Simultree tasks you with running life simulations to accumulate points for a sprawling skill tree. The core loop centers on monitoring experiments and investing your gains into permanent upgrades, though the progression follows a fairly rigid path with limited strategic freedom. It's polished and brief enough for a single sitting, though players expecting sandbox-style flexibility or substantial depth may find the experience closer to a guided puzzle than a true incremental.
About this game
Simultree is a short incremental game about monitoring life simulations. You're a scientist who runs life simulations in order to gain points to spend in a big skill tree.
Players, last 30 days
Peak 5 · Low 0
Daily peak concurrent players, sampled once a night from Steam.
What players are saying
▼ Not recommended3 hrs
At a certain point, simulations become idle, but you can't switch to a different window and do other things because the game hijacks your cursor across all windows. The game will also cut off information if you're in windowed mode because it won't zoom out or resize UI elements, and you can't move the camera.
In general, the points mechanic and how it interacts with different mutations is opaque, and so you will be barely scraping by for the point goals for most of the game until you finally research scientists and immediately explode past all remaining goals by over 400% (earn 4M points, meanwhile you just earned 16M).
Very overpriced for the ~2 hours of gameplay you get.
I was hoping this would be more sandbox-y, but the progression is way too linear. It feels more like a puzzle with only a handful of levels tied together with the incremental mechanic.
Edit after the dev response:
I think the game is definitely made with love, the visuals are fleshed out and it is satisfying to play - just not what I expected after looking at the store page
It's painfully clear that the dev just doesn't understand the incremental genre.
In typical incremental games, you get incrementally better with each cycle. In Simultree you can actually get demonstrably worse results with that upgrade you just spent big on.
There is no "just one more run" - every run feels like a chore. This is the genre I want to turn my mind off with.
The skill tree is nonsense. More distractions I need to trudge through than upgrades to help with actual progress. Zombie was confusing. Wizard made no sense. Ghost kinda made sense but when spend 20k on an upgrade, install it, and I'm getting half the points I got last round... am I going to stick with it? No. That's bad design.
The fall off when zombie is unlocked is noted in a few reviews. The tutorial design is another killer here. The vial explanation won't help you - you need to go back to that book you flipped through at the beginning to see how to deal with the zombies. I still don't understand Wizard or why things need to be stunned.
It's cute and endearing though. I did like signing my name everytime. I liked the premise of a lab where you get progressively better at understanding your study.
If this game had a demo I'd be $7 richer and there would be one less negative review.
- Add missing descriptions for engineer genetic trait - Improve some descriptions for wizard genetic trait - Made experiment 1.5 a little easier by reducing RNG
Simultree is finally here! 🔬 Grab your lab coat, your magnifying glass, your petri dish and your pen (important) and become the best scientist the world has ever known! 📄 What to expect - 3-4h of gameplay - 10 genetic traits - 50+ stats to upgrade - Endless Mode - A short incremental game made by a solo dev
I'm happy to announce that Simultree will be released on April 15th! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45656622/dfb0dd30aa624e76411406768c0ca3ca3a6a3503.png Here's a new trailer: See you in less than a week :D
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