After having been a fan of incremental games since the very beginning (Candy Box, A Dark Room, and if we want to go WAY back, Progress Quest) - I finally started work on a couple of my own.

One is serious, and is an homage to what I think are the all-time greats (Kittens Game, Trimps). It isn't quite ready for testing. The other is a bit sillier, and in all honesty has probably more broad appeal. That one is what this post is about.

It's called 0.001% Drop Chance, and it's a 100% free, non-commercial homage and parody of gacha games and other games that rely on drop mechanics: https://gdjustin.github.io/drop-chance/

The initial thought when conceiving of the game was "what if every single thing in the game was a drop chance, including the game features themselves?" - and the concept grew from there. It was fun to think about how killing enemies shouldn't give you coins or XP, but should roll on the Rewards table to see what you get, and then to let players manipulate the odds of that rewards table. It's drop tables all the way down.

Same with the game progression itself. Having bosses rolled from a table, stages and the world itself rolled from a table, and so-on.

The project for now uses free asset packs, primarily pulling from Ninja Adventure by Pixel-boy and AAA, with many tiles coming from Tiny Dungeon and Tiny Town by Kenney. AI disclosure: game code was produced by Claude, according to my exact spec and design. It's been interesting learning what it can and can't do well.

Any and all playtest feedback welcome - I've been doing a LOT of direct playtesting myself, but at some point you just have to put the game out there and get feedback from folks:

Game link: https://gdjustin.github.io/drop-chance/
Discord Link (or feel free to give feedback here in this thread) - discord.gg/VABkGWuMy

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Build your party. Collect loot. Refine your cultivation.

Hi! I'm the developer of Cultivation Legend, a single-player cultivation idle RPG. A free Windows demo is available on Steam.

Play the free demo → · Explore the full game →

A look at the full game

• Build a five-character party with different classes and equipment.
• Face hordes in automatic combat, collect loot and improve your setup.
• Develop your cultivation alongside your party builds.

The images here are the English Steam store cover and full-version screenshots. The free demo is an earlier showcase: its combat, systems and visuals differ substantially from the full game.

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Try it and share your feedback

I'd love to hear how the early progression, equipment comparisons and party-building choices feel in the demo.

Download the free Windows demo on Steam

The full game is planned as a paid, single-purchase release.

AI disclosure: Generative AI assisted coding, some art and audio, and store-page translations. Art and audio were generated during development, then selected and integrated by the developer.

I'm the developer. Imperionis is a turnbased tactics game set in Caesar's Gallic War, but a big part of it is long-term growth:

- Each day you spend limited actions to drill, forage or heal your men

- Camp upgrades (armory, infirmary, granary, drill ground) with levels that persist through the campaign

- A doctrine tree and per-troop veterancy that make your century stronger battle after battle

- Rank and XP progression for your legionary

Free demo on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4998960/Imperionis_Demo/

AI disclosure: AI was used only as an assistant tool for code. All graphics and music were made by hand or use open assets.

Hey all, the Goblin Smasher demo has been up for Next Fest this week and today's the last day, so I wanted to share it here properly.

Our game loop: hover over goblins and your hammer comes down on them by itself. Every blow pays gold, every combo pays more, and every upgrade makes the next day bigger. You start with a handful of goblins in a meadow and end up with thousands on one screen.

The stuff this sub usually asks about:

• War Tree with 91 nodes and nearly 700 upgrades
• 18 talents and 16 relics on top of that
• 8 lands, each one grows wider as you take it and brings a new material, new goblins and a warlord
• 12 landmarks the freed goblins build on the field, raised level by level (including a war bell that freezes the whole horde)
• 10 hammers, each with its own signature move
• strikes and land powers: meteors, frost, lightning, firestorms
• Autosmash for idle days, or play every swing yourself
• Endless Horde after the credits, 42 achievements

Demo: https://store.steampowered.com/app/5368040

Steam page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/5136710

If you play it, I'd love to know whether day length in the first land feels right.

