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Does X Qualify as an Incremental Game?

A topic by AlexP-Gaming created Dec 18, 2023 Views: 141 Replies: 3
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In my case, "X" is "Plague Inc.", since you gain disease points over time which you then use to buy upgrades. But I started this thread with its respective name in case anyone had an "X" of their own as well.

So...is Plague Inc. incremental?

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Personally, I wouldn’t call it that, no.

I wouldn’t really call it an idle game either, it’s just it’s own thing.

But that’s my opinion, you can make whatever you wish. I also want to hear what other people may have to say.

Thank you for clarifying! I was on the fence about it, too, to be honest.

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Honestly you could kinda describe Plague Inc. as an incremental, at the end of the day you are trying to "increase the number", in this case of infected and then dead people, and you use upgrades to do so  faster. 

I was thinking maybe the fact that the number can't increase indefinitely would mean it's not an incremental? Maybe Incremental-lite (like when differentiating roguelikes and roguelites, which arguably is a whole can of worms by itself)