A strange little side quest
Tiny Tycoon belongs to a much longer story of play than a browser tab might suggest. Voyager 1 entered interstellar space in 2012, and Voyager 2 followed in 2018. The same trail leads to another fact: M.U.L.E. arrived in 1983 with multiplayer competition built around gathering resources and keeping a colony alive, an early example of resource-driven strategy play. The details change, but the appeal of learning a system and trying again is remarkably persistent.