UNDERSTORY
A free browser game from Core Systems Asset Factory. Genre: Simulation. Free.
UNDERSTORY is a free browser game, free to play in the browser.
UNDERSTORY is a free incremental game for the browser: you are the mycelium under a forest floor, with 48 fruiting bodies to grow and 4 substrates to open. The forest floor eats everything. You are what does the eating. Spread hyphae across the litter, digest what you reach, and fruit where it counts. There is no run, no reset and no death screen.
Ground can dry out and die back, but your spores, your upgrades, your fruiting bodies and the substrate you have opened are permanent. Two systems that fight Spread wants you far from home, because new ground is new food. Decay punishes exactly that.
Moisture falls away from springs and fruiting bodies, a cell can only get as dense as its moisture allows, and density multiplies both your yield and the spores a fruiting pays. Push past your water and the frontier thins out behind you. Sit still and you eat your ground down to nothing while rival mould creeps into what is left.
Prestige that keeps the board Fruiting is how you make spores, and it costs biomass plus density from the cell and the ring around it.
AI disclosure, as the store page states it: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text
Free · Get it on itch.io. Files, screenshots and the full description are on the store page.