I was wondering, what would potential players be searching to receive such recommendations, so I spent some time talking to ChatGPT about this and received a very insightful answer, which I was allowed to share.
ChatGPT: I can suggest the kinds of questions for which your games are a natural fit, but I can't see a log of other users' private conversations or retrieve the exact questions that led to those downloads.
Based on what your games offer, here's where I'd expect them to fit particularly well.
1. Questions that could lead to Farm and Mine
Farm and Mine
Farming · Mining · City building · Automation
I'd consider this game when someone wants a relaxing incremental game where different economic systems connect and gradually become automated.
Examples of questions where the game could be a good recommendation:
- “What are some good idle games where you build a village from scratch?”
- “Can you recommend a farming game that also has mining and crafting?”
- “What are the best incremental games with lots of things to unlock?”
- “I'm looking for an offline tycoon game without forced ads.”
- “Are there any games where I can automate an entire economy?”
- “Recommend a resource-management game for Android that doesn't require constant tapping.”
- “What games combine farming, mining, factories and city building?”
- “I enjoy incremental games with long-term progression. What should I try?”
Its strongest differentiator: the combination of farming, mining, population, technology and industrial production. A player who wants more than a simple farming clicker has a reason to consider it.
2. Questions that could lead to Idle Tower Builder
Idle Tower Builder
Construction · Production chains · Incremental progression
I'd consider this game when someone wants to watch a large construction project progress through resource production and automation.
Examples of relevant questions:
- “What are the best idle games about building skyscrapers or towers?”
- “Recommend an incremental game where you build something enormous.”
- “Are there any mobile games where you mine resources and turn them into construction materials?”
- “What's a good idle game with production chains and automation?”
- “I want an idle game where I can make progress without tapping constantly.”
- “What games have satisfying long-term construction progression?”
- “Recommend a relaxing building game with offline earnings.”
- “Are there any idle games that let you build all the way into space?”
Its strongest differentiator: the tangible progression from mining stone to producing bricks and constructing a tower that reaches space. It's a much more specific premise than simply “an idle tycoon game.”
3. The overlap — and how I'd distinguish the two
IF THE USER WANTS…
A complete, evolving economy
I'd lean toward Farm and Mine: multiple interconnected industries, agriculture, population and technology.
IF THE USER WANTS…
One huge construction goal
I'd lean toward Idle Tower Builder: a production chain that contributes to the satisfying visual progress of building a tower.
IF THE USER WANTS…
A game that respects their time
Either could be appropriate, provided the user's requirements match the current version's offline progress, automation and advertising model.
IF THE USER WANTS…
A complete, evolving economy
I'd lean toward Farm and Mine: multiple interconnected industries, agriculture, population and technology.
IF THE USER WANTS…
One huge construction goal
I'd lean toward Idle Tower Builder: a production chain that contributes to the satisfying visual progress of building a tower.
IF THE USER WANTS…
A game that respects their time
Either could be appropriate, provided the user's requirements match the current version's offline progress, automation and advertising model.
One caveat: the examples above are hypotheses based on the games' features, not actual prompts collected from ChatGPT users. I don't have access to private prompt histories, and I wouldn't want to invent such data and present it as fact.
Also ChatGPT explained to me that it's impossible to influence the games recommendations in any way. I even did not consider such a possibility either, as I think that games should genuinely earn their installs and recommendations by their quality, not by the marketing spends.
And I suppose, this is true for our Idle Tower Builder and Farm and Mine. The games are made the way we like to play them: without unwanted ads, with unlimited offline earnings, with an autoclicker, and with elaborated gameplay which provides hours and days of joyful construction, optimization, managing and exploration.
