I'll Buy That for $5: Organic Engine
For the price of a cup of coffee, you can waste your money.
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Organic Engine costs less than a dollar on the Nintendo Switch. Not its sale price - its real price for what you can get it. And boy, howdy is it almost worth that ninety nine cents. Based on the length it takes to finish, Organic Engine provides about 10 cents per minute of fun!
To be clear, don’t buy this game.
Here’s the story: There is none.
Here’s what you do: Click.
Organic Engine is a clicker game in which you push a button to create income that lets you build moist body parts on an undefined thing that brings in more automatic income. They often call these games “idle games” since you can walk away as they start to play themselves.
Except you can’t with Organic Engine because the game took me six minutes to beat on my first try. And I mean literally beat. The game says “The End” on the screen once you unlock all the different parts and technology. Folks, it’s a six minute game. And the strategies aren’t that deep. There’s really no way to “fail” I can think of besides being a sucker who paid ninety nine cents for the game.
Or is it?
I realized that if the came was short enough, I could speed run it. So I’ve played it through multiple times just to beat my own score. My first run was 6:10. My second run was 6:00. My third run was 4:00. My fourth run was 3:58. Then I stopped because I hurt my hand and wanted some water.
You can buy Organic Engine on Nintendo Switch. That doesn’t mean you should! But you can. But don’t.