#increlution

[clairelutra]

some quick indie game recs, incremental ver:

increlution - an incremental with a rougelite bent. slow and hands-off once it gets going (i'm typing this post up while waiting on progress). very satisfying to see progress happen, very clear with how everything works and what you need to do.

nodebuster - incremental with lo-fi beats to destroy little boxes to. excellent gameplay loop, very meditative, well-paced. i've replayed it like 4 times now.

digseum - an incremental/idle that also has a very fun and satisfying gameplay loop. i've replayed it 3 times. finding out all the ways you can make progress stack up is great.

factory town idle - a clicker incremental with peaceful orchestral music to do capitalism to. replayed several times. it's not too clear on the instructions and the dev's discord had everything i'd want in a tutorial/tip box, but even without that, it's very fun.

[idleincrementalgamer]

Playing Increlution and I cannot for the life of me figure out why I would want to fortify the cart in the prison. Like yeah it lets you hold more wood at once but it's not like there's a travel slowdown? It saves me having to set up "salvage ship" "fortify barricade" an extra time but having to "fortify cart" wastes time and wood anyway. Maybe I missed something, just realized I've been missing out on the bananas earlier on so entirely possible

[idleincrementalgamer]

to be fair (Dance Battle) is also deadly to me at this point, my only real choice is leaving the tavern but where’s the fun in that?

[idleincrementalgamer]

I really think Increlution is the peak of the loop genre just on how it handles the story. You play An Unusual Idle Life or Progress Knight and it’s just “your soul remembers a bit of everything you did in your attempt at this life so you eventually get stupid good at things” . But Increlution takes that and adds the auto function. It says “sure anyone picks an orange now and then but you picked 400 oranges, you clearly are crazy about picking oranges and are going to pick one whenever you have a chance”. or, and I find this more interesting, “you made that giant leap over the gorge, that was such a huge achievement that unless you make the concerted effort not to, we’re going to assume is a set choice in your life.” I dunno I just think it’s neat, maybe they only meant it as a quality of life mechanic so you didn’t get sick of the first 20 minutes of the story played out 10,000 times but it feels like it makes the whole thing mean more. I really hope to see more interesting things done with the sub-genre like this.

[idleincrementalgamer]

My current queue in Increlution. We learn the ways of the goat so we can better hunt and eat them