History VideoGame / Niche

* KillerRabbit: The rabbits are perfectly harmless. Your "creatures" on the other hand, can be bred into cute little tanks, with a maximum of [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill eight strength]]. The carnivores, for comparison, only have two strength.

Unlike [[TheSims some games]], there is [[KissingCousins no stopping the incest]]. To continue the game, you have to breed with what you can get, and while you can meet friendly creatures in the grass to avoid incest early in the game, the likelyhood of meeting rogues drops as time passes.

A genetics survival game by team Niche. Starting with two creatures, you breed, gather food and explore the island you're on.

Unlike [[TheSims some games]], [[KissingCousins there is no stopping the incest]]. To continue the game, you have to breed with what you can get, and while you can meet friendly creatures in the grass to avoid incest early in the game, the likelyhood of meeting rogues drops as time passes.

* UselessUsefulNonCombatAbilities: The berry paw. Considering how essential it is to keep a steady supply of berries, you'd think it was pretty useful, right? Wrong. You can gather a maximum of five berries from a bush, but if you place a creature with two runner legs next to it, it's more than capable of picking the bush clean in one turn, since it gets three moves per turn. After that, the berries only regrow one per turn (unless it rains, which happens in wide enough intervals that it never matters), so a creature with ''a crippled leg'' could more than handle it.

* [[WizardNeedsFoodBadly Creature Needs Food Badly]]

* UselessUsefulNonCombatAbilities: The berry paw. Considering how essential it is to keep a steady supply of berries, you'd think it was pretty useful, right? Wrong. You can gather a maximum of five berries from a bush, but if you place a creature with two runner legs next to it, it's more than capable of picking the bush clean in one turn, since it gets three moves per turn. After that, the berries only regrow one per turn (unless it rains, which happens in wide enough intervals that it never matters), so a creature with ''a crippled leg'' could more than handle it.

Unlike [[TheSims some games]], [[KissingCousins incest is totally okay]]. Like in nature, you have to breed with what you can get, and while you can meet friendly creatures in the grass to avoid incest early in the game, the likelyhood of meeting rogues drops as time passes.

Unlike [[TheSims some games]], [[KissingCousins incest is totally okay]]. Like in nature, you have to breed with what you can get, and while you can avoid incest early in the game, by meeting friendly creatures in the grass, the likelyhood of meeting rogues drops as time passes.

* KillerRabbit: The rabbits are perfectly harmless. Your "creatures" on the other hand, can be bred into cute little tanks, with a maximum of eight strength. The carnivores, for comparison, only have two strength.

* AllGenesAreCodominant: Completely averted. [[DidTheResearch Effort was put in to make the genetics realistic]].

Unlike [[TheSims some]] [[VideoGame/Fallout games]], [[KissingCousins incest is totally okay]]. Like in nature, you have to breed with what you can get, and while you can avoid incest early in the game, by meeting friendly creatures in the grass, the likelyhood of meeting rogues drops as time passes.

Unlike [[TheSims most]] [[Fallout games]], [[KissingCousins incest is totally okay]]. Like in nature, you have to breed with what you can get, and while you can avoid incest early in the game, by meeting friendly creatures in the grass, the likelyhood of meeting rogues drops as time passes.

Unlike [[TheSims most]] games, [[KissingCousins incest is totally okay]]. Like in nature, you have to breed with what you can get, and while you can avoid incest early in the game, by meeting friendly creatures in the grass, the likelyhood of meeting rogues drops as time passes.

Unlike [[VideoGame/Sims most]] games, [[KissingCousins incest is totally okay]]. Like in nature, you have to breed with what you can get, and while you can avoid incest early in the game, by meeting friendly creatures in the grass, the likelyhood of meeting rogues drops as time passes.

Unlike [[Sims most]] games, [[KissingCousins incest is totally okay]]. Like in nature, you have to breed with what you can get, and while you can avoid incest early in the game, by meeting friendly creatures in the grass, the likelyhood of meeting rogues drops as time passes.

Unlike most games, [[KissingCousins incest is totally okay]]. Like in nature, you have to breed with what you can get, and while you can avoid incest early in the game, by meeting friendly creatures in the grass, the likelyhood of meeting rogues drops as time passes.

Currently available on Steam as early access.

* CreatureBreedingMechanic: The point of the game.

* UselessUsefulNonCombatAbilities: The berry paw. Considering how essential it is to keep a steady supply of berries, you'd think it was pretty useful, right? Wrong. You can gather a maximum of five berries from a bush, but if you place a creature with two runner legs next to it, it's more than capable of picking the bush clean in one turn, since it gets three moves per turn. After that, the berries only regrow one per turn (unless it rains), so a creature with ''a crippled leg'' could more than handle it.

*** However if you forget to add any fighting ability whatsoevever, you end up with your creature so defenseless it can't even kill rabbits when they come to steal your berries. You can end up with no fighting skills if your creature have: two berry paws/running paws, small body/poisonous body and spitsnout/big nose/venomous fangs. It's especially tragic if you bred in the venomous fangs; since they don't add any fighting ability on their own, you have no way to attack and poison the predators.

* UselessUsefulNonCombatAbilities: The berry paw. Considering how essential it is to keep a steady supply of berries, you'd think it was pretty useful, right? Wrong. You can gather a maximum of five berries from a bush, but if you place a creature with two runner legs next to it, it's more than capable of picking the bush clean in one turn, since you get three moves per turn. After that, the berries only regrow one per turn (unless it rains), so a creature with ''a crippled leg'' could more than handle it.

* UselessUsefulNon-CombatAbilities: The berry paw. Considering how essential it is to keep a steady supply of berries, you'd think it was pretty useful, right? Wrong. You can gather a maximum of five berries from a bush, but if you place a creature with two runner legs next to it, it's more than capable of picking the bush clean in one turn, since you get three moves per turn. After that, the berries only regrow one per turn (unless it rains), so a creature with ''a crippled leg'' could more than handle it.

* UglyCute: The spitsnout.

* SuicideMission: Gathering berries from cacti. Every time they're gathered from, they damage your creature. So it's the perfect job for the [[SurprisinglyEliteCanonFodder otherwise useless berry paws]].

* BoringButPractical: Running legs, the pair of legs you get in the beginning of the game. They may not sound glorious, but they increase speed two per leg, saving berries moving your creatures around.

*** breeding your creatures for optimal berry gathering is useless. You don't really need the ability to gather twelve berries from one bush, since bushes only have five berries at a maximum anyway, and they only regrow one a day, the only exceptions being during rainfalls, which happens rarely enough that you can gather all the berries with a pair of plain old running legs.
However, you can use berry paws to gather berries from cacti with minimal loss. Making you miss out on a lot of resources.

*** However if you forget to add any fighting ability whatsoevever, you end up with your creature so defenseless it can't even kill rabbits when they come to steal your berries. , which can happen if your creature ends up with two berry paws/running paws, small body/poisonous body and spitsnout/big nose/venomous fangs, it's so defenseless it can't even kill rabbits when they come to steal your berries. It's especially tragic if you bred in the venomous fangs. Since they don't add any fighting ability on their own, you have no way to attack and poison the attacking predator.

However, breeding your creatures for optimal berry gathering is just as useless. You don't really need the ability to gather twelve berries from one bush, since bushes only have five berries at a maximum anyway, and they only regrew one a day, the only exceptions being during rainfalls, which happens rarely enough that you can gather all the berries with a pair of plain old running legs. However, you can use berry paws to gather berries from cacti with minimal loss. Making you miss out on a lot of resources.