Hello friends. This is a Let’s Play video of “Fleshborn” demo version. A short incremental game where you are tasked to clean a lab from fleshy growths using your flamethrower. Collect resources and spend them in a vast upgrade tree to unlock new abilities.
Sometimes the most satisfying loop in gaming is a perfectly mundane chore done with the right tool, and Castitatis Games’ Fleshborn is angling for the unholy intersection of Powerwash Simulator, a Cookie Clicker upgrade tree, and a John Carpenter fever dream. Pitched as a short incremental about scouring a derelict research facility of spreading fleshy biomass with a generously upgradeable flamethrower, it dresses the cosy-completionist drip of the genre in pixel-art body horror, complete with blood as your premium currency, a vast skill tree to dump it into, five floors of escalating biohazard, and a steady drip of unsettling backstory about what exactly happened to you in the lab. The result is a pocket-sized experiment that scratches the one-more-upgrade itch and the one-more-torched-corridor itch in the same breath, with a free demo already on the Steam page so you can decide whether you have it in you to set the whole place alight. For an incremental that knows when to stop, this is the kind of evening-sized dive that lingers in the back of your head days later.
Developer: Castitatis Games
Publisher: Castitatis Games
Genre: Simulation, Strategy, Idler, Incremental, Casual, Pixel Graphics, Indie
Release Date: Coming soon
Reviewed on: PC/Windows
Available on: PC/Windows, Web Browser
Link: Steam
Review copy was demo.
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