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Incremental Island

by Tyler Hudson, Ryan Hoover · Published by Tylario

Price $2.99

Avg Players 0

Released Aug 12, 2024

Base BuildingCasualClickerColony Sim

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Incremental Island tasks you with building up a civilization across a procedurally generated map through a linear technology tree, trading, and combat. While the game offers a few hours of idle-friendly gameplay, it lacks prestige mechanics, meaningful strategic depth, or the incremental reward loops that define the genre, making it a thin experience for both casual players and incremental enthusiasts. Best suited for short, low-commitment sessions rather than extended engagement.

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▼ Not recommended 4 hrs

Paid game. Beat it in 4.5 hours with nearly 2 of those spent idling.

There's no complexity or depth. The technology tree is linear. Combat is just a numbers game of who has a bigger armor with a hint of randomization.

There's no prestige or ascension.

There's hardly any "incremental" increases, except for the linear tech tree.

For a paid idle game, this is laughable. There are free idle games that have infinitely more depth or complexity than this.

13 found helpful Steam ↗

▲ Recommended 1 hrs

Fun little game, would be nice for large maps with more islands to take - but to mong out for an hour on it isn't bad

9 found helpful Steam ↗

▼ Not recommended 0 hrs

Heads up if you're coming from the demo. They forgot to mention it but the port no longer costs gold so you can actually go find the ships to make the trades so you can progress.

They should have just labeled the port as locked in the demo as I took me a long time of being very frustrated at the terrible progression before I thought to go check it and saw that the gold requirement was removed.

At a minimum they should have included the port being unlocked in the notes when you first start the full version when loading the save from the demo.

8 found helpful Steam ↗

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