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A community for lovers of games that feature an incremental mechanism, such as unlocking progressively more powerful upgrades, or discovering new ways to play the game. This genre is growing at a break-neck pace, be part of the revolution!

This community is hosted on Incremental Social, a slice of the fediverse by and for Incremental game enthusiasts. Consider checking it out or joining our matrix space!

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What games aren't incremental? (self.incremental_games)

submitted 4 months ago by Aquila to c/[email protected]

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Unlocking better gear/powerups/abilities is the basis of games. Is this supposed to be a generic gaming sub?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

It’s weird seeing such disparaging opinions, especially when the community sidebar even defines it.

Incremental games can be any “genre”, or feature any mechanic, the bottom line is, there should be some “reset” feature that makes your next run easier.

I don’t think it can be simpler than that.

A lot of people seem to describing “clickers” that’s a very common mechanic for incrementals.

[–] Aquila 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Sidebar is vague and covers 80% of games today. Just pointing out the community description should be more descriptive for what it’s about, which seems to be more apt to clicker style games

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Nah, clickers is a defined genre now, just like incremental, incremental have reset features. The sidebar is fine, people have weird definitions sometimes.

Go to steam and look at the game differences with the tags, go to other websites that host incremental games, same thing.

Clickers and incremental are two distinctly different genres, with lots of overlaps.

Clickers are Number Go Up games, while incremental must have some reset feature to make future runs easier. Without the reset, it’s just a clicker.

[–] Aquila 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

There’s no incremental tag in steam. Do you mean idler?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

If not tag, the term is used in the game names, my apologies.

I must have created a custom one for my library, but there’s definitely a difference on Steam between the two genres. Not many incrementals have the clicker tag.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I can imagine a Numbers Go Up game that instead of clicking to increase the numbers you purchase upgrades that do the equivalent of clicking for you, so it isn't really much of a clicker or mouse-breaker… or does Clicker mean any numbers go up game, regardless of how important specifically clicking to make numbers go up is?