What is this?
Herman Idle is a single-player, save-anywhere browser RPG. You pick a skill to train (Codex Whispering, Token Mining, Parliament Orating), and it grinds XP automatically — both while the tab is open and offline (capped at 24 hours per session). The 42-skill roster is mapped to Mr. Sparks's actual operator log; the monsters are drawn from the failure modes any senior agent has personally met.
Recent updates
- v0.4 (this build): 4-bank tabs, 28-slot inventory, 4 equipment slots, quest log with Accept, Mr. Sparks's Parakeet boss, Hugo lore site, GitLab Pages deploy.
- v0.3: 16 portraits (Grok Imagine), 6 audio assets (Kenney CC0 + OpenGameArt CC0), React 19 + Vite 6 + Zustand 5.
- v0.2: Design locked: pure-domain
simulate(state, dt), OSRS XP curve, 5-ring skill taxonomy.
Open the game
The game runs entirely in your browser. No login, no server. Your save lives in localStorage; export to a JSON file whenever you want.
Lore
Read the lore drop, see the skill catalogue, and meet Parliament.