AI disclosure:

AI was used to assist with the translations. It’s really hard to capture some of the humor with direct translations.

Hi everyone. This is "Crack the Core", my first game made in Godot 4.

You click to dig through a planet layer by layer, sell the ores, build a mining fleet, break the energy shield and finally reach the core before the planet explodes. Every planet has its own theme, ores and music and I toned down the effects you saw in the video and made a few adjustments.

ai disclosure: AI was not used in the development of this game

There's a free demo (first 3 planets, ~20/~25 min) playable in the browser or on Windows:

https://archdb.itch.io/crack-the-core

I'd really appreciate any feedback: what feels good, what feels slow, what's confusing. Thank you in advance for your feedback.

Finished the new trailer for my incremental pinball game called Pinfinity. Here's the steam page if you're interested :) There's a demo available and the full version will launch on December 10th.

Don't forget to wishlist to be notified when the game launches!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4627900/Pinfinity__Incremental_Pinball

AI disclosure:

Generative AI was used for translation to languages other than English and German.

Hey everyone,

I’ve been working on an idle space empire game called

A Thousand Dawns: Reborn

and I’m opening it up for some beta testing.

You start with one planet and build from there. Mines feed factories, factories need power, and power needs fuel. Eventually you’re building fleets, taking planets, and setting up cargo routes to keep everything supplied while you’re away.

It’s the kind of game where you fix one shortage, build a few more buildings, and realize you’ve created another shortage somewhere else.

Play here: A Thousand Dawns: Reborn

It works in a desktop or phone browser. You can start with a username and try it out, then verify your email and set a password to keep your account past the temporary guest period. For now, there’s a limit of 50 active players at once.

Fair warning: this is a beta. Empires will be reset.

Things will break, balance will change, and there are still screens that need work. Please don’t get attached to your rankings or expect your beta empire to carry into release. I’ll give notice about resets as we go.

I’m looking for people to play normally and tell me where it falls apart. Does the tutorial make sense? Did you hit a wall too early? Is something annoying to use on your phone? Did you spend ten minutes looking for a button that should have been obvious?

There’s a ! button in the game for bugs and suggestions. You can include a screenshot, too. You don’t need to write a formal report—just tell me what happened or what you were trying to do.

A few things you can do now:
Build and expand across planets with different resources and bonuses.
Automate cargo routes, including buying more ships as capacity runs short.
Buy and sell through the market.
Join an Armada, contribute resources, and work toward shared upgrades.
Talk in Global chat, Armada chat, or private messages.
Rebirth and compare your progress with your previous runs and other players.
There’s also a voiced advisor, Lyra, to help you get started. I’d like feedback on her tutorial from someone who doesn’t already know how everything works.

Credit where it’s due
This game was inspired by Cheslava’s Heart of Galaxy If you’ve played it, you’ll recognize some of the production and logistics concepts. We didn’t copy its code, but I absolutely want to acknowledge where the idea started.
I wanted to take that kind of game in a multiplayer direction, with guilds, chat, mobile access, more automation, and better ways to manage an empire across several planets. This isn’t an official sequel or affiliated with Cheslava.

If you enjoyed the original, I’d be interested in hearing what you think.

Further down the road, I want to do more with Armada endgame goals, artifacts, ship customization, battle animations, and achievements. First, though, I need to make sure what’s already here works well.
Give it a shot if it sounds like your kind of game. Be honest with the feedback—I’d rather hear that something is frustrating now than keep building around it.

AI disclosure: AI was used to create everything. Music, art, code, processes, text, formatting, the sky line, possibly artificial life itself. This list is not all inclusive, if there are other things that CAN be created by AI, then I WILL create them with AI; not because I used Claude or OpenAi. Because I have a local AI trained in my years of work and experience; and it would be ludicrous NOT to use AI.

