NGU Idle

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General information

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Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Steam

Type	Notes
Boost	Arbitrary Points can be used to buy a wide variety of effectiveness and growth speed bonuses to resource statistics, as well as two primary resources, Experience Points, or EXP, and Perk Points, or PP.
Cosmetic	Certain player avatars and interface styles can only be accessed using real money purchases.
Currency	The game uses Arbitrary Points, also called AP, as its in-game currency. It can either be earned in-game through grinding or through real money purchases.
Free-to-grind	Arbitrary Points can be earned through the course of regular gameplay, including daily manual backup creation, daily random rewards, and achieving certain in-game milestones or challenges.
Infinite spend	Real money purchases of Arbitrary Points are unlimited by neither time nor amount.

System	Location
Windows	HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\NGU Industries\NGU Idle\
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1147690/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\NGU Industries\NGU Idle\
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1147690/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

System	Native	Notes
Steam Cloud

Page 1 of the in-game settings.

Page 2 of the in-game settings.

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		Always runs in windowed mode with an 16:10 aspect ratio.^[2]
Borderless fullscreen windowed		Enable windowed mode and use the `-popupwindow` parameter (or see the glossary page).
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)		See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

The game engine may allow for manual configuration of the game via its variables. See the Unity page for more details.

Controller types

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	11

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

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A 64-bit operating system is required.

↑ Unity engine build: 5.6.3p2^[1]
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/1147690/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (1147690) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

Developers

	4G
Engines
	Unity 5^{[Note 1]}
Release dates
Windows	October 1, 2019
Taxonomy
Monetization	Free-to-play
Microtransactions	Boost, Cosmetic, Currency, Free-to-grind, Infinite spend
Modes	Singleplayer
Pacing	Real-time, Persistent
Perspectives	Flip screen
Controls	Menu-based
Genres	Idle
Art styles	Cartoon