A game where you just turn a crank but it goes SO much deeper. | Crank Part 1

[@agaba5500]

i thought this was a family friendly channel but this guy is just crankin it

[@Harps0ng]

An hour long video of Dan cranking it? Hope this one doesn't get demonetized

[@meconagood]

lmao

[@mrsnackbar9383]

Researching at full 9 pwr while u crank at max 9.9 is the power problem.

[@HappyMonkeyYT]

I think you're supposed to lower the power consumption on the research/scanner so the crankbots can handle it. That's when you can stop cranking yourself.

[@cannot-handle-handles]

Also building and researching more batteries gives you… (Spoilers) …Solar Panels!

[@dsgda153]

Finished the game in two days. It's insanely good for a completely free game. Don't forget to show some love to the dev!

[@infiniti7773]

The log mentioned that if you research batteries more, you may uncover new sources of power, so I think you may be really close to another form of power generation! It could also be worth focusing research on crankbots and their efficiency some more so they are even more helpful.

[@Dasius2]

It said the more you MAKE not research, and Haelian, who just seconds before read out MAKE said "i need to research more?"... sigh

[@overwatchplaysfails5887]

r u dumb?

[@AnonymousAnonymous-ht4cm]

@@Dasius2 "The more batteries you make the more you're confident that RESEARCH into them may lead towards a new source of power."

[@mistergod3]

@infiniti7773 This guy is losing it. The crankbots were a huge waste of time and resources. He would have gotten way further into the game if he didn't even look at the crankbots until he was way further in the game >_> he spent a whole long video getting as far as i would have in a third of the time or less...

[@PadaV4]

@@mistergod3 Yeah the crankbots are a massive noob trab.

[@ihelps]

I highly recommend The Paperclip Game, which is an incremental game where you make paperclips. It will s far deeper than it seems though, including knowledge of economics, marketing, and maybe a bit of space combat :D

[@ntecleo]

the game certainly has a slow start, but it picks up very fast later. you need like 20 crank bots and a few points into crank bot efficiency to automate the crank well enough to do other things at this point

[@FOWisgood]

If you haven't played it already, Universal Paperclips is a masterclass in story incremental games. I highly recommend it!

[@meconagood]

def play it it's very short for an incremental so the gameplay also works for non incemental lovers

[@Haelian]

This is one of the ones I played many years ago, love it!

[@silentmayan5427]

33:07 if I were to guess, the crank bots don't do anything while you're cranking. So if you're cranking you'll want to deactivate them.

[@havenkeeper6400]

First minute into the video and this game instantly reminds me of armory & machine.

[@alfonsodonotsi6691]

Crank is a game masterpiece. I'm not being ironic.

[@kairotox]

Just finished it myself, (Thanks for the introduction haelian!) It was definitely more than I expected, that's for sure.

[@TACTGY]

Shinji, crank that solja boy. YOUUU

[@ShrektheHulk]

every one of these videos you make it harder for yourself by not understanding mechanics like constantly making scrap metal at low power and then complaining about low power all the time

[@cannot-handle-handles]

Yup, agreed. Also by not upgrading the crank…

[@frankpork7665]

Idk if he’s just bad at games or purposely does things to boost rage engagement, because he consistently does things that make games way harder for him than they need to be

[@GodGladiator1]

Honestly I just think he sucks at games. I try to watch and just shake my damn head and put the volume on 0. Drives me nuts.

[@cannot-handle-handles]

Tbf, the video made me want to see whether I could do better. While I think I can, I still found the game to be sluggish, even with what felt like better decisions than in the video.

[@Kingoldengamer]

By being inefficient in the game it would bring people to play the game and engagement to the video

[@MephistoDemon]

I saw this video on my feed in the morning, played it in the afternoon and am now having fun watching you discover everything xD

[@aki-senkinn]

Immediately this game made me think of Oxygen Not Included, we just switched POV. In there your duplicants (minions who do your orders) have to keep power on by running on a wheel, or supplying generators, but the power will slowly deplete, meanwhile they also have to go produce materials, fly rockets, feed critters, build stuff, etc. You as the player manage their priorities and give task orders, trying to balance them getting stuff done, while also taking care of their needs (food, stress, sickness, etc.). There is some incremental game DNA in that game too, as you expand your colony and have to scale production of everything, make better food and better materials, definitely recommend checking it out!

[@ToyKeeper]

Dang, I ended up spending the whole day playing this until the end of the game.