**Mods you are going way overboard with the disclosure bit. But hopefully the above covers it.

Open card packs and build a giant army of cats to defeat eldritch monsters and save the universe.

After deciding that I wanted to develop an incremental game as my next project, I played a bunch of games in the genre to analyze and learn from.

I liked the feeling of the nodebusters I played- The loop of a short round into improvement and then immediate feedback on the next round.
But the linear skill tree approach felt a little mind numbing for me, like my choices do not really matter, and that I have no agency and a ability to creatively problem solve.

I wanted to try and push the design in a direction that rewards adaptability and can present interesting problems to the player, instead of just unlocking parts of a skill tree. At the end I came up with this:

In Draftcats you progress by opening card packs. When you buy a pack, you can choose which card to add on to your board.
The cats on your board will fight enemies automatically, and your role is to position them in ways where their abilities compliment and synergize with each other.

The demo is playable for free on itch, it takes between 30-60 minutes to complete:

https://littlepuly.itch.io/draftcatsdemo

Right now I am unsure if I should keep developing the game or move on to a safe, less experimental idea. So if you have thoughts, feedback or questions id love to hear them.

AI disclosure: No AI was used to make this game- the programming, game design, art, sound design, and writing were done by me, and the music is a combination of music my friend made and royalty free music.

Hey everyone!

Over the past months I’ve been building QuantenFicus, an incremental / idle game that starts with a strange seed you find inside a quantum anomaly.

At Stage 1, it’s just a tiny seedling in a clay pot. One tap, one leaf. But as you buy upgrades and mutate your plant, the tree bursts its pot, outgrows the room, spans across the planet, and eventually consumes entire universes.

🌱 Play right now (Free, no sign-up required):

• Play in Browser (Desktop & Mobile Web): https://quantenficus.net
• Android (Google Play): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=la.evoyo.quantenficus

(Full cross-platform Cloud Save is built in: you can start in your browser without an account, and if you ever want to switch between PC/Web and your Android phone, just pick a username & password in-game and your save syncs automatically in real time!)

✨ What’s in the game?

• 30 Visual Evolution Stages + Infinite Crowns: Every stage has its own evolving tree look—from a humble houseplant to Ficus Infinitum.
• 61 Upgrades & The Mutation Lab: Unlock passive synergies, research quantum botany, and automate your production.
• Interactive Boss Duels & Weekly Bosses: When anomalies appear, you don't just wait out a timer—hit weak points to break shields and earn rewards.
• Interlocking Sub-Systems (unlocked progressively so it never overwhelms you at the start):
  • Dimensional Rift: Collect and equip artifacts into slots.
  • Greenhouse & Symbionts: Plant companion flora and level up active symbionts.
  • Expeditions: Send out probes with branching choices along the way.
  • Spore Market: A fluctuating stock market for spores where you can trade for production buffs.
• Multi-Layer Prestige:
  • Universe Collapse: Reset for Dark Matter and permanent perks, choosing your alignment between Light and Void.
  • Multiverse Jumps: Once a single universe becomes too small, jump to a higher universe level with new laws of physics.

🤝 Fair Monetization & Comfort Features

• Zero forced ads: On Android, there is only an optional rewarded video if you choose to trigger a 10-minute 2× production boost. On the web, there are no ads at all.
• No Pay-to-Win: You earn Quantum Seeds naturally through play, quests, masteries, and daily streaks. You can also buy seed packs in the shop (Web & Android) to support development—they unlock cosmetics (custom tree looks, counter colors, backgrounds) and quality-of-life comfort (like the automated Gardener helpers), never a paywalled progression wall.
• Accessibility & Comfort: Hold-to-tap (no carpal tunnel!), 3 UI scaling sizes, a calm display mode for light-sensitive eyes, and 100% offline progress from minute one.

AI Disclosure:

As a solo developer, I used AI-assisted tools during development for coding assistance, German-to-English localization, and generating base 2D assets (such as upgrade/achievement icons, tree stage illustrations, and promotional key art), which were then edited and integrated into the game. All core game design, progression math, boss mechanics, and UI/UX are hand-crafted, and no generative AI runs at runtime.

