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About Trimps
Trimps is a text‑based idle/incremental game where you awaken on a hostile planet, trap your first Trimp, and send it into battle. You then breed more Trimps, assign them to jobs, house them, equip them, and keep sending them to fight as you progress.
The title has been updated for nearly seven years, adding over 50 Challenges, almost 400 achievements, hundreds of perks, talents and upgrades, plus deep automation tools. It runs as a free‑to‑play web game with an optional pay‑what‑you‑want purchase model that does not affect core content.
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Gameplay Basics
You begin by trapping a single Trimp and sending it to battle. From that point you breed additional Trimps, allocate them to various jobs, provide housing, and equip them with the best gear available, repeating the cycle to grow your forces.
The core loop focuses on unlocking new content and automating earlier steps. After earning your first Science point, a tutorial and an ADVISOR guide you toward the mysterious Portal, helping you understand the next layers of progression.
- Watch which jobs generate the most resources early and prioritize those for faster scaling.
- Follow the tutorial and ADVISOR prompts to discover hidden mechanics before experimenting on your own.
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Challenges
Trimps includes more than 50 distinct Challenges that modify the Universe in various ways, offering alternative rulesets and difficulty spikes for experienced players.
Each Challenge can be selected to test different strategies, and completing them contributes toward overall progress and achievement unlocking.
- Begin with lower‑difficulty Challenges to learn their modifiers before tackling harder ones.
- Compare the effects of similar Challenges to decide which best fits your current build.
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Achievements
The game tracks nearly 400 achievements that reward players for reaching milestones such as resource totals, battle victories, or automation goals.
Earning achievements provides permanent strength bonuses that help later stages of play.
- Review the achievement list early to target those that grant the most useful bonuses.
- Focus on automation‑related achievements first, as they compound over time.
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Automation
Trimps offers extensive automation options, offering detailed levels of customization across many game processes.
As you unlock new tools, manual actions can be replaced with automated ones, speeding up progression and reducing repetitive input.
- Gradually replace manual tasks with automation to keep the game manageable at higher scales.
- Experiment with different automation settings to find the most efficient resource flow.
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Monetization
Trimps is free to play and has never required a cash shop for core content. Bones, the in‑game currency, can be earned through normal play and are sufficient for all upgrades.
Players may optionally purchase Bones to support development; this operates as a pay‑what‑you‑want system rather than something needed to enjoy the game.
- Earn Bones through regular gameplay before considering any optional purchase.
- Treat optional purchases as a way to support the developer rather than a necessity.
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