[@Pheonix1328]

I saw this video and decided to try this game out for myself first. When I saw how much resources it took to make a crankbot/the fact they break, and how shitty there were... I was pissed lol. I also quickly got tired of holding down the crank so I focused on crank and crankbot efficiency upgrades and was happy when they could finally keep up. Strange thing I noticed, I don't really see a point in increasing how many crankbots can operate at once. With just three or so operating they were pretty much keeping the crank maxed out.

[@TheGrayFae]

I enjoyed the concept, so I played it for a bit longer. Spoilers below if you don't want to see them, but I will intentionally try to keep them vague. The game eventually goes towards space exploration. You can move between planets and there's some differences between them. You can also further optimize your production to do things almost fully automatically. Eventually you can do a bit of exploration with the map and uncover some secrets. There's some end-game secret bit that I've almost gotten to that seems to be only lore and a maaaaaaaassive resource drain. Personally, I don't know how well the rest of it will make for a video or interactions. It's entertaining enough, but it does get to be repetitive as you go. My biggest complaint is that upgrades to my scanner doesn't seem to actually make things appear any faster, so it's hard to do any kind of combat farming. But true to the idle-game nature, it's really hard for the numbers to ever go down in a meaningful way, so you'll always be able to make progress.

[@TheGrayFae]

I finished it today though and the ending is neat. Nothing mindblowing, but a solid way to wrap it up and make it feel complete. I'm still convinced that the Scanner is bugged or something though, but you can work around it. If anyone else wants to try and finish it, I highly recommend just skipping around to planets with Low hostiles to immediately fight the base once you're strong enough. Much better than trying to wait forever to scan enough enemies.

[@nmyhv1]

Big fan of this recent influx of 00s flash type games

[@filippofesta4187]

Love this serieshope you finish it!!!

[@SoulkNoxH]

Anyone noticed the baba is you music? 😂

[@meconagood]

meeee

[@FulioBagginz]

Yes

[@rumbasdoge1762]

Was looking for this comment lol

[@kennyken6172]

a true classic of the genre

[@Wrincewind.]

i'm definitely curious to see more! (Especially if you lower your power consumption and up your batteries so you don't have to crank as much!

[@Shadow_284]

Played this game myself after seeing this video and MAN, it gets way more complex than I was expecting. Spoilers for late game mechanics: You're eventually flying a spaceship, attacking bases and building factories to ship stuff to you. 😆

[@josephfiore2843]

Reminds me of "A Dark Room" by Double Speak Games

[@calebshaw5647]

@@josephfiore2843 that was my first thought, the writing of the first few lines took me back to stoking that fire.

[@Music-nn9mi]

If you change the URL to say something like alpha 40 instead of alpha 39 you get access to the newest build

[@ElderonAnalas]

Don't know if you figured it out at some point, but you u get the flickering because it costs 5 power to start crafting one metal.

[@jodysgamingchannel9480]

The blinking made this hard to watch.

[@srabbelier]

In about half an hour you won't have to manually turn the crank anymore, if that's your main reason not to play more 👀

[@NickCombs]

They gotta speed up the initial progression on this one so that players can get in and see the options before they tire of the manual cranking. I think just making the computer crank improvements cheaper would go a long way.

[@asdf30111]

click on the crank and tap up arrow a few times.

[@brianarsuaga5008]

neat game. grinds to a halt sooner than expected.

[@LadZeroUltra]

Who up cranking they haelian

[@Kasperbjerby]

Watching this while playing antimatter dimensions 🤣

[@ToyKeeper]

I keep hearing about that game so I finally tried it. It gets slow very quickly, and becomes "wait an hour or more for the next click". Seems like it's designed for people to check it once a day and then go back to ignoring it... which is great for some, but I was hoping for something more active like Crank.

[@Kris_Plays]

i found antimatter when i unlocked the pc and fixed the cpu

[@djskype020202]

I'm interested to see where this goes but I may just get the game and try it myself. I could do things differently and see how it works

[@shadowproductions969]

yeah, it's not hard to automate this if you pay attention to your net power consumption at the top and adjust your research to match it, leveling up scrap as much as possible and crank power. The rest will kind of fall into place in between

[@Gergenhimer]

I LOVE CRANK

[@joser1522]

Shinji, Crank that soulja boy.

[@meconagood]

WHY does it pause if you go fullscreen!? must-fix for early game players

[@oscarguzman3017]

It looks like the crank bots only work when you yourself are turning the crank. It seems like they're just a boost to your manual energy economy.

[@starburst98]

At first, eventually crankbot research upgrades them to give enough force to turn the crank on their own,

[@pumbaa667]

@oscarguzman : Nope !

[@shadowproductions969]

having played this for an hour or so myself now.. it pays to research in excess batteries, you can get much higher energy reserves and makes it much easier to craft craftbots. You can also increase your scrap craft amount to infinite so it never stops.. right now I have scrap to 300 max with infinite craft, 40 batteries, 25 crankbots and antimatter. You can play this manually but after I had about 5 bots, I could adjust my research and never have to touch it.. by the time you get 10 it can crank faster than you can.. the only downside is they break down and cost scrap and batteries to replace.. but they pay for themselves many times over.

[@Belzemat]

You're just about to the point that crankbots are just free energy. I would advise keeping at it, and also consider not using them until you're at capacity.

[@EntityVsEntityInteractions]

This game reminds me of Trimps.

[@oscarguzman3017]

I wanna see more 👌

[@doodlebro.]

DANG is it hard to line up crankbots correctly

[@jerrychen2302]

Just crank it 😂😂😂

[@zaaxi7424]

I feel like you need to stockpile way more Scrap Metal and Batteries before doing other things, maybe you shouldn't research + build at the same time

[@meconagood]

nah if you invest in crank it's optimal

[@paulvanpraag]

I tried this one too but after realizing that crankbots cost more resources to make than they produced in power returns and were therefore useless initially, I ended up dropping the game after like a half hour of tedious labor. Looks like right before unlocking scanning and such. I dunno. I'm interested in seeing where it goes but man is it an annoying one with little automation and a lot of busywork.

[@pumbaa667]

I love how some people (like you, or Dan) complains about Crankbot not being efficient enough... and still does not upgrad them !

[@7sete777]

@@pumbaa667 Do you really love it? Seems a bit odd to be invested emotionally on total strangers?

[@pumbaa667]

@ I love the obvious irony.

[@paulvanpraag]

@ After about 20 minutes of hard tedium I was ready for automation. When it was clear that the automation wasn't helpful and was a trap, I just quit instead of upgrading it and grinding for another X time until it would be actually helpful. It's also tough because it's not like the game will tell you when the bots become actually helpful. Normally automation is immediately helpful when it unlocks in games like this.

[@pumbaa667]

@@paulvanpraag That's a lot of words for someone who didn't understand how to beat the game. Personally I fully automated my Power generation in 1 or 2 hours. Without tedious Power grinding, due to correctly upgrading the Crank and the Batteries.

[@khheroxcn]

i mean id like more lol it did say battery research would lead to another power source beside the crank maybe you upgrade power use to fast trying to have fast progression speed and item generation together to soon before you had good bots like it seems at low levels they just make you turn the crank better thus more power but dont do anything if you arent working but maybe if they get stronger they can generate power themselves supplementing the next power source or maybe all these options shouldnt be before you had a new power source maybe your stretching yourself to thin trying to hit each low hanging fruit and getting so many options and not progressing the basics enough to manage them yet

[@FerrumAnulum]

Reminds me of an android game from back in the day called armory & machine.

[@matthewbieker1103]

Would love to see more but kinda after 1 hour of offline play so you can get more use to everything

[@BlastOffer]

CRANK

[@aty55]

Is this game on steam or a regular website

[@Haelian]

Just a website, link in the description.

[@GhostZeroGZ]

When does Jason Statham show up?

[@VeraduxLP]

Crank is on of the best ones I played.

[@paulvanpraag]

What makes it good? I didn't survive the tedious early game. Is there like an auto-cranker macro to get to the good parts?

[@pumbaa667]

Totally. I finished it last week and it became my absolute favourite incremental game of all time. And oh boy did I play a lot of 'em !

[@pumbaa667]

@@paulvanpraag No macro, you just have to update the bot efficiency 'til they become self-sustainable.

[@Rickwhyy]

idk if you're going to see where this one goes but I know I am!

[@starburst98]

Gotta turn things off and on as needed.

[@zoroart1]

Bro idk why but i watch ur vid and alway get mad :(

[@Haelian]

I don't know either 🤷‍♂️

[@zoroart1]

@Haelian 😭

[@qv81]

WHY DONT YOU CLICK THE SYS TAB ALL EPISODE!!! IT'S ORANGE!!!!!

[@brunocbecker]

With all due respect, what’s the logic behind complaining that producing energy with the crank is boring, also complaining the crank bots are not doing that much, but ignoring the crank bots upgrades, so they produce energy by themselves?…

[@Haelian]

I guess you missed the part where I had crank bots and they weren't good yet lol.

[@L.Gus_G]

L.Gus

[@ducc_bread]

cranking

[@tatg69]

pretty frustrating to watch you constantly kneecapping yourself. turn the power on stuff down so you dont have to do everything one at a time.

[@robertrome6006]

Hades 2 plz

[@overwatchplaysfails5887]

Worst Video Out of the 6 i was.