HyphoSphere

Honestly, it's hard to recommend this one. I just did my first prestige and called it quits. There's quite honestly nothing going on. It's a numbers go up incremental game, which is fine, but there's nothing that makes it worth it. Imagine cookie clicker where the only upgrades were "X gives double", and prestige only gives a stacking 5% buff. And weirdly, the game is pretty punishing to idle, since half the random procs are detrimental if you fail to click them? So it's an anti-idle game with no decision making. I kept waiting for something else to happen, but if I haven't experienced it by the first prestige, and that prestige gave a single 5% buff, I don't think it's going to happen.

It's an accomplishment to release a game, but it's hard to recommend anyone spend any money on this when it's a glorified screen saver.

Idle & Incremental Lovers doesn't recommend HyphoSphere:
Beautiful minimalist artwork, sadly the rest is pretty bad. Basic QoL features are missing and the prestige system is awful: you just get 5% more production (additive, not multiplicative, facepalm).
+ I had high hopes due to the original fungal theme and beautiful artwork.
- Prestige system is way too linear, no power creep at all.
- As a consequence, numbers grow up... if you have a magnifying glass.
- Everything is written in very small characters, you have to stick to your screen to be able to read.
- Music is pretty repetitive and the balance with SFX is awful: clicks make a nasty noise way louder than the music, and there's no separate music/SFX sliders to fix this. I had to mute.
- No fullscreen.
- Contextual information pops up as Windows' windows, not immersive at all.
*What kind of vehicle does a mushroom drive? A spores car.*
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NOTE: Edited on 10/05/2026 : suppressed a copypasta that had nothing to do with this review :-)