Antimatter Dimensions

Antimatter Dimensions starts like a bad relationship: painfully slow, borderline boring, and demanding a level of patience usually reserved for watching paint dry. But if you can weather those first achingly lethargic minutes, you’ll find one of the deepest, most rewarding incremental games to ever hijack your free time, or your entire sense of time, for that matter.

Built around a deceptively simple premise of buying dimensions to produce more antimatter, Antimatter Dimensions quickly snowballs into a black hole of progression layers, prestige systems, and brain-tickling upgrades. Hit your first Infinity, a milestone that takes hours or days, and suddenly you’re drowning in fresh mechanics, Infinity points to spend, and a feeling that the game’s just begun to reveal its true face. Challenges twist the rules beyond recognition, automation options spiral into scripting madness, and achievements pop faster than your sense of self-preservation.

It’s a game where unlocking new buttons feels like unearthing ancient secrets, and where even the “helpful help page” feels like it’s winking at you. Add in a delightfully self-aware sense of humor (if your glyphs start whispering, seek immediate medical attention) and a post-2018 Reality update that massively expands its cosmic playground, and you’ve got an incremental game that’s both infuriatingly obtuse and dangerously addictive.

If you dropped it before Infinity, come back, Antimatter Dimensions doesn’t even hit second gear until you break the universe once. After that? Buckle up. This is idle gaming’s answer to the Mariana Trench: it only gets deeper the further you sink.