Evolve: An incremental game about evolving a civilization

8/18/2026 at 6:35:08 PM

To anyone visiting on mobile: if you don't see any buttons, switch to the desktop version in your browser.

Evolve is one of a relative few that have been around and growing for a long time, and easily have months of (gradual) content. Worth a try if these appeal to you and you haven't tried it yet.

by Groxx

8/18/2026 at 7:46:24 PM

Relative few that have been around a long time? There is a plethora of 10+ year old incrementals with virtually endless content at this point.

by wild_egg

8/18/2026 at 9:18:18 PM

If this doesn't turn into universal paperclips about 150 years after an industrial revolution, I'm going to be severely disappointed.

by flir

8/15/2026 at 9:58:29 AM

Code: https://github.com/pmotschmann/Evolve

by frozenseven

8/20/2026 at 6:11:58 AM

If you like Paperclips / Kittens / A Dark Room, I also built a game in that niche.

A dark incremental settlement builder with a story and decisions with impact on the game. It is playable in the browser at https://a-dark-cave.com, desktop and mobile. There is a Steam demo too.

by julez_

8/18/2026 at 6:38:34 PM

I have no clue what this is. So far, it's just click click click with 0 though.

by fhn

8/18/2026 at 7:31:18 PM

This is one of the incrementals where you mostly start getting choices after you reset. Then you can be mushroom people or other types and start trying unique traits in different runs

by nemomarx

8/18/2026 at 8:55:22 PM

its like the paperclip game

by lbrito

8/18/2026 at 10:39:27 PM

Love this so much. I always get in my own way with making a game like this. I keep trying to add too much instead of it just being an incremental clicker game.

by jermaustin1

8/18/2026 at 7:15:23 PM

Its like Kittens game, but broader. I think kittens are deeperer but narrower, but idk maybe im wrong havent played both in years

by artemonster

8/19/2026 at 3:51:51 PM

Works for a bit in iOS Orion but buttons now stop the counters. Reload rewinds progress.

Saw another comment had the link to the GitHub project, so went to file a bug. Stopped in my tracks when I saw over 200 open issues.

by voakbasda

8/18/2026 at 11:12:19 PM

Hey, it's a rare moment to see the "legend" of incremental games (shoutout to r/incrementalgames for introducing me to one of the genre I liked —because actually it can be played while working)!

by arceister

8/19/2026 at 2:14:51 AM

Is there a bug with adding workers?

Added a Cottage, and unemployed number toggled between 1 and 0, and total count didn't change. Like the workers disappeared.

by FrustratedMonky

8/20/2026 at 7:03:33 PM

Very similar to trimps

by gepeake

8/19/2026 at 10:02:49 PM

Very cool, enjoying it so far. Did you use LLMs for coding?

by lbrito

8/18/2026 at 6:33:12 PM

I’d recommend making it responsive, the bottom bar for example has a lot of overlapping elements on my phone

by Narciss

8/18/2026 at 7:54:37 PM

Very cool idea and my evolution to a scorpio was fun and educational.

by lagrange77

8/18/2026 at 10:07:54 PM

Shit. Found this at 8:30am, happy to click a few times before starting work... Suddenly its 10am? Huh? Also, minor spoilers, but it looks like making a crazy OP cell form does nothing once you evolve. I had some crazy RNA/DNA numbers, then as soon as I evolved its like haha none of that matters. Reminds me of evolving out of cell form in SPORE

by arcboii92

8/19/2026 at 5:59:53 AM

Yep, it really is damn addictive, but hey, it's educational so who's counting the hours :)

by siimmannik

8/19/2026 at 1:03:02 AM

So it's the paperclip game, except meat

by King-Aaron

8/18/2026 at 7:50:49 PM

Oh no!, another paperclips game. There goes my day.

by utopcell

8/18/2026 at 8:41:52 PM

If you're the type to get absorbed by these consider staying away. I've been playing this one for years and am not at the end of its content.

by idle_zealot

8/18/2026 at 9:25:32 PM

Too late, already trapped.

by utopcell

8/18/2026 at 7:47:07 PM

I guess all hope of being productive this afternoon went to shit. Cool game.

by jmartrican

8/19/2026 at 6:38:34 AM

Hey, this is pretty cool

by rogermungo

8/18/2026 at 7:43:28 PM

Is this a clicker game?

by FrustratedMonky

8/18/2026 at 9:05:37 PM

It's an idle/incremental game, which includes a lot of clicker games. It stops being clicky very early on though, it's only in the beginning 5-10 minutes that you have to click for resources.

by BanazirGalbasi

8/18/2026 at 10:08:58 PM

> It's an idle/incremental game, which includes a lot of clicker games. It stops being clicky very early on though, it's only in the beginning 5-10 minutes that you have to click for resources.

I am still having to click for wood and stone (went down the fungus path). There is no autoclicker for wood or stone.

EDIT: n/mind. Worked it out.

by lelanthran

8/18/2026 at 6:54:22 PM

Very cool.

by ngrilly

8/18/2026 at 8:14:22 PM

love this

by tmgldn