Game: Greedy Greedy Gnomes
Developer: Nautlander (Brazil, solo)
Publisher: Future Friends Games
Genre: Incremental Idle RPG
Status: Out now
Platforms: PC (Steam) · Android (Google Play)
Setting: Eldor’Idle
Goal: One billion coins
🪙 Greedy Greedy Gnomes is out now on Steam and Google Play. Nautlander and Future Friends Games’ incremental RPG takes the most compulsive habit in the genre — smashing pots for loose change — and builds an entire economy on it.
🖥️ Steam
$5.99
£5.29 / €6.15 — check local currency
📱 Google Play
$3.99
£3.59 — two dollars cheaper than PC
Step one: break pot Step two: ??? Step three: become a billionaire
Greedy Greedy Gnomes begins with a single click on a single pot, which yields a single coin. Several thousand decisions later you are running a gnome-staffed pot-destruction operation across an entire town and closing in on a billion.
It’s from Nautlander — a one-person Brazilian studio — published by Future Friends Games, and it launched today on both Steam and Android.
The Joke Is Also a Genuinely Good Idea
🏺 Every RPG Player Already Does This Compulsively
Smashing pots for a handful of coins has been a fixture of the genre for decades, and players do it obsessively despite the returns being negligible. It’s one of gaming’s most universal compulsions and almost nobody has ever examined why.
Greedy Greedy Gnomes’ answer is to make it the entire game. That’s funny — but it’s also structurally sound, because the compulsion already exists in every player who’s ever picked up a controller. The developer doesn’t have to teach you to want to break the pot. You’ve been doing it since Zelda.
From there it follows incremental logic exactly where you’d expect. Coins unlock upgrades, new buildings and equipment; pot values rise; and eventually you stop swinging entirely and hire gnomes to do the breaking for you — training them up for speed, strength and efficiency, because a well-managed workforce is worth more than your own wrist.
🏺 Break Pots
Click a pot, get a coin. This remains true for the entire game; only the scale changes.
🧙 Hire Gnomes
Outsource the smashing to employees, then train them for speed, strength and efficiency.
🏘️ Unlock Houses
New buildings across the village mean more pots, and more pots mean more of everything else.
⛏️ Raid Mines
Push beyond the town for equipment and upgrades, and keep playing the economy.
It’s Deliberately Short
🎯 A Finish Line, Not a Treadmill
Nautlander describe this as a short incremental game, with a stated target: one billion coins.
That’s a meaningful distinction in a genre defined by never ending. Most idle games are built to run indefinitely, adding prestige layers until you drift away rather than finish. Greedy Greedy Gnomes has a number you’re aiming at and a point where you stop — which is a far more respectful proposition, and at six dollars it isn’t pretending otherwise.
🏘️ About That Town Name
The game is set in the sleepy town of Eldor’Idle — which is both a perfectly serviceable fantasy place name and the game’s original title, Eldor’idle, before it was renamed for launch.
Keeping the old name as the setting is a nice bit of housekeeping, and the pun does exactly what the rest of the game does: state the joke plainly and then commit to it entirely.
Cheaper on the Platform That Suits It Better
Worth flagging the pricing split: $5.99 on Steam against $3.99 on Google Play. Mobile being cheaper isn’t unusual in itself, but it’s notable here because Android is arguably the better home for this genre — an incremental game is designed to be checked, poked and left alone, which is precisely what a phone in your pocket is for.
Buying it on the platform that suits the format best also happens to be the cheaper option, which is a rarer alignment than it sounds.
📈 Incremental
💤 Idle
⚔️ RPG
🏭 Optimisation
😂 Comedy
🎯 Single-Player
Who’s Making It
🇧🇷 Nautlander
A one-person Brazilian studio focused on quality and attention to detail, previously behind Dojoran.
🤝 Future Friends Games
Founded in 2017 with the stated mission of helping indie games get the love they deserve. Their catalogue includes CloverPit, Slots & Daggers, Queen’s Domain, Exo One, Tiny Aquarium, On-Together and Laysara: Summit Kingdom — which we’ve covered before, in our Laysara: Summit Kingdom write-up.
Future Friends have quietly built one of the more interesting indie catalogues going, and CloverPit in particular gave them a genuine hit. Backing a solo developer’s incremental pot-smashing sim fits the pattern.
Greedy Greedy Gnomes is available now on Steam and Google Play.
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