Survive the ever increasing pressure of time for as long as you can! A minimalistic idle game about time management that takes inspiration from roguelite games, with a focus on meta-progression. Every generation will have better chances at survival, because previous lives influence its instincts

## About This Game
Survive the ever increasing pressure of time for as long as you can!

Increlution is a minimalistic idle game about time management that takes
inspiration from roguelite games. It’s up to you to survive as long as you can
with the tools that you unlock throughout life, such as food or constructions.
As time goes on, your health will decline increasingly faster until you’ll
eventually die. However, death merely marks a new beginning. With every
generation, your chances at survival will increase, because progress in
previous lives increases your instincts.
## Managing time
Throughout life, you’ll have access to various jobs, constructions and
explorations. Using the step-by-step queue system, you can plan exactly what
you want to happen and the game will automatically follow your orders. When
your queue is empty, the game pauses automatically, so you don’t lose any of
your precious time! This is a game about planning and strategizing, not a game
about micro-management or clicking. However, if you prefer to play more real-
time, you can prioritize anything over your queue at any time.
## Skills
Every action uses one of many skills, such as Farming of Woodcutting. Every
skill has two leveling types, Generation levels and Instinct levels.
Generation levels increase more rapidly and provide a bigger benefit
throughout life. Instinct levels increase at a slower pace, but persist
through death, creating a permanent improvement for every following life. The
combined effect of these levels directly affects how quickly you can perform
actions that use these skills, allowing you to spend more of your time on
other actions to increase your chances to survive!
## Story based progression
You progress through the game with a story. Exploring the world allows you to
discover new tools to improve your chances at survival. Unlike most idle
games, having a story also means the game includes no procedural content, and
you’re actually able to complete the game. When the game is released into
early access, the story will contain between two and three weeks of content,
depending on how well you are doing. Throughout early access this story will
be expanded significantly, until at least two months worth of content. When
the story feels properly finished, a new game plus will likely be added to
offer an option to continue playing after completing the game.
## Meta progression
Every generation will have better chances at survival than the last. The
longer you survive, the more those chances will increase! This cycle of life
and death plays a fundamental part in the overall progression through the
game. Death is inevitable, but never pointless!
## Featuring a free demo
Like many things in life, you can only truly judge whether something fits your
liking by trying it first hand. For that reason, Increlution will feature a
free demo so you don’t need to take anyone’s word for it! Try it yourself, and
only get the full version if you’re completely convinced that it’ll be worth
your while! Progress made in the demo will automatically be synchronized to
the full version through Steam Cloud. The free pre-release demo can be played
right now and contains roughly nine hours of content! After the game reaches
Early Access, the demo will probably be adjusted to roughly two hours of
content.
## When will the game be available?
Increlution will release as Early Access during the third quarter of 2021. The
Early Access version is currently targeted to be between two and three weeks
of content, after which I intend to expand the game to at least two months of
content. As a solo developer, community involvement has been incredibly useful
to the overall quality of my previous game and calling a game finished before
improving it to player feedback would be a missed chance!

Interested? Try the demo right now by downloading it at the top of this page!
If you like it, you can wishlist the game and Steam will notify you when
Increlution reaches early access!

Increlution