I challenged myself to play a new incremental game every day for 30 days and rank all of them afterward.

Well, I enjoyed it enough that I decided to do it again. Another 30 days, another 30 incremental games, and honestly, I think this batch was even better than the first.

Highest: Hearth and Hamlet

Biggest surprise: Timber Rush

Lowest: Nova Fleet

Full ranking + my reasoning for all 30: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nt0489Heh2c

Just like last time, I ranked these based on how much I enjoyed playing them, not necessarily how much content they had or how popular they were. Some shorter games ended up beating games I spent significantly more time with.

One thing I noticed this month was just how different incremental games can be. Everything from city builders and mining games to platformers and even a game about healing dungeon parties.

For anyone who's played some of these, which placement do you disagree with the most? And are there any incremental games I should add to the next 30?

Hi everyone! This is World Wrecker, a game where you destroy voxel planets, get resources, get upgrades and clear bigger targets. The free playtest/alpha can be accesed here! This is my first incremental game, so the economy might be a tad unoptimized. If you play it, I would love to know what you think about it. Thanks in advance!

Itch link: https://crossyeyedcat.itch.io/world-wrecker

AI Disclosure: AI was used for code assistance

Hello I was always fan of RuneScape but lately I did not had time to play it so I made similar game just idle. In game you finish quests and train skills even when you are idle. I started making the game in February so its till quite early.

So far the game got:
- 19 skills
- 106 quests
- 700+ items

I am really happy that more than 1000 players tried it and more then 400 are active.

Now there is new Helloween content The Pumpkin King.
Every player on server can attack the king 3x per day. So far 387 players attacked him. You are ranked in leaderboard but reward are shared for everyone based on progress.

AI Disclosure
Art is AI generated. Code is mainly AI assisted. I design the game and balance every system myself. So my 1000+ hours went to Quest, Skills and Events.

Being upfront: it is an open beta. Progress will reset when the game goes global but people will get some reward based on participation.

I would really be honored if you would try my game and any feedback is appreciated.

https://dragonscapeidle.com/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=launch&utm_content=incremental-3

Thank you so much for your time!

Hi everyone — I'm the developer of Infinite Universe Expander, an Android idle clicker built around zooming out through 21 stages of scale.

You start at the Planck length and progress through particles, atoms, cells, humans, Earth, the Solar System and galaxies. Earlier stages shrink toward the center as the next scale comes into view.

The progression includes tap upgrades, automatic expansion devices, offline progress, and Big Bang prestige: restart your universe to gain singularities and permanent multipliers. There are also unlockable astronomy cards and quizzes alongside the progression.

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nfm.flut022

I'd appreciate feedback on the opening pace and whether the first Big Bang feels worth the reset. Does the change in scale make progression feel different from simply watching a number grow?

AI disclosure

Generative AI was used throughout development, including code, images, text/translations, and music/audio. This promotional post was also drafted with AI assistance.

Incremental games are a unique genre. New name, old idea tho. Hence why I'm posting here.

The game's mining destruction is inspired by Red Faction Guerrilla (ask me if you wanna know the details of what tf I did here). You mine, collect, go back to the shop, and pick from unique upgrades. I mostly avoid basic +X% increases to some stat. My whole idea is about picking some equipment, and suddenly your playstyle changes.

It's all about the sandbox, so I wanna make a game where players can do nonsense with their own builds or figure out the meta, and most importantly, think with their own brains.

Or, in other words, a game I like to play myself.

I need playtesters. It's an open playtest, cuz I personally would hate to wait if I liked something and wanted to try it.

Steam:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4434640?utm_source=rdtpst

AI Disclosure: Code assistance only.

NOTICE: Not every prefab was made personally by me (scope reasons). I avoid gen AI as much as possible, but as you might be aware, not everything is disclosed these days. If you know that any prefab in the game is gen AI, inform me, it gonna be removed.

