Sorry its been a while, I've been a bit busy over the last week. When I created my Hive account exactly a week ago today, I was under the impression that (crypto stuff aside) it was just a more flexible social media type deal. Oh how wrong was I. There are so many rabbit holes I wasn't sure which one to investigate first. Then I heard people talking about Hive games, which is right up my alley!
I really like the sound of dCity but it requires some initial investment. As I'm only just starting out on Hive I've left that one on the backburner for a while. Besides, for my first foray I wanted something a bit easier to get into. When I read a post about Rising Star by 
I wasn't wrong. It's a nice little idle style game that revolves around music - you start with a simple busker and work your way up to, eventually, a fully fledged band. It even has its own radio stream so you can have some background music while you play which is a nice touch. I'm far from an expert as I've only just started to play, but I'll give a quick rundown of the basics.
Gameplay wise it's very easy to get into and is definitely casual gamer friendly. You do missions (illustrated below) that take a certain amount of time to complete depending which mission you choose to do. Each mission will also deplete your energy bar by a certain percentage. The missions earn you STARBITS that you can buy card packs with (or convert to another currency etc). The cards do various things, like give you extra skill, luck and fans. There's no initial currency investment needed at all so it was perfect for me.
Admittedly progress is fairly slow at the start if you don't buy anything, but that's to be expected with this type of game anyway. I think I've been playing for 5 days and I've managed to hit level 13 and accumulate a little over 5000 STARBITS. The nice thing is that when you hit certain milestones you're rewarded with a free card pack.
The above shows each milestone, those with a present icon will reward you with a free card pack and all the others give you bonus STARBITS, the amount depends on which level you've hit.
Each card pack will give you 3 random cards which you can either keep or sell for currency.
Thus far I've mostly been doing the "Illegal Busking" missions as they're short. For each mission you do there's a chance of picking up a bonus such as a pizza slice which restores your energy bar to 100% or coffee which increases your energy regeneration rate. So the more missions you can do, the more chance you have of picking those bonus items up.
At the beginning stages, one of the main goals is to buy a pizza box in which you can store one of those pizza slices for later use. I've almost saved enough for that - it will allow me to hold a slice back to use when it's needed rather than it being consumed immediately when you find one during a mission. Several times that's happened when my energy is almost full anyway, the ability to save it for later will allow for longer playtime.
So yeah, not all that much to it at the start really, but it's a fun little game that you can play in the background and I expect will get a bit more complex as you go along. I really like it so far and looking forward to getting a bit deeper into the game.
Quick edit
I forgot to include a link to the actual game, d'oh! Here it is... https://www.risingstargame.com (or use my referral link which will help me earn a little more in STARBITS.