Idle Loom vs Impossible to Dig

Idle Loom is an idle game about running a weaving mill, and about the cloth itself. Start with a single hand loom. Sell your first metres of fabric, buy another, and climb through seven generations of weaving machinery: hand looms, shuttle looms, rapiers, projectiles, air-jets, Jacquard machines, and finally the mill line. Your floor fills up as you grow, and the camera leans in with it. TIME THE MARKET Cloth prices drift. Sell into a peak and pocket the difference; sell into a trough and learn for next time. The market band tells you when the moment is right; a small decision that keeps every session interesting. DRAFT YOUR OWN WEAVES This is the part no other idle game has. When you're ready to prestige, you don't press a button; you sit down at the dobby grid and draw a weave, cell by cell, the way drafts are written on real point paper. Watch it become cloth in the live preview as you draw. Twills, basket weaves, weft-faced drapes, figured damasks: the game reads your pattern's real structure: floats, interlacing, symmetry; and stamps it Plain, Sound, Fine, or Masterwork. Better cloth, better rewards. SIGN IT. KEEP IT FOREVER. Signing a contract resets your mill for the next run and files your design in the gallery, the actual pattern you drew, woven up, with its date and its rank. Share any design as an image. Your gallery is the story of your craft, and nothing can take it from you. GROW THE GROUND ITSELF Earn stars with every signature and spend them on special projects and ground expansions; new terraces that wrap around your mill floor and make room for the heaviest machinery. HONEST BY DESIGN • Progress is earned. No purchase can buy stars, design ranks, or a better draw - ever. • A handful of optional extras exist (a production doubler, an auto-seller, time warps, thread colours). All of them are conveniences; the whole game is completable without spending anything. • No account. No sign-in. Your save lives on your device, and the mill keeps weaving while you're away. Warp up. The market is waiting.

Turkish has an expression for a hopeless, painstaking job: digging a well with a needle. This game is that expression, taken literally. You have one sewing needle. The water is about twelve meters down. Each tap moves you 0.2 mm. The well is in no hurry. THE DIG Tap. The needle scratches. The depth counter moves, and it reports four decimal places, because the difference between 0.8400 m and 0.8402 m is the entire point. It is a side-view cross-section of the ground you are ruining: topsoil, clay, gravel, bedrock, and eventually the dark wet layer where the water lives. TOOLS ARE FOUND, NEVER SOLD The earth hands things back while you dig — an old coin, a bone, a pottery shard, a root. Worthless at the bazaar. Priceless down here. Trade them for a safety pin (2×), a nail borrowed from a fence (5×), your grandmother’s good spoon (20×, and she has questions), and finally a bucket that keeps digging while the app is closed. Every tool is earned by digging, in every well, forever. Not one of them is for sale — no starter pack, no shortcut, no button that skips the wait. You cannot pay to dig faster. That rule was decided before anything else in this game and it is not up for revision. WHAT ISN’T HERE No ads. No timers. No energy bar. No daily streak to lose. Exactly one notification, and it stays off until you switch it on yourself: the bucket, saying once that it has filled up. Nothing else ever arrives. The game itself needs no connection at all: every meter, every tool and the share card work in a basement with no signal. Three things use the network when they can find it: the optional Game Center leaderboard, iCloud quietly keeping the same well on your other device, and RevenueCat, which handles the one purchase. If none of them ever finds it, the well does not mind, and a purchase you made stays unlocked. REACHING WATER Twelve meters takes as long as it takes. When the water finally rises up the shaft, you get your depth, your day count, your tap count, and a share card: the whole well as one narrow vertical strip, sky at the top, water at the bottom, dug with a needle. Proof, for whoever wants to see it. THE VILLAGE The first well, Old Yard, is free from the first scratch to the last drop — the full twelve meters, the water, the share card, all of it. Nothing is held back from the free game. If you want more ground, a single one-time purchase opens the rest of Kuyuköy: Garden, Rocky Plateau, Orchard, Threshing Floor. One payment, once, and there is nothing else to buy after it. Your toolbox stays the same. The ground changes. English and Turkish, both written rather than translated.