Idle Ocean Cleaner vs Planer Miner

I stumbled upon another case of game duplication ... Idle Ocean Cleaner (IOC) is exactly the same as Idle Planet Miner (IPM) which I have been playing for a while, even though they are from different developers.  Sure, they have different themes and skins.  The UI buttons are the in about the same order all the way around.  The main screen has little white ships bouncing back and forth from islands (planets) to your base.  If you zoom out just enough, those ships look like whiteflies, if you've ever seen a bush afflicted with those.  


Comparisons:
- IOC has islands (IPM has planets)
- rafts (asteroids)
- types of plastic trash (ores to mine)

- Resources panel with three tabs: plastics, recyclables, products (ores, alloys, items) with a slider at the bottom for what % of the item you wish to sell. 


- a Production panel with Recycling (Smelt) and 3d Printing (Craft), and you have to research to unlock the crafter. The IOC recipes make NO sense, like you can 3d print circuits from compacted plastic trash?

- water drops (dark matter) as a currency for boosters
- a research chain of Sonar 1-10 (Telescope 1-22) which each unlock 3 new islands (planets)


- you spend books (dark matter) to hire workers (managers) with up to 5 stars (6 stars) from one of three school types: docks, navy academy, professional navy (public school, private school, brilliant academy) ranked at 1-3 stars (same), 3-5 stars (3-4 stars), 4-5 stars (same).  
- and a button where you can sell your company (sell your ship) -- in IOC, you get "contracts" and a submarine and can go look for sea creatures, where IPM lets you add rooms to your ship for speed and cost bonuses.  

IOC does get points for a solid graphical look, a bit more youthful than IOC, as well as decent music and trying to have an eco-friendly theme, as opposed to digging and exploiting the land.  I wanted to sell my company to see how its sea creature exploration worked, but so far I need to research some thing so I can research Observatory, and to get the parts I needed to unlock recipes for $50K and $100K and start turning masks into "package bundles", and wait some more.  My Company is valued at $1.1M and will earn 1 contract.

Jan 22. I finally created the 20 lasers to research observatory to sell my company for 2 contracts plus a boost of one contract for one water drop (cheap),  and yes the sea creatures are just a cheer way of representing the buffs you get.

 


  


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