This is a great idle game if you enjoy your classic "start with literally nothing and work your way up" type of games.
I never played OSRS for more than a few hours, but I have thousands of hours in other idle games. What I enjoy about Melvor Idle the most is it doesn't heavily rely on any sort of prestige mechanic, in fact it doesn't have one at all.

There are way too many idle games as of recent that require spam prestiges to progress, and I personally find that incredibly boring. I don't want to play the same part of the game over and over again, I want to make meaningful progress once, and then move on to the next thing. Melvor Idle provides exactly this with it's gameplay loop, and a lot of it. All of the skills compliment each other, and ultimately make you better at combat, and this rabbit hole of optimization of what to do next can get very addicting.

For the more casual players out there that don't want to active play all the time or bother min maxing constantly, there's easily accessible mods for things like unlimited offline. These mods also work on both the PC and Mobile versions of the game, and you have cloud saves as well so you can play your same save on multiple devices, wherever you are.
This review sounds like an ad at this point, but honestly this level of QoL features and how accessible the game is can't be found in many other games in the genre, if any. What other games allow you to play a modded save across PC and Mobile and it just works?

For those of you looking for a more long term grind that doesn't heavily rely on prestige, has bosses to fight, gear to grind, numbers go up, I can't recommend this game enough. If you loved NGU Idle and are looking for something to scratch that same itch, look no further.

This is a great idle game if you enjoy your classic "start with literally nothing and work your way up" type of games. I never played OSRS for more than a few hours, but I have thousands of hours in other idle games. What I enjoy about Melvor Idle the most is it doesn't heavily rely on any sort of prestige mechanic, in fact it doesn't have one at all. There are way too many idle games as of recent that require spam prestiges to progress, and I personally find that incredibly boring. I don't want to play the same part of the game over and over again, I want to make meaningful progress once, and then move on to the next thing. Melvor Idle provides exactly this with it's gameplay loop, and a lot of it. All of the skills compliment each other, and ultimately make you better at combat, and this rabbit hole of optimization of what to do next can get very addicting. For the more casual players out there that don't want to active play all the time or bother min maxing constantly, there's easily accessible mods for things like unlimited offline. These mods also work on both the PC and Mobile versions of the game, and you have cloud saves as well so you can play your same save on multiple devices, wherever you are. This review sounds like an ad at this point, but honestly this level of QoL features and how accessible the game is can't be found in many other games in the genre, if any. What other games allow you to play a modded save across PC and Mobile and it just works? For those of you looking for a more long term grind that doesn't heavily rely on prestige, has bosses to fight, gear to grind, numbers go up, I can't recommend this game enough. If you loved NGU Idle and are looking for something to scratch that same itch, look no further.