A slow game (or is someone has a better name please do tell!) is a multiplayer game where you get some action points every day (or twice a day), that you spend on walking around and usually fighting monsters a la CRPG.
Played in a browser those games took like 5 minutes a day to play and were quite popular in the early 2000. Obviously people spent more time setting up groups going hunting or fulfilling some quest, often for weeks and weeks…
Have you played one of would you try one out?
I wouldn’t. I despise artificial time limits in a game just because… there’s no point other then to put in paywalls for extort money from the players
I understand the urge, but those games were not pay to play. Making each action quite important, like if you die in battle you might have to walk for two weeks to catch up with your group, or if a teleporter helped you out you could get there in 3…