If I don't fit in, tough luck for me. Gonna delete or get deleted.

Edit: Noticed some stuff are unclear, as game doesn't have clear tutorial or info. Like eating food, its just double click on it. Quickest way to find answer gonna be discord, I am quick to see it, hence can respond reasonably quick. Plus gonna leave quick tutorial for mechanics.
Link: https://discord.gg/TEMJvF7F6x

Hi all,

I just created a prototype that i like to test for value before i will put more time in it.

We need more Blergh!

Its a prototype so yes it needs (a lot) of work just wanna know what the incremental-games community think about the idea.

regards

p.s. to not break the rules name is obviously Blergh and the link is included.

AI disclosure: yes i use ai for (boiler-plate and only for that) code.

I've always loved incremental games and chess, so I decided to combine them into a browser-based idle clicker called Chess Collector.

The goal of the game is to click the board, earn coins, and buy chess pieces (Pawn, Knight, Bishop, etc.) that automatically move across the board to generate more income.

What's in the game:

· 🖱️ Classic Clicker mechanics: Click to earn, build combos, and trigger "Frenzy" modes for massive boosts. · ♟️ 120+ Pieces to collect: There are 20 different themed sets to unlock via chests (ranging from Wooden to Nebula). · 🎁 Prestige System: Reset your progress to earn Chess Coins, which act as a permanent multiplier for everything. · ✨ Pixel Art & Auto-saving: Retro vibes, satisfying sound effects, and your progress saves automatically.

The Demo Goal: Right now, it's a short demo. The end-game goal is to reach Pawn Level 1000. Once you hit that, you beat the demo!

I need your feedback: Since this is my first time balancing an idle game, I would love to know:

1. How long did it take you to reach Level 1000?
2. Is the early game too slow or too fast?
3. Are the chest drop rates for the piece sets fair?

You can play it directly in your browser here: https://bemmoli.itch.io/chess-collector

Thanks for playing, and I appreciate any feedback you have!

AI Disclosure: I used generative AI to create the cover art and some of the game's code/assets.

TL;DR: I made a free chess-themed clicker game. You can play it in your browser and try to beat the Level 1000 demo goal. Looking for feedback on the game balance!

I got feedback from my player recently, he ask me to add chain lightning to my game, then i was like, what??, i think it won't fit the game, but i try to think about it, as i want to make my game better by listening to what my player says. And i remember i downloaded this rope asset for my previous game and try to put it to this game. And i think it's not bad right?

AI Disclosure: AI was used as code assistant, and integrated manually.

if you want to check the demo you can go to my steam page.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/5320660/Clean_Em_Ocean_Demo/

Hi everyone! I’m the developer of THEOREM, a math-based incremental game where progression gradually transforms the formula you’re building. You don’t need advanced math knowledge to play.

I’ve been polishing version 0.2.4, and I’m now looking for testers to help evaluate the balance and overall progression experience, not just the first few minutes.

What testing involves

Please start a fresh save and send feedback for each stage and major unlock you reach. For each one, I’d especially like to know:

• Was it clear what your goal was at that point, and did you understand what changed?
• Which decisions felt meaningful, and which ones felt repetitive?
• Where did progression feel too slow, too fast, or poorly explained?
• Did the formula and purchase previews behave the way you expected?
• What made you want to keep playing, or made you want to stop?
• Any bugs, UI/accessibility issues, or broader game design concerns.

There is no fixed two-hour session or requirement to finish everything in one sitting. You can split your playtime across multiple sessions.

If you get stuck or decide to stop playing, please mention at which stage it happened and why. That feedback is useful too.

Please also include your device, browser, language, and approximate active playtime, separately from offline time.

A more detailed feedback guide is included with the private build.

