the upgrade drawer. REBIRTH When the descent slows down, be reborn. Rebirth Coins buy permanent upgrades, so every run climbs faster than the last. OFFLINE HUNTING Close the app and the hunt goes on for up to two hours. Open it again to collect what you earned. HALL OF FAME See how you rank against other adventurers by depth and rebirths. Sign up with just a username and password. No name or email needed. OPTIONAL ADS Watch a rewarded ad to switch on Gold 2x, Drop 2x or Auto upgrade for five minutes or more, or to double a chest. Skip them and you can still play the whole game. NINE LANGUAGES English, Korean, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Spanish, French, German and Italian. The game starts in your device language, and you can switch any time in Settings.