You lead a techno-religious cult on the outskirts of a mega city, mining rare earth metals for corporate overlords who let you survive as long as you hit their quotas.

Your followers work the mines, growing stronger and more faithful over time. Higher level workers are more productive, and greater faith means more recruits and better morale.

But there's a catch: the machine god's blessing on your operation constantly fades. When productivity drops too low to meet corporate demands, you must sacrifice a follower's mind to the machine god, wiping their memories and resetting them to level 1. Higher level sacrifices restore more blessing, but devastate the faith of your remaining followers.

Balance faith and blessing. Hit your quotas. Or face corporate "liquidation."

For more information, see the tutorial in the game's devlog.

Controls:

  • Arrow keys: pan camera
  • Hold X + Left/Right Arrow: cycle through followers
  • Z: sacrifice selected follower

Jam Credits:

  • TriJam 332 (Theme: Sacrifice)
  • Cyberpunk Jam 2.0 (Theme: Hard Reset)
  • Made in 3 hours using Pico-8
  • Music: @Snabisch
Published 4 days ago
StatusReleased
PlatformsHTML5
AuthorBrightOstrich
GenreStrategy
Made withPICO-8
TagsCyberpunk, Game Boy, Indie, Management, PICO-8, Retro

Development log

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the game sounds great. took me a while to figure it out

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I found the pixel art appealing, although I didn't feel like I had much control over the followers except sacrificing them. Overall i enjoyed it

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Thanks! I agree, maybe when the jams are over I'll look into adding one or two more things to do with followers. 

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The pixel art is really good!

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Nice game! really enjoyed working the mechanics and figuring out the game.