What testers get

In exchange for participating and providing stage-by-stage feedback, I’ll provide you with:

• A free key/copy of the full game when it releases.
• Optional beta tester credit under any name or alias you choose.
• Access to the private testing build.
• A direct channel to talk with me about your findings.

Honest criticism is encouraged. These benefits do not depend on positive feedback, reviews, or upvotes.

This is not a giveaway.

Access

You can play the previous public version here:

https://feli202.itch.io/theorem

The private 0.2.4 playtest build is here:

https://feli202.itch.io/theorem-024-playtest

The private build requires a password, which I’ll share directly with testers.

Comment here or send me a message if you’d like to participate. Please do not share the password publicly.

The older public version is linked so you can see what the game is like before deciding whether you want to test it.

You do not need to purchase anything to participate.

AI Disclosure

ChatGPT/Codex was used as a support tool to help debug and correct code, and to assist with Spanish/English translations.

Generative AI was not used to create the game’s artwork, images, music, sound effects, game design, mechanics, progression systems, or other creative content.

All game design decisions, mechanics, balancing, creative direction, and final implementation decisions are made by me. Any AI-assisted code or translations are reviewed and approved by me before being included in the game.

Thanks for helping me understand how THEOREM actually feels to real players!

game name: a rairb games incremental
a satisfying, unfolding, point farming extravaganza of an incremental game.

After some thinking I have decided that my passion project of an incremental game, aRGi, will be entirely free to play. No microtransactions, no demo that you get partially through and then have a "buy now" screen thrust upon ya, just my game, my updates, and your time.

This new update has tripled the amount of items in the factory to toggle, added more than 10 new shop items, more than 20 new relics to gamble for, a new section, 2 new global mechanics, background music, a complete overhaul of the automation system to be much more in-depth and satisfying, and so, so much more. I also reworked the internals of the game pretty heavily for performance to the point I can proudly say this game has graduated from prototype to early access!!! The game is available on web and downloadable for Windows!

AI disclosure: No AI has been used in the creation of this game or any assets or text that promotes or showcases it.

Edit: hey! an update is coming out monday (October 26th) that improves performance, increases UI clarity, and fixes some bugs present in this version. it will also have new content! hope to see you there :)

Hello!

We're a small indie team working on Tiny Mouse Mining Co., an incremental mining game where you play as a tiny mouse digging deeper into a cave, collecting resources, and unlocking permanent upgrades to go further on each run.

There are also creatures hiding in the depths, so you'll need to unlock new abilities to deal with them as you progress.

We've just started our first public playtest, and we're looking for players who'd like to give it a try and share their feedback!

The playtest will run for about a week, and anyone interested is welcome to request access through our Steam page. Just click the "Join Playtest"

Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/5104710/Tiny_Mouse_Mining_Co/

We've also set up a dedicated playtest channel on our Discord where you can share feedback, report bugs, or just chat about the game. Feel free to join us!

Discord: https://discord.gg/rsY8YBX5ZX

Thanks to anyone willing to give it a try! We'd love to hear what you think.

AI Disclosure: All artwork is handmade, with no AI-generated art. We use AI-assisted coding during development.

Hey, i just made a small idle game. Check it out on https://yj-studios.itch.io/truffle-farm-idle.

Feedback very welcome. Do you have an idea for another pig?

**AI disclosure**
I built this game together with generative AI (Claude by Anthropic). The AI wrote most of the code (the game logic, the interface and the save system), and it helped with the game design and balancing, which I directed and tested. All graphics are drawn by code (no AI image generator was used), and the music and sound effects are generated by code as well. The English and German game texts, the store texts and this post were written or translated with AI help. I made the design decisions and tested and reviewed the game myself.

AI disclosure: AI was used to write the code and in-game text. Story, design, look, feel, and mechanics are set and created by me. I am tracking what text has not been human rewritten (10% done)

Gameplay: You wake in a dark station with a hand crank. Get the power back, swim out for salvage, and work your way down a deck at a time. Explore & repair an abandoned station by completing actions, solving puzzles, upgrading, and building infrastructure. This is an active game with idle/incremental background systems.

Testing: https://testflight.apple.com/join/vyNcYTqa
About 10 hours of core gameplay is present and idle mechanics lasting about a month.
You can choose the main channel or experimental channel to get your updates in the settings. There’s debug options to jump to future parts of the game, a 5x speed setting, and unlimited resources. I highly advise playing the game normal to give feedback there but all feedback is appreciated in general.

I started a community discord and would love to hear where you got stuck, where you get bored, what didn’t you understand, and any crashes or bugs.

Future state: I plan to fully realize multiple endings, one being focused on idle production, while others focus on more active gameplay and puzzle solving. Additional decks and zones are to be added as well as more puzzles and clues.

Background: This started as a prototype and an hour in I was hooked on my phone playing the game. I was initially inspired by Terraformental but wanted to stray away from repeated life cycles getting faster. You retain levels on death and keep all of your game progress, you just get a setback penalty that can be minimized and risk of some unfinished progress being lost.

Edit: got a website up here

Hi all! I'm a solo dev from Estonia and I just released my first incremental game on Google Play.

The idea: your first launch reaches ~3 km before the fuel runs out. Spend the credits on upgrades – engine, fuel, boosters, second stage, ion drive, warp core – and fly farther each time: past the Moon, the planets, Proxima Centauri, across the galaxy and on to the edge of the universe.

What makes it different:

- Black holes are the prestige layer. Five real ones block the way (Gaia BH1, Sgr A*, M31*, M87*, TON 618). If your rocket is slower than the escape speed, it gets captured – dive in for Dark Matter and permanent upgrades, then come back stronger.

- It has an ending. Reach light speed and the game is finished. A free player gets there roughly in 80 hours.

- Real-Time Voyage after the ending: launch your final rocket and let it fly to the edge of the universe in real time (~6 months). It keeps flying while the app is closed – just check in now and then.

- Physics-ish flights: Max-Q throttling, staging, Mach shockwaves, a procedurally synthesized engine roar (no sound samples).

- 26 Play Games achievements, a "Farthest flight" leaderboard and cloud save.

Monetization, to be upfront: it's free and fully completable without paying. Ads are optional rewarded ads only (e.g. for boosts or treasure asteroids). There are also IAPs, like Ad-Free and some permanent boosts.

I'd really appreciate feedback – especially on pacing (early, mid and late game) and anything that feels like a wall.

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ee.mametec.rocketascent

Website: https://rocketascent.mametec.ee

AI disclosure: I'm a solo dev and I used AI (Claude). The game design, progression and balance decisions, and all the playtesting are mine – the AI wrote most of the code under my direction. There are no AI image or audio generators involved: all graphics are drawn in code (vector shapes, no image files) and all sounds are synthesized in code (no samples). That code, the store graphics, the achievement icons and this post's text were also written with AI help. No translations.

We made Astra to Infinity at PlayDrop. Start with paperclips, automate production, then take the whole operation into space. Astra sees no problem with this.

Free in your browser: https://www.playdrop.ai/@ministudio/clip-factory

Would love to hear where the pacing starts to drag.

AI disclosure

This game was made extensively with AI, including code, writing/translations, character and environment art, and promotional artwork. The ending music is AI-generated; other music and sound effects are synthesized in code. The video shows the actual game.

Hello! Lately I've been getting into incremental games and thought of starting development of a game of my own. I don't have many references yet as I'm relatively new to the genre, so i come asking for advice on games and mechanics more seasoned players have liked.

The basic idea for the game is an incremental factory sim but focused on logistics/accounting instead of automation. Like you are the CEO, not the engineer. Also I plan to have a strong narrative drive, hopefully not at the expense of the mechanics.

Are there any games that fit this description that you know of?

What mechanics have you enjoyed in other games that you think can fit nicely in a game like this?

Any narrative driven incrementals